Or, a different way to put it: MS has difficulty because they operate under the assumption that end users will like what they produce, while Google is successful producing things that their end users will like. Rather than saying "This is what you should expect the Internet to be like", Google simplifies things and is more customer driven.

It has never crossed my mind to try another engine when I'm not getting the results I want. I simply try different terms in the Google search. After a while you get a hang of it, and it doesn't happen often.

The fist computer to be crucified will be in 2012.

While some of their work has been brilliant, actions like that make me suspect that in the end, they're pretty much assholes.

Becasue a species must watch out for themselves first.

That's exactly why we need to develop weapons like the ones mentioned in the article. Don't think for a second that dolphins don't hate humanity. We passively and innocently shoot some sonar in the water and hours later the sea creatures are fruitlessly attempting a land invasion. No attempts to communicate, no negotiate peace. Just throw themselves on our beaches to try to take a chunk out of us. Thank goodness that's all they've ever gotten.

Well, I know you'll never hear a Canadian sub coming... what with them being permanently enclosed in the West Edmonton Mall

For the Canadian sub to get out of the mall and come for you, I'd imagine it would make quite a racket.

Yeah. It's kind of obvious. I have Multiple Sclerosis, and my neurologist has advised me to avoid any heavy physical activity that might raise body tempature. Moving around a bunch of heavy servers would be ill advised for anyone with MS. Why the researchers are studying that particular question is beyond me.

No kidding. What's the deal here. Kirk? Grew up in Iowa or something. Original Enterprise crew? Some Americans, a Russian, an Asian and a Scott.

Australians? I think there was one episode in TOS where a doomed red shirt looked like he might be Australian, but that was about it.

And despite being relatively new to the Federation, they decide to place their headquarters on Earth. Did they pick Sydney? No. They picked San Francisco, USA.

So why the heck do Australians get to see this movie first? Star Trek has nothing to do Australia.

All this means is that the first cam torrents to come out the day before the rest of the world's opening will be from a guy sitting behind some bloke who shouts out "Crike! 'ats some bloody good special effects!" every five minutes.

The upside of all the ice melting is that Kevin Costner will mutate and form gills.

That or a brand new business of building cargo carrying submarines.

Don't forget the committee to redefine policies for environmental impact studies due to a modified ecological state. And of course, the committee formed to determine if such a committee would be necessary.

Enjoy your riches after your beach front properties are destroyed after rising ocean levels and extreme weather caused by global warming, and the insurance companies all go bust.

Have fun.

Why does Japan always have to be the one who gets the nuclear strike? There are tons of other countries out there that haven't had a turn.

With states like North Korea and Iran actively pursuing nuclear technology, can the US, Russia and the other nuclear states afford to lose their deterrence? It seems that states like Pakistan that are potentially fragile are also on the list of potential threats.

If only there was a country out there that was big enough and strong enough to impose their will onto these smaller countries in the name of 'world stability', using their own massive military and intelligence resources . . . oh wait. That didn't work.

Either that or God's wisdom. Everybody knows God hates aliens.