Right, then. Here's a recent photo for you that includes (a) the beautiful African nation of Mali, (b) a USAF C-17 Globemaster and (c) a pair of boots worn by an American serviceman. You'll note that both his feet are firmly planted on the ground: http://wapo.st/ZrQ8wK

The Sony Store? Or perhaps Bose? They opened in Maine back in 1993. That said, the Google Store won't be a success if they can't fix their supply chain issues.

I suspect that price is a mean, not a median. A relatively small number of expensive cars can quite easily skew that number. For instance, imagine a town where 10 new cars are purchased. Nine cost $20,000 each, and one Porsche sold for $100,000. The "average" price is $28,000. Also don't forget that far more used cars change hands for considably less money, and it's quite possible that many people are hanging onto their old cars for a few years longer.

I look forward to reading your calculation of line loss to get the power from the SW to upstate New York. I also suspect that a 2500 square km field of PV panels will cause significant climate shift in the local vicinity (those panels will get pretty warm in the sun). They might also have unanticipated effects on wildlife behaviour and migration. But feel free to try the same thing on the moon.

Balsillie left the company in 2011. He has no up-to-date insider knowledge or connections with the current management team and it makes some sense for him to have sold his stock (approximately $300 million) to diversify his portfolio. I wish we could bury this sensational but meaningless story from the front page.

It's almost enough to make you wonder if there is a connection between increasing environmental pollution and irrational religious obsession. Or perhaps some people respond to a world filled with more knowledge and answers than we've ever had by shutting down completely and resorting to chanting magical incantations on a daily basis. At any rate, I'd be happy to chip in for a billboard that reads, "Missouri Science Education, Now With 50% Magic."

No, a more elegant solution would be to encourage these brilliant lawmakers to travel on a fleet of airliners built by a team of intelligent designers instead of engineers with their ridiculous scientific quackery. Hell, let's replace medicine and dentistry with rosary beads while we're at it.

Look, people have always liked to place themselves into heirarchies. The modern USA is no different; we fawn over the modern equivalent of wealthy nobility, grumble and whine about how they're not treated like common folk and ohh and ahh as the fancily dressed dandies parade around the film industry court. Periodically, there are popular rebellions as the raging masses rise up and install a new order. Sometimes the outcome is good - the birth of a republic, the creation of the Westminster parliamentary system, but sometimes you find yourself under the boot of raving mad Leninists, racist fascists or clueless but vicious oil sheiks. So enjoy your shiny telephone and breathe a quiet thanks that you're not in a 1920s Soviet Gulag or North Korea. (As for the root cause of trouble in the USA: full-bore capitalism doesn't work, especially when there's a strong religious and social push to consistently increase the population to build "the economy." The US has three times the population it did in 1913, but there aren't three times as many meaningful jobs and many traditional occupations have either been outsourced to legalized slave camps in China or replaced by technology. You just have 200 million extra people trying to figure out the purpose of their life.)

Here in Canada, we only receive mail on weekdays. It works just fine because the majority of letters in our mailbox are not extremely time-sensitive - the occasional municipal bill, magazines, and periodic greeting cards from around the world. They could reduce letter delivery to M/W/F without really causing any issues. Daily parcel delivery makes sense because they're larger dollar transactions and whenever a parcel is on the way, someone is waiting for it. I cringe every time someone suggests getting rid of the post office and relying on FedEx and UPS instead, because they tend to be far more expensive in Canada. As an example, UPS will charge a brokerage fee for surface packages coming from the USA that easily hits $25. Sending a 2 lb package to the USA by UPS Express (even 3-day) costs about $60. Canada Post runs about 25% of that.

Back to the USA, there are already some interesting private/public delivery programs that promise to keep service costs low, too. As an example, Smartpost is an economical FedEx service that uses the USPS to deliver the last mile. Expect more of this stuff in the future.

Canada's military spending ranked 14th in the world in 2012. There are 180 nations in the world that spend less on their militaries - hardly chronically underfunded. Canadian soldiers are dedicated and extremely hard working; your attempt to slander the present day Canadian Forces because of an event that occurred 20 years ago is ridiculous. We are not proud that two Canadian soldiers beat a teenager to death in Somalia in 1993, but they don't represent the 115,000 active and reserve personnel in today's CF in any way, shape or form.

Just before Christmas the offer was $99 for a Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. At that price, it makes a lot of sense for schools to pick up 10 or 20 if they can squeeze them into the budget. PCs would cost 5X as much, MacBook Airs would be 10X the price.

I unlocked several phones recently by entering a code generated by a carrier unlocking program. It was essentially a password generated by algorithm. NO code modification was required, and the unlocking process is coded into the original firmware. This is not rooting your phone. Nor is it rocket surgery.

Certified Angus Beef (R) is a trademarked brand of expensive, high quality cuts. Angus beef is simply meat from and Angus cow or bull. Fast food chains do not make burger patties from expensive, marbled meat.

The guy who cooked up the "100% Angus burger" sales gimmick was brilliant. It's just another breed of dairy cow, although the term somehow suggests quality. The truth is that all the good cuts of beef are sold at premium prices in grocery stores and restaurants. The stuff that's pulverized into fast food burgers is the garbage left over after the good cuts have been stripped. It makes no difference that it's 100% Angus garbage.

Beef is graded according to quality - Prime, Choice and Select are the better cuts. Bargain cuts are Standard and Commercial grades. Fast food burgers are made from the garbage meat (utility, cutter and canner). So, yeah, it's cow meat. Just not good quality.