This laser system is perfect for that use... as long as the asteroids are 2 mm in diameter, stay still long enough to focus 192 lasers on them, and are close enough that the beam path won't be distorted so much that the lasers will miss (i.e. about 1 mm).

For the rest of the asteroids out there (~ 100%) I guess we're still screwed.

I agree with much of what you're saying, but since you asked the question-
There's this list of Ford and GM automotive factories in the US for a start.
There's also this snippet discussing the effect the many new automobile plants have had on the economy of the southeastern US. I believe some of these plants also produce parts, and don't just import them and slap them together.
Also my favorite shoe brand, New Balance, makes some of its shoes in the USA.
I'm sure there's many more- I'm hoping someone posts something else made in the USA that I don't know about yet!

I think the details are not for the divorce itself, but to decide related matters such as alimony/palimony and custody of children. If one spouse has cheated, causing the divorce, I think they are less likely to receive alimony or custody. IANAL so this may be completely wrong.

This is an industry wide problem that has been known for a long time, and is just recently receiving wider attention. For example, Wired had two articles on this topic in January alone. The SCADA/controls industry really needs to get their act together

I read recently that the melting of the Antarctic ice shelves and related glaciers has caused the crust there to rise up a few cm. Maybe other plates are subsequently sinking, and the plate under the East Coast is just more susceptible to this sinking effect than others that have been measured? I am not a geologist, so feel free to point out if this is ridiculous (that's if you are a geologist, I'm not taking B.S. from just anybody...).

This might actually be their most convincing argument yet. Evolution is about survival of the fittest, where mutations make a species smarter, stronger, better able to survive. Therefore, I find it very hard to believe that these creationists evolved from Chimps, which are clearly a much more intelligent species.
Alternative explanations include that they are an example of convergent evolution; they evolved from sea slugs and just happen to look like intelligent people, which is unlikely; some type of regressive evolution, where lowered intelligence marked a split from homo sapiens, even below the levels of homo saywattus wattus, which also seems unlikely. IANNAB (biologist) so I don't have any more alternative theories. Someone please help me resolve this dilemma!

As a general statement, if they had kept up their research with their own processors, instead of trying to catch a ride on the Itanic they would have kept ahead on capability for quite a while longer. It wasn't really that they missed the signs, it was that they stopped their own progress to all get on the same bus, not noticing that it was in the slow lane, with its blinkers on and belching smoke. By the time it got up to speed, x86 had already whizzed by.

Similar to my first thought on this subject. What I want to know is if you combine the DNA from a Bonobo and a Chimp, do you have enough to make a particular Hungarian politicain?

It seems the Jews and the Roma are the real winners here.

Due to the limited scope, maybe Stuxnet should be classified as a Cyber-Police-Action?

Oh please. Do you mean except for massive funding and arming of terrorist groups in other countries? The U.S. may not be completely clean on this one, but don't pretend that Iran is even close to being innocent here.

Exactly. Here we agree.

There is a surprising number of Columbia's to choose from. Take your pick as to which would be best for a data center.

How about two data centers- one at each pole? Each one would have 6 months of sunlight, although probably at a high air mass. Cooling would not be much of a problem, some of that heat might even be appreciated (first data center to request P4's?). You might need weapons to defend against polar bears (if the North Pole ice is thick enough), but fewer than to defend a data center in any of the areas mentioned above. The penguins at the South Pole might be a welcome sight. I don't think the connectivity problems would be much worse than for the equatorial data centers on ships.

It was probably phrased "Do you use software you didn't pay for?" or similar, thus lumping all free/open source software with pirated software.

Seconded. I get compliments on this watch from geeks and non-geeks. Bonus- it will never be obsolete, unlike any electronic watch which will be in a year or two. The flipside is the claim that all mechanical watches are already obsolete, but at least it won't get significantly more so.

a.k.a Juan Valdez.