They'll end up paying twice the difference in bribes to state and local politicians and bureaucrats. Functionaries in India go to sleep DREAMING they lived in Texas. Illinois governors dream that when they get out of prison they'll get elected in Texas.

Interesting. I always thought The Singularity was what happened when you opened too many windows with too many tabs tabs in Firefox.

* After initial promo period, regular deadliness applies.

That's what killed the party reptiles.

Nah. It looks more like an ovum. ..... OMG! That's why we're not supposed to land there!

Please don't bring logic and engineering to the discussion, we're busy blaming liberals and environmentalists for resisting another corporate handout. After all, it's the "envirwackos", not the NIMBY soccer moms and the timid capitalists keeping us from having a shiny nuclear plant on every block. We NEED to be spending public money to "upgrade" privately-owned, already-amortized and obsolete coal plants to inefficiently burn natural gas. It's a Christmas miracle!

That isn't "long grass"! Those are pine trees! Run for your lives!

Holy shit! That's some really impressive natural language processing! Now I have a new toy for the afternoon. Thanks!

Anybody know what "39 times the size of Manhattan" is in football fields?

IIRC, The Professor built one of these out of bamboo, and then made Gilligan pedal the bicycle.

By that logic, without regulation there would be people kicking in your front door, raping your daughter and taking your shit.

LOL really? All the Android tablet makers should just fold their tents? Because "the user experience for Android on a tablet device is horrible compared to the iPad"? And "[Android] is slighty better than an ebook reader"? I'm sure they'll all discontinue making Android tablets later today. iPad/iPhone 4ever!!1!!!

And Google and Samsung disappeared in a puff of fanboyism.

"This is a ballot-box or pocket-book issue that hasn't really been seen yet in the United States."

Not while the mega-conglomerates control the news AND the cables it runs on. And, of course, the Senators who would vote on it.

You can sell anything on Shopping Network.

Originally, I was going to say RSX-11, but I didn't think enough people would get it.