More like the UN got a death threat from the intergalactic Splugorthian empire to cease with our efforts to open an unregulated worm hole. It was ALIENS I tell you!

But, I bet that oil company envelope he got under the table will make his humiliation more palatable.

The stealth fighter is ancient technology. The faceted sides are because no on had the processing power to calculate radar signatures for rounded surfaces. The stealth generations as I recall:

1st: cruise missiles
2nd: B-1 Lancer
3rd: F-117
4th: B-2 stealth bomber
5th: F-22 Raptor

I'm not talking about that guy with the fluke round or short run or someone in a vehicle. Heck I've had 50ish-3 rounds in AA. Last night I was on Metro and a guy was 110ish and 8. Even if you get a perfect sniping spot, you're not going to get that good a run just because of the random guy breaking through the lines and nailing you.

I live in Kansas and I for one have very little sympathy for these farmers. They hoist these corporations up on their shoulders and carry them to Washington to turn around and stiff their communities. Small towns all over the Midwest are evaporating because the citizens are inexplicably voting to peel back all of the liberal reforms from the Great Depression that protected their livelihoods. Now, all their kids are fleeing to the cities without the slightest notion of returning. There are small towns where the largest source of income is Social Security!

EA had published a link to a forum post about redirecting you DNS queries to Google's servers; 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. I'd assumed that there was DNS change that needed to propagate and never looked any further.

As for PunkBuster, either it sucks or the vendors suck. I've been an avid FPS player for maybe 10 years, and I've never seen a game so shamelessly hacked. I don't know what kind of statistical analysis they're employing, but some guys cheat like they don't give a crap. People, including admins sniping with shotguns, 10-1 ratios in CQ fighting, pure hokeyness.

A functioning watch
Wifi to seamlessly resync with NTP servers
Advanced watch functions like alarm, stop watch and timer
MicroSD card reader
MP3 player
Desktop sync (through blue tooth?)
Maybe a battery cell band for increased power
headphone jack (you'll need a technique to secure the wire for joggers, exercisers, etc)
Simple notification system to receive texts, email, tweets, FB updates, etc., seriously doubt sending capability will work

Lose all the extended functionality like web browsing unless you plan on pimping a new ultra low-end mobile format for displaying web pages.

Yeah, somehow he's an empty suited cheerleader, yet he's been kicking his rivals' asses for 5 years now. When you guys figure that out instead of continuing with this "yuck yuck he's so stupid" meme, you might get somewhere.

Amen to that. People can't seem to figure out that Americans will NEVER be able to compete against a massive country that allows dumping in their environments, treats workers like slaves, and forces them to work in unsafe conditions. Our prioritizing of human, worker, and environmental rights is what created the economy that countries like China are exploiting.

Lots of life is about tradition and ceremony. The President uses the SotU to pose his major policies for the year with the biggest audience he'll have. Even if the proposals go nowhere, they at least start the debate and inject the topics into public discourse. I've been reading minimum wage threads everywhere. Would you prefer he email his proposals to each citizen?

Being dismissive and checking out doesn't make you cool.

Try them where? Last time we even suggested it, all the states called foul and started a "zomg a terrorist comin' to arr state" campaign. I think it was only NY that accepted a trial at a considerable "security upgrade" charge to the feds.

It was a projected surplus. Been a while since I followed all this, but because government accounting is so tricky and projects go out sometimes 10 years in advance, the surplus wasn't money in the bank, it was projected savings. Of course, there was a loud "give us our money back" campaign on the right which gobbled that all up and then some.

Steering something that size and that irregular shaped to a safe landing (on land, away from inhabited lands, yet not so remote as to be inaccessible) isn't trivial.

In that case, release it into the market quickly. Like at about 25,000 mph.

Our space program is going backwards. About the only salvation we have is the Chinese trying to land on the moon and inflaming nationalism.