What didn't work well with the Pixar and Marvel acquisitions? I was under the impression that they are both going pretty strong (admittedly, I'm not that well versed in those franchises).

May not be such a bad thing - do we really need any more Star Wars spoofs?

All the complaints about style translate to "doesn't look like a goddamn MacBook" - we know that Apple invented design, so anything that isn't trying to look like an Apple product must not be using any.

After all, all the other laptop manufacturers have obliged, what's Lenovo's problem?

The Tesla/Edison thing does tend to get overstated a bit, but your last example doesn't actually include any contributions from Edison.

It's precisely the system that Westinghouse and Tesla were advocating, and the adoption of which Edison tried to stop because he was so invested in DC power distribution. It's not like he invented the concept of direct current itself.

An unsuccessful test isn't "failure", it's "data".

On the off-chance you're actually serious - you really think Yahoo isn't collecting exactly the same data as Google?

I hate those polls when there's no nonsense option you can choose to say "I hate this poll".

No, they have PHP in there.

(a scripting language, really?)

Yeah, I thought it was a little odd to essentially say "using numbers that I know are wrong, I've come up with this comparison".

Why is inflation such a difficult concept to grasp? Absolute dollar comparisons are meaningless if they're more than a few years apart.

I love that the story isn't "Apple made some shitty ads", but rather "people are mean to Apple (because of their shitty ads)".

Where else will you see Israelis and Palestinians, Indians and Pakistanis, etc., all competing in a friendly atmosphere?

Not really the best example, given the track record.

Something that's been around for 80 years, and at its height was selling 4 million copies weekly is a 'failed product' now?

Has been since 1826: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shutter

They're like a French No Doubt, right?

Excellent work bringing attention to this issue, you should tackle nigger rights next!

Von Neumann was influential in the design modern computers, Turing was one of the major influences in the development of Computer Science.

There isn't really much overlap between the two.