Hopefully this one won't shut down randomly throughout the day...

We don't want the stable-hands still inside to see that the horses are gone.

Probably less uncomfortable than having paperweight bones with serious fracture risks

They should just mandate that NASA builds a space elevator by 2020 and be done with it...

Who always get screwed by our over-taxing, yet somehow insolvent, state government.

I always wanted some teeth growing at the base of my spine.

Seriously, lets exploit some desperate people for basic reseach... sigh.

http://www.doublespeakmedia.com/images/2006/05/frist.jpg

From the summary: "Yet while you can pick up a 4GB model for less than the price of a meal, large capacity drives are still prohibitively expensive. Meanwhile, solid state drives (SSDs) also utilize flash memory, but masquerade as mechanical hard drives rather than USB storage devices. Now it seems the two technologies are bashing into each other"

SSDs, whether they are internal or external will continue to be exorbitantly priced, so you're not getting larger storage densities for cheaper.

This development is nothing new... I use a deconstructed external USD HDD container and just swap on SATA 2.5" drives as necessary; a SSD would just be another drive to toss on there. While SSDs are significantly faster than most thumb drives, the question at the end of the day is: "Do you have the disposable income for this storage strategy?"

Great...

Definitely the beginning of the end when science is evaluated by non-scientists (or bought/paid for court "expert witnesses").

Actually, "Military" is all about convincing another force or group of people to do what the civilian leadership of the country wants them to do. By any means necessary. It is the action arm of the political process in a contested area. Most of the time it does not come to lethal force, but sometimes it does.

Be thankful that there are people who are willing to employ lethal force to accomplish the mission in your place. We wouldn't want you to soil your un-calloused hands or bruise your precious moral high-ground.