Build us a reservoir, a dam and t'other side of dam, a clutch of pelton wheels.

With the weight of the world's oceans pressing on those pelton wheels, I fail to see why there would be insufficient energy to pump said 'salty brine' back from whence it came, minus the desert greening ingredient.

The biggest technical merit of the Nexus One over the Droid Incredible is the likelihood of continued updates to the android OS.

There's a huge hacker community right now that owns the Nexus One hardware. It's likely that we'll see continued support for a long time on this phone.

Well if they'd been looking kilometres in the wrong direction, it implies that there wasn't a precise record of its position!

On the contrary, it was very precise. Inaccurate as hell, but very precise!

They should have just stuck a GPS receiver and a cell phone on it...

Switching to a different country is far more difficult than switching to a different U.S. wireless carrier.

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Congress is already regulating by allocating spectrum through the FCC.

In the USA film ratings are self-regulated just like videogame ratings. If a kid can't get into an R-rated film it is because the theater is enforcing the policy.

I succumbed and installed MSE a little while ago after hearing good things about it... it found one virus in a zip file (which I knew was dodgy, and had never run), then proceeded to hose my system on reboot. Repeated BSOD reboot, Vista64. It's the only OS crash I've ever had since running Vista (apart from during installation). I had to do a system restore from a few days prior - worked better than I expected, tbh. I'm not going to touch consumer antivirus ever again on my system.

They offered their original non-encrypted drive in a 'without-a-knife' option.

But if you really want a USB stick that's just a USB stick with some encryption, I'd go with a IronKey. http://www.ironkey.com./

Depends what game you are playing. But the very nature of FPS means you can't really have "the real thing". Well, you could go train to be a special forces soldier, but that kind of means you give up everything else in your life just to experience real(istic) combat. The next best thing is a decent FPS. MW2 is not one of those. A direct hit with a decent-sized bullet should knock you down, and make you bleed to death quickly, unless it hit you in a vital place whenby you would die instantly. I could go on, but you get the idea.

"walking with glass embedded in feet" pain accessory.

having stepped on glass twice... i can assure you it's no treat.

And there wouldn't have been a war at all if we hadn't given many times more resources to the French and then propped up the failing democratic movement.

The Vietnamese people did not want the style of government we were trying to force on them, and they would have died to the last man getting us out. The same is true of everywhere else we stick our tanks with "Don't Tread On Me" bumper stickers.

they didn't fail anything. Their intentions were to occupy and this is what they did.