How old of a car do you have that it has a flywheel?

Point #1 is false.

Microsoft alternates paid updates to Office between years for Macintosh and Windows. There are features in each version that may not be in the other, so the statement that the Mac version is delayed is false. The Mac version lags behind the Windows one year, then the same happens to the Windows version behind the Mac the next.

Also, how is reason 3 justifiable based on 1 and 2? I would see this as the other way around (if point 1 were true.) Reason 3 dictates that Windows gets precedence, which would make sense for Microsoft to do, considering that it is their OS.

Except I already turned on the 3G network adapter that is embedded in the laptops.

Bwahahahaha

Umm, those of you without children probably think that a cry is some generic thing. It's not. I can tell my daughter's cry from other babies, and putting some pre-recorded sounds will probably not do anything other than have me pull out a yagi and hunt your ass down.

I'll play some pre-recorded crying to you when I find you. (after I make you cry.)

OK, xkcd had this one licked- What if I take _both_ pills?

I've landed R/C planes on fences when I thought I was coming down the runway because humans don't have depth perception after 20 or so feet, and rely on visual cues that don't exist in the air. (I've since learned to check the shadow of the plane.) I've also rebuilt the plane and flown it again. I know how tough a R/C landing is, and restate my point above...

Learn to land.

Learn to land.

I had a run of fiber spliced at work last summer (we got rid of a trailer that had a patch panel in it.)

- First, they prep the cable by putting a case around the area to be spliced.
- Next they splice it, although it can't be a windy day because the splicer will not have consistent temps.

The machine heats up the ends, pushes them together, then pulls them back apart just enough that there is no bulge, but not enough that there is a thin spot either. It then tests the splice to make sure it is a good one. Finally the operator slides the sleeve over the splice and the machine heats it to shrink it in place.

- The operator then places the strand into the carrier within the case and does the next one.
- When all of the strands are done, he torques all of the seals on the case and fills it with nitrogen. It can then be buried.

He has it. So do I.

I know it's insensitive, but I have this running through my head as I read this...

Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

http://www.kleankanteen.com/

Except that Karel Capek had (understandably) no clue as to the direction that robotics would take in the 88 years since R.U.R. premiered.

I recently saw R.U.R. and there were obvious parallels from what he envisioned and today, except that we do the things in silicon boxes that no-one feels should have rights, and we have yet to come close to any sort of sentience with silicon.

I would definitely call R.U.R. a science fiction work- Just because it isn't metal and silicon doesn't make it any less so. In fact, when I refer to what I saw, I call it a precursor to Battlestar Galactica.

Actually Karel Capek credited his brother Josef for coining the term, he just used it in his play.

It's like they installed an unlocked automatic door to the street from the vault, if you want to get the real analogy correct.

The door is not illegal, it's just the context of spaces that it allows people to travel through.

The authors of the second amendment wrote the second amendment so that We the People have an ultimate ability to be the final check and balance on the government. A government that is afraid of its people serves its people best.

Without assault weapons, we don't have that ability. Nukes are another story though. They don't have a place in any humane culture.