Biometric door locks? YES
Large-scale projected holograms? NO
HUD glasses for driving? NO
Weather control? NO
Dehydrated pizza? NO
Technological police state with instant conviction for crimes? WORKING ON IT

The issue with "undocumented" labor taking jobs is that minimum wage laws are selectively enforced, not that they are willing to accept a lower wage. In most cases, if a citizen attempts to get a job at an illegal rate they will be rejected, but enforcement for the most part looks the other way in the case of "undocumented" workers. If minimum wage laws were repealed, there would be plenty of citizens lining up to take these jobs at the lower rate.

Bytecode interpreters, as opposed to scripting languages, have a very real advantage that is unrelated to speed: you can use any language. If the target is the .net CLR, you can use C#, VB.NET, C++, F#...plus about a hundred others. Going with the .NET platform allows the language to be flexible, whereas with javascript you're stuck with a hacked language with no internal consistency, ridiculously stupid semantics in some cases, and a loosely typed straitjacket that causes problems in any larger application. Of course if we're using .NET and you LIKE the javascript language, a compiler could easily be developed that compiles it to .NET IL. The opposite is not true.

Nobody else has a drawer full of hacked CVS "one time use" cameras and camcorders? :D

40 years, that was.

Any chance of terrestrial contamination? Seems possible that over the last 4 years in storage, at some point the moon rocks in question could have been exposed to moisture from the Earth.

Historically in the US, the judge is the arbiter of questions of law. Questions of fact are for juries.

Worse, if you RTFA you will see discussion of the fact that moon rock samples were twice given to each of the 50 states and to each existing country at the time.

There is absolutely no reason to assume that with all those countries, all of them legally prohibited the transfer of state gifts to private individuals. I'm sure several of those could be privately held, completely legally.

Of course, it would still be super rare and the owner would likely retain the gift set itself, which would pretty easily differentiate the sample from those stolen from NASA.

Comcast is likely your only choice because the government has already interfered in the matter to make it the case. But even if it is truly so that only Comcast wishes to provide service to the area, it is still better than the government taxing you $100 a month and providing you crappy internet access whether you want it or not.

And, if the current single provider situation is not due to government interference, it is likely that sometime in the future you could get a better option. Government services tend to be slow to change and wasteful.

Sure, if you're stealing $0.10 each from 10 million different people, the people are unlikely to notice. But if you steal $0.10 ten million times from the same person they will certainly notice.