I would have figured at least 1/3 of the crowd here would be sporting a utility kilt. You can carry a netbook in those.

Yeah, he does.

+1 for Blindsight. What delicious hopelessness.

Is it that hard to distinguish between individual privacy and abusive and/or illegal secrecy in government?

Too soon, man, too soon.

Unless you actually meant "using time travel for masturbation", then I've really been doing something wrong.

Really? You think he should have said "Now, I like to be at the top of lists, but this is one ranking on top of which I donâ(TM)t believe Michigan wants to be"?

This sort of awkward construction is exactly why many experts on grammar have recently dismissed the "no preposition at the end" rule as an artificial restriction introduced thoughtlessly by 19th-century grammarians. I was taught as you were--but sometimes the rules we were taught are wrong.

Sure, it seems like a neat project now, but just wait until this guy swoops over Toronto and sounds the Panic Horn.

Decency. Took me a minute to figure that one out.

Keep your 4chan off my slashdot.

No, it's about the disastrously overproduced movie of the same name.

Yes, yes, we all should google things we don't know. But it's not really common knowledge--I just asked 5 intelligent, educated people, and none of them had any idea. But hey, now you can feel even more superior!

And was there really any reason not to say "German military"?