The words following the comma in the above sentence demonstrate that the words before the comma are false.

Oh, no, there's no problem with you. But that, in an of itself, would make you far from ordinary... and is probably untrue. What I should have more accurately said was, "the problem [referring specifically to this one] isn't with you". Doubtless you're as screwed up as the rest of us, just in ways that aren't relevant to the topic at hand.

I do hope the widow/children/survivors of the guy whose life-saving medicine you threw in the fire manage to get a substantial reward from the court. I'd hope for at least a criminal manslaughter charge, too, but that might be more difficult to get. With any luck, you'll die before this situation comes up and no one will have to be harmed by how obviously huge an asshole you are...

Wait a moment... they haven't denied it was aliens yet... :o

Nor bound to any other specific definition. Hence, confusion...

The mistake some people make is in assuming the latter is even possible without doing the former. Optical illusions are possible because even the most immediate mental image of what's before you eyes at the very moment is an interpretation in your mind of what you think your eyes are telling you. Perception necessarily involves interpretation.

First, you ask them which axis it rotated around while avoiding the terms they're unfamiliar with, like "roll" (in the technical sense), "pitch" and "yaw". When they respond with obvious confusion, you go on to explain what an "axis" is and what "axis of rotation" means. If they haven't wandered away by that point but are still standing in front of you making apparent eye-contact, wave your hands to verify that they are in fact too dazed to wander off on their own and call over a paramedic.

That works for this site. Your average CNN viewer isn't enough of a geek to know what "yaw" means. Heck, the majority of them will get "axis" wrong if you ask them to define it in their own words...

Aerospace engineers and aviation geeks are apparently resented by computer geeks because they were never as uncool... :p

Yup. There are few things I trust less than computers, but humans are on the top of that list...

For anyone confused by this comment, the original title of this article (before an editor stepped in and fixed it) read "Boeing 777 Crashes In San Francisco". The current title (at the time I'm posting this comment), "Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport", is a much better description of the event without taking the mind in some horrific directions before giving the important details.

Just time accelerate, and things will fly right through each other without damage. ;)

Mr. Clapper didn't take that approach because he knows damn well if he told us what he was doing, we'd tell him to stop and/or stop the payments.

Actually, no, that's not what's being asked for, although this is the common invalid argument against taking positive action on something. Show that a solution won't be 100% effective, and therefore shouldn't be tried at all. That's bullshit thinking. He's not asking for "world peace", and reducing the problem is worth doing, even if it can never completely eliminate it. What you are doing is making a silly argument along the lines of "we can never completely eliminate fatal traffic accidents, so why do we even bother with traffic laws and automobile safety standards?" Because reducing the problem is a worthy goal, even if it cannot be entirely eliminated. No one is asking for world peace, that's just absurd. But equally absurd is not even trying to address root causes for these problems. It's not an all-or-nothing proposition where if we can't get it all, we should setting for nothing. We should do what we can...

True, but it must be noted that detecting the weapon is often the easiest way to detect the person who wishes to use it. (Note: not necessarily easy, just easier that the alternatives in many cases.)

Adapt or die. That said, don't they usually provide an emulator for the older apps? You could run Motorola 68K-series binaries on the PowerPC Macs IIRC, they just weren't as fast as native...