Cue Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, Movement 1, >:)

But that's what Abrams et al did to Star Trek. They made a mangled remark of The Original Series and did enough that the entire future, all the Star Trek series from Next Generation on, are all gone now, wiped out by a bullshit time travell plot. >:(

In the coming Age of Abrams, you'd better be ready to see Star Wars go the same way. >:(

He did, in Saudi Arabia I recall. Turns out his body ably shielded everyone else from the explosion. They decided it was too over-the-top to add to security theatre.

Thanks to the TSA, in 'Merica you can spend 6 hours in 4 windowless little rooms getting your arse stamped, checked, restamped, rechecked. Be careful what you ask for.

...the article addressed them (if you read between the lines).

The car was modified for disabled use and was apparently all-electronic control, including start/stop, gear, power, and brake. "Braking" accelerated the car from 100 km/hr to 200 km/hr. As I imagine the driver was familiar with the car, he may have tried using the other electronic controls--although after "braking" doubled his speed I imagine he was reluctant to do so for fear of what would actually happen. This is further supported by a Renault tech being in contact with the police who couldn't suggest anything more for the driver to do besides wait for fuel exhaustion.

Alas, you are wrong about Venus. It has a negligible magnetic field (likely due to no core convection) and cosmic rays and the soloar wind freely interact with the upper atmosphere causing hydrogen loss. As well, if Venus was a black body and had no incoming radiation it would take on the order of 600+ years to cool off.

More Americans have been killed in war by other Americans than by any other group or nation. You know, in the American Civil War. All you need is bipolar politics with raging animosity which tends to attrach all issues to it, a lot of hate generated and vented, let it stew for enough years, and then have a catalyse that sets it ablaze. Those troops won't think of their targets as other Ameircans, they'll think of them as the hated enemy.

The State is a bunch of (mostly) men with power both temporary and semi-permanent who have certain ideals and doctrines and it is them who individually and collectively do all the good and bad that "the State" does. Keep them on a lease? How about expecting more of them? How about not having the process by which some are chosen a series of high-priced advertised insults? And what about those other bunches of men with power, private power, the ones not elected nor part of a service with stated high principles? What about them?

That's no excuse, Citizen, for double-plus ungood badthoughts!

And then they alternate between fitting either way and not fitting at all. Obviously what we see is a malluable 3-dimension slice of a complex multidimensional object that is rotated by the one multidimensional manipulation tool we currently possess: the tumble dryer.

Dude, edit it down.

Start with a summary short paragraph. No more than 3 paragraphes with 9 reasonable sentences. Link to a well written white paper for those who want more.

You may want to check the last time something like this was tried. There's always the possibility of a downside.

..., Citzen.

I favour emacs too. I also know enough vi to get along when working on a machine with vi and no emacs. And don't belittle those who've decided to go with vi as their primary editor.

Except Tricky Dicky kept all the good stuff to himself for his own future purposes.