It doesn't matter if the photographer thinks his photo is worth more than it is actually worth. If you don't want to sell you car to me for $50, even though that's the most I can afford, I can't just steal it and say, "it's too hard to pay, and anyway it isn't worth what you think it's worth."

I wonder if this concept could be made better by using a laser instead of ink (to burn in text), and using the freed up space to make the battery bigger.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work quite so well in every profession, e.g. the legal profession. You can (probably) find a job no matter what your grades, but it will be a lot harder and probably won't pay as much.

That was kind of a joke, but even if eating plants directly would be mathematically better because the total number of beings eaten would be lower, eating something that can think isn't that much better, morally, than eating something that can think that ate something that can think.

I still can't get through the Fellowship of the Ring (book). The Hobbit was great, and I liked the LotR movies, but I've tried to get through that book at least four times over the last twelve or so years and I just can't do it.

Well, yes. I've always been of the opinion that voice commands are only truly useful if they don't require any physical interaction with the device at all. The Google Now Launcher is a step in the right direction for Nexus devices, but the future of voice control has to be more along the lines of Motorola's Touchless…

Actually, I use Touchless Controls on my Moto X all the time, not only while driving. Basically, any time my hands aren't free, or even any time I just don't want to bother picking up my phone and tapping around to find the app/contact I want, voice commands are very useful.

The best (only?) use I've been able to come up with for this would be one OS for work and one for personal use. Still not a fantastic use case, and I'm still a bit befuddled by this.

Is the selective focus a software thing, or is this camera based on the Lytro (something I find kind of unlikely)?

Can't disagree with you there, I have the same problem with swipe typing on the Google keyboard. Sometimes it works perfectly and other times it thinks I meant random collections of letters that don't form any words I've ever seen before. That being said, I usually get decent results from voice typing if I speak…

You can also use Android's voice typing with the note-taking app of your choice.

I somehow doubt that it is the inclusion of "tiny precious and semi-precious gemstones" that bring the price to such an (pardon the pun) astronomical amount. Even if all of the stones were tiny diamonds that still wouldn't even come close.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here and that I'm not saying anything no one had said many times before but does no one see that we need to put more money into becoming a space-faring race?

I still want to actually see what they look like up close already. Come on, NASA!

Let me be sure that I understand you correctly. You're saying that our rights are meaningless if not already universally enforced, that it is better to allow the people who work for us to violate our rights than to force them to come up with a solution that doesn't because coming up with an alternative might be…

What? No. It's their job to come up with a way to protect us that doesn't violate our rights. That's why we pay them with our tax dollars.

I actually think that that quote is pretty timeless. You're basically assuming that the NSA spying is 1. necessary for our protection; 2. that that which it protects us from will eventually end; and 3. that once the threat ends, we will get our rights back. To argue that that quote no longer applies is to essentially…

Well the researchers found the sweetener in tap water that was derived from sewage treatment plants, which seems to imply that it's mostly the same water that was being recycled in that particular area, that's what triggered the thought.

Wait a minute... If acesulfame potassium never breaks down in the environment, isn't it conceivable that all tap water could eventually have ridiculously high (enough to taste) levels of the stuff?