Also she'd have to hand the controls over to a male colleague if this thing needs to be backed into a tight parking spot.

Big on statements like "So how am I sure?" and "Here's the proof", and short on identifying actual cases where he has made money with a lawsuit. I would not think that it would be difficult to provide proof if there were any.

The last company I worked for used desk phones for answering the door buzzer and outside lines. No receptionist, so every phone in the office would ring -- about 25 in the room the software developers were in. It was expected that they stop what they're doing to answer, and try to contact the required person or take a message. This is just one of the stupidities inflicted by management.

So that's about 4.4 trillion messages that they're going to need stored? http://www.ctia.org/consumer_info/service/index.cfm/AID/10323

No loose strings of having some outside organisation examine and critique the effectiveness of your actions?

Generous, when you consider that there's only eleven minutes of actual sport being played. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406.html

Only if the circumstances are strongly suggestive that the hoard was deliberately hidden with the expectation of later recovery by the owner -- treasure buried as part of the internment of a body are an obvious case where there is no intent to recover, hence the Sutton Hoo treasure was not treasure trove.

I managed to drag my kids away from Minecraft from the moment the hatch opened to about a minute after he jumped, so although I don't know how many millions that cost, it was a price worth paying. Well done science!

"We have had circumstances where Navy vessels have collided at sea in the past, but they're fairly rare as to how often they do take place,"
Yes, that would be the usual meaning of the word rare.

So if they actually built this thing, I suppose that parts might later have been cannibalised for other projects, but isn't the shell of it still around somewhere? does anyone know what the protocol is with these projects when they finish? I'd like to think that it's sitting in someone's barn under a tarp.

For further context, if needed, the 5 year old's name is "April"

That rather glosses over the mass purchase of electric tram systems and their systematic destruction by automotive companies, led by GM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

They should follow it up with work on the effect of presenting scientific findings through the medium of a video which continually shifts from one person's speech to another, with each speaker rarely allowed more than one sentence before the voiceover or another speaker continues the thread of their message, or some floating text is slowly revealed as it drifts across the screen. It's probably received wisdom that floating images, continual movement on the screen, and cutting between different presenters holds the attention of an audience, but there's a clear difference between getting eyes-on-screen-for-as-long-as-possible, and communicating a moderately sophisticated message. Maybe I'm too old for this shit.