You know that more than one person expressing different opinions is not, in fact, hypocrisy, right?

And the "intrepid imaginaut" can't imagine a world where people, I don't know, have a different experience?

What makes you think I haven't tried something else? I've got a perfectly good Kindle right here. It's fine...well designed, well made, nice piece of hardware...but I /prefer/

(there's the key word, everybody)

the utility of an LCD (LED OLED whateverthehell) tablet.

The farce here is that one person somewhere thinks they've got some kind of read about Immutable Truths of How Reading Works, and that's just silly. You don't. I don't. GP doesn't. It will be OK.

"the simple reality is that you can't read books or even lengthy texts as easily from a luminescent monitor as from an e-ink display."

Simply not true. I can, and do, and your wishing won't stop me.

"but you didn't have people selling their book collections when laptops became common"

That's a form factor thing, not a backlit screen thing.

eink/epaper is great. I happen to prefer the flexibility of an LCD. Neither preference should get you all hot n' bothered, because it's just that: A preference. For /my/ use case, an LCD is superior. For /your/ use case, do whatever the hell you want. It'll be OK.

Space exploration is an intellectual curiosity. Space colonization and exploitation is, in the medium to long term, the only thing that matters.

...huh? Do you need a hug?

Lawsuits.

If you're thinking of the PowerMac 5300, no, nobody counts that as the Pro line.

What are you going to do? Not pay for the free service?

I think this latest X-51 flight may have been longer than the sum of hypersonic burns on all tests thus far, but I may have overlooked some of the more recent ones.

Suffice it to say, a several-minute burn, with acceleration, is not a trivial accomplishment.

So what's your beef?

The power tools built by their subsidiary are works of art.

http://festoolusa.com/

Golly, those phones have really big screens. And mouse pointers. Are you sure you're following the conversation?

And all you have to do is trust that Microsoft will not abandon their existing customers.

I'll leave the consideration of that track record as an exercise for the audience.

It's not a royally stupid idea. It's literally the only thing that matters, in the medium-to-long term.

There will be an extinction level event. The only way for our species to survive it is to live on places other than Earth. If you don't think that humanity ought to preserve itself, well, I don't know how to explain that to you.

Mind. Blown. The TV show just writes itself!