Perhaps the same way as he expects all ten of you to be as well-versed in hyperbole as he is!

Having a law against "lying**" when "truth" means "statements the government makes" is markedly different from when "truth" means objectively factual statements.

** I presume you are riffing here on the "slander" part of the RT snippet.

Or buy one

Disclaimer: I have no idea how good that aluminum case (is|will be).

Not ride, necessarily. Video game.

This is going to be a chase-camera dodge-and-kill-orcs level.

After I went to see the first Hobbit movie with a friend who played LotR video games and who told me that the run-through-the-goblin-tunnels level was going to be hard, I realized how this works.

Just want to point out that their address is a mile down the street from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

And the government reaction to the protests? a series of laws condemning individual or group involvement in any activities that could be construed as remotely negative by the ruling party and eventually leading to the sniping of protesters by a special police team called "Berkut."

... or does it strike anyone else as unlikely that Tom Wheeler would do that?

I think the more relevant question is "What's the cost of not meeting the requirement?" and perhaps weigh that against the cost of meeting it.

You don't want to be spending the treasury on hardware you don't need, but neither do you want to be caught riding horses to meet the Blitz.

Clearly, you didn't read the security email and will be fired. ;^)

Some robocaller apparently used my work phone for their outbound caller id for a while. This is inference considering that (1) I use my phone for outbound calls twice a year. (2) I got a call from a furious woman who was apparently dialed from my number during a "very important meeting" and who refused to be talked down. I hung up, and she called me back to swear some more and to say that her office had ten calls from my number.

Anyway, this is to illustrate that scammers who have enormous lists of numbers (and probably know which ones have people at the other end) will just use legitimate numbers for their caller id. Frankly, I'm surprised that the scammers haven't started using the numbers of you /. scam trollers as their originating numbers. Hopefully none of the scammers read this.

IIRC, if they can get you to admit that you owe them money, there is some legal nebulism that says that you do then actually owe them money.

And the rest said "CmdrTaco."

Also, for the record, I might be okay with Beta if it didn't take a solid minute to preview a comment.

This made my lunchtime so much better. Thank you, sir.

Thanks for posting this. I was thinking it the whole time.

Here's a direct link to the citation Munroe uses for what aerodynamics on Mars is like: http://www.x-plane.com/adventures/mars.html
Warning: lots of All-Caps.

Anecdotal: A friend of mine was hosting (as in couchsurf) a band who travels in an electric station wagon covered in solar panels. A lightning storm took out power all over the city. Theirs was the only house on the block to run lights and the fridge, because they plugged them into the car and ran them off the battery.