We had this conversation on a thread not long ago, but the consensus was the brand of a new product that garners the biggest market share stands the best chance of eventual induction into the Generic Hall of Fame.

It's self-evident your product was marketed FTW if your competitor's customers ask for your product's nickname when they shop. My personal example is when I one and a hundred zeros some random information I need to look up.

With any luck, we'll be printing autos overnight before my youngest is eligible for male teenage insurance premiums.

You're spot on.

But like as not, there have been just as many juries use the bar set by the make-believe CSI teams to exonerate defendants, so there's at least the merit of the disinformation working both ways.

In the west, we have a difficult time living down a major football contest (win or lose) with no rioting, let alone a natural disaster. What advantage are we afforded by natural selection that makes the anarchy of crowds a sustainable genetic trait?

This and recent others, including the Sotomayer story, buoy our optimism the system is still occasionally self-correcting.

It's not over doomsayers, not by a long shot.

For any who are tempted by the comforting thought that this remains an African Problem, remember that the longer the virus replicates inside a host species, the more chances there are for a favorable mutation to take hold.

Favorable for the virus.

to overrule legislated abridgments to our constitutionally-protected freedoms.

It's too bad Mademoiselle Sotomayer isn't in a position to help with that.

I'm completely paralyzed by your intractable logic.

but there are enough flaws in the human condition that we pretty much need some rules to protect us from each other.

This may be one of those times.

That the increase in effectiveness is a factor of 400 is impressive enough by itself.

But 400V times the productivity sounds more imposing.

I immediately discount any claim of peasant-like fealty to Russia as the vernacular of a man with few options.

Beware /. poster, your experience as one who has not tired of revelations of the corruption of government is not indicative of the public at large.

even he is on record as saying, "I'm going to slip up and they (American intelligence) are going to hack me."

Though the public has seemingly grown tired of revelations regarding the misdeeds of government, the government has not tired in its pursuit of of the prosecution of Mr Snowden. Does the government win because of their persistence or due to our short attention span?

We'd only know about an hour in advance whether or not the CME's energy pulse would line up catastrophically with our own magnetic poles.

So even if we know it's coming, catastrophic is only one possibility.

Keep that in mind for perspective when the next beheading video hits the internet.