It's a good thing those Republicans support state rights. oh wait ...

my prediction: in two weeks they'll announce that they've changed their mind, supposedly under pressure from the people advocating for freedom of artistic expression, but really because it's a publicity stunt to drive up sales. There may even be a theatrical release. If they had released it in December they would have had a flop on their hands, because it's a bad movie (one reviewer said it was "about as funny as a communist food shortage, and just as protracted") and it would be competing with the other Christmas movies. Add the controversy and a January release and they may just make money off it.

That happens too. The construction workers next to my office building cut both the gas and the power (not on the same day, luckily).

Well, an 8 foot trench means that the next person to come along and dig a 4 foot trench won't cut your fiber.

I think the GoT TV series sucked much less than the books, so it's a positive in HBO's column.

Gonna lob something at your head. Don't make me get lobby.

I think at one point it was true in Africa as well, but the demand for slaves changed the dynamic completely. hairyfeet's attempt to place the blame on anyone but the people buying the slaves is silly, since the end-buyers were fundamental to the economics driving the entire system.

Which they did after iMessage and other alternative messaging services came out, of course. I'm grateful to Apple for forcing their hand.

incompetence on Ebola? Only 2 people have been infected in America, and both of them lived.

Did you? The thread started with balloons.

As near as I can tell from the TFA somebody just put an arbitrary limit of 40 million in the code somewhere. Would be nice to have more technical details.

Bad wording. Perhaps "obvious and preventable" would have been better (and why does the counter not go to at least max int, e.g. 2^31-1 = 2,147,483,647).

"low quality" is the third definition of cheap (according to Webster's). The first 2 are basically equivalent to "less expensive". If you want to be pedantic, do it right.

Or people chatting on their cell phone and never noticing your brake lights.

I think Lumix is just cameras (a Panasonic brand).