I'm too busy beating something else, thanks to my internet connection.

Sometimes you go on a date, pay for an expensive meal, and the chicks put out. Sometimes they don't. Looks like it works the same in the chimp world.

your going to blow a vein!

how many nerd emoticons can you draw before they all look the same?

Digital information can be easily duplicated and transferred to other media. You can save the entire library of congress on hard disk, convert it to DVD, or print it out on paper. And all of it can be almost fully automated with near zero chance of error. Try doing a backup of your stone tablet library in a reasonable amount of time, labor, and accuracy. There is just no comparison.

I figured you'd need a car with redundant wheels that can be lowered and retracted while the car was moving. Probably also analogous to how google manages hardware downtime: redundancy.

While technically possible to make such a car, I don't see any practical use for such a system when it's just safer and more efficient to stop the car and replace the wheel.

At first I thought it might be a useful system for an armored car like the presidential limo, but the added weight of another motorized system would probably make it more of a liability than help in most situations, considering if something powerful enough to disable an armored wheel on an armored car will probably also destroy any systems adjacent to it.

But those things have far more uses than just destructive activities. Not much use for rocket engines than to deliver a malignant payload. Do amateur rocketeers really need more powerful rockets to shoot into the sky just for kicks? Do they do anything close to scientific research, or is it just "haha lookit my rockit go!"?

I'm surprised the feds didn't cite terrorist concerns over the deregulation of this rocket propellant. Oh well, I'm sure they'll just lobby to have the laws changed/enacted to bring this propellant under federal regulation. Doesn't anyone else think it's irresponsible to allow anyone to buy powerful rocket motors without a license? Who needs a suicide patsy when you can just set up a rocket? Maybe I'm just being paranoid.

There were plenty of times where I wanted a copyrighted product (movie, song or app) and decided pirate it instead of buy it because it was more convenient. Had it been difficult to find said copyright material online, I would have gone out to the store to buy it. In these circumstances the sales were lost because it was a hassle for me to drive to the store to buy the product.

Going to the store consists of having to get dressed, fight traffic to drive to mall, find parking in a crowded parking lot, walk to the store, find the product on the shelves, stand in line to pay for it, walk back to my car, and fight traffic on the drive home, -a process that takes several hours. Instead, in that same amount of time, I can torrent it and spend the time doing something else, fun like watch TV or play a game, or get some work done. To me, that's a no-brainer more efficient use of my time.

Also, why would I pay for a product when there is an easily obtainable copy available for free? Sure, I'd like to support the artists and developers, but I have to watch out for my own pocketbook too. This may make me a sleazebag, but that's just the way I am. Not gonna get much sympathy from me if it means separating me from my hard earned cash. If the pirating option was not available to me, I'd be a paying customer, and the RIAA realizes that this is true for a lot of people as well, which is why they're fighting so hard with underhanded tactics.

It may look like chaos to us, but they were able to impressively navigate the mess with no accidents whatsoever! I can just imagine all the pile up accidents that would occur within seconds should this ever take place in a modern western country's roadways

We've been able to destroy the entire surface of the planet many times over for decades now, ever since the nuclear arms race with the Soviets. It doesn't really matter whether the surface is destroyed or the entire planet. We're just as screwed.

With Iran having secured the technologies to enrich uranium for manufacturing nukes, I dare say the probability of a nuclear world war wiping out humanity is a hell of a lot more likely than the LHC destroying the planet.

and defecates into the machine

Would you please not post pictures of his ugly mug on the front page? I'd rather see a picture of goatse than that douche. As if we don't already have enough reasons to hate idle.

A few audience members had scorched retinas from the spotlights reflecting off Ballmer's head. Ballmer says a new coat of turtle wax was to blame.