Tech prices always go down after first adopters blow fortunes. A 26” flatscreen was $1200 in 2006.

In Germany’s defense, They weren’t the ones who started WWI, It was the Alliance system. And Germany was far from civilized and cultivated after WWI due to the massive debt they were in from the war.

Lamborghini has never set an expectation that one of their cars would retail for $20,000. OR on the other hand...

I understand that. Still, the irony is killing me.

The real question is: Is this $600 that will be $400 by xmas (or next xmas) or is is this $600 that isn’t going to come down much in the future. Unfortunately, I suspect it’s the second case because displays are so expensive and we already make millions of them a year so there is no savings from mass production.

People want the Rift and VR to be successful, which it isn’t going to be when people don’t buy it because it’s too expensive. And if people don’t buy it then developers are not going to care about making games for it... see Kinect. That is why they cannot sell it for whatever price they want.

Gernsback also proposed a monument to Alexander Graham Bell.

Because it’s so much worse than when an ICE car’s gas tank explodes. I swear, it’s a running theme every time there’s a Tesla post: someone makes a vague, underhanded your-uncle-on-Facebook kind of comment that somehow batteries make these cars more “dangerous” in some way. Come on: “cut loose?” You make lithium-ion…

well I’d say his repeated use of anti semetic slurs in his non fiction essaying means that he really was a jew hater.

I’m a local lawyer. What changed is, quite obviously, the release five months ago of the deposition of Cosby admitting “digital penetration”.

When the victim went to police, she only alleged that she had been groped. Due to the drugs, she had no idea she’d been molested. Then, the Mother was told by Cosby about the…

More distressingly, Unit 731 staff are still alive!!

They might also forget the irrelevance of deterrence, during a brief period when only one country possessed this astonishing destructive power.

I’ve heard variations on this theme. Was the U.S.—after V-E day—preferring to concern itself with the upcoming Cold War? A lengthy string of successes across the Pacific failed to bring resolution. The prospect of a murky endgame? Worse than disappointing.

Leto is about telling, not spelling. Theirs the door if you can't handle it.

Or, are THEY joking, too?

WTF? Putin doesn't already know this?

Primary target, the ICBM complex at Laputa. Target reference Yankee Golf Tango Three Six Zero. Thirty megaton nuclear device fused for airburst at ten thousand feet. Twenty megaton nuclear device will be used if first malfunctions. Otherwise proceed to secondary target, missile complex seven miles east of Barshaw.…

Chessboxing is better.

My grandfather was involved in this plan during the Cold War. His involvement (supervising and designing nuclear/missile facilities in Europe and the Middle East) was declassified partially shortly before his death recently. It was fascinating to hear his stories about Soviets trying to kidnap him, how my dad still…

Russians should be familiar with this. After all, they’ve recently had such an experience (hint: it is not WW2):