For some reason it doesn't surprise me that a guy who wrote a book about LSD and self-discovery knows all about how to develop home nude photographs.

Doc: Bye, Marty! Yaaa hoooo! It worked! It worked! I sent him out of the solar system!

Marty McVoyager in a different shirt runs up behind him: Doc! I'm back.

Doc: Guuuuuuuuuhhhhhh!!!!!

Marty: I'm back. I'm back from interstellar space!

Doc: Great Scott! It must be the interstellar flux transit event capacitor!

I don't see how this thwarts government spying. A catalog must be online somewhere, and anything the government is interested in, well, bonus, set up a cam opposite and write down whoever visits. Hell, it makes foreign spying even easier -- just another tourist visiting your country.

Rest assured, America! The multiple multi-billion-dollar data centers are still running, gathering all your facebook and phone calls, and the new ones under construction are still pouring cement today.

Nothing to worry about. Focus attention on Boy Scouts not being able to climb the Statue of Liberty and other deliberately-placed irritant memes those in power expect you to outrage over, like the good little programmable cogs you are.

Isn't this only useful if people produce hydrogen without burning fossil fuels to generate electricity to make hydrogen from water?

Either renewable biomass burning, or some other electricity generation, or some other method of hydrogen extraction magically not dependent on electricity?

Perhaps it would be better, if just for old-school pollution, I guess.

No one is claiming he has a "right" to enter the US.
Quite a few of us are wondering what is happening to our land of the free, however. This guy was coming to attend an academic conference.

One wonders where the Constitution specifically allows political parties to deny entrance to invited guests purely for speech reasons. Probably the same part of the Constitution that grants the government the power to search citizens' papers witbout permission as you enter.

Let these be lessons of wisdom at how quickly freedom would evaporate inside the country were it not for the Amendments. All done "for The People".

(slam!)
"Mom! Mom!!! Mr. Johnson tried to get me to touch his Tootsie Roll! He told me I just hadda touch the last third of it!"

Old people? Those late-nite ads for the new-style bidding web sites ate scams directed at young people. They are mathematically indistinguishible from gambling and should be treated as such.

Pay a dollar to bump up the price by 1 penny? Oop, someone else bumped it up another penny. You still lose your dollar. Guess who keeps all the dollars?

Weiner Grotto is even funnier.

Gas had to get over $4 a gallon to make ethanol even remotely competitive, which would pull in productions of scale. Except $4 isn't all that much as far as economic disruption feared by gloom and doomers would suggest.

Shortage is an economic concept, and needs to be understood in that context. It can be treated as more or less synonymous with cost, higher is less supply, lower is more. There's a little more to it than that, especially boundary cases, but for mass-produced things like oil and gas, it's intensely accurate.

This needs to lower price to get into competitive range. As it will be pulling carbon out of the air, rather than re-introducing long-buried carbon, it will be much better and environmentally neutral -- burn to your heart's content.

"A democracy fails once plebes figure out they can vote themselves bread and circises" has been sround for 2000 years.

Mikael Blomkbist: Here's your new school iPad, Lisbeth. It has blocks so you can't get to facebook and stuff.

Lisbeth Salander: (Looks at him with disgust) Please.

It also has some kind of blower to blow the melting stuff out of the way.

> I'm sure the scientists involved - who are much smarter than you, of that I have no doubt - thought of that. Dipshit.

Why aren't you on 4chan co-surfing with the Breaking Bad finale?

And they found two sets of prints -- hers, and a guy who works at Little Ceasar's as a driver.