Apple doesn't have much longer I think

Stopped reading there.

I can't wait to develop for BB10!

Said no mobile development company, ever.

If you don't have a SLA and you aren't paying for it - probably isn't the best idea to build your entire business model around it.

Most anyone running a business should know to diversify their product offering. Relying on a single platform for Your product is dooming yourself to failure. Relying on a single API, which you don't control, to run your business, is an even bigger mistake.

Now, I still think the idea of mining an asteroid is - well a long time off.

But, the reason for doing so would be that the incentive to mine an asteroid is insanely high - for instance, supplies on earth run low and the price is through the roof, many factors of what it is today.

Then you have the economic incentive to build a space ship and dig for that substance on another planet.

Much like deep sea drilling for oil. If oil is $5 a barrel, there isn't much incentive to build massive platforms to drill. At $100 a barrel, the incentive is there. Investment seeks the highest rates of returns.

If you found an asteroid that could provide every human 1000 pounds of platinum and could easily mine it - platinum isn't going to stick to $1000+ an oz, it would be insanely cheap.

a PR nightmare

By whom? Almost all Americans don't care about Julian Assange or Bradley Manning - they probably don't even know who the two are if you didn't mention Wikileaks in the same sentence.

Now, back to the news - what is important, did Beyonce lipsync?

France is doing everything possible to drive businesses and people with any bit of money out of the country.

Their tax rates have been skyrocketing - and they wonder why they have been averaging 9%+ unemployment

Yes, but you die from exhaustion telling everyone you are a vegan. Bad trade off.

you do realize, the best tasting steaks/burgers derive a lot of their flavor... from fat...

I'll give it to MS, they have moved the language forward. Linq is amazing. Oracle has just isn't pushing forward as MS has done.

As your worst developer on the team.

I've used both and really haven't seen issue with either. I have a slight preference for C#, personally, but it all comes down to your design, architecture, and implementation that will slow you down.

No it isn't. It does't solve a thing. It simply makes people like you think that it has sovled a problem.

Believe me, I do find it a tragedy. (And I am not sure if that includes suicides, it was a figure from a story I read on the matter)

But it is a cultural problem. America is circling the sewer. Look at Switzerland's gun ownership - they have no mass murders of people with the machine guns they keep in there houses.

Roughly 75% of Americans firearm murders are due to criminal violence, which is the real problem - how do we deal with the criminals...

I don't see background checks as preventing any real crime. Nor do I see magazine limits, it is quite easy to reload a magazine in a firearm.

Criminals aren't going to use background checks - so really all it does is place another measure for good people to jump through to legally purchase.

Would it prevent another Sandy Hook or VT? I don't know. But they are a statistical anomaly as a way to die, as tragic as they are.

Again, it goes back to mental health and I don't know a good way to deal with that.

Which, is amusing if you think about it. If >7 round magazines are the cause of death and destruction - why is it OK to sell them to people out of state? If they are as bad as they claim, they should be destroyed.

Once again, just a circle jerk that accomplishes nothing.