How the industry evolved this overpriced model for sending a miniscule amount of data (when they'd be saving bandwidth by encouraging texting) is beyond. me.

Since I'm level 25 in BF3 I guess that qualifies me as a military expert as well!

Seriously, you mouse commandos need to shut the fuck up...

Regardless, Google lied and got busted lying. "She hit me first" didn't work for your mother, and it won't work in court either.

Did you walk in on your parents having sex?

I'm an insomniac and my short term memory gets horrible when I'm in a bad stretch of sleep problems.

You're taking "bad for young minds" literally. To the Chinese government, that means anything that might lead to less pliable, diligent citizens.

You didn't see who the US is fighting in the Red Dawn remake did you? It's not China any more for that reason.

Someone returning so much of a valuable mineral or metal that it completely destabilizes the economy.

Someone using say a mass driver to return a large asteroid to Earth orbit, screwing up their calculations and either disrupting satellites or worse crashing it into the planet.

A space program on the international stage isn't about getting people to like you. It's about getting people to fear you. You're basically showing the world that you have the infrastructure, cohesion, and technology to pull of a milestone feat for a nation. And it also implies that you can drop a nuke on any point on the globe.

Been a while since I read an essay on "Origin", but as I recall Darwin was sitting on his works for quite a while. It was only after he learned that someone else was working on what he'd already accomplished that he decided to publish. Much like the way Newton had to be goaded into publishing the Principia.

I stand my my theory. Steve Jobs is looking more and more evil.

Re: your signature. Is that a joke or did that line actually come from an old Star Trek episode?

Walmart begs to differ. Sell cheap crap from China cheaply enough that you cheap crap waged employees can afford to shop there. It turns our economy from a vertical bell curve to a pyramid.

I have zero sympathy for this kind of hacker, but that's a lot of time for a DDOS that apparently they didn't even execute if I read the charges right.

Sputnik weighs a lot less than Little Boy.