Prove that you are right to them, or it is just your religious dogma. Maybe the "flowering plant" trait reoccurred, like stripes in the two types of horse that we call zebras which are more closely related to Equus equus than to each other (or at least, so I am claiming without citing supporting evidence)?

Biology isn't just a collection of meaningless facts, or Linneaus' original prejudices, after all.

The mini-series with Richard Chamberlain was a good adaptation of the book.

Plausible deniability, perhaps, if the Company was "private" rather than officially government? Changing an obvious OBL into "the Emir" was done so that the character didn't become dated, like Prince Charles in Patriot Games did.

Jack DIDN'T get anywhere in politics. He became President because of multiple catastrophes, and was re-elected due to terrible (as in terribly clumsy) opposition after he literally saves every voter's life, by his actions against the (first) Plague. The situation that would be equivalent would be the post Civil War period, where the main qualification for Grant and the next few presidents was that they were successful generals, not politicians.

Umm, this was the BBC.

Which means it was probably Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear having his usual fun when in the USA.

Only if he has a flying squirrel as an accomplice. And William Conrad doing voice-over from the dead.

Technically, that honor goes to the YF12A, the fighter version of the SR71 Blackbird.

Of course, those were only prototypes for a scrapped program (the design was later redone into the Blackbird), rather than deployed aircraft.

You mean microwave ovens with the door interlock wired around so that they can broadcast to the skies, and attract all the HARM missiles? Serbians already did that.

Hopefully, newer HARMs can ignore oven frequencies.

That was stupid of them. I turned in my Windows phone within the two week deadline, and got my iPhone before my new contract was even billed.

The Lumia wasn't bad, mind you, just not really good, and lots of friends have iPhones so I could get advice/support until I figured out how everything worked without having to wait for a class at the provider's store.

And he got the psychologist lady (and away from his frenemy!). And he got onto the Tour for the next year without having to go through Q School. And, if he learns to postpone his meltdowns just a bit longer, he'll win next year's Open.

Learn to think through your analogies before using them.

Anyway, Tin Cup kept trying for the hole to prove to it that he COULD do it. That he became immortal was just a side-benefit that he didn't think about until the love-interest pointed it out.

Or read anything by H. Beam Piper, especially Lord Kalvan Of Otherwhen, where the entire multi-timeline cosmology and pre-history is laid out by someone who should know, as his timeline had no decline after the migration from Mars.

No, but they were successful enough to attempt settling Vinland, and to send roughly-yearly lumbering expeditions for a century after the Skralings chased them out. Their surpluses probably went into internal growth until the climate change suddenly made life untenable, there. If they had learned more from the eskimos they might have been able to keep going.

Already here. Welfare - where no one is hungry, but the poor are over-weight because they cannot afford health club memberships, and just 42 inch flat screens, not 60 inchers. How many people do the police pick up off the streets any day because they have starved to death?

Well, eventually only the upper middle and lower upper classes will work, all other jobs being de-skilled to the point that machines can handle them, while the ex-lumpen-proletariat will sit around discussing Snookie or the Kardassians, rather than Homer or the latest Nobel Prize winning authors like the drones of the upper classes (vs. how to run their hedge funds, like the workers of the upper classes).

PS, it wasn't that great of a novel. Shitty characterization, for one thing.

Coal miners in West Virginia will not be replaced by other/better jobs in WVa that ex-coal miners can perform. In fact, they will probably not be replaced by jobs that the average ex-miner can perform anywhere else in the world, and being on well-paying welfare doesn't give one a sense that one's life matters.

Taxi drivers - already replaced by people driving their own cars, or shared cars in the city centers.
Limo drivers - the driver is ALL the service, which is why they wear livery. If it was just keeping drunk prom-goers from driving, they would call a cab.
Couriers - Damned if I know. I suspect that unbonded couriers get replaced by FedEx/UPS already, and bonded couriers are there to maintain chain of custody.
Mitt Romney's chauffeur is not a driver, he is security, well-trained in anti-kidnapping offensive driving, the non-criminal version of Joe Valachi when he was the driver for the first Capo di Tutti Capi (see the movie The Valachi Files). He will be the last type of driver replaced, along with bank robber wheelman.
NASCAR drivers - might become the off-time job of moonshiners, again, like it started out. Those people started out paying to race go-karts when they were kids, after all. Formula One definitely dies when the first computer wins the World Championship, and polo players start accepting sponsors and visible ads.

BTW, the reason that the London Underground trains still have engineers is that the maintanance workers went on strike, or at least threatened to, unless their "brothers' jobs" were preserved, sometime in the past. It is called featherbedding and also explains why non-passenger trains have conductors.