And forgive me for possibly stating the obvious---

If LG were to sue Apple directly, Apple might throw a hissy and stop buying LG's panels.

So to prevent that, LG creates a shell/shill to bring the suit, on the presumption that Apple won't see right through it and continue to buy panels as if nothing was wrong.

Anybody else buying that?

Just hop on a camel for a day to get to Petra.

So soon there'll be two reasons to go to Jordan.

Where one is it sorta sucks, and five is it really sucks.

If we can have drone aircraft, why not drone humvees?

A convoy of remote control humvees, followed by a couple of humvees full of troops to keep the locals from planting bombs, cutting the cargo off, etc.

With the added benefit of any IEDs in the road probably explode when the first or second humvee goes past, and the wetware in the back is relatively safe.

(No, I didn't read the article.)

Mine was:
two figs
some dates
half a dozen eggs
breakfast sausage
cottage cheese

If I learned anything from my teacher wife*, it's that there are dozens of ways that children (and adults) learn, and you have to tailor the learning experience for each of them.

Some children may do very well with things like the Khan Academy. Others will not.

Anyone who tries to shoehorn all children into the same learning solution is likely to leave a large percentage of them behind.

* and my own experience in contrast to my brother, and my own two childrens' very different learning experiences in public schools.

Off the top of my head? Hulu Plus. On my Sony TV and blurrydisk player there's Qriocity and three or four others.

I have no idea what the selection is like on Qriocity or the others. I don't really watch that much TV to begin with and I'm just not curious enough about it to (pay money) to find out.

If you're referring to the spelling of (Arthur C.) Clarke, Clarke with an 'e' is the correct spelling.

And two, with a 'w' too. Connect two TVs together. The irony of your sig is, well, ironic.

Er, well, okay. But the original topic was about predictions made in the 60s.

A lot had changed by the 80s. And still nobody like Clarke was predicting tech solutions to the impending problems, including the one you describe. And here it is 30 years later and most of us still only have the non-tech, oops, my electric bill is going through the roof, I'm going to turn down/off the A/C solution.

No doubt lots of other scifi/futurefi 'predicted' power shortfalls and other unhappy stuff. That wasn't really my point. My point was more about lookee here, see this newfangled intarwebs, it'll do all sorts o' kewl things AND turn off your AC when voltage on the grid drops kinds of predictions by the likes of Clarke and Kurzweil, or rather the lack of thoughtful predictions about unhappy kinds of things.

And more to the point, you yourself say in Make Room, Make Room, they don't have smart meters and remote power off, so other than predicting power shortages, Harrison didn't predict the gadgetry at all.

No, not directly. But there were many predictions of things like "shopping from home using your videophone" or groceries delivered automatically after your refrigerator ordered them from the supermarket -- things that implicitly or indirectly predicted the internet.

On the other hand nobody (here in the US) would have stuck his or her neck out and predicted power companies shutting off your appliances during the day to prevent brown-outs. It would have been unthinkable to predict that we'd never have enough cheap power to do everything we'd want to do, when we wanted to do it.

At this rate I bet that $1B valuation and IPO will be all smoke.

Now we just need flying broomsticks.

Clearly a lot of drivers I see on the road are over-medicated.

I can haz apocolyse