Are you kidding? No shots yet, but how about an attempted stabbing with an axe and another plot to assassinate let alone bounties and death threats?

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/57865,news-comment,news-politics,muslim-extremists-attack-on-danish-cartoonist-is-great-pr-for-panic-rooms
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0309/waterford.html

Or, you know, you could take the bus. Just ask the cities to increase coverage and frequency, and all that you're dreaming for can be a reality today. No need to wait for any new technology.

Maybe the return rate was low because people wanted to check out the software fix they announced early on?

Other countries use the same sign for their currencies (also called rupees or some variant). One of the reasons for the new symbol was India wanted a different one.

Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom. This makes me very angry, very angry indeed.

Wow, the high priesthood of science. A couple of centuries is all we had eh? I guess it's back to the dark ages now.

Yeah that happened when the public was asked to sacrifice their prosperity in the name of climate change.

That does not make sense. If it was all public data, why not just respond to the FOIA requests with the directions to obtain them? His statement of "25 years blah blah, why should I give this?" does not match your scenario.

Yeah, obviously America is at the peak of perfection and cannot be improved further.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense

Heh. Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_(history) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Good_and_Evil

Do you really believe no morals exist and all cultures and customs are of equal value? Honor killings, suicide bombings, child marriages etc are fine with you just because its someone's "custom"? Sorry, that's not for me.

Yeah, humans were in caves too at one point. You suggesting we should go back to that? Or that there was something wrong with moving out of the caves and using our brains for something other than subsistence living?

Actually, according to wikipedia, 1000 - 5000. Care to also estimate the number of people living aboard cruise ships, yachts, naval fleets and submarines in the world at any point in time?

Yeah, it was a lame publicity stunt, designed to get on the newspapers, and give the finger to the europeans.

No need to invoke my moral standards or lack thereof, to see that was what it was meant for. That she felt the need to do it and chose to use raw seal hearts as a prop says a lot about her character. In a different era, she'd have fit right in a circus freak show I guess, you know, the ones with weird animals on display for our amusement?

"Physically incapable... " of eating anything else? Haha, and also all those scientists in the antarctic also have to airlift in tons of raw seal hearts I guess? Wait, no, its raw penguin hearts for those guys... And how do people ever manage to live on ships and submarines? Six months at a time without access to raw seal hearts must leave them feeling ravenous at the end of a tour of duty. Or do they just hunt a lot of seals beforehand and store the meat? No that wouldn't be it, in your world, I guess all the food technology humans invented for distribution and storage isn't actually used by anyone (except vegetarians...). Very puzzling!

About half a billion humans would disagree with you and dispute the "carnivore" label. And I think they're getting by just fine.

Who the heck are you talking to? Who's "we" and when did "we" decide to be cool with "murdering" things?

And I'm being shallow when I do what exactly? Eat meat? Who said I eat meat?

I'm sorry you feel the need to justify your habits so loudly to strangers. Do you do that a lot? I also apologize for not suffering from cognitive dissonance by not killing animals I find cute to satisfy non-existent primitive caveman urges.