STEM toys? Here is a crazy idea, stop buying them little Suzy homemaker/power shrew (empowered business woman)/street whore make over kits and maybe they'll do something more that goes beyond their visual appearance and the ability of their vagina to convert sperm into child support payments.

Instead buy them LEGOs, any of a dozen sand box builder games, model rockets, remote controlled drones, e-readers (loaded with lot's of post apocalypse/Sci-Fi books)DLS cameras/Go-Pros, tools and art supplies, 3D printers, etc. The other is to smack them when they try to sign up for the social sciences and make them instead take Algebra, Geometry, Trig, Calculus, Physics, Shop/Maker classes, Chemistry, Engineering, tech trades, and other course work that takes a bit more brain power than what is required to regurgitate Fem-Nazi social Marxist talking points.

If you like a an expensive place packed with people, few of which speak actual English, where the most interesting things Culturally are literally hundreds of years old then yeah London might be the town for you. I liked it. Lot's of money there, the beer was great, the temperature was bearable, and very touristy. Other than that? I'm but it's no better than any other city.

On the plus side it does look like you internet prices have drop substantially since I lived there last. Nice!

when their conception of freedom has absolutely nothing to do with actual freedom, and are really the rationalizations of immature children who either are 1. maliciously trying to avoid the consequences of their actions, or 2. are so fucking ignorant they don't understand their actions even have consequences

You just described every Liberal/Socialist that has ever existed.

Cool. Now I just need to make enough money to buy beer. Rent is covered, cell phone is covered, food is covered, health care is covered, school is covered, bussing is covered and now porn and video games are covered.

"I need a job!" said no guy ever once he figured out how to sign up for all this free stuff.

Musk hurry the fuck up with that Mars Colony already, or somebody get the zombie apocalypse rolling the level of stupid on planet Earth is reaching critical mass.

Maybe offloading that stuff to the monster gaming rig in the corner doing nothing most of the time, but to have several smart phones, tablets, and other devices trying to run things, that is dumb. 1st off no matter how cool phones and tablets have become they are lightweights when it comes to crunching data. It would take 5-10 devices to begin to be useful and when they are doing that they are not doing what you wanted them for in the first place. 2nd off the companies that provide services for phones tend to have gigantic server farms that they maintain to do exactly that. (Anyone heard of Amazon, Google, Apple?)

If anything we want our handheld devices to become as dumb as possible so they will last weeks without having to be recharged and to be as light as possible.

I highly doubt the maintenance software is used to operate the engines during flight. If it is that is a VERY big fuck up on the part of the manufacture. None of the planes I've worked on used the maintenance software for flight ops. Sure it records during flight, but that is separate from the instruments and the throttles.

The high tech word of aviation is at least 30 years old. There is a reason for that, it works and it rarely fails. All the fancy stuff is bolted on top of the bombproof legacy gear, which usually will keep working even after a complete loss of power.

This is a fishing trip to try to dump the blame on the manufacturer. Pilot error is in the high 90's when it comes to crashed planes. Props spinning to slowly? When all else fails look out the window and fly the goddamn plane!

Sneaker net for the win. Got a 256GB flash drive, let me borrow it for an hour or two and I'll give it back to you full.

Frankly I've given up on the whole giant music collection thing. I've lost interest in it. It's not that music sucks, it's just that I barely have time to spend on it. Once your personal collection busts a couple hundred gigs you hardly know what you have anyway.

I've got a pile of Karma that reaches into the sky. I'm not afraid to use my own account.

You all say he is wrong but you don't counter as to why he is wrong.

"THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED YOU DON"T NEED TO SEE THE RAW DATA!!" is the mental equivalent of "Well yay, YOU ARE A POOP FACE!!".

That is the domain of idiots and children, neither of which can be taken seriously.

Set up a Slashdot server on board the space ship. You'll have an unlimited supply of negativity, so much so I think if you dumped a cup of tea on it the ship will instantly jump to ludicrous speed.

"When actual observations contradict all predictions made based on computer models you have to say that scientifically the models are flawed. If you believe a computer model over actual observed reality then you are a member of a cult, not a scientist.

What the Anonymous Coward said that all the cultists are trying to mod down.

Ugh California you already have enough poor, quite buying more.

Give them free(mandatory) birth control BEFORE you give them the latest handout and you will finally start reducing poverty with government welfare.

UK the friendliest fascist country in Europe. Enjoy paying all those taxes suckers and living 20 years behind everyone else.

No need to be rude and a coward.

Just stick with Socialism rules. The useless comment of that is redundant since that is always implied when referring to socialism. Also don't forget useless people come in all colors and creeds so don't be stingy with your criticism by picking just one group.

At 3-5% annual inflation (gov't printing money) that'll eat a big chunk of that by 2020, and don't forget if you work in LA you get slaughtered by taxes in California. You'd been better off sticking with the old minimum wage welfare. Congrats morons, you just gave the government an excuse to take even more of your money.

Hope they manage it as well as illegal immigrate.....err yeah. Hope they manage as well as the electrical grid....oh wait. Hope they manage it as well as the highway system....hmmmmm. Hope they manage it as well as the water supply.......well fuck.

There should only be a regulation or two for taxis. You should have to identify yourself properly and be registered with the city. That registration shouldn't cost more than the price of filing the paperwork. That is it.

If you piss off enough of your customers no one will do business with you after a while. Personally the Uber concept needs to be spread everywhere.

You are an asshole to date, work with, work for, do business with, go to school, about returning things you borrow, paying your bills, you should be blacklisted from society as a whole. Eventually you'll either stop being an asshole or you will starve.