Oh, you aren't trapped. You simply have failed to recognize this as a sign from St. Jobs that your tithing is becoming a bit stingy for a fine, upstanding member of the Cult of Apple.

Free yourself from your shackles! Bask in the Glorious Light of a Retina Display (on certain models), of towers that can be confused with an ashtray, of connectors used by no one else on the planet. Of operating systems with the lifespan of a midge fly.

Or, you can be doomed forever in the Pit of Financial Sobriety.

The choice is yours. Upgrade or die.

IIRC they were laser sintering some exhaust nozzles. So yes, it is a technology that can be added to our bag of Homo Industrialis tricks. No, it's not going to replace much in the manufacturing sector anytime soon.

Nope, bad analogy. Try a car chase or something....

The binocular search is in the public view. The computer search goes into private territory. The better analogy in your case would be if the investigator had to enter someone's house (without a warrant) to view a potential crime. Can't do that.

"What do I think of Western Civilization?"

"I think it would be a very good idea."

Remember that conversation?

I know! Let's improve this discussion by talking about vaccines.

I take it that you flunked statistics.
And calculus.
And biology.

But keep it up, positive thinking is good for you.

Could you please go back to reading the backs of road signs and trying to map out UN invasion routes?

Governments typically hate competition. Too many drones will spoil it for everybody^Hthe three letter agencies.

Oh look! A radionuclide! Run Away! Run Away!

Exactly how long do you want You Tube videos to be anyway?

Why do you hate America?

Pretty much this.

TL;DR, careful what you ask for, you might get it and peaceful conflict resolution always beats the alternative.

Well, it does say "Science Blog - Straight from the Source". So what were you expecting?

And, like everyone else, I can't make heads or tails out of it either, but at least your source has a cool picture.

No, this is just Microsoft's Marketing Move of The Month. They change marketing strategies faster than Miley Cyrus changes clothes.

Science is, eventually, self correcting. It may take months (in this case), decades (cf, Plate Tectonics) or hundreds of years (the nonsense spouted by Pliny and Aristotle). There are probably large swaths of what we take for scientific understanding that are still wrong (or not even wrong). But there is a self correcting mechanism. In this, Science is rather unique among human endeavors.