Pardon me, but I drive a Volkswagen and I am a snob. I disdain nearly all of you who drive lesser vehicles. When I am cruising at 80 or above in my Golf TDI, alongside a Bentley Continental GT or Audi R8, I feel a kinship with other superior beings.

The US has more czars than any other country.

The TSA has an excessively large budget that it must spend each year, in order to justify an even bigger appropriation next year.

So, the solution to that agency's outrageous behaviors is to slash its budget, sharply. Or, kill it completely.

Really? Look at the Peace Prize awardees over the last several decades; maybe two or three of them were really deserving.

Incidentally, Rush Limbaugh was nominated a few years ago. I guess he didn't win.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines is a division of Mitsui, a firm that's been in business since the mid-1600s. I imagine the company intends to remain in business for at least a little while longer.

The theory of a 6000-year-old Earth was made by Archbishop Ussher in the 1640s, not in the Middle Ages which ended 400-500 years earlier.

It was a valid theory at the time, based on the best available evidence, but wrong. Even today there are many theories which are commonly accepted as scientifically valid, but which are most likely wrong in part or entirely. Our descendants will laughingly mock anyone who still believes them, just as some of us dare to mock today.

The average car on the road is something like 11 years old, maybe older. Just because some people trade for a new car every 3 years does not mean their old one is scrapped -- they are driven into the ground, usually, unless totaled in a crash. And the typical used car ends up with 200-300 thousand miles before it goes to the crusher.

EVs really aren't designed to last that long. So whatever fixed environmental costs there are to manufactured the vehicle and later on to scrap it must be distributed over a smaller number of miles.

If there was a group or organization that opposed the ACLU in every case, that took the opposite positions, I would probably be willing to contribute a modest amount.

As it is, the only civil liberties organization I belong to is the NRA.

Clapper was told the day before the hearing that he would be asked this question. He had an entire day to craft a truthful answer or to decline to answer the question in an open hearing. A trained lawyer would not have lied under oath. Clapper is a career military officer and must not have considered the consequences of telling a bald-faced lie.

Here are more appropriate questions for our Dear Leader: Why have you been endorsed in the last two presidential elections by the Communist Party of the United States? Why would the CPUSA do that?

You are correct, sir, that truck drivers cannot use Google Maps. Larger trucks are only allowed on certain streets and roads, and Google Maps does not identify truck routes.

I have found that Google makes corrections to Maps when users notify them of the problems. I can immediately think of three reports I sent in which resulted in corrections.

Have you tried to tell Google about the problem with your location?

Because of that old speed-of-light conundrum, it makes sense to fit the processors and memory as close as possible to each other. A round shape is optimal, a cylindrical shape is essentially the same. Spreading everything out inside a huge box may be convenient for upgrades, but it slows down the speed of operations.

Moving the other peripherals outside the device and connecting them with cables also helps with the heat problem.

I think the new Mac Pro is fantastic, but I have no personal need for anything with even 1/10th this much power.

Absolutely nothing in this article suggests that FlatWorld is anything except a patent troll.

I agree with your depiction of the progressive ideal as "an aristocracy of intellectuals". I prefer to think of them as the equivalent of the nomenklatura in the old Soviet Union: a ruling class producing nothing, and impoverishing the working people it claims to speak for.