should I have an attachment to a 15-year-old lamp?

I love lamp!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here in Vancouver it seems Peeping Toms have started using drones to peer into high rise apartments:

https://twitter.com/Conner_G/s...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I would say the era of the legal 'personal drone' is rapidly coming to an end. Some people can't use them responsibly, so like everything else fun they will be banned.

This is why we can't have nice things.

He should have pushed for court

How much did you contribute to his crowdfunding campaign to help cover the million-dollar cost of going to court?

This is why I think the Reddit public scoring system is about the best you're going to get

The problem with this system is that, on Reddit, a downvote = "I disagree."

You get entire discussions where eveyone is downvoted to -14, for no apparent reason.

Mysteriously, you are also quite happy to deficit-finance the billions upon billions it costs to incarcerate millions of your citizens.

If you want to lock up all those people for petty crimes (then throw away the key) then at least raise taxes so your citizens understand the true cost, instead of just borrowing the money to fund it. Eventually that's gonna unravel.

Actually many (not all) of the policemen and policewomen in the U.S. are ex military.

That in itself can be a problem. Take a person who has been trained to shoot first and ask questions later and then make them into civilian law enforcement.

What could possibly go wrong?

We will do what we like, and you will always have to live with it.

Of course we will live with it - But don't expect us to accept nonsense like "We'll change our mind once a gun is pointed at us." We don't live in gun-crazy nations, so we're not going to experience that.

We're also fellow humans, so we're allowed to comment on the insanity of it all when nutballs gun down your children and you just shrug and say "Oh well, nothing we can do. Guess we better get more guns then."

I hope someone points a gun at you one day, maybe you'll change your snarky assed stance.

Up here in Canada guns are severely restricted. As a result, it's unlikely in the extreme that you'll ever have one pointed at you.

This is something the gun nut anonymous cowards like you refuse to accept: If guns are restricted, *everyone* has less access to them, including the bad guys.

What do you want to do? Sell devices or make money on apps?

What if you'd asked Edwin Land the same question in 1972?

What do you want to do? Sell Polaroid cameras or make money on instant film?

It's too big to be a space station!

Seriously, what good is that "surface" crap, except maybe as 3rd or 4th computer? This thing basically is an overprices Internet terminal and bad at that.

What e-learning pedagogical objectives in K12 can't be met with a Surface RT? Be specific.

I'm a frequent business traveller. It's interesting to note how fewer and fewer airline staff wear name tags, or if they do they just say "Flight Attendant."

Compare that with the tags in hotels, where they usually state the name, and often the staffer's home town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Apollo 13 Flight Controllers. Listen up! Give me a go/no-go for launch... Booster!
Go!
Retro!
Go!
FIDO!
We're go, Flight!
Guidance!
Guidance, go!
Surgeon!
Go, Flight.
EECOM!
We're go, Flight!
GNC!
We're go!
TELMU!
Go!
Control!
Go, Flight!
Procedures!
Go!
INCO!
Go!
FAO!
We are go!
Network!
Go!
Recovery!
Go!
CAPCOM!
We're go, Flight!
Launch Control, this is Houston. We are go for launch.

Then why do employer not want to give up health insurance and let everyone get health insurance like they get car insurance?

I'm sure employers would love to get out of having to supply health insurance. However, the USA has for some reason created this convoluted health 'insurance' system whereby employers are supposed to take care of Americans, not the nation-state.

...but you know how it is. Every other developed nation in the world is wrong, and the USA is right. Same with guns, of course.

One of the most complex machines built and operated by man has allegedly been shot down from 40,000 feet by a sophisticated explosives-carrying rocket missile, and it's not 'news for nerds?'