Humanity is evolving a greater respect for life in all things - in ancient Rome a baby wasn't human until they could speak, so could be abandoned in fields until that age without stigma. Now we have multiple support and funding organizations for helping with deformed babies. Razing a city and killing its population…

Shocked by the number of thoughtful responses here. Normally this topic degenerates into awful partisan bigotry.

It's also a way to get naive young women to ignore financial and economic issues and vote against the next generation.

Most countries don't charge domestic companies anything for overseas earnings, except that which is a direct transaction. For instance, Company A sells to their subsidiary in another country the product at a transfer price, which then the subsidiary sells to the end user. In most countries, Company A pays taxes only…

Yes but the 822 won't have pureview, and "at some point" for Verizon may as well be "never". I've waited for too many phones on Verizon and been disappointed. Need to buy what's on the shelf or at least is a concrete "it's coming".

I would have liked to see more discussion of the camera. The camera on the Trophy is absolute crap, and I'm wondering if the 8X would be a giant leap forward or not, since this is my only WP8 option on Verizon. Also some discussion on how it may or may not compare to the Lumia 920 camera would be nice, so I can be sad…

I could also see this happen if T-rex was chasing a herd of triceratops. The best way to prevent a triceratops from rearing it's head around and getting stabbed from the horns would be to grab the frill from behind. Then shake the frill violently and break the neck, then potentially get the neck in a vice-grip hold in…

Could be evidence of scavenging. If the belly and legs were gone, and other predators didn't have the tools to dig into the neck, maybe t-rex evolved behaviors and tools to eat the scraps.

Where's "bigboobs"? That was always a college staple.

This is sort of my argument. They wouldn't simply launch the same iPad with lightning, since they could milk the current iPad for another 4 months and be just fine. If the refresh it, then i'd expect that refresh to include stuff to get them by for the next 8-12 months.

I'd argue they can sell as many iPads with or without a lightning connector. If it's going to be updated, I'd expect an overhaul that includes LTE, A6, the new connector, and we won't see another updated iPad for 8-12 months.

The only way I see this making sense is if they add LTE (good for carriers), and push an iPad 4 update to 8-12 months. Why go through the expense of redesigning, retooling, repackaging, etc for an incremental device that's only a few months away from a more comprehensive update. If there's an updated iPad next week,…

From a business perspective, this doesn't make sense. Why go through an entire design and release cycle just to slap a new cable interface and upgrade the chipset. I'd bet against this, if only because all that doesn't result in any new features to brag about such as better battery life, camera, NFC, wireless…

They do seem to use a bit more lowbrow language at times, although I'm not familiar with any other options that would be more thoroughly researched and backed by a sober, non-partisan look at the facts. Would appreciate any recommendations...

Couldn't agree more, it really turned in to weak sauce gossip news. I can't imagine anybody would read it on an iPad either. Contrast Newsweek with a weekly like The Economist, which offers more insight in the letters section than an entire month of Newsweek, and its hard to see why anybody would pay for their content.

Hell, controlling a car remotely by computer screen, or even letting the computer drive it while you watch, might be faster too. But not as fun.

Like others, not shocked but disappointed. I have two DX's, and used for books and legal contracts. It's almost paper size really makes a nice long document reader.

I'd be more worried about the giant monster that managed to knock out the eye of the only large monster.

This is also a bit backward, right? Someone who pays into the system (either with work, effort, taxes, etc) could be considered altruistic. Taking out more than you put in (by cheating, theft, social transfer payments, etc) is the antithesis of altruism.

This is really only part of the story. Quite a few studies have shown that humans mostly behave in a way where they want to *appear* altruistic. Having a reputation of being altruistic is more important than actually being altruistic. This was also a good read and covers a bit of evolutionary psychology (as well as…