Yea, it's much more convenient to carry a shark with a laser on its head.

Why "stamp it with a device that uses a laser to etch it with your name and a unique identifying pattern". All it's doing is creating a mailing label, you can do that already.

The idea of auto-forwarding to the address in the post office's database is kind of different; but I'm not sure what that adds to filling out a change of address form and sending it to your post office.

What does this provide that a postage meter doesn't? He also seems to think the USPS should spend billions retooling how they sort mail.

There were many other things going on during the '80s. The country was in the middle of a deep and prolonged recession. Women were given hiring preference in most technical fields. Comp Sci programs became more competitive. Maybe 0.1% of coeds ended up in other fields for various reasons.

Those Aussies do like to give their stuff cool sounding names.

Car manufacturers in the US are responsible for repairs.

Comets are named after whoever spots it first. Siding Spring is an observatory in Australia.

I've been to events where they take an order for a hamburger, take your money, cook that hamburger, serve it, and then take the next order. It's painful to watch.

But from what I've read about Burning Man it wouldn't surprise me that this kind of thing goes on there.

Yes and yuck. Thanks for the correction.

"pay off big" means they'll need to sell it to someone. So far they've just given impressively staged marketing demos.