It's on par with the bloat of the average MS app rerelease, taking advantage of faster processors to hide much of it.

And there's plenty of room in Unicode. They can fit these in, between the Madonna boobs and Mile on a wrecking ball.

"I will make you catfishers of men." -- Jesus, when appearing in the New World in the Book of Mormon

Dictionary people used to just categorize definitions for eternity. They recognized the slow change, but now it seems they've gone overboard in the other direction, being too quick to recognize new words that may be faddish and need the lens of time to know if they're gonna stick around.

> 100gbps

A hell of a lot more than 8k!

Man, I wonder what kind of porn that will be...[looks up to the stars wistfully, eyes like glazed saucers, the wonder of the infinite]

"Haha, four billion computers...four billion networked computers! That's almost as many people as on the planet! Each computer will have more than 640k, too! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!111!!"

And humans, because humans have so many fat bodies!

Nobody in a free society should be a fan of unelected people taking vast new control over a huge new domain that did not exist when Congress created this law some time around the Flintstones era.

Congress should do its job and decide what, if anything, such should be like, rather than unelected bureaucrats stretching the law to fit...and give themselves power.

It is precisely because politicians can hide and play a game of "I had nothing to do with this", if things go wrong, that that state should be denied to them.

You get the 12 mile military and 200 mile fishing limits for your land per international law. However, this must be land above the water. You cannot find land under the surface, dump tons of dirt on it, and claim those rights, per same law.

This doesn't mean you can't create the islands, but you can't do the 12 mile/200 mile thing. China thinks it can.

Money, being literally coins of precious metal, had intrinsic worth. Said government or bank could go to hell or lose a war, and you still have the value.

In that way, it started as merely another form of trade, a convenience to hold value from one sale until you found what you wanted to buy.

If the US went belly up, you have numbers on paper. When Kuwait was invaded, they were on a gold standard, but good luck going down to the Kuwaiti government requesting gold for paper, with a Saddam guy there.

From a US perspective, perhaps. But truth is not a defense in Europe, even for public figures (who thus use censorship to protect their power by preventing criticism.)

The legal power to silence criticism is at the core of the absolutist nature of the First Amendment. Government doesn't get to decide what kinds of criticism are permitted, by them, the people in power with police behind them.

Well that's why you have to stop Europe from demanding worldwide compliance, so dictatorships can't use it as precedence.

It's the wrong kind of precidence, showing governments with the power to censor.

How do you prosecute people for not forseeing a double-whammy overcoming triple redundancy?

Humanity learns these things the hard way. And if someone imagined it later, talk to politicians and businessmen for not upgrading it, not engineers.

Also, wtf with the pylon issue, people? Just put the generators on the third floor of a mildly reinforced building, i.e. metal beams sunk into cement, details left for a sophomore civil engineer. No need for something Daffy Duck might like.

Well, what's BBC-America supposed to do? Now their only British show for us is Star Trek: Next Generation.

I say we follow the Dutch model of compassion. They pay prostitutes to jerk off people in hospitals.