Umm . . . they DID withstand plane collisions. Both of them. No toppling whatever. And when they collapsed from the heat of a Jet-A fueled fire (give the bad guys credit for picking the right strategic planes - fully fueled for long flights), they collapsed straight down rather than taking out multiple blocks in all directions. Sorry, I think your rating of "subpar" is incorrect.

I'm in the older crowd, and yes he wrote some good songs, but please don't give him a lot of credit for harmonies in CSNY. He always had the weakest voice of the four.

That's assuming that the transportation mechanisms work. Bridges come down; roads and rails get damaged. I recall photos after quakes of what used to be a road separated by a dozen feet both horizontally and vertically. That's even assuming that people are willing to ship food rather than hoarding it for their own region.

I disagree. We won't spend billions paying for it, because we'll have to completely abandon the area like Pompeii or Chernobyl.

Hyperbole? If the matching to history is true - that is, if the Indian oral history of a disaster, and the Japanese written history of an unexpected tsunami, indicate that *something* happened in January of 1700 - it's still a valid warning for the Pacific coastline. Even if the situation were only one-tenth as bad, just from back-of-the-envelope rough estimates, that still sounds pretty bad to me.

Tell that to the residents of Atlantis.

Sorry, my experience has been that the default settings are NOT track order. I was used to using Winamp, and an iRiver MP3 player that pre-dates the first iPod, and have consistently found over the years that the way Apple thinks is pretty much orthogonal to what I want. Yes, they think different, and then they insist that everyone think the same different way . . . just like when I was a teenager and everybody was busy rebelling against authority by wearing jeans. The same jeans.

Exactly. We live near NYC, my son lives in Manhattan. If you park on the street, you have no idea where you're going to be, certainly not right near your building; and even if you were, there's no way to run an extension cord. Cities would seem to be the ideal place for electrics, with the most population density and the most benefit from eliminating exhaust, yet have the most practical problems. Taxis would be the next ideal target, except for the recharge time.

Electrical batteries are the problem. Hydrogen fuel cells driving electric motors, maybe, because recharging/refueling is more practical.

Because, as always, Apple knows what you want better than you do. Right, citizen?

Why should people have to create playlists to play an album in the order it was delivered? For example, the album of a musical performance - It's in order as presented, NOT waiting to be alphabetized!

HD DVD? Pshaw. Now, if you had HD Betamax, maybe we could talk . . .

Sounds like: All software worked as designed, and two real-time events occurred (at exactly the same time / within the same timestamp resolution) || (in the reverse order to anticipated, possibly due to delayed reporting/recognition) || (at the same time as a higher-priority interrupt). Not technically a software fault; a *design* fault perhaps, but not a fault in the software as designed and implemented.

. . . fighting for liberty against the oppressive Unification Government.

(officer): Seems odd you'd name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of.

Captain Reynolds: May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

I live near NYC and ride the subway weekly, and concur. But: Consider what we're asking for: we're in a metal box, rolling on metal rails, with a lot of high voltage and electric motors, UNDERGROUND . . . and we want radio reception. I'm amazed it works as well as it does! (Note - Some stations do have good wifi coverage, presumably installed because it has become part of the station infrastructure - not for critical sensors, I hope, but for information signs or advertising, and perhaps for video surveillance. )

How many email addresses are out there with first-initial-last-name, and how many mistaken (or fraudulent) emails are they getting because people guessed? People lazily searched for "lush" and picked the first option, not even noticing the difference between "lush" and "lush band" and "lush cosmetics"; Google noticed the second-search activity and switched order. If Google feels OK doing that, how long before they give away jdoe's email address to some other john doe?