Pasadena police Lt. Phlunte Riddle

I cannot take the US serious anymore when parents start giving their children names that come straight out of cartoons.

That is what you get in the Netherlands for armed robbery. Even though sencences have gone up in recent years, they still are low compared to other countries.
And keep in mind it's a 13 year old kid. It has to be something very serious to lock up kids at that age.

Just one thing: this not only applies to Holland, but is an issue in the whole of the Netherlands.

Ziggo and XS4ALL have as of today blocked access to the Pirate Bay. The thing is: the court ordered Ziggo and XS4ALL to block certain IP addresses associated with the Pirate Bay, based on a list given by non-governmental organisation BREIN, which purports to protect the rights of intellectual property. The court also ruled that BREIN can add IP-addresses to this list for Ziggo and XS4ALL to block, without further court rulings! Basically the've given BREIN free play to censor the internet.

Forget about what the police can do with autonomous vehicles. Who is liable when two autonomous vehicles collide? I wasn't driving the thing, it was driving itself! So the collision is a result of faulty programming by the manufacturer.
I forsee huge lawsuits and multibillion losses for car manufacturers.

I've used PDAs for close to 25 years now. My first was a HP 320 LX. In those days of early mobile phones PDAs and mobile phones where two very distinct things. By the time they got integrated the PDAs were still too big to be used as a proper phone (my HTC YasYar comes to mind as something I never put near my ears), at least if you wanted a PDA that was actually useful for something. But now I even have a PDA with a phone (smartphone) that is small enough to use as a phone.
And I hate it as a phone.

The problem I have with it is that a phone is always on and a smartphone is not. I need to actively switch it on to see if and who called or sent me a text message. And on top of it it does not even work properly with the bluetooth system in my car.
My 10 year old Nokia 6310i does work with that bluetooth system. I'm going back to using a standard old dumbphone for my calls. On the plus side, it will also last for two weeks without a recharge.

Why would it be funny? At home I have the very first pocket calculator (HP 35) and it uses three AA batteries and drains in about a day. At school I used a Casio FX-82 which, even with daily use, never needed a battery change and still works (granted, I don't use it that often anymore).

Not to be pedantic, but apparently you can get a degree in religious studies.
Regardless of that: if they can't answer questions about a course because their book of stories tells them it's not so, then fail them.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why the economy is in decline. Yet more money spent on worthless things. Basically this is what drives inflation. The more money wasted like this, the less there is to spent on actual increase of value.
.xxx domains were a useless idea anyway and now they've evolved into a bad idea.

It would be on handheld devices. Hotels around the world have it, so why wouldn't we?

Is he deliberately being a troll here? What's the difference between hotelrooms and planes? Maybe the fact that you have privacy in a hotelroom? And how does this match up with the reports of a few weeks ago to remove all toilets?
Small tip for Mr. O'Leary: put small booths in the plane with a coin slot so you can get some more money from your patrons while they jack themselves off.