"it's still funneling people into Google's web suite." And that my friends is all that Google should care about. It's their stated mission for Android, so it's a win-win situation. Google purchased Motorolla for PATENTS, not because they wanted to start making money selling phones. If Google is smart they will use the Moto phones to roll out new features that users want but manufacturers are leary of. It should work well for them to use that brand to set a baseline Android experience, much as they've done with the nexus series. Hell, if they haven't complained about amazon building their own app store (and conveniently leaving Play out) I really don't think that they care much about what direction Android takes, as long as it continues to use Google search and display Google Ads.

wow, it's seems like such a complex language for us dumb westerners... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana

REMEMBER ALWAYS: It is the job of the police to CONVICT people. In general, they don't really care if you're guilty or not. They get atta' boys for putting people behind bars, nothing else. Give them an excuse and they will put you in prison, and get a commendation for doing so. They are not on the hook if they make a mistake or fudge the numbers, so don't expect them to act responsibly. They will pretend to be your friend, they will play the hero, they will mindfuck you, all to get you say something wrong. The only person that you should ever talk to is your lawyer. It is his job to keep you OUT of jail so that you can pay his bills. Let your lawyer answer all of the questions, I don't care if you weren't even born when it happened, let your lawyer do the talking. A few thousand bucks in lawyers fees is well worth the heartache averted. There's no such thing as a simple question, especially coming from a cop.

It's possible to have windows or skylights, but they must have steel shutters that slide into place over the top of them...

i know that you were trying to be funny, but this is an active area or research that has already had way too many breakthroughs. Google "terminator genes" sometime, it will keep you up at night.

Pepper spray is a panacea for the paranoid. There are about 3 people out of ten that it does not incapacitate or slow down.

We have COX business and have been very impressed. While the speeds that they offer are lower, i am much more likely to get the speed promised because my traffic is prioritized at the switch. I have never waited more than 24hrs for a tech to show up and fix the problem, and they've always been very nice on the phone with short wait times. I have also had no hassle whatsoever using netflix or torrenting, and have no evidence of any kind of traffic shaping. All that combined with a static IP to run my personal website on, it's well worth the extra that i pay.

I agree that 1 guy with a gun isn't going to win a war. Hell, even a hundred. 1 guy can however cause a lot of chaos and confusion, and even shut down entire states for days.

Remember that it was just a few guys with rifles that had law enforcement and the general public shitting their pants every time that a loud noise was heard. Dorner had one of the largest police forces on the planet walking on egg shells. The DC sniper had most of new england scared shitless.

um, you could already make a pretty scary shotgun out of a piece of iron pipe, a cap and a nail. google "zip guns" sometime.

really it's a non issue, most of these homemade guns are pretty useless, including this 3d printed one. With a lifetime measured in tens of rounds, it really isn't all that special.

and as always, you still get the same time in the federal pokey if you get caught doing something naughty with it.

Who do you think the stealth bomber runs are done to impress? CHINA!!! Sure, Kim Jong Un might know about them and use them as propaganda, and it might scare him a little that he can't see the things on radar, but my guess is that we're really trying to impress China. I'm sure that the island is right at the edge of their early warning radar coverage, and if we slip in and drop the payload without raising an alarm (with a bomber that we designed in the 70's no less...) China will sit up and take notice. The Chinese are the only ones in a position to twist Kim's arm hard enough to make him stop acting like a four-year-old, the Chinese are the ones that we are trying to scare.

whoosh. ethanol adulterates (dilutes) gasoline in a bad way much as sawdust has been purportedly used as a filler to dilute the meat content in hot dogs (to very ill effect) in order to save money. the comparison falls short though because ethanol is arguably MORE expensive than gasoline, we just delude ourselves into thinking that it's better for the environment.

it'll never happen. The desert ecosystem is just as protected as any forest land, the greenies will never let the government turn over the first shovel full of dirt. I've seen it happen way too many times locally in so-cal.

This is really a non-issue!

If a ban is passed the manufacture of 30-round magazines will be just as illegal as owning one. And the penalties are often far worse! To the tune of thousands of dollars and up to 10 years in federal prison. That's the way that it is now for machine guns and other NFA devices, and the way that it was during the previous ban.

I *could* grow pot and poppies and cocoa plants in my backyard with the intent of manufacturing drugs. This doesn't make it any more legal under current federal law, even if it's only for my own personal use. Still get to go to prison when I get caught.

the Chechnyans did pretty well with molotov coctails, which is just gelled fuel in a frangible delivery device. It doesn't outright destroy a tank, but it can make it pretty hard to target anything when the things on fire. Not to mention that it gets a might bit hot in that flaming metal box! I have no idea if the Abrams are susceptible to this though... they do have fire suppression systems and O2 on board. I would hope that no american soldier would fire on his own countryman without serious provocation. If it gets to the point where they're rolling tanks down main street I think that I'm leaving before I can find out!

dear sir, i would be most pleased if you could send me a "trivial" amount of money like that referred to above. thank you.