Does that mean something like, minimum radius?

Coming from, where else? Hint: not Apple, but close...

Perhaps you'll be the victim of slander...

The words are nothing. You would be a victim of those who believed them. Everybody wags the dog in this argument.

Polls are one of the worst methods of "information gathering" known to man...

But elections, the only polls that matter, speak volumes. Salesmen know their trade... Some may claim they're being hacked, but it still boils down to free choice. The trinkets and money have no power of their own. Media polls are pure advertising and distractions that exploit known psychological weaknesses of... the crowd

The internet doesn't live in the real world.

You mean there are no servers and cables? Everything is just... there?

no one is stopping you from using Bing, or even Yahoo! if you're so inclined

I said, alternative, not imitation.

...I do think there needs to be some crackdown on bullshit advertising in the SEO/PR sector.

Oh please! The very premise is based on fraud. People should just learn to ignore it. And we desperately need alternatives to Google. It is so heavily compromised. It's hardly anything more than a barroom trivia and shopping site.

But... how will the kiddies learn about one-click buying?

barring warp drive or some sort of perfect stealth system, war in space will be mostly a staring match

War in space will be mostly robotic.

It merely states that the U.S. gov't will recognize extracted minerals as being the property of those who extracted them.

The key, exactly. You own what you create, nothing more. And a performance is only a performance when you perform. (That was a preemptive Shh!...)

Strong Navy

Well, you do have to use Monster Cables, and Klipsch speakers in a soundproof isobaric chamber

"Microsoft paid us a metric crap-ton of money..."

Petty cash... And besides, this "news" is a press release. Everybody got what they were looking for (except the users of the domains) and it will be forgotten like yesterday's lunch. Smells like fish

Yet we will not see perjury charges against them. How quaint.