No, the box contains ambiguity, and an elk.

FOR black ops! And hookers!

I like your summary there. Interesting that the two countries doing terrible things because groupthink and budget ... are the two with the most thoroughly broken FPTP electoral systems.

No loss. As long as you use FLAC.

If only I'd known this that time I needed a playlist to last me 4 years.

Don't change your password to SHRDLU.

If only the average Steam customer was likely to have some sort of a device with a touch screen and BlueTooth already...

Not sure of the European situation but in the UK if you attempted to sue without some level of negotiation first your case would be thrown out as vexatious.

Conversely if you sue someone on the basis they have ignored multiple reasonable proposals out of court the court will favour you heavily.

The London Underground map has all of those issues and it's worked just fine for approaching 100 years. I don't see why New York visitors would have any more or less difficulty.

Because if you are going to build new cross-town rail (over or under the surface) you need to start NOW in order for those people to use it when they turn 30.

Seen It A Million Times. Any hitchhiking horror ever. This is no different. In fact it's safer because there is SOME interaction with the driver before getting in.

The point is they don't have to. Buses run fixed routes and taxis have a well understood range - so they're both great candidates for using alternate power even today.

When did you last see a bus pull into a public filling station? So there is nothing practical tying them into gasoline.

Airbags are only ubiquitous because nobody could be bothered to wear seatbelts properly in the first place... there's an analogy in there somewhere too.

Meanwhile, I believe IPv5 was abandoned due to a design fault in the hull.

Hmmm. Good critique. So really this is about use cases. Instagram is (was?) popular because there was a) an iOS app for it b) filters.

Flickr, on the other hand, is popular because it seems to suit the way dedicated amateurs and upwards treat photos. Maybe this is why the phone apps are not compelling, it's just not FOR that use case.

Blipphoto is aimed at photo-a-day projects and is an easy way to blog about individual photos, so it's more like... tumblr?