Does the thruster operate only in a vacuum ?

Why is the thruster off-center on that thing ? How can it work ?!?

With all this recent drone paranoia, it's only a matter of time before some bozo comes up with a tiny laser system mounted on an accoustic/optical detector combination that shoots them out of the sky, or at least fries their cameras. Hell, you can purchase 4W laser 'pens' over the Internet. The rest is not that hard to do if safety is not a requirement !!!

Did you miss the part about them being something like 20 orders of magnitude less energetic...?

Yeah, but it doesn't say how we are supposed to build a cosmological neutrino detector...

Yeah, and I'm one of the victims. Sleep mode wakes to a black screen. Some windows (kate, konsole...) don't reopen in new sessions; all others reopen on the 1st desktop. 'flat' icon styles are not distinctive enough (all grey). If you use the ATI driver there's no more console and you can't unlock the screen... and more. It's usable, but those things are annoying and unpolished. Particularly after years of very smooth Kubuntu upgrades.

Thanks, yes something like that. But the comments on amazon are abysmal ! And they talk about iTunes which I don't use and they don't say if you can load it in Mass Storage mode or mtp or what ?

Whoah, we must be living on different planets. In my teens I had zits, I couldn't talk to a girl to save my life, parents and teachers kept telling me I sucked, I had no money, no transportation and I could never do anything I would have wanted to (too dangerous, too expensive, too far, etc). Maybe it's the reason why I still seek new bands in my 40s... (scandinavian metal rules!)

Well, as might as well asked this here: I'm looking for a very simple mp3 player for a small kid. Only requirements are: no more than a few (real) buttons (play, stop, next), and an integrated speaker. There used to be walkmen with speakers, but I've been unable to find a small mp3 player with one (or they are full on boomboxes).

Sounds like you need to try rock climbing. The one on lead trad (placing protection yourself), not the kind on plastic you can do at the gym.

Same here. I've long wondered why climbing is so chock-full of intellectuals (somewhat less so in the US than in Europe, lots of dirtbags without a job in the former). Most climbers are engineers, researchers, etc... It's certainly not because of money because once you have harness, shoes and rope you are pretty much set for the next few years. Maybe because it's one of the few sports where you can stop and think for as long as you want (or rather as long as your arms can hold).

Nope. Various studies show that religions declined AFTER the black plague. Angry at god for having sent it maybe ?

But then if you have to use another justification, would it be as efficient at starting a war ? I say not.