Hostess management put Hostess out of business.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-macaray/labor-union-hostess-twinkies_b_2161368.html

Hostess was in the business of selling sugar and fat in the fattest country in the world, a task akin to selling dung to dung beetles, and they foundered anyway.

God, yes, ban babies on flights. The pressure change messes with their ears and they scream and scream. Ban them or bring back laudanum.

Amazon will spin off another corporate entity for drone delivery service, limiting liabiity. Liability won't be any worse than the truck fleet they already have delivering groceries. The people whose jobs will be made redundant are couriers, people risking their bodies on bicycles in city traffic. Those are jobs well lost. We don't need to legislate things like drones to protect jobs, we need a social contract that protects people whose skills are suddenly made obsolete. In other words, we have to agree to treat people better than we treat machines.

Aim well. In Washington state you're allowed to use deadly force to prevent the commission of a felony, and that includes property crimes. So the drone's escort gunships might just shoot back at you if you miss.

I think it's doable. Most of a route is going to be over hard structures or tree, not roads or people, which mitigates the damage a crash or hard landing could cause. The things aren't going to be landing on front stoops, they'll land on rooftops, so they won't make chop-suey out of anyone's cat. Looking around me, I see that every apartment complex in view has a flat spot on its roof large enough to land a drone-copter or at least to set a package down. Each apartment building will cover tens or hundreds of people and all that's needed is a flat space on the roof and that the roof be accessible by residents. Buildings that don't have a flat spot on the roof can make one when residents start complaining. How hard is it to lash down a piece of plywood and paint a big X on it? The drones don't have to be completely autonomous. They could fly autonomously to the building and then hover until a human OK's the landing zone and pushes a button. Hit the recall button if the landing site looks sketchy or there's someone down there with a shotgun.

A restaurant is a public place as far as the ADA is concerned and that's probably where disputes like this are headed once the disabled start using Glass in large numbers.

It probably won't be too long before head-mounted displays like Google Glass are common as the normal interface you use for your personal wearable computer, currently masquerading as a smart phone.

I doubt it. Most people do not want to wear glasses. They certainly don't want to wear something even bigger and more distracting on their faces. Throat mic and earpiece I'll buy, or better yet something like the jewel Ender wore to connect to Jane. But a headpiece like Google Glass becoming as popular as touch screen interfaces? Never.

... and I expect the first case will be a discrimination complaint based on Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Besides being a toy for the able-bodied, Google Glass is also a boon for disabled persons with motor dysfunctions or visual impairments. I'm disabled and I know I want Glass for that kind of use, and I already use other, more cumbersome devices to do what Glass can do in a comfortable, wearable product.

Forked, same as Eve. What, your wife wasn't forked? Gave up my xiphoid process for mine.

A terrorist with brains still has his edged weapon onboard. A piece of broken glass makes a fine weapon and passengers are free to bring laptops, cellphones, and tablets with glass screens aboard. Break the screen, extract a nice glass shard and all you need is a handle.

Airport security is just a big wank. Think how many people that yahoo at LAX could have killed if he really wanted to. Dozens of people trapped like cattle in the security line waiting for be mowed down.

... in these matters, I'd be more inclined to believe in these tests if Consumer Reports did them. Or maybe the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

A key question is whether Google copied all the pages then displayed some of them, or only copied some of the pages and then displayed all that they copied. If the first, then why can't an individual copy a whole book then claim to have only read some of the pages? (That's what the NSA claims to be doing with our phone records, apropos of almost nothing.)

It didn't involve pencil and paper for long on the Apple II. I remember reading about a step-trace 6502 debugger for the Apple II back then. I didn't have any money to buy it so I wrote my own (in assembler of course) to ease debugging of a video game I was writing. It wasn't a hard job; the 6502 instruction set is small and straightforward and the CPU only has three registers.

Heinlein did believe that more should be required to obtain the franchise than a breathing, warm body. See _Expanded Universe_, a book of fiction and non-fiction essays. In it Heinlein made plain that he still embraced much of the philosophy he wrote in Starship Troopers. The book was published in 1980.

http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26352/did-heinlein-advocate-the-apparently-militaristic-if-not-fascist-society-of-sta