Off the top of my head, I would add:

Riceland
Alltel (which Verizon paid $28B to acquire)

No. It passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. The first four words of the summary are what gave it away. All bills have to pass committee before going to the full Senate or House.

I think what he means is that they have no way of knowing how much extra bandwidth they need in certain areas. There's no way to measure how much more you need, the yard stick is clipped at 100%. You can only add more incrementally until your cell sites are no longer saturated. Only then would you be able to determine how much you need.

Only after dumping millions of dollars in the program to buy machines and train officers. Money that will likely come from the government (i.e., taxpayers (i.e., you)).

That may be true of the former Soviet Union and some modern European countries, but but the United States government was established to "form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..." What you said may be A role, but its not a major role and certainly not "essential".

He was arrested in France, so I guess that in France you don't have to do anything to get arrested. My advice, as has always been the case, is to avoid wandering into French territory.

It is similar to paying $9.99 for Snow Leopard, except the fact that Apple never advertised free Snow Leopard upgrades. PC vendors have promised free Win7 upgrades. I'm not fanboi, but why even bring Apple into this?

Am I the only one who is deeply impressed that we even KNOW a planet is there? It is difficult to observe Mercury because of its proximity to the sun, but we can see a planet that is 1.7 Earth radii, 42 light years away, and is so close to its parent star, it has an orbital period of 20 hours. Hours! That means it is insanely close to its star. Solid rock or lava be damned. How about a pat on the back for finding any exoplanets at all?

Hasbro hasn't exactly tried hard to defend their patent until now. That may not bode well for them.