Did you tell them before it was delivered or when they walked in on you injecting it?

You're making the assumption that government spending is a bad thing. Massachusetts is doing much better economically than most other states while having top schools and infrastructure.

True, from the research side of things, but in terms of commercial software, Nuance (in Burlington) has bought up so many other companies that they're definitely the heavy hitter in the industry.

Just imagine how many lines of useless java code could be removed if it had implemented properties! No more of these pointless getValue(){return value;} that everyone in the java world seems to admire. if there's a part of your code that can be auto generated, there's a problem with the language.

Yet in cities with municipal utilities they citizens have much better service for much less money. It's the companies that have been pushing these agreements with municipalities to have monopolies, not the cities. It's too much cost to run separate lines for each company (not to mention the difficulty a smaller company would have.

Just look at the phone market where there are options available and very little preventing people from switching. You'd thing the free market would have brought the prices down, but instead I can often get my TV/phone/Internet at home for the same price as a phone plan.

Because their competitor got an upperhand and they feel the need to level it again. No one thought Apple and Samsung would unleash their patent arsenals on each other for the same reason

There hasn't been a Presidential alert, but it's part of the EBS system for cases like World War III or Alien invasions.

Suicide isn't a subset of Homicide, but even if HALF of those were suicides, there would still be more gun homicides than everything else combined.

According to the CDC there were 19,392 gun related suicides, so over twice as many as homicides.

Sometimes the NRA column in the TeaParty newsletter isn't the most reliable source of facts.

I take it you've never visited the FBI's website.

The statistics conservatives were excited about a few months ago was that Rifles (not handguns, shotguns, or other) were responsible for fewer deaths than "blunt objects" (which includes clubs, hammers, etc). Of course this morphed into "Hammers kill more people than guns", but according to the statistics, guns make up over two thirds of all homicides.

And yet Israel was still using regular cheap metal detectors and let me keep my shoes on....

But do people other than computer professionals actually disable javascript? Since firefox receives statistics on every button clicked, I'm guessing the usage is so low that accidental clicks make up a good percentage. At that point it's a failure of a user interface to provide extra options that are never used.

Presumably they'd play soccer on whatever field you put them on as long as it's flat enough.

So a battle field would probably be too rough and they'd fall over.

Exactly - I doubt he'd get such fun reactions if he sat in the corner of a room and aimed his camera at people (say like the surveillance he's trying to bring attention to), but his videos show that he's clearly trying to violate peoples' personal space by getting in their face. He's probably get the same reactions if he shoved his shoe at them.

That's one way to put it - the other way would be to actually listen to what he said which was that he supported giving weapons to rebels, but we need to be careful who we give them to. Since Al-Queda is against most governments, you could say any rebel group is "Al-Queda associated".

It's also not "the DEFINITION of treason" since "Al-Queda associated rebels" are not the enemy of the US. Supporting them could be a problem (probably end up with genocide either way), but it could also make them friendly to the US

The prototype also stayed within a foot of the ground which makes me wonder if it can even fly or was just able to hover. Most toy electric helicopters flying around in the mall are more impressive than this demo.