This was exactly what I was thinking. Does denying some reporter an FAA license to fly a helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft anywhere they please for purposes of journalism constitute a First Amendment violation now?

What happens when they want to fly in restricted airspace? Is that a civil rights issue?

The good news is that on long stretches of incline, there are usually more lanes because you are also describing the exact issues that large cargo vehicles experience on these same stretches of road. They aren't using batteries, but they still drive significantly slower over mountain passes than passenger vehicles.

Aside from the fact that your post is a pack of lies, we see Russia doing exactly what you say is unfavorable for Russia. The tactics being used are classic Soviet tactics, namely sending in Spetsnaz into an area to destabilize the local government then moving in to "stabilize" the area. So, let's take a look at what happened.

Russia increased troop presence in the Red Sea area.
Groups spring up in Crimea. Masked men take over government offices and terrorize the local populace.
Groups consolidate and take over the local government after a sham election and then asks to become part of Russia
Russia annex Crimea and continues to mass troops on Russia side of Ukraine/Russia border.
Groups spring up in Eastern Ukraine. Masked men take over government offices and terrorize the local populace.

Guess what comes next. Do you see the pattern? My best guess is you are a Russian who can't wait to visit the new acquisitions.

I've also wondered why the same concept used to move billions of tons of freight around the world on both sea and rail hasn't been tried in cars. Take a motor that operates at it's most efficient RPM and run it there, powering an electrical generator. Then use that electricity to power motors. Work in a bank of capacitors to deal with increased load from stops and starts, and you're there.

Diesel Electric has been in use since the 1950s, and is incredibly efficient.

Roughly 65 million years ago a 6 mile wide asteroid crashed into what is now the Gulf of Mexico killing off just about every creature larger than a house cat. That includes almost all the dinosaurs. There is little we could do to stop it with our current space program. There is reason to believe we might never know it was coming. Right now, humanity has all it's eggs in one basket and it will only take one good sized rock to break them all. Manned space exploration with the establishment of human colonies on Luna and Mars would prevent that kind of single event extinction.

As to your follow up post, perhaps if you stopped asking questions with obvious and well-discussed answers, you wouldn't get modded down.

We weren't as concerned with pen input for that - we were looking for an ultra-mobile companion device, or perhaps a replacement device for office users. Dell shipped us a Targus stylus that seemed to work fairly decently with it, but as I recall it used it's own batteries (WTF?). Our main mobility guy uses that as his tablet of choice that he walks around with, so it can't be THAT horrible - he's got a whole cabinet of iPads and android tablets from the usual suspects, and a few specialty devices (ruggedized stuff from Motorola and Getac)

I will say that our Dell Venue 11 decided to partially self-destruct over the weekend while laying on a table in the lab - two of the plastic clips that hold the back on disintegrated. So that's nice.

My favorite was the Dell Venue Pro 8 that doesn't come with Windows 8 Pro - we had to side load it, which took a bit of effort to figure out. If that one had the ability to dock, it would be a great device; but Dell wants you to pay $800+ for a 10-inch tablet in order to dock it, and we can get a laptop with twice the computing power for that.

That being said, Windows Industry and some of the rugged handheld designs coming out might be a pretty sweet solution for retail, finally replacing the ancient Motorola 9090 scan guns running WinMo.

As far as Windows tablets go, the most impressive one I've seen yet is a tech demonstrator from Intel that has a 64-bit quad-core Bay Trail in it. It's a hell of a device, but definitely not a finished product - it has a hole in the plastics on the back exposing a diagnostic port.

Well, some don't allow for an external display. Some allow for an external display, but block the charging port when it's plugged in (WTF?!). Some have a crappy stylus that hangs on the side and have a crap digitizer. Some have a great digitizer (Wacom) but don't have something else.

We had Microsoft come in and show us a PowerPoint with about 10 of these things, and each one was missing something we needed / wanted for it to be a replacement device for our catalog.

Practically every culture and religion in history?

It's never been proven that capital punishment has been an effective deterrent in the United States. Especially considering that any would-be murderers involved in a criminal syndicate (drugs, traditional RICO, etc.) that would be subject to execution face far worse penalties should they NOT murder someone, and their executioner would be far less dainty about the procedure.

All of them have one flaw or another though. We've been looking at all the Windows tablets with an eye on Windows 8.1 for Industry to be used as retail handheld devices, and we have yet to come across a device that checks all the hardware boxes we're looking for. Perhaps in the next generation of hardware, at least one manufacturer will include all the stuff most people are looking for, without charging $800+ for it.

I think I saw somewhere that the Android USB dongles also identify as tablets for these analytic purposes - I wonder how much those things skew the numbers.

Plus, Strategy Analytics is a company that is paid to write these reports by vested interests. Often, their "data" doesn't stand the test of time.

Of course it is going to be wildly expensive and take forever. Plus, it will be over budget, over due, and a basic cock-up because the government takes the lowest bidder regardless of past performance.

No more stupid than reading books, newspapers, work documents; putting on makeup; shaving; even eating and drinking.

Should people use cell phones while driving? No.
Does that justify someone breaking the law by using a cellphone jammer while driving in his car? No.

Inaction to stop a practice that most of the people in the society he lives in deemed legal doesn't give him the right or privilege to impose his will on others without their consent and in violation of the law. You do understand that is what he was doing, right? He disapproved of other engaging in legal behaviors and broke the law to force them to not engage in said legal activity. What would you call it when people you like are doing something you deem legal and are forced to stop by someone with the means but no authority?

And, you proved that with your post.

By that logic, the driver can't communicate to the navigation/communications officer.