I remember seeing a video where they did the math and for a 3 month stay on the ground and round trip from here to there you'd have needed a ship bigger than the empire state building

Your "math" is incredibly bad. Read any book on Mars from Zubrin and become educated.

What you are overlooking is that one human in one day could day about 100x the total research done so far by all of the rovers combined. What doesn't make sense is to continue to send very expensive robots to learn less and less... we've reached the point where we simply need to send humans to really study the place.

Engineers at Michigan Tech believe there is far more potential for 3D printers to make our lives better rather than killing one another.

Guns aren't for killing one another.

They are either for sport, or for keeping people from killing/harming you.

Guns have historically protected groups that might otherwise just have been removed altogether. Travel back in time, ask Martin Luther King and his followers how "bad" guns are.

It's nice that 3D printers can make our lives better in other ways too, but we should not exclude one of them through irrational fear.

no matter what settings I try all the video playback through emacs is CHOPPY AS HELL!

During video playback, you should try to reduce the number of Eliza windows to less than five, and also refrain from running more than two other operating systems using the elisp engine as a VM.

Also it's well known that any system installations of VI or VIM will spike the processor during emacs use out of jealously; I suggest you delete them.

In the end, you are attacking a company that makes more effort to pay taxes it owes than most other companies. It's farcical to complain about Apple doing this when you do not complain about any other company with far more egregious and shady tax deals going on.

What makes a product or service from Yahoo unique?

Flickr for one is now unique. It was not before. But the new all-out focus on always seeing the largest image possible is quite different than any other photo sharing site. All of the others, even 500px, drill down into a single image view with a small image, Yahoo displays as much as possible in the window it is given.

I totally agree, that's why I've ignored this and the PS4 "launches". As far as I can tell it's really more of an effort to poll people about what they like than any kind if real launch.

Rather than one it seems like zero might have been a better choice.

You may want to re-think that... use the old rule of imagining what taunts third-graders can make of your name, now think of "Zero" again in that light.

One is way more Zen.

I see you posted AC to avoid rebuttal. Bad luck for you; I read AC posts sometimes.

You know that's 'in public' by all definitions except for yours right?,

Only an AC considers private restaurants public space... Sadly that gaffe was the intellectual highlight of your whole post.

You get that people can turn them off right?

You understand that there's no indicator if they have, right?

You know this how exactly?

Because that's how people are using them (ref: Scoble).

And assuming that something legitimately wrong happened, this is wrong how exactly?

It's not wrong. It's Wrong. And it points out that anywhere they go there is no more Private space - my original point. Do try to keep up even if it means you have to tell the driver of the short bus to accelerate a bit.

I'll let you have the last response so you can claim the throne of clowns as I know you are so itching to do.

I wasn't aware it was bad form morally to ask not to be taxed twice on the same revenue..

Indeed, the entity that seems to be crossing a moral line is the one asking Apple to pay tax a second time.

It's odd how Apple's tax evasion is somehow so awful, even though they pay an effective tax rate of 30% and $6 BILLION dollars, when other companies get away with paying zero without fuss.

You can't live in a tulip; you can live in a house. Some assets are more tangible than others.

The current fashion trend is for oversized glasses *even if you don't need glasses*

Of a handful of celebrities, yes. Not the widespread public. Again, niche market. Most people do not want the hassle of wearing glasses.

And even if it were targeting that market, it would be in a huge pair of glasses, not a sleek Half-Jordi.

The product has another huge flaw in that it does not mesh well with sunglasses, which are popular. But glasses only makes sense to wear all the time, and they aren't designed like sunglasses where you can easily store them away...

Why would they burn down your luxury mansion rather than just seize it and make it their own?

Pretty obviously because they can't legally seize it, easier just to set fire to it... at which point they can condemn and seize the property. You just are so naive...

Proof? Because the competing narrative - police very reasonably includes McAfee in the list of suspects, and he's a paranoid nut from all the bath salts he's been doing, and possibly guilty, so he escapes - is actually simpler.

It was before the fire. The fire is more complex in your version, less in the one where the police are framing McAffee and getting back at him any way they can.

Otherwsie you have to concoct some story about how he paid a guy to go set a fire on his own property, for some dubious end...

I'm not saying one story or the other is true. Just the fire makes it more likely his story is true than before.

P.S. Just because you are paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you. Also I would suggest he has substantially greater experience with third world law enforcement than you do in your first world high horse.

Because houses occasionally catch fire even without any intervention from anyone

Unoccupied houses? You are the one skirting the realm of fantasy.

as opposed to simply doing its job and trying to round up a murder suspect

You'd know if he was actually a murder suspect as steps would be taken to extradite him.

why would they destroy their own property?

???? It's not police property.

Perhaps the phone could issue an alert if the movie you sat down to watch had a Rotten Tomatoes score below 30%...