Brave words from someone who goes by the handle Runaway1956!

Idiot. Fracking is short for hydraulic fracturing. First they drill into that gasfield. Then they pump high pressure liquid into it to fracture the rock. Then they extract the gas.

So to recap, you start with an impermeable layer. Then you drill holes in it. Then you try to fracture the rock inside it. And after that, you expect it to still be impermeable to adjacent layers 100% of the time?

Which oil company do you work for?

Now they can make the OS and application coding less efficient!

You're right, it's the latter. But for someone who doesn't understand biology (evolution), the latter is the same as the former!

I would counter that something is messed up with the population.

What is your priority? Would you rather be raped and murdered while getting your government-subsidized college degree? Or would you rather pay more for your degree and have less criminals on the streets?

Also, prisons cost more because you have to pay for everything (room, board, medical expenses, education, legal fees, etc.) for prisoners. There are no football games and donors to offset the costs.

I don't know if a two-seater kit-car with no cargo-space qualifies as a car by today's metric. It's a glorified motorcycle attached to a parasail.

It can fly and drive. But it doesn't look very maneuverable in the air (by nature of the high-drag parasail) and I wouldn't want to be in a road accident with it either... the other car will drive right though it.

Also, they make it street legal with a loophole: It's sold as a "kit car" and wouldn't pass the full road certification (no crash tests) required by what most people consider cars. You might as well try to drive a Cessna down the road and call it a kit.

Personally, I think that it's awesome, but it's clearly only meant for remote areas and not high traffic areas. Apparently it also needs a terrain avoidance system.

How many undiscovered glitches are there that cause the player to lose unfairly?

Sounds like Microsoft. And it's working well for them!

Ewoks are obviously highly resistant to gamma ray radiation due to their furry coating.

Actually, they won't do that because it is a lawsuit waiting to happen. It's discrimination to only retain employees who have their own smartphone. If an employee doesn't have means to pay for a smartphone, the company needs to provide a basic one for them OR a stipend able to cover the entire cost of one for the functionality necessary for company work.

This is very similar to only hiring employees with cars: You can't legally get away with that for most jobs; instead they can only expect employees to have reliable and on-time transportation.

Think of the field-day that the ACLU will have with this issue.

Why is everyone so critical of this technology?

It's new and interesting. Obviously it is going to take a few iterations to be fully functional, but why should that stop the early adopters from beta-testing the device if they want to pay for it? Other companies make us do it all the time with computers, phones, software and cars.

Also, how much battery life is enough? The hardware is very small... would you rather have a gigantic Lithium ion battery strapped to your head? (That might help with balancing the device center-of-mass.) Or maybe a micro-nuclear reactor? Just like your phone: If you want it to last all day, don't use it all the time.

Have we really become so elitist that we cannot appreciate novel technology unless it is completely and utterly perfect?

Was it not possible to put enough fuel into Herschel for it to return to near earth orbit for a refueling capability?

It's funny when someone tries to use their limited logic set to predict the actions of 1000x more intelligent than them.

Bi-partisian (or anti-partisian?) comment:

Why is Congress not getting paycuts as a result of the sequester?

Their base salary is $174K for less than 180 work days per year. (That annualized to $252K for 260.7 work days per year. And they get better benefits than most people.) For reference, the median US income is $50.5K. The leaders of the House and Senate make around $200K.

That seems like a lot of cash for people who are barely able to complete the basic functions of their job, like passing a budget every year and keeping the country functioning smoothly.

Bullshit. You can't teach muscle memory and instinctive reactions in a three-day CCW class and you'd be foolish to think that a single CCW class would improve your chances of going up against two or more armed homicidal maniacs. They teach you just enough to get the magic number of rounds into the right place on the qualification target. I am not talking about being taught to say "Leave now or I will shoot!" while you draw down on a paper target, but rather simunition-equipped against other people in real-life scenarios. You can take advanced classes, but I (and hopefully you) both know that you need to retrain often to keep from getting rusty.

You should really specify what municipality you live in prior to spouting off like that. In Minnesota, neither of those are true. The store/office has the duty to ask you to leave ... and if you don't, you are subject to a misdemeanor and NOT loss of permit, nor loss of firearm, for first offense. MN is also technically open-carry, and I carry everywhere.

Besides, the whole point of concealed is that nobody knows you are carrying unless you show them or you submit to a check.

Hopefully you don't carry it "everywhere," otherwise you are one of those cowboys that give the rest of us gun owners a bad reputation:

Places Prohibited by statute in Minnesota (Wikipedia)
      - K-12 School property
      - A childcare center while children are present
      - State correctional facilities or state hospitals and grounds (MN Statute 243.55)
      - Any jail, lockup or correctional facility (MN Statute 641.165)
      - Courthouse complexes, unless the sheriff is notified (MN Statute 609.66)
      - Offices and courtrooms of the Minnesota Supreme Court and Court of Appeals
      - Any state building in the immediate vicinity of the capitol building unless the commissioner of public safety is notified (MN Statute 609.66)
      - In federal court facilities or other federal facilities (Title 18 U.S.C. 930)

From the NRA for Minnesota:
Concealed carry is prohibited in certain locations. These include:
      - All school properties, which are defined as public, private, elementary, middle or secondary school buildings or grounds, including properties under the temporary exclusive control of a school.
      - Any licensed childcare center during a time when children are present.
      - Any private property where the owner or operator has posted a notice which reads, “(the owners name) BANS GUNS IN THESE PREMISES.”

Also, no-permit open carry in a school will get you a felony in Minnesota.