it's not an explosive any more than a popping balloon is.

Yes it is. Aside from the fact that a balloon doesn't involve dangerous sharp or caustic parts flying in all directions, popping a balloon doesn't involve a chemical reaction. This draino bomb does indeed involve a chemical reaction. In that sense it is little different than any other chemical reaction. True, the draino-aluminum reaction is slower as pressure builds up, but in the end there is a dangerous violent burst (intentionally) caused by a chemical reaction.

Yup, even though you are hiding behind being an A.C., those are pretty much my thoughts too, although you forgot to mention to call it an "experiment" rather that a risk to the safety of others.

Too bad the Democrat Tierney didn't get his idea from the Matt Helm movie, I think it was The Silencers. Much better and lower tech solution for when the bad guy gets your gun.

Gtalk is a small light memory demand application. I generally set it up to run whenever a computer boots. A browser is much more memory intensive. To use the Gmail page as a Gtalk client you not only would have to keep the browser running whenever someone else might want to talk to you, but you would have to keep a browser window open on your Gmail page. And aside from the memory demand issue, that could also be a big security issue, particularly if you want to be available from computers that others might get access to, such as from work. I don't log out of my computer every time that I go to get a coffee refill, and don't want to, and sometimes those little trips outside of one's office can turn into multi-hour meetings or firefights. I wouldn't want to get into the habit of leaving my browser logged into my personal mail account (or have to have multiple ones that my friends are expected to search through to find me), it is just too much of a security risk.

Shame on you Google. I've used Gtalk since it was released. I don't care about the cross platform communication much, but do have a few friends that I know connected to me through other platform. I have convinced several rather computer illiterate friends to use Gtalk so that we could keep in touch by IMs and know when each other was available, introducing them to Google and getting them a Google account in the process. I have no interest in Google's "social media" offerings, or any social media platform for that matter, including Facebook (let the NSA get their info on me in other ways, I'm not going to do their job for them). I really don't even know what Google Hangouts is, but the name tells me that I don't want to know and I will not switch to it when Gtalk goes away (although that seems to not even be an option since my main desktops usually run Windows).

They borrow it from China.

And turn around and send foreign aid money to .... don't get ahead of me on this .... China.

So the NSA had no clue what was going on in tax law? They are kind of the agency that is supposed to know what is going on, were they too busy reading everyone's Facebook pages?

Or everyone should be exempt from a law because they didn't expect it and didn't plan for it (can you say Obamacare?)?

Or the NSA can't imagine who is really going to end up paying this tax bill?

It means that if you could get the apk package you might be able to install and run it, but for the vast majority of packages that you want you will not be able to get the file because it is released through the Googlr Play store and you will not ave access to Google Play with this device.

chip for the then yet released iPhone

I have heard the term then yet unreleased but what does then yet released mean? Is this something like flammable and inflammable meaning the same thing?

Have they no decency? Sounds like a bunch of sicko and perverts!

Clearly the creators are confused. When big media takes something and uses it, that is just fine and everyone should look the other way. But if they (the big media maffia) even accuse anyone of taking something of theirs (or even that they would like to be theirs but really isn't) then that person is guilty and owes them irrational amounts of compensation.

I don't know why they ever bought into the name in the first place. I never had any of the drives that exhibited the dreaded "click of death", but once I was foolish enough to buy a CD-RW drive made by someone else but in an Iomega box. It had problems from day 1. I later learned that the manufacturer had firmware updates for their version that fixed the problems, but even years later there were never firmware fixes offered for the Iomega version of the drive. First and last thing with the Iomega name on it that I'll ever buy.

It's odd that Putin was quoted talking about 'European colleagues' when the Americans were responsible for cutting T-Platforms off.

Seems likely to me that Putin didn't actually say this in English. He said something in his native tongue and we are being told that this is the English translation. Could it be that the translation was distorted for political purposes?

Who you callin' homomorphic?

It is clearly race related because she wants a pass for being black, no matter who she put in danger with the chemical reaction that caused a glass jar to fly apart and throw around sharp broken glass. Don't you know that when a black person is held responsible for their actions and not given a pass for being black, that is racist?