The difference being that they had a hope of returning in the "Age of Exploration".

Often, they didn't know that, and the changes of not returning home were >50%

One way trips have no hope of returning.

The likelyhood of this is also greater than 50%, but less than 100%. Who knows what discoveries could be made off-planet?
That said, not everyone who "didn't return home" in the colonization days died, some settled despite the harsh environment. This would be more the intent of such a mission off-planet. It's being portrayed as a death sentence, when really it's more of a chance to be part of early colonization attempts.

Law does take into effect intent. In this case, is there a legitimate case for "revenge" porn? The topic implies that by nature the content involves posting pictures without somebody else's consent. How is shutting it down and/or charging the owners different from doing so with a site called something like "kp-central.com" which knowingly lists the purpose as housing underage pornography, or an illegal pharmacy/gambling site?

If they want to be legit, include a release with the pics like regular porn. If they get a notice that content is not legit, take it down. If not, go to court/jail.

Yeah, I think that the advertisers (and Google seems to be particularly bad at this) really need to crack down on certain obviously-misleading ads. I've seen a creeping increase in the "Green Download Button" ads, which really serve no other purpose than to mislead people on download pages into downloading and installing the *wrong* product (generally malware).

Sorry, you want room 6a "fossil and book nerds"

You're in room 7b, "angsty nerds who still live at home with mom but mock other people's success"

I got that, but the whole thing is predicate upon apple breaking their "thinner and simpler outward design is more elegant (and better)" concept, which I can't see them doing.

Unless the new phone has a lense that's more susceptible to damage, I'm not sure how useful this is. Almost every incident of damaged iPhones I've seen is a cracked front screen (digitizer/LCD), not a broken camera lense.

Actually, that's a good question. I also wonder about the reimbursement for the car. Around here, you need to be insured "for business use." The insurance is still your own, though. I'm not sure that most pizza kids can afford the extra cost of "business use" insurance, so they're probably SOL in a lot of cases.

All because people are too lazy or too fat to turn around in their seat and look behind them or check their side mirrors.

Or they drive a vehicle where the mirror coverage sucks. I could see this being useful in vehicles with large blind spots (RV's, trucks with canopy, etc). Even with my mid-sized car, a few years ago I backed into a post that was just at bumper level. I couldn't see that in any mirror or window, but a camera probably would have shown it and saved me the cost of getting my bumper fixed.

A product that is a failure, not a success

How do you figure? I haven't heard of many owners who *don't* like the product, and it seems they're expending sales and the product catalogue (steel edition, etc).

From Terminator 2..
"I will not kill anyone."
[blows out the kneecaps of a guard]
"He'll live"

It's sounding a lot like this acquisition really has a lot less to do with Facebook itself, than just to do with Facebook's money. FB is in a business that can only be monetized so much. It's also a nook where many predecessors have suddenly gone from most-popular-site-eva to a discarded remnant. Geocities, Myspace, etc were also very popular in their day but inevitably doomed.

If Microsoft could start a successful game console, perhaps FB can move into the VR market. I see disastrous things if they try to mix their core business with Occulous, and frankly the privacy implications scare me enough that I'll be keeping my distance for now, but I've still got a small grain of hope that they're really just looking to buy into emerging markets to pad the inevitable decline of their primary LOB.

If you're going to stick these in the air, why not join them with something like solar energy as well? I believe there are some decently efficient lightweight modern solar panels, so you could have a combined fan/solar source. Since it's floating, it should be above most sources of shadow etc.

You are apparently not an American, as evidenced by your lack of understanding of our founding fathers and their writing of the constitution.

This statement assumes that most Americans understand these things...

After all, if he is right in the middle of it, so must everyone else

I think it's more a case of "if guns are harder to get, illegal gun sales will be more profitable"

she can't give the school permission to invade her privacy

Especially when there are school officials and a cop hanging over her shoulder and threatening her. Not only was it not approved by parents, but it was coerced under threat.