That's the thing that kills me about the tablets, or even my smart phone. I like being able to read my books on the go, but the fact is if I spend a couple hours reading a book on a non dedicated platform, the battery is getting low. Many e readers are still able to run for days of reading without having to be tethered to something.

Well he certainly didn't help anything when his administration made that video he claims got the Middle East in an uproar, the filmmaker didn't build that.

There is this obscure game called Everquest that does all of the described elements of the patents. Everquest released March 16th, 1999. The aforementioned patent was filed March 19th, 1999.

You might be surprised at how being mocked by your peers is a motivational factor.

I see the sharing in either case to be a tricky way of publicly shaming really stupid ideas, and a good way to show off those decent ideas.

You are correct, it's your shit now. Microsoft isn't stopping you from selling your shit. It's like bitching that the dealership won't help you transfer the title on the car you bought from them when you sell it to someone else several years later. It's your job to deal with that because it's your shit now.

Teenage Alien Intelligence Ninja Turtles.

  So we'll all know whose it is we are doomed to view.

"Red Lightning", "Red Thunder" and "Rolling Thunder"

Apparently there is a new one coming out too, "Dark Thunder."
Besides I don't think they ever really said how old Jubal was, and of course he spent a good deal of time in a stasis bubble by the time Rolling Thunder came along. And she was of legal age.

actually we'd probably dump the salt back into the sea, since most of the water that is being added to the system has very low salinity. It would lower sea levels and bring the salinity to a more normal level.

So he's Rocky from Rocky V then?

Yes look how well that open border policy worked out for the Native Americans, can you blame the white folks for not wanting to let that happen to them?

You are mixing correlation and causation again. Poor people from say Africa or even Eastern Europe cannot just walk across a border and arrive in the United States of America. Yes there is a correlation to one being a poor, unskilled and illegal laborer in the USA and being "brown". The republicans would love to toss all of the former group out, regardless of the amount of pigmentation in their skin.

Look how well that turned out for them. We stole this land, fair and square.

Ah but you miss the point, with a manned moon base we'd always have the high ground in any conflict...
    Lob a "small" rock from the moon back at the earth and you have a bomb that is nuclear level effective, but will not render the area unihabitable by humans. The lower number could be used to pay for said base (and likely it would be manned by military personel anyway)

EA should sue both of them, that looks like a stripped down version of SimTower.

Basically they are using the same technology that oil companies use to get to oil. Given the press over some methane in water allowing it to burn, just imagine the public outcry when lava starts showing up in your tap water! You try to hose down a fire, and instead it sets the rest of the lawn ablaze. Luckily all that pumice means that the town residents will be very clean and not need to go to the local spa to get the epidural scrub.