"We know they committed fraud and lied to investors, but really, they're just too big to do anything about so here, here's $700 billion of taxpayer money so you can pay your bonuses."

One step closer to fascism.

People scoffed at the move Wall E, and the fat people on floaty chairs who needed to be coddled for everything they did because they had grown too lazy to do or think for themselves.

Now with this service, as several on here have already commented, they too can do nothing for themselves, claiming it's more convenient than going outside where that bright shiny thing exists.

You're planning a party and realize you're out of something. Then you're a poor host and shouldn't have the party.

You run out of paper. If you're too stupid to notice you don't have an extra ream lying around, you have bigger problems.

You're a business and a part breaks. That's why you have maintenance contracts.

While not everyone lives in an area where stores are plentiful and readily accessible, the amount of comments which feed the notion that IT folks are fat fucks sitting in their chairs in their parent's basement is truly amazing. Stereotypes exist for a reason, so thank you for contributing in your own way.

when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Which may very well occur when autonomous vehicles can't decide what they should do and come to a stop, causing others to plow into them.

Someone slips on a clear liquid, whangs their head on the store shelf on the way down, then has their head impact the nice hard floor. Person dies.

Or, a parent slips on the unseen liquid and falls on their three year old walking next to them, snapping the kids neck and crushing them under the falling weight.

Yes, clean up in aisle two can be potentially life saving.

No, that 's not it. You see, these people get paid the big bucks to make the tough decisions. They are our best and brightest, just like the folks on Wall Street, so whatever they do, you cannot question them. After all, they know what they're doing.

Which means all those drug user don't get to suck at the teet of the taxpayer when they want to break their habit.

If you can afford to buy drugs, you can afford to pay for your own treatment.

Stop bringing up personal responsibility in situations like this. Everyone knows one should be free to do what they want, whenever they want, without having to suffer any consequences for their actions.

(At least they gave the mice a nice memory.)

First when K flashes Beatrice after she saw her "husband" inhale the sugar water, and later at the morgue, when K instructs the clean up crew to give the coroner a happy memory.

why do you have a "yard"?

Because they like the feel of grass under their feet rather than concrete? They like to create a cooler micro-climate around their home? Because they have kids who can play on the safety of their own place? They want some distance between them and their neighbors? They like the smell of grass? They can lay out during the summer without having to worry about anyone else?

There are a number of reasons people have a yard. Even more amazing, they can still be green by modifying how they take care of it while still enjoying the benefits.

That was the point of the video. The machine cost $5,000 and the plastic to make the whistle was in addition to that figure.

The same applies with the two figures (three when you include Raj) for Howard and Bernadette.

Those are awfully expensive items to print at home.

Just like XKCD, The Big Bang Theory comes to the rescue:

Howard: Do you realize, by owning a 3-D printer, we are reclaiming the manufacturing process and taking jobs back from sweatshops in China?

Raj: I think this thing was made in China.

Howard: Eh, what can you do?

Raj: Ooh, I, I think it's done. Oh, it worked. We printed a whistle.

Howard: Amazing. You realize these things go for 25 cents a pop at a party store.

Raj: And we made it in only three hours. Sounds just like store-bought.

The full video version.

the common militia, which consisted of all the people, and a "Well Regulated Militia", which was the standing army.

False. You're using semantics to cloud the obvious.

The Militia Act of 1792 clearly indicates the militia is composed of citizens who own a gun and not a standing army. Here is the most telling part of the act:

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the militia employed in the service of the United States, shall receive the same pay and allowances, as the troops of the United States, who may be in service at the same time, or who were last in service, and shall be subject to the same rules and articles of war:

Pretty darn clear the difference between militia and standing army. In fact, if you read the entire act, the word militia is used and defined throughout as well as the regulations regarding the militia, not a separate standing army.

The Founding Fathers wanted citizens to own firearms while at the same time letting the citizens know they could be called up at any time to suppress insurrection or invasion. The only way to do this was to regulate them, set down specific requirements for what they must bring and how they were to be trained. The act lays this out in plain, clear language.

To use Jefferson's own words:

that the militia would "be our best reliance in peace and for the first months of war until the Regulars may relieve them". Link to source

Are these potholes so wide they can't be straddled?

It depends. Sometimes you can, but sometimes the way they have grown they're just large enough for one wheel or the other to drop into. If the pothole is on your right, you could try to swerve right to straddle it but you might also hit the curb or parked cars.

If you try to swerve to the left, you might miss it, or end up perfectly hitting the target, but as the OP said, you run the risk of driving into oncoming traffic.

As to reporting potholes, every major city responds to reports of potholes needing patched, but the sheer amount of requests, traffic, time of year, etc, prevent them from quickly filling them. When you include limited monetary resources, things get much worse.

If you have never driven in colder climates where potholes are ubiquitous this time of the year, you don't have a frame of reference to understand how bad these things are. It's like people who have never lived down south don't understand the perpetual heat and humidity combined with insects left over from the dinosaur era roaming about.

The movie, In Time, touches on the subject of a timeline for a person. As Wikipedia relates, Harlan Ellison had already written a similar story as well as a few others.

Despite this, I can see people not appreciating or caring about a timeline. I know it's hard to believe but there are millions (billions?) of people who use the Net strictly for general communication and research rather than the be all and end all to life.

As we've seen with smart phones, more technology does not necessarily make our lives easier. People are becoming so addictive to being connected, of needing to see if their lives are validated through tweets and pictures, that this timeline may send some over the edge as they desperately search for something to make themselves seem like someone.

Well, I still have the paperback with the reversed artwork, showing Mannie with the WRONG ARM being cybernetic,

Ha!. Just looked at mine since I'm finishing this book (see my post lower down) and my Mannie's arm is the correct one. Left.

However, is it just me or does Mannie look like Bruce Greenwood (Captain Pike of the Enterprise a la J.J. Abrams)?