From TFB:

According to Recode, Sony is using hundreds of computers in Asia to execute a denial of service attack on sites where its pilfered data is available

So it's legal when Sony does it? How, exactly?

Stoned drivers have become an increasing concern since Washington voters legalized recreational use of marijuana

Right! Because that was the day people started smoking and driving! Nobody ever did it before legalization!

Oh man where do they find these people? Too damn funny.

Ah, I see. So the "costs spiraling out of control" part that you guys said would happen immediately and didn't has merely been postponed. I get it.

Because just as soon as the ACA passed, that's when hospitals started to be miserable places to be. Thanks Obama.

Oh, and it's spelled "succinctly". Why is spell check like kryptonite to Tea Partiers?

and if mcdonald's used quality beef for their burgers and tripled the price i'd imagine most people would pass on it too. so they use the cheapest product from big volume suppliers who don't care about their livestock and sell you 99 cent burgers. you get what you pay for.

"I'm not good at my job, it's too hard! Make it easier for me!"

Every body up there gets us closer to the day when we regard space travel as normal and natural. We're not going to make it off this planet and out into space by sitting here and waiting for another cold war. Nor should we.

I think it's short sighted and dismissive to look at the Virgin crash as a death for tourism's sake. It is another death by another brave pioneer in the quest to reach the stars. I don't care who is footing the bill and what their reasons are.

news reports say he was hit by "nearly a dozen bullets". not that that invalidates any of your points.

Just make sure the first picture you draw of your underage-looking manga pornstar shows her holding up her vehicle operator's license (or other gov't approved photo ID). Also, make sure to draw the ID so it indicates that she's legal.

Ah, hubris! One of my favorite old-timey sins.

You are of course correct. The signal must become analog at some point to make it into your head, and we have had the capability to capture analog signals since the dawn of the television age. You can crack open LCD panels and intercept signals for a more modern high tech version of this concept, of course.

But you are forgetting the other side of the equation. When when someone makes that statement - "THIS CANNOT EVER BE PIRATED" - you are throwing down the gauntlet. And invariably some bored teenager will say "oh really is that so?" and make them eat their words. Usually by the following Saturday. Yes you can do an analog capture but by the time you warm up your soldering gun some kid in the Netherlands will have already got the torrent up.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch a Blu-Ray movie on my Linux box.

Much of Canada is already quite easily habitable, it's just that there's nothing there to draw people to it. For a simple example take a look at Alberta. Looking at 2011 numbers the population of the province is 3.6 million, with about two-thirds of that living in Calgary and Edmonton. There's a LOT of wide open land that could easily be filled up with people and their stuff. If you had ten million people and some start-up capital you could build a metropolis somewhere between Calgary and the Montana border with easy access to roads, rails, farmland, water, etc. For reference, New York City has an area about 15 sq. mi. smaller than Calgary and roughly eight times the population.

McDonald's has NFC enabled Interac handsets in their drive-thru. I wave my wallet at a machine for coffee a couple times a day. It's really more uncommon for me to find a vendor/retailer who *doesn't* have the NFC terminals these days. Back on topic, does this mean the new iPhones won't be able to use their NFC for anything besides payments? I quite like touching the backs of two NFC enabled android phones together to send links, contacts, photos, etc.

They can put them in the room that used to hold all of Hotmail's servers. Plenty of space there.