It's less thrust than the sudden reduction in the mass of the aircraft as the retardant tanks are depleted.

"homogeneity?" Have you every actually WORKED in the tech industry? It's about as homogeneous as rocky road ice cream. I've never seen an industry more diverse.

They have a grid of icons and not much else. I think only fear of losing Office keeps them from kicking WP7 as well.

Oh noes! Imaginary sky friend slap fight throw down!

And yet the bluetooth stack is still a steaming pile of unreliable shit and has been since the Nexus 1.

" but no one will argue that it sounds just as good"

NO.

TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!

LOL Right.

I think you're discounting what they did with Avatar. It was one of the first 3D (the first?) movies to apply science to how the film was shot and composited. All the me-too follow on cash grabs just threw some 3D on the screen then went "derp derp derp" when people didn't care.

A costco pallet of twinkies.

You mean non ionizing radiation? The same as now.

Of course not! The car must be condemned based solely on rare edge-case scenarios like escaping from a soul sucking cultural cesspit.

The shuttle had about a one percent failure rate that resulted it absolute fatality. Which car or cities have that sort of commute failure rate?

USB dac + asio4all + winamp

"Deputy Westbrook will not be around much longer."

It's Teddy Roosevelt, dammit.

HMS Emo Loner

"happened in the New World, because slavery had become so much a part of the Old World that such a fundamental social change would have been impossible over there. "

Lasers would work.