Some of us prefer seeing the miracle of flight firsthand. Might as well live in the Matrix...

The cameras they already have feeding into the IFE don't work half the time, or they've got grime over half the lens.

Scooters don't replace driving, they replace walking.

Panamint Valley is the only remaining valley managed by the BLM Ridgecrest Field Office that is not developed. Just because there are relict mines in the boundary ranges (not really visible from the valley) and a borax operation in the Searles doesn't mean that the Panamint deserves to be sacrificed. I've camped and visited there several times, and it is a wild place full of life that is worth saving.

Are you referring to Kyllo v. United States? I think you're misremembering the SC's ruling... "In a 5-4 opinion delivered by Justice Antonin Scalia, the Court held that "[w]here, as here, the Government uses a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of the home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a 'search' and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant."

Very interesting. Thank you for shedding some light on this!

But I wonder why its soundtrack will only be remastered in 4.1, instead of 5.1 for the 2003 revision?

The Concorde "B" wouldn't have required an afterburner, either. It was just too uneconomical to produce.

Don't bet on it. The first game was never released on PC. All you can do is stream it, and that arrived years later.

I don't see what Media Access Control has to do with Macintosh computers in this context.

That has not been my experience. I fly several times per year and take photos out the window. Only rarely in the past decade has a window been dramatically abraded.

When I was in Dubai, the Metro was out of service half the times I wanted to use it. Escalators and moving walkways would be shut down during off-peak hours and on seemingly random days. Not that impressive.

Just as a point of principle, the United States does not have a "ruling" party, we have a governing party.

The Fertile Crescent is getting less and less fertile. It's partially why the current conflict started in the first place.

In the '90s, I spent summers on a Great Plains farm and saw fireflies by the multitude, year after year. By the mid-2000s, though, they had all disappeared. Haven't seen them in at least a decade, and I do wonder if pesticides are responsible -- the farmers who worked the surrounding land in my youth aren't those who are working it today.