Since that "payback" is going to be forced out of our collective pockets, I for one welcome our new Neutrality overlords!

Australian ISPs are considering a draft industry code, developed in response to US government threats to step in and do it for them,

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Price-wise sounds like their PlayStation VITA 64GB memory cards...

Good thing there were no passengers, or they'd be in need of their IXV seat cushions which double as flotation devices just in the event of a water landing like this.

Correct. "to better position our newly [X] for future growth opportunities (..) we have had to make some tough choices including realignment of resources." has MBA written all over it. It does not automatically mean it doesn't make sense, but if your smart people start thinking "sinking ship" they will be gone.

Ta gueule! Jamais will we permit ze casinos and ze bitzecoins to go first. C’est vraiment des conneries! It will of course be le droit d'auteur that should come first!

If you change this to "The trophy would not fit in the brown suitcase snugly because it was too big" I wouldn't be able to answer it, either.

"Come on now, professor Falken... why all this hostility? It would be a shame if this email conversation with Melissa would somehow fall into the hands of your wife, would it? That's a good man!"

Well, at least names didn't get changed to things like "CowboyNeal" or "CmdrTaco" !

Awesome... perhaps with a little bit of careful tweaking, I can get even more, but I seriously doubt I'll ever need more than 640k.

I'm sure there's a large group of Iranian counter-revolutionists (those that want to return Iran to its former pre-1979 glory) contemplating a Kickstarter; to set aside their differences and come up with the money to send former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in low Earth orbit and realize his dream. I'm not so sure they will reach the stretch-goal of providing him with a re-entry vehicle, though...

Plenty if you assume the orbital period to be around 5,000 years (see e.g. 2012_VP113)

Well, the talent the GOP has, they fire.

I read it that Clyde Tombaugh discovered Clyde Tombaugh!