Take your sample ballot to the voting booth, no point in using a phone.

Nobody has time to evaluate all 50 judges and school board reps and such, and some positions you may simply not care about. Nothing wrong with that. It's much worse to pick someone based on their listed occupation or because you like their name just to fill out the full ballot.

Check a map.

More likely he was testing his flying car at ground level to con investors into thinking it'd work by pretending the FAA was the problem.

Lots of us ask for self-driving cars. The rest perhaps not.

There's less difference between sponsoring and owning when Red Hat employees do a lot of the Fedora work.

Also, the US later admitted the Iranian gun boat attack took place in Iranian territorial waters -- not international waters.

Using plasma alone is dysfunctional. Using it as part of KDE has been fine for years.

Well, I still miss being able to place launchers/applets wherever I want them on a panel or desktop without being forced into a grid or having to use spacers that never quite work right.

Suborbital rocket planes aren't developing significant relevant tech though. Progress will come from more efficient orbital rockets lowering in price, not from developing the plane-assisted suborbital rockets dead end that has no prospect of going orbital.

Columbia can invite Ahmadinejad to speak and that's okay even though he is a horrible dictator.

A "dictator" whose parliament was antagonistic towards him, who lost favor with his supreme leader and who left office in an election and failed to get his preferred successor into office. Regardless of whether he was horrible, he was clearly not a dictator in any sense.

No altitude would cause bouncing into space, only velocity can cause that. In theory, you could go well past the moon's orbit (as long as the moon was on the other side) and fall to Earth. You'd gain so much speed in the vacuum that you'd burn up on re-entry like the rest of the meteors.

Chromebooks are not primary computers, they're supplemental computers. Having full Windows is a disadvantage, the purpose is to be as dead simple and unbreakable as possible.

united the Sunni's, Shiites, and Kurds in a fight against a common enemy

That's a nice universe you're living in. Back in this one, there's increasingly brutal revenge ethnic cleansing by Shiites and Kurds and a continual fracturing into disparate militias.

Sneaking across the USA-Africa border requires a very strong swimmer.