@AngryBeaver: Your HTML is out of date. We recommend you that you update to HTML.

In other news, IPv6 is changing its name to just IP.

@NorthernRoamer: I have a problem with mosquitoes though.

A humidor that isn't walk-in? Maybe if I were the king of Canada. This is America, buddy.

If money was all it took to smell good, then I'd loan you the cash myself!

@kalleboo: I have no clue. Maybe because it's hot as balls there and rain would make it somewhat inhabitable. Can't have that now, can we?

"...send charged particles up into the air, which attracts dust, which in turn attracts water particles..."

Oh wow. I was taking pictures Sunday night near that area. I'll have to go through my photos and see if I take around that one spot.

NASA/Air Force are always trying to explore every last option for flight. Some of my favorites include the XFY-1 Pogo, the X-14 (as I like to call it, Piggy), and X-24 lifting body, a wingless plane that used the shape of the fuselage to generate lift.

@newgalactic: The Taliban constantly tries to attack aircraft as they are landing or taking off at every airfield in Afghanistan. Rarely successfully, but they still do it. They've also been known to fire AK-47s and mortars at airliners flying at 30,000 feet.

Both the author of the article and the author of the rebuttal statements have clear, logical, concise, and unambiguous arguments, and both should be considered equally in the context of a fair debate.

@newgalactic: AA guns in WW2 were more than capable of firing over 30,000 ft and I'm pretty sure weapons technology has gotten a little better since then.

@Aristeia: I just read the original at SeattlePI, and it says there that the package was screened (under a false name), while on Giz it says the bribe was to get the package past security.

It's going to be a nightmare trying to get it into the sky undamaged. The taliban already shoot at stuff they couldn't possibly hit, so what's going to keep them from shooting at a giant, slow-moving, white blimp?

@tomsomething: A google music store is a weird idea to me. Google's never been much of a retail front, just an access provider for everything including retail. The only exception would be the Android app store, but that seems like a wild exception to Google's normal enterprising.

@Aristeia: The article mentions that the undercover official wanted the package to circumvent security. Otherwise, there isn't much of a scandal beyond a strange way to boycott UPS or Fedex.

Apple execs have talked about connectivity and the cloud being the future, but MobileMe isn't exactly the future... yet.

Which Sir Edwin is that? Was it the architect or the painter? This is very important to me, as a canned "whisky" drinker, because of some reason that escapes me at the moment (due to drinking canned "whisky").

Nearly 100% of the electricity in my area comes from the Grand Coulee Dam. Does that mean I can't buy one of these stickers? If not, does that mean I can leave my lights on all the time?

@Norbs: "Yo, baby! Beer me!"