of 3 planes (1 camera/control).... something that should be priced maximum as a regular family sedan if that....?

Yeah, and in the last few decades law enforcement agencies on both the state and federal level have grown increasingly dependent on civil forfeiture in their insane drug war. Basically it's a guilty until proven innocent system, and good luck getting it back if the government took all your money to begin with.

This was a country with $500 and $1000 (and more) dollar bills already back in the 1920s.... and now you're suspicious if you carry more than a few hundred dollar bills. Modern hundred dollar bills that I may add have less value than a 1920s Hamilton ($10 bill).

Before anyone says it only happens to drug dealers, I had 2 friends go to CA with their life savings of $15k and a business plan get stopped in OK and the money seized and never seen again. Not an gram of drugs in the car, just some beer in the back. America looks more and more like a communist country every coming decade.

Beethoven being "black" is just speculation put forward by pan-africanists and have little to do with reality.

Soon google will give you the car for free, downside is the outside is covered with e-ink, and the future will look like one huge f1 race, sponsor wise.

You replace the battery.

For people who want to pay the apple tax:
https://www.apple.com/batterie...

And the rest of us will just find cheaper ones online.

He means Sarah Palin. Now proceed to your scheduled waterboarding baptism. Yee-haw, muddafukka.

After the bump in resolution, I just don't think there's much reason to upgrade. Speed is okay. The tech industry increasingly has to look at a future where it sells products that will be "good enough" for most people for a decade instead of 2 years.

What smart phones/tablets went through the last 7 years is what desktop and notebook PCs went through in the 80s/90s/early00s. Now very few people consider seriously getting a new desktop every 2 or even 4 years. And yes there will always be a segment that wants more speed, but as they grew the market for computers, that segment did not increase in proportion with it because most of those power users were already there by the nature of their work. Many of the power users that get added afterwards probably replace the ones that drop off for one reason or another.

And considering ewaste, this is not a bad thing. Except for companies whose stock price depends on them always pushing out more product than they did the same quarter last year.

Sony will turn it into a propietary format, allowing someone else to develop a work around at 1/3 the price.

You say that as if there is no overlap.

What's funny is colloquial language is the exact opposite and yet some people treat any aberration as if it would cause a million parsing errors.

Yanno, I don't think perfect grammar or lack of in an informal setting is a test of intelligence. Just be good enough to get the idea across.

I never sat in an English class and thought my teacher was an amazing wizard of thought through their impeccable language skills. Mostly it was "What a dull bitch." I have the same thoughts of spelling/grammar nazis online who try to use it as counterargument or to elevate themselves over the other person.

My math teachers otoh... those were wizards. Their grammar was sometimes horrible and I forgave their faults at every turn.

Honestly, it really depends on what you do. But for the average westerner, I'd recommend a cleaver good long (~10") japanese chef's knife (but european shape), I like Shun but there are better brands that cost more. And a moderate size ceramic knife.

I think wusthoff/henckels is just ok but not more than that.

Gordon Ramsay is?

And I don't even pay $15 for a movie screen now. Around $8-11.

The only tiered pricing will be how it is now. Closer to release date, the more you pay. Movie Ticket > PPV > Rental > Streaming > TV (free, albet with ads).

Okay, I didn't stick DVD/BR in there which mucks up that neat formula with a higher price and ambiguities.... but the point remains. No one is going with this stupid plan.

Don't like a group? Declare their activities illegal and arrest them. Then declare that all they are doing is sitting in jail taking up taxpayer money and execute them to save some cash.

Sounds good to me.