Personally I wish we'd just man up and shoot the appropriate organisms into Venus' atmosphere to start the terraforming process.

The Internet Archive says that it subscribes to the The Oakland Archive Policy which for |requests by governments" says:

Seems like this may just have slipped past them. Let's make sure they know they need to sort it out... Surely they only removed it from the Wayback Machine, not from the archive itself.

Not much of an archive if they delete the past because someone says it should be deleted. Even Wikipedia allows you to go back and see all changes to an article.

Enders Game could be the best movie ever, Orson Scott Card is not getting a dime of my money.

Well, chucking a car through an airlock would make it "fly through space" but it wouldn't necessarily make it a "flying car" even should it renter Earth's or some other planet's atmosphere.
More like a rapidly disintegrating burning lump of metal.

I was under the impression that there was a fairly simple amniotic fluid test which reveals gender. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that even if you have to resort to a genetic sample it still doesn't require DNA analysis, just a much simpler check for the existence of a Y chromosome - something that was discovered long before we even had the capacity to read the DNA itself.

Then you've got food, and even an anorexic will have to pay $40/week for food

It would be nice if people understood the joke before correcting it. Google for robot chicken (and enjoy) - it's a take-off of Star Wars and what was quoted is a line from the take-off.

Except the USPS scans an image of every piece of mail that it processes, which is then stored in a database that law enforcement can access. So in effect, sending a postcard is very similar to an email, with regards to how the message is intercepted and stored by federal authorities.

Except that it turns out that the Post Office is actually doing that. It is photographing EVERY piece of mail and processing the information and putting it into a database. I did not examine the articles closely enough to be sure, so I do not know if that includes evaluating what is written on postcards. I suspect not, but I also suspect that the information contained in the article would not have answered the question of whether they do or not.

In all fairness this is one you can't blame on our culture. Blockbuster movies need to be international. International means they can't have as much culture. Pure action translates well to large audiences worldwide, the more plot the more character the worse it translates.

This one you can blame the 3rd world.