because we can't rip her to archival media.

Just give them a Voight-Kampff test.

Land speed record attempts require 2 passes, in opposite directions. So the vehicle has to be reusable.

Chicago has show some irregularities in the way they are reporting crime stats. That decrease may not be as dramatic as you think. http://www.chicagomag.com/Chic...

I see that they are using a discarding sabot to keep from welding the projectile to the rails.

The first line in the linked wikipedia page says its non-volatile, so it should be persistent.

STAY IN SCHOOL!

It's public tax payer money being spent to combat a private company. A company that made the investment in infrastructure and in hiring local people. There really needs to be competition. Maybe deregulation of the incumbant's fiber/coax needs to happen. When it happened to the telcos and all the CLECs popped up it didn't drive the ILECs out of business. It just doesn't seem "fair" to make the incumbant compete against the tax payers.