@Eustace Silly: You said it. The very best chefs use two, at most three knives in their entire arsenal. A santoku (or equivalent) and a good paring knife. Anything more is a masturbatory exhibit of hardware.

@Zanzan42: 1. Don't propose unless you already know the answer.

@OMG_cartman: Gates never went to PARC. Jobs did, asked them why they weren't developing it further. Xerox management wouldn't support it, so Jobs took the ball and ran.

Once again, Darwin delivers the verdict...

@Cheeseslap was scolded for driving his ACR in the snow.: Agreed, and thank you for pointing it out. The first time I saw the production version I thought, "I've seen this already, in about 10 different cars." Bits n' pieces of Saleen S7, F430, R8, NSX, even the aforementioned Kia. A sexed-up revision of the F1…

The original C111 was my all-time favorite Corgi car...

@Fractal the Meek: You guys beat me to it, but thanks. This puerile crap appears far too often in the work of "journalists." Whaddya say we LEARN the fucking language before we make a paycheck by employing it?

@Geisrud: Not an expert whatsoever, but wouldn't your first point be addressed by a force-feedback sensor, like the ones used in no-pinch power windows? If an obstruction were detected, the thing would simply stop and you could climb down normally.

@MifuneT: I don't think your questions are loaded at all, and you're no more ignorant than pretty much the rest of the world. Whose response to a situation like this has been, and will continue to be:

On the subject of snowflakes, here is probably my favorite Calvin and Hobbes strip...

@M0R94N: This was the one I used. The only person who teased me about it was my sister: instead of "The Flying Sub," she called it "The Sighing Flub."

Purely out of curiosity:

@chucchinchilla: Wow, thanks. What a beauty.

Is it not obvious?

@Triborough: Here's what's missing:

@my name is jonas: Well put. Ask most self-made wealthy people, and they'll tell you: they didn't want to HAVE millions of dollars...they wanted to MAKE millions of dollars. The fun was in the doing. Ask most people who inherit their wealth, and it's precisely the opposite.

@mangonights: "I think the surest sign of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is that it hasn't tried to contact us."

Steve McQueen was an intermittently talented actor and a genuine car enthusiast. He was also an inveterate drunk and a drug-sucking asshole who put innocent lives at risk, because lots of shitheads told him he was "cooler than you" and he believed them.

To all the B&O haters out there, the company has always made some authentically audiophile-quality equipment (read any review of their current BeoLab 5, or their automotive systems). Yeah, it's probably more expensive than it needs to be, but the company can deliver superb sounding gear.

@Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake!: You know, that's actually a JVC RC838 he's carrying...one of the sweetest sounding boomboxes ever created.