Kirk: "Then ... ... ... ... let ... them ... die".

FTFY

I used to work for an after-market brake parts supplier. They had a full-line catalog: if you needed a master cylinder for a 55 Checker cab, they could sell you one. The sales and marketing guys used to have wet dreams about the day when Cuba would open up.

...an effort to rewrite laws just hours after dozens of arrests across Europe offered dramatic evidence of the threats security officials say are facing the continent.

'Cause the Patriot Act worked out so well for us.

Never mind worrying about the terrorists winning, it's the fascists who are doing the winning

You're thinking of the Spankocene Era.

No, that was the Industrial Revolution: steam trains and burning coal.

I remember experimental ultrasonic vapor carburetors (Edelbrock IIRC) from the late 70's. Don't know why they never saw mass production, seemed like a great idea, simple and effective.

We're not talking about them blocking wireless hotspots in guest's rooms, that's just overlap. The issue is that they were blocking wireless hotspots in convention space they were renting out, so the individual conventioneers and exhibitors HAD to buy the Marriot wi-fi package at exorbitant prices.

None of them have any idea how to protect themselves from lets face - the stupidest human beings in the world that only have numbers going for them.

Are you talking about a television show, or real life?

Congress.

That's literally the silliest thing I ever read. OK, Mr. Smart Guy, what does "literally" mean literally?

Concentrating on the money these big corporations give to Open Source foundations and ignoring the salaries they pay to dedicated Open Source developers is a ridiculous comparison -- a drop in a bucket.

I'm really tired of walking past dozens of empty reserved for paralyzed rat parking places to get into the grocery store.

Heh. I took the train into Chicago for many years. There's a Mars plant next to the line, with a passenger stop. Every morning the robot-voice would announce "The next stop will be ... Mars".

How many rovers do YOU (or **anyone** else for that matter) have on Mars?

Oh please. I'm SURE Comcast will have *no problem whatsoever* with Google running (common carrier) fiber to people's houses.

Agreed. Starship Troopers was awful. I LOVED it.