I suppose because Segway the first fairly successful version, no one else can make one? I seem to recall that the idea here of Mac clones were touted as perfectly acceptable, but of course Apple is Evil.

The entire article is stupid. And the Zuckerberg example was just the worst stupidity in it.

"I appreciate it's expensive and we need to fix that," he said, but "figure out a way to do it."

Those two statements have ZERO correlation with each other.

Going into debt for college is EASY. There's no need to "figure out a way to do it". You sign the loan papers and take the classes.

The problem is paying off that loan AFTER you leave college. Whether via graduation or because you cannot get anyone to give you any more debt to finish.

It may be more advantageous for students at the bottom and top quartiles of the talent distribution to go straight into the workforce (or get vocational training).

Again, wrong. Talent only applies to the top percentage. And even then it is VERY risky.

If you don't have the talent then you don't have the talent. That has nothing to do with skipping college.

FUNDING is the reason to skip college and hit votech. If your family cannot afford to pay for college then votech might be your best option. Why start this generation with massive debt that you might not be able to pay off? Start saving for your child's education.

What's 40,000 years if you live for a billion?

A lot of corn flakes that need to be brought along for breakfast food on the 40,000 year trip.

Per person.

Unless you're a robot. In which case, would you be able to tell that you were really traveling? Or could it be a video game? And do robots think faster than humans? Would a 40,000 year trip for a robot take the same subjective time (boredom) as a 100,000 year trip for a regular human?

We have a lot of wars in just the last 2,000 years of civilization. Would the crew of a star ship be able to avoid fatal conflicts for 40,000 years?

Seconded.

Either postulate warp drive OR postulate "the Singularity".

But requiring warp drive AND the Singularity to fuel your dreams of being an immortal star-traveller ... now you are WAY into the science FANTASY realm.

I'd be more interested in what effect "the Singularity" would have on the people living in the third world. Will everyone become immortal? Or will it be just a few of the very rich (by world standards) and billions of people living their regular lifetimes?

Because this isn'tStack Overflow.

Of course, the response whenever somebody complains that yet another feature has been removed from Firefox is, "well, you can just get an add-on that does what you want."

Given my experiece with Best Try, it might be "Betta" testing. They dunk the tablets in fishbowls and see how the fish handle it. Honestly, I'd probably trust the technical opinions of a Siamese Fighting Fish over that of a Geek Squad member.

That's completely correct, sir. The heavens can no longer discriminate against people who have preexisting sins. See heaven.gov to see whether you qualify for a plan that has a maximum deductible of 5000 years in purgatory before you are 100% guaranteed entrance into heaven.

In Heaven you will sit around passing a bong back and forth with God until the end of time, with occasional teeth cleanings. Gold and Platinum plans are available that include options for 72 virgins, or for your own planet to rule over, or for the next in a series of afterlives as an elephant, then as a tapeworm, then as Ted Nugent, then as a cricket, and on and on until you achieve Enlightenment with an endless supply of meth and the memory of your life as Ted Nugent to serve as a guide.

If you like your particular religion, you can keep it. (Of course that's assuming that people wouldn't tolerate a religion where their God sucks donkey balls anyway- which it turns out, is false.)

Well that's the whole point- we obviously can't rely on God to fix the situation on his own behalf. He has his own interests, and would obviously like to discriminate against atheists and heretics, and keep them from entering heaven. After all hey arrive confused and with awkward questions for Him- especially assholes like Stephen Hawking who will instantly start quizzing Him about quantum gravity. He sees it as a waste of His endless time. That's why we needed to make it a law, with a mandate on God to allow all individuals into heaven. Even guys with more money than God now have to face the fact that this is working. So folks, just remember to check out heaven.gov or go to Hell.

David Carradine as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

But I think it is unlikely that the pilots were using kinky bondage to pleasure themselves at 30,000 feet.

Those are for when you are driving and it is so much easier to just leave a VM. Also, when the background noise in the car makes a dictated e-mail look like it written by a drunk, illiterate wombat.

If you approach a gas station in New Jersey and the guy standing next to the pump is 300 lbs overweight, be careful- it could be an ex-governor. Make sure to pull in slowly, give him some clearance, and fill up with 93. He may give you a strange piece of metal as a "gift". If it doesn't enter your skull at high velocity, take it (WTC steel, baby!). Then hand him a nice tip. Otherwise you might have to put the gas cap back on yourself a few blocks up the road- i.e. "self-service".

You can't be serious, making an insinuation like that on a good man.

Governor Christie is just concerned about the changes in traffic patterns that would be triggered by allowing electric cars to enter the state's vehicle markets unimpeded. Christie has a vision for the future of New Jersey and it is deeply important to him that municipal leaders across the state share his enthusiasm and goals. Enforcement along these lines would be impeded. Specifically, if the governor were to block off lanes to a bridge within a mayor's district, and everyone was driving electric cars, the smog wouldn't be as good for intimidating or disciplining the mayor. Clearly the traffic issues need more study.

I replied to the wrong parent. Oops.

Newer phones like the Galaxy Note 3 have a USB 3 micro connecter that supports charging with a USB 2 cable. So, make the standard USB3, and smart manufacturers will do it right.
Actually, I won't buy a phone that doesn't have a pretty standard charging port. The market tends to do a better job at sorting these things out in the long run, but codifying a standard like this into law feels too inflexible.

Your argument doesn't make sense. Why would people file complaints of actual police misconduct when there's no camera available, but suddenly stop filing those complaints when the camera was there (even if the footage was "lost")?

And that also doesn't address the other statistic, a reduced number of incidents using force. What, are those incidents no longer being reported because officers can throw away the footage? That doesn't make sense either.