Also she'd have to hand the controls over to a male colleague if this thing needs to be backed into a tight parking spot.

Big on statements like "So how am I sure?" and "Here's the proof", and short on identifying actual cases where he has made money with a lawsuit. I would not think that it would be difficult to provide proof if there were any.

The last company I worked for used desk phones for answering the door buzzer and outside lines. No receptionist, so every phone in the office would ring -- about 25 in the room the software developers were in. It was expected that they stop what they're doing to answer, and try to contact the required person or take a message. This is just one of the stupidities inflicted by management.

So that's about 4.4 trillion messages that they're going to need stored? http://www.ctia.org/consumer_info/service/index.cfm/AID/10323

Why doesn't anyone ever notice that the greater the energy density, the greater the energy that can be released all at once? You'd think people getting their houses or private parts burned with energy dense devices would be a lesson learnt...

Touch controls in a car bouncing around on crappy roads are stupid.

I'd be happy if I didn't have to turn my HTC upside down to plug in the USB charger in all three of my cars.

My dad had one (green 1961). It was mechanical, and it did change to red at 65. Google Safety Spectrum Speedometer for pix and vid.

I had a 1991 BMW 750 with a built-in analogue phone. When I commuted over the Coronado bridge while talking on the phone (around Y2K), sometimes it would switch me to an Ensenada tower, breaking into random conversations en Español.

No loose strings of having some outside organisation examine and critique the effectiveness of your actions?

Generous, when you consider that there's only eleven minutes of actual sport being played. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406.html

I've been saying it since Howard Jarvis and Ronald Reagan implemented their "tax revolt" at the end of the '70s: any benefit from tax cuts and less regulation is temporary, short-term, and soon overridden by the increased size of the crash after the greedy rich people abuse various economic sectors. That's why there was an S&L crises in the '80s, a housing crash in the '90s, bank and housing crises in the oughts, California schools run out of money. Shoot, does anyone think to check the top tax rates under Eisenhower? Even Greenspan was shocked... shocked! that rich people were greedy, that Objectivism is... oh well, why bother, people just filter it through their biases. Brown and Clinton have the best budget surpluses of their eras, then conservatives have to go and mess it up with voodoo economics.

Will some psycho please reenact an episode of Criminal Minds with George Will and Arthur Laffer as victims?

Only if the circumstances are strongly suggestive that the hoard was deliberately hidden with the expectation of later recovery by the owner -- treasure buried as part of the internment of a body are an obvious case where there is no intent to recover, hence the Sutton Hoo treasure was not treasure trove.

I managed to drag my kids away from Minecraft from the moment the hatch opened to about a minute after he jumped, so although I don't know how many millions that cost, it was a price worth paying. Well done science!

"We have had circumstances where Navy vessels have collided at sea in the past, but they're fairly rare as to how often they do take place,"
Yes, that would be the usual meaning of the word rare.

So if they actually built this thing, I suppose that parts might later have been cannibalised for other projects, but isn't the shell of it still around somewhere? does anyone know what the protocol is with these projects when they finish? I'd like to think that it's sitting in someone's barn under a tarp.