Don't forget day 1 benefits. Full disclosure, I work for Amazon. And I haven't regretted it for a minute. Yes, the packers/pickers/stowers/etc do work hard, but as for as my FC is concerned, I haven't seen anything at all resembling the urban legend horror stories.

So science has just discovered "Old Man Strength." Never mess with a retired iron worker, machinist, miner or anyone else that did physical labor their entire life. This is known.

Make sure registering creates a bonus for the customer, rather than a penalty for not doing so. Ship all new units with "limited functionality" that unlocks with "free" registration. Make the customer WANT to register. Instead we see the arrogance of Corporations and the people that run them.

...Because your computer told my computer to. Any data logged and stored can be used against you in a court of law. You have no grounds to dispute it or testify against it for your defense. By the time they're done, the computer in the car will have more privacy and rights than the driver.

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The fact that you can't publish a cartoon for fear of anything, is the only proof you need to show why the cartoon needs to be published in the first place.

Amazon decided to pull a book because of punctuation. I guess next time it sentence structure, or maybe using certain words too many times. And words in sentences lead to ideas, so any ideas that Amazon feels affects the reader in a negative manner should also be blocked. From punctuation, to language, to the author's thoughts and intents of putting word to paper, once Amazon starts to believe that it is the arbiter of what is good, or allowable to it's readers, then authors and readers should decide that maybe Amazon isn't what's best for them.

I'm pretty sure that OEMs like Dell just use preconfigured master images to flash an install onto a hard drive. The user when he is selecting what to install is the one actually doing all the work, the rest is just a glorified script to create the configured disk. Manually installing the selected programs would take hours per machine. The generated hard drive image takes only as long as the image takes to write to the hard drive.

You can't like him, I Liked him first.
or
Nobody else Liked him, so I won't Like him either.

That's just ridiculous. Everyone knows the Boob Mountains are on Venus. The way you think, I'm glad you don't do mission planning for Uranus. Or do you?

If the rover had a fluids leak, then every time it stopped, it would leave a spot like a car with a bad transmission does on a driveway. And if it is a leak, then that's bad news for a long term mission, and NASA should be doubly concerned what it is to see how it will affect onboard systems, and modify rover behavior accordingly.

Missions never go to the same area twice. And how can you stick to a set plan, when you don't have a clue to what's really there to begin with? It's the things they don't understand or expect that should get the most attention. Sure comparative geology is great for establishing a control baseline, but the real science is looking for the stuff that isn't expected.

Von Braun may have designed the rockets, but Sgt. Schultz drives the rover. NASA has a history of "Look over there. Isn't that interesting!", "Lets go this way instead..."

I think a better term than Gravistar or "Black Hole" would be "Ice Hole". Since matter is sucked into one to the point that the matter at the center is compressed so tightly that any molecular motion is impossible, the temperature of the center would actually be 0K. The density of it would be so great that even energy from matter impacting the edges of it would fail to cause shock waves to pass to the center, but make the entire mass of the object resonate as a solid unit. In effect, all matter, energy, and even time would be frozen at the center. Therefore "Ice Hole". No proof presented. Math is hard.

Does that mean that he gets his $100 back he lost to John Preskill?