Does that mean something like, minimum radius?

Coming from, where else? Hint: not Apple, but close...

Perhaps you'll be the victim of slander...

The words are nothing. You would be a victim of those who believed them. Everybody wags the dog in this argument.

Polls are one of the worst methods of "information gathering" known to man...

But elections, the only polls that matter, speak volumes. Salesmen know their trade... Some may claim they're being hacked, but it still boils down to free choice. The trinkets and money have no power of their own. Media polls are pure advertising and distractions that exploit known psychological weaknesses of... the crowd

The internet doesn't live in the real world.

You mean there are no servers and cables? Everything is just... there?

...too late. I already avoid Hulu because commercials are something that belong back in the 50s with embedded sponsor testimonials.

Tivo liberated me from commercials in the 90s.

Not going back.

no one is stopping you from using Bing, or even Yahoo! if you're so inclined

I said, alternative, not imitation.

It sounded to me like what they were testing was successful (did the legs deploy, did the engines restart, did the vehicle slow down, etc), but that it wasn't a full test with the goal of being able to reuse the rocket as it was a water landing. And due to rough seas, the rocket was destroyed once it was in the water.

Of course then they'll run into copyright issues, so probably best just to sell the units.

What copyright issues? I don't even think you can copyright a specific shape or model. Patent or trademark possibly, but not copyright.

That taxation is my biggest issue. My bank does not have free, unlimited ATM transactions on my plan. I withdraw my cash, spend it where I will, and don't pay their damned ATM fees.

Why the hell should I pay them to spend my money?

I have no money to spare for seeing movies. Period.

So when I download a torrent and watch it (and there's a disgustingly small number that I watch more than 15-20 minutes of), there is absolutely NO loss to the studio. Because if I *had* to pay for it, I just wouldn't see it at all.

I *hate* theatres on top of being broke -- they're full of ignorant perfume and aftershave wearing buttheads playing with their cell phones and talking about what they're going to do after the movie. I don't own a TV, so I'd have to play a DVD on my Linux box. If I'm still going to see it on a small computer screen, why *wouldn't* I settle for a low-res torrent instead of a DVD?

The studios like to portray every case of piracy as "lost revenue." It's not. I firmly believe that in most cases where people download a torrent, either they couldn't *afford* to go to the theatre, or they're previewing the flick to decide if it's worth spending money at the theatre. And if it's not worth the money, they'd have been demanding refunds, so there *still* isn't a loss of revenue.

Seriously -- it costs my buddy over $100 to take the family out for a movie. You think he's going to *gamble* that the movie is worth watching with all the crap that Hollywood pukes onto the big screen nowadays?

It takes 4 hours for any signal to reach Pluto regardless of bitrate. Light only has 1 speed.

Is it that significant of an improvement over the previous blackest thing? I would have expected that solar thermal panels would be limited primarily by the difficulty of generating usable power from the heat differential. I know that there already existed previous really-really-black coatings, though I actually would have thought that compared to the other problems, ordinary black paint would suffice. Is this enough of an improvement to make a difference in that vein?

Thanks! I'm getting ready to post chapter thirty in a minute. I screwed up in this post, though, I forgot I already posted the chapter where Knolls finds that Green is Destiny's dad.