You know how yeast makes alcohol, right?

He'll shoot alcohol alright, but he wont need any new orifices on his wrists...

If a King rules a Kingdom, and an Emperor rules an Empire, who rules our Country?

Unfortunately Trademark law requires that the Trademark holder "vigorously defend" their Trademark to maintain its validity.

Fluke couldn't allow this and maintain the Trademark, even if they wanted to.

Just wait till we start suctioning up the liquid methane from Titan and importing that to burn.

Maybe because we don't want to look like the friggin Batman everywhere we go?

Yeah, cause that pile of Deutschmark dad buried in our back yard was such a great idea. Lasted all of 54 years as a currency with "inherent stability". At least they will still take them in exchange for Euro "indefinitely", or until they change their minds.

Inherent stability, long term or not, is NOT a requirement for a currency to be useful. Just ask Argentina, Zimbabwe, heck, even China has to manipulate the hell out of the world markets to keep their currency "stable". All of those, and really EVERY currency that isn't the current "Reserve Currency" is still valuable to people making exchanges with it every day for food, shelter, work, etc. Maybe not AS valuable as the reserve currency in the world market, or in the home country of that currency, but still useful as a measure of portable, convertible value.

Well done complaint about nothing to complain about...

Carry on.

Actually, that could be a BRILLIANT idea. Wave power pushes it down, cork pops it back up, rinse, repeat.

They could double their output.

I'm certain Penny Arcade already covered this somewhere.

KeePass. With the encrypted datafile in dropbox.

It's all about the money.

I'm certain that the plan is to produce something similar to, but almost entirely unlike real eggs, but at a far lower price point per kg for industrial baking and food preparation. When they can achieve that, they will recoup their investment many times over, and the general public will be none the wiser.

You can throw The Novelist into that bin too. The only trouble with The Novelist was that it touched too true to life a few times.

Why are you so sadistic that you want to force people to work as garbage men? Especially when it would be much more efficient, clean, and environmentally friendly to automate the entire process? Already the number of garbage men needed is far less than those willing to work for it. My municipality never has a shortage of people applying for the job when a position becomes open, and most of the folks that start in those positions either promote up out of the job, or retire after 25 years. Very few leave because they found "a better position".

In your example, what to do with the billions of people for which there is no useful "1) a job" available? If/when we get to the point that 100,000 people can operate and maintain the machinery to provide all the needs and wants of the other 8 billion people on the planet, is it honestly your suggestion that the 8 billion should live in squalor and poverty, and the entire production of the planet only be distributed among the 100,000 who have the needed skills?

Better hope you're one of the 100,000, but the odds are against it.

As least it wasn't:

Dumb abusive cart barista abuses nouveau caloric gimmick chocolates.

On the back of all my cards, in the "signature" line I always write, "Please check ID".

I always thank the 1 in 100 clerks that actually ask for my ID, though half of those seem to do it as company policy, not because I had it on my card.