Sorry but AT&T is far more evil than the NSA.

then they can pay for their own fricking stadiums.

and we should give them 20 billion, then 24, 28,32,36....

Science is far more important than killing people.... yet we give 80% of our taxes to the department of killing things.

Mars? launch a very large rover for the moon and another to Venus. why the hell are we only looking at one planet?

Skylab did it's mission, HAve you been in Skylab II? I have, it's sitting there at space camp in Huntsville, AL. I was able to get past the glass and walk around. it was incredibly small and not much science could get done in it. mostly it was to make sure that humans did not get space madness after extended stays in low gravity.

to republican leaders? science has zero value.
Pork bellies is where it's at!

And you forgot the fact that the A-10 is a better combat platform than the F-35 will ever be. Will the F-35 be able to fly home with most of it's wings and tail section missing? I doubt it. the A-10 does it all the time.

less than 1% of the Defense budget can run NASA at higher levels. WTF is wrong with the complete MORONS that were elected to be in Congress?

They want to save money, call all the troops home and end the frigging police actions.

Yes, there is. it is right there in the agreement that YOU SHOULD HAVE READ when you first use the store. you clicked "i agree"

What? you did not read that? not our problem.

"I don't see how parents have anything to do with this."

I do, I see very low IQ parents causing the problem. Giving a $300 easily broken glass device to a toddler? Not bothering to learn that it stays logged in for a short time afterwards for purchases?

I cant break the law and claim ignorance.... The judge needs to smack these "parents" with clue by fours. If you are too dumb to use the technology, you should not have the technology.

Hey! At least all the zombies in the Walking Dead are still mowing all the lawns....

"If OLPC wants a new mission, it should be to develop educational software that runs on standard Android tablets."

no....
If OLPC wants a new mission, it should be to develop FREE educational software that runs on standard Android tablets.

This is what is needed, along with FREE educational texts in native languages. one of the largest problems is that there are not a lot of books printed in the languages of 3rd world countries. and absolutely no advanced education texts.

Not only commuters, but drivers. I used to see people driving and reading a book all the time, now they just have a tablet.

My favorite was a guy passing traffic at 90 while playing a trumpet.

How dare you bring facts into this... HOLY Regan never did such a thing... the great SATAN Obama and his Stalin SOCALISIM created that!

to repent you must repeat out loud the "tear down this wall" speech 3 times with an american flag draped over your head.

No. The hardware never met expectations and it never really got to the kids. Most were confiscated by the local dictators and sold off. Honestly, it should have been epaper displays, but they did not want to pay for those, (epaper is still horribly overpriced) and honestly you could outfit a village with very old used toughbooks for the same price as all the XO's and the toughbooks were easier to get as well as having better specifications and rubber waterproof keyboards.