160 pounds is a little shy of 70 kilos ... so a rather small deer. plus that you have a big-ass truck.

amen to that brother! watching the launching pad for 24 hours before start or the giant mission control screen with no comment at all is at best a waste of transmission time ... give some information damn it!

So what? In case you haven't noticed, the government bashers have a ready solution for this problem. Cut the size of government and its power and you cut the opportunity for mischief and mayhem. It doesn't matter if government is made of ordinary people or people who have a magic susceptibility to corruption. The solution works in both cases.

Rather than debate some dubious position not held by most people and irrelevant even in the cases where it is believed, in other words a strawman argument, how about you debate the pros and cons of government reduction since that is the issue that such people are advocating?

I'm curious on the non-game advances the Wii, PS3, and XBox 360 has provided for the community.

The Wii advances via it's mass-produced controller, the PS3 advances via mass-produced mini-computer, the XBox 360... um... (need some help here).

Capitalism works well when vendors can't form monopolies easily.

Captialism works quite well when vendors can easily form monopolies, in fact this is where capitalism works best, when a vendor can crush competition force their marketshare to get bigger.

The free market does not work well when vendors can form monopolies easily. Please don't confuse the two, they are not interchangeable.

It won't be a separate model. It will be the standard model, just like Google and Gmail. The ads will be unobtrusive to the majority of consumers, but still valuable to advertisers. Google will no more offer this without personal data collection and advertising than they do Google and Gmail. Sure, they'll give you some privacy options, but they won't give you options that have a meaningful negative impact on the value of their services to advertisers.

If you run AdBlock, you are a minority. This isn't the phone for you. Since Google will control the hardware and the software, you'd have a heck of a time running AdBlock even if you wanted to. That's the point.

When you're employed as IT for the city, the mayor is about as "authorized" as you can get, considering that he's the biggest boss of them all.

Because it works with so much software. Next to that, ANSI 92 isn't important. It makes sense that Open Source could trump an Open Standard.

I'm pretty sure the right of Eminate Domain is in the Consitution, via the Fifth Amendment.

Finally working from the office, FWIW.

It's a shame the wording of the summary is wrong because on first reading it sounded like the satellite will be bathing its surrounding in infra-red light to detect nearby objects like space debris, which I thought sounded quite fascinating. Then to discover it's just an infra-red telescope made it far less interesting.

Must be hosted on AT&Ts network! Go figure!

Bill

You got the idea, while preaching means that are diametrically opposed to accomplishing it. Ideas are indeed the foundation of civilization, but it's the spread of ideas and their widespread application that induces civilization, not ideas locked up and caged and available only at arbitrary cost from their progenitor. Ownership is a fundamental aspect of individual freedom, but ownership of ideas damages societal freedom.

Copyrights and patents stifle progress and act as a brake against innovation that leads to further "upgrades" of civilization. When use of an idea that can improve my life requires a fee, I'm less likely to use it. Taken to its ultimate end, every idea that can improve my life requires a fee. How then do I live?

Sweet! Hold on, let me find my account number and PIN...

Exactly. People like myself are angry about how things are now because they are being done not just immorally, but illegally. If the government's charter were changed, then we would simply be arguing the merits of the ideas.