Great - you can look at the control panels or get farted on by the mission commander while attempting to look out a window smaller than a laptop screen. Unless you're going somewhere or have a view - forget it.

Then only married men would get MBAs.

And the funny thing is you know I'm right.

And that's why women are paid more than men.

The end.

Remember them, hell I've got 2 of those (Dragon's Lair and Time Traveler) in my living room right now.

I guess IBM is going to sue me to the cleaners now.

Check out http://dragons-lair-project.com/ for more laser history and info

Yeah - this is believable because billionares often will travel on private planes and subject themselves to the riff-raff. Little people stories are so CUTE!

I bet you pay all your taxes too - instead of forming an offshore company.

"laugh if you want to - and say you don't care"

"if you cannot see it - you think it's not there"

"It doesn't work that way"

Oh dad, we're ALL Devo.

Do both - it's easy to stage an accident, and plant child porn. Keeps the martyrs at bay.

But make sure you fill his hard drive full of child porn - that'll make him really popular (planting evidence is easy when you're dead! s'fun!)

Unfunny and self-defensive against someone killing you in the marketplace. Ya - that's nerd humor alright.

Why not just kill him. It's vastly cheaper. Hasn't stopped the govt in the past - why stop now?

I guess John C Dvorak's "Cranky Geeks" are going to have to get another sponser.

I remember when Verisign paid wwwwaaaaayyyy too much or Network Solutions - on the order of 21 - freakin' billion dollars. Has anyone pegged a true value for companies like these?

On the bad news side, I guess that means imminent layoffs for more geeks in Arizona.

I recall a noted incident from Nolan Bushnell after he finally got a patent for Pong - long after everyone had cloned the bejeezus out of it, and the coin-op industry had long moved on to other games in the 70s. After finding out he'd been granted it, he tossed it over his shoulder. Now if you're Adobe, and are pushing Photoshop and Illustrator for 20 and 23 years respectively, then I can sympathize, but for me, software has always been a matter of copyright law - not patent. Given the fact copyrights (thanks to Disney and Senator Bono) have massive shelf-life, I can't fathom why they're clogging up the works with patents (unless there's a damage-award scenario I'm not getting).

At first glance all I can think of is Serta Sleepers being thrown into space.

Liftoff! We have liftoff of Stainy One, ushering in America's new in-orbit dumping of unwanted mattresses. Next month will see the launch of Smelly Two.

Get back to work chairman, right Mao!

I look forward to their next piece of plastic crap tho, I hear it's to die for!