How sad the default state, in some peoples' minds, for exploration is to get on bended knee to government.

"Omg, when we got to Mars, there were these freaky ugly guys with odd tricolore eyes. But they have suction cups on very long fingers and slime-covered bodies and god dammit is sex with them hot!"

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Then why ban them? And then clone them?

Some people are saying good, even more competition. Government running competition out of town on a rail to hand it over to itself and its crony taxis is not freaking competing! It's old-school corruption.

It's why politicians seek office.

"The twins, about 36 to 40 weeks old, probably suffocated during their mother's troubled labor nearly 8,000 years ago."

But that's thousands of years before the earliest possible date for Adam amd Eve getting kicked from the Garden of Eden, with God's mandate that in pain shall ye labor.

No, no, no! Something about this just doesn't add up!

"But sooner or later, real world implications will occur, causing possible outages or even worse ."

Like setting gas to $0.01 a gallon.

We're supposed to live in a free country, with a government with greatly restricted powers. Then, surveillance, crony capitalism, kickbacks to regulate your competition out of business, all that can't happen, and then who wins isn't some plum of godhood of control. That you panic over the possibility of "King Bush III" shows just how far down that unintended shithole of governance, away from freedom we have slid over the decades.

You are right, regardless of political side, to be terrified of who may win. This is the shitty country with unrestricted government you, and your past few generation of ancestors, have built.

Reporting a phone stolen when you actually sold it should be a felony on the same level as stealing the phone to begin with.

Malicious kill switch activation is only a problem if Apple charges you $100 to "repair" it.

Well, Apple?

Ahhh, the ongoing march of hard endpoint outcomes analysis daggers another belief.

Niacin, various vitamins absent particular diagnosed deficiencies, multivitamins, guess what? Chicken butt. No difference in long term outcomes.

My only concern is certain possibly beneficial heart drugs were abandoned in phase iii stidies because they slightly increased death rates. There could be benefit there for subpopulations if the deaths cluster about some physiology type, which maybe could be pre-tested for, or monitored closely.

I don't see how this could be legal -- a video stream would be copyrighted, and inserting extra ads (to say nothing of overwriting some) could indeed be violating a copyright on the assembled data stream as a work.

So, too, altering a web page to add ads not actually there. This is different from a browser with a reserved area outside the site frame, for ads, or a preview page serving an ad before showing you the site.

Do not teach your grammar how to suck eggs.

Believe it.

You should see what this cable does for porn!

You'd be surprised what a free people will do once oppressive government is removed from their backs.

I went to Jamaica in 2001, and all those poor, poor Jamaicans running the tourist nick nack stalls had cell phones.

A free people will bust ass to acquire the good stuff. How patronizing are many posts in this thread, suggesting this is a bad thing.

What it really suggests is an overbearing government is bad for many reasons, and that there's a hell of a lot more to freedom than freedom of speech.

"Windows 8 suxxxxxxs, what to do?"

"Windows 8.1 as a stopgap. And rush Windows 9 into production."

"No, we need to give the perception of totally abandoning 8. Skip 9 and call it 10."

"Might not be far enough. How about 360 like X-Box? Release in 2016."

"Nah sounds like a toy. How about Windows 365 -- The everyday computer for the everyman?"

"Everyperson."

"Ok, do it."

2016 rolls around. $2 billion in ads come out.

"Microsoft proudly introduces Windows 365! The everyday computer for the everyperson!"

"Oh my god."

"What?"

"2016 is a leap year."