throwing away thorium makes about as much sense as throwing out crude oil once you've skimmed the kerosene and paraffin off the top. =(

hey, at least the cardboard is pre-assembled by Samsung. Rather than the Ikea version (you get some sheets of paper, glue, and some boxing tape.)

millionaires who are white men, rather.

Its tires. my god. Why do i keep doing that =/

I've heard it's tires only last about 12 minutes at that speed? Sounds like a safety measure to me. :)

Soooo.. Unless the money is evenly distributed, it's not 'good' for Cuba? Making a few categories of people relatively more wealthy than their countrymen is worse than that money not coming into the country in the first place?

I'm no fan of globalism, or of erecting 5 star resorts in places like Cuba or Jamaica -- but something is still better than nothing, right?

FB / twitter/ myspace/friendster/ whatever are the exact opposite of 'social'.

Reading people's status updates, or liking a photo does not constitute being social. Having people over for dinner, meeting for coffee.. that's social. Basically; interacting face to face is really the only acceptable definition of the term.

Things like FB detract from that, giving a very poor simulacrum of social interaction -- all the while further removing ourselves from actual social interactions and pushing the boundaries of autism ever outward.

Civilization has existed for ~12k years, human beings have not changed. Social interaction has not changed -- deluding ourselves into thinking that "Social Media" is somehow a surrogate, or worse a replacement, is top shelf idiocy.

why is it when someone on this site makes a comment about technology not being a slam-dunk, sure thing, utopia producing panacea of goodness -- the first instinct is to call them 'old fashioned'?

My money would be on in the next 40 years cars will mostly be electric/hybrid, but the driver-less stuff will be relegated to delivery vehicles and DUI offenders. Not everyone is a tech evangelist, and while there's a huge selection bias on a tech website -- it's a bit premature to extrapolate that to the general public.

i had a cold last week, my dog strangely enough didn't catch it.

odd huh?

What's the broken window fallacy?

(Not exactly a direct comparison, but sinking money into something like PV panels, when they could be doing something more useful, like sending money to Turkey/Greece, doesn't seem like a very productive use of capital.)

well when you think about it, having something that can be 'tested' by trial and error, over many years (only a thousand in this one, but i'm sure there are even lengthier examples) -- something that sticks around, probably has some use, even if it's opaque to us.

obligatory spooky Protoss voice: "Carrier has arrived".

did 95 even support USB? i thought that was a 98 thing.

Tell us your thoughts on Google while you're at it.

why would you want the dog killing robot to take a dump in your yard?