"Brain, brain, and brain! What is brain?"

Meanwhile, your android replacement will be sleeping with your wife.

You're asking if I'd be willing to trade my beloved wife for my own heavily-armed FTL starship?

...does it come in black?

Clearly, the money swarm has rejected me as a host carrier...

For some reason, the clause in the Slashdot TOS that requires me to hear both sides of an argument before rendering my personal opinion is missing in my browser. Can you provide me with it?

I would have been a customer for this device, but after this I will not now or ever buy anything under the Fusion Garage brand.

Heh. How much do you want to bet that the "classified description of why the case must be dismissed" is a set of photos of the Judge with a 14-year-old girl? We are talking about the CIA here...

Subsurface Hydro-Acoustic Radiation Communication System (SHARCS)

Wouldn't being armed with this make the plane an A-130?

Indeed. I just started working in the air traffic control technology biz. The "industry" is currently switching over to tracking squawked GPS coordinates from all planes.

Wow, that's racist. I didn't say "illegal" immigration, the vast majority of immigrants are legal workers with visas.

Per census bureau data:
Population Growth 2000-2008
CA 8.5%
NY 2.7%

Did you even read the article you linked? They buried it, but these are total losses not net losses; both CA and NY populations continue to grow overall due to births and immigrations greatly outnumbering tax fliers.

A government should be forced to plan its finances like a responsible household, taking into consideration risk, debt and spending just like the rest of us have to in reality land. After all, it's our money they're spending. Why is this so hard to comprehend?

Because it's provably wrong, impossible, and stupid, all at once.

Look: state spending (primarily health care and education) rises and falls according to population trends, while revenue from taxes rises and falls according to state GDP. Once population starts growing faster than GDP, the state starts falling further and further behind the revenue curve, with no way out except to borrow like crazy and increase the mill rate on taxes (both of which NYS has done to death already).

Slashing spending on health care and education kills people, kills jobs and sacrifices the future, at a time when we should be spending more on these things, not less (but NYS is trying this too, thanks Gov. Paterson).

They could give the big banks their bailout money in the form of City of Heroes influence.

They're also being aggregated by Yahoo News and Google News (type "Foxwoods" into either news search and you'll hit Norwich Bulletin stories). So this looks like selective litigation.

I clicked through the links, and sure enough, it looks like they're suing over having their RSS feed aggregated...isn't the act of providing an RSS feed affirmatively granting permission fort others to aggregate the material contained in the feed for other sites and systems?