The Samsung Moment looks promising. It's coming to Sprint on Nov. 1 and has an 800 MHz processor.

My reference to our founders involves the fact that only the powers specifically granted the Federal government by the Constitution were to be within the federal purview. All else was to be that of the States. The Federal government has stepped way beyond that limitation. This was a response to a the colonies being ruled by a government separated geographically from their citizenry and thus, out of touch with the immediate needs of said colonists. I don't believe for one second that a group of in-fighting, power-hungry, money-grubbing (gross generalizations, I know, but you sound intelligent and I believe you will get my meaning) politicians can honestly make decisions that best serve the citizens of states outside of the politicians' day-to-day exposure.

I reread "A Canticle for Leibowitz" not long ago and it still holds up well.

This is a fun myth, where a tyrannical and illegitimate expert gets shown up by the legitimate expert, who is actually aligned with the victim of the tyrant -- a kind of Robin Hood story, where King Richard, the Just Ruler, returns and deposes terrible Sheriff, who had persecuted the good Robin Hood.

I don't think Fitzgerald would have laughed at the class. Wikipedia says this about Fitzgerald in Princeton University: "There he became friends with future critics and writers Edmund Wilson (Class of 1916) and John Peale Bishop (Class of 1917), and wrote for the Princeton Triangle Club." Hm, hanging out with writers and critics... !

When you look at the lives of these authors, you find that they're steeped in this "lit crit" culture that you feel sucks the life out of literature. In fact, it's what creates great literature, the books you enjoy reading. It's kind of like learning about boolean logic to understand video games. I don't need to know it to enjoy the hell out of Megaman, and in fact, if I dislike math, it's actually tedious and the relationship isn't immediately obvious. Literature analysis sucks the fun out of reading for some people, for others, it's an incredible process to 'peer under the hood' of how storytelling functions. To each his own.

Ok, so you are asserting that the Iranians are dangerous, murderous warmongers. I get it. The only problem with that theory is that they've never attacked another country. Sure, they probably have spies and agents doing some underhanded work, but then again who doesn't. That's international politics.

"A time lens can focus a chunk of time to a point,"

Since einstein we really know that space and time is the same thing, we really should just call it "squishing space", since time is really a measurement of a distribution of matter and energy, we've compressed the space (and hence the time).

"Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. ... Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended. In this way the concept 'empty space' loses its meaning. ... Since the theory of general relativity implies the representation of physical reality by a continuous field, the concept of particles or material points cannot play a fundamental part, ... and can only appear as a limited region in space where the field strength / energy density are particularly high."--- (Albert Einstein, 1950)

I find it interesting that they intend to sell it to architects. The case design is clutered and littered with ornamental additions. the reveals on the flat side take away from the clean plane they attempted to create. Modern architecture and design is about simple, elegant beauty. This case is overly elaborate and the added details do nothing to enhance the function. For the record, IAA.

You tell 'em. I have an out of work programmer who's job was off-shored dusting my shit.

I'm under ur bridge burnin ur packets.