This was the first thing that came to mind for me, too. There's no way any researcher worth a snot would take a sample from one comet and claim that all comets must be like this.

That's simple. Clearly there is still air in your head.

I don't want any citizens police or otherwise driving tanks down the street. Our streets here in Michigan are bad enough just with the weather, we really don't need tanks tearing them up!

That was my thought when reading this, too. What's the hack? Usually a hack (at least in this context) is where you take something meant for one purpose, and make it work surprisingly well for another purpose.

Yes, so really a sticker rather than a tattoo.

Well, I certainly didn't claim that it doesn't happen (so I'm not sure why I got modded flamebait).

it's one thing to have a woman shaving your nether regions in preparation for a surgery or giving you an enema (or similar), but some dude doing it to you introduces a bit of mental discomfort in guys

I can't say I've had to have something like this yet, but it seems to me that this situation would have plenty of mental discomfort regardless of the gender of the technician. When you had your last physical, was the physician the same gender as you or the opposite? Did you care? Why would the gender difference not matter for the doctor, but would for the nurse?

I don't know what you're talking about. I've never had a woman ostracize me because of my choice of career. In fact it's usually a huge plus because I'm in a hot industry and am financially stable. I suspect in this example that you're getting ostracized because of your personality, not because of your career choice.

a substantial investment in equipment and software that IN NO WAY contributes to the company's bottom line.

I agree with your post, however this line is probably not true -- if the ISP does this at the behest of a politician (or any government TLA) then there is probably either a tax break or some other kind of financial boon for doing so, if not a penalty for not cooperating -- which means this almost certainly will hit their bottom line one way or another.

Also, the ISP cooperating here could give them a boost with that politician and perhaps their party when having future unrelated discussions -- for example, around net neutrality.

Porn is cleaner and more wholesome than political ads, so as a result our society would greatly improve!

(Not sarcasm...)

like women bullying men who go into nursing

Actually, I suspect the bigger concern is that men who go into nursing are ostracized by other men, rather than by women.

Obamacare passed without one Republican vote in the House or the Senate. When was that last called a Strictly Partisan Bill?

Um... every day?

Basically, HTML5 will let us retire a whole bunch of crufty old legacy hacks from the bad days (Javascript everywhere, Flash, Applets, etc)

You must be new to the world of programming -- old technology never dies! MWA HA HA HA!!!

Oh, no, don't get me wrong. They are ALL a joke.

Actually, for several demographics, viewing times and shows, they're doing better than CNN

That may be true, but I would argue that is entirely CNN's fault for making themselves into such a joke of a network the last several years, rather than a success of MSNBC.