Tesla are selling like solar powered hotcakes.

You're either part of the future or you're spending your money on Tag Hauer watches.

(bury the lede) is an old newspaper term, lede not lead.

Coming soon - the Microsoft Watch.

It has a paperclip for it's face, and asks you really stupid questions ...

Most of the great works people do were based on work they actually did when they started (early doctorate or masters work, beginning music, that kind of thing).

Then they fine tune it.

But the mastery came early. It just got sanitized and polished later.

While I do have a lot of old computers and game devices, and old RPGs from my game dev days, most of the "toys" I have are actually art pieces. Sculptures I bought at SF or Fantasy art auctions, to support up and coming artists who went on to do bigger and better things.

Haven't really thought of them.

The rest belong to my son, it's up to him to sell them now that he's an adult.

More attached to the few paintings I bought or was given as prizes at conventions.

You mean Pike Place Market in Seattle.

There is no Pike's Place Market. There never has been.

And the first rule of CIA Starbucks is there is no CIA Starbucks.

We could easily abort a manned mission to Mars.

We just cancel the launch.

If they've gone past more than the initial Earth-Lunar escape, however, the way you abort the mission is you vent the oxygen tanks remotely, after triggering the failsafe protocol.

In one workplace in Ohio a coworker chopped off someone's head after being fired.

Fire is the least of your worries

Perhaps, but in my personal experience, I have noted that traditional LEDs deal with vibration better than standard CFLs. However, have not read any papers on shock tests for either, or for organic LEDs.

Just saying.

The main barrier to large scale consumer and commercial adoption of LEDs is cost per unit.

That said, good news!

And as we all know from Atty Gen Holder, Big Crime never goes punished.

Can't lock up people for the big crimes.

Instead we let them break the Constitution, like the NSA, and profit by their actions.

Using them during active filming on closed sets is a reasonable response.

Using them for fighting fires is a reasonable response.

Commercial everyday use is an unreasonable response and risk.

Private use to peep on people is an unreasonable response and risk. Just ask people in Vancouver BC. There they have rights of Privacy. Or in Washington State - we have rights of privacy too, in our state constitution.

they claim they don't have any plans to ramp up skilled immigrants and in fact have CUT their Temporary Foreign Workers Programme.

I think M$FT is just trying more of the FUD they always use.

It's easy, just stop shipping US and Canadian coal, oil, and LNG to China.

Period.

Everything else is sound and fury, signifying nothing but hot air.