So, describing someone in an article as “shitty”, a “terrible, borderline sociopath” and a “dick” when their company fully disclosed in as direct and upfront a manner as possible that the anonymized data they collect in exchange for people using their free service...this is okay?

Libby, you really, really wanted to be…

Vapid AND presumptive. That’s a great personality combo you got going there. No, I’m like most people: I have had good and bad stretches. Truth be told, there’s no gas in my house as we speak and I have to go buy a new water heater because the one I had just died...and I have budget enough for one of those but not…

Who said anything about a smeared reputation? Way to invent an issue where one didn’t exist simply to make a nonsensical argument.

Never said it was illegal (nor did the article). “Frowned upon” is a phrase you choose but it’s not factual for everyone involved...say, for instance, the people who needed to get places that would normally have taken a cab that day. As for “stealing their livelihoods”...uh...nope. You decide to sit out a day of…

“In January, Uber was accused of undermining a taxi strike at New York City’s JFK airport in response to President Donald Trump’s immigration ban.”

How is this an “issue”? Uber competes with taxis and if they want to hold fares hostage via a strike over their political opinions, why should Uber honor that? Hell, I’m…

Thank goodness it’s just hurdling. For a moment I thought it might be “moving at a great speed, typically in a wildly uncontrolled manner” but the professional, top shelf reporting at Gizmodo put my mind at ease.

Millions of dead South Korean citizens? So we’ve moved from discussing the “awesome” NK army to SK civilian deaths? Ooookay. I can play with those goalposts, I suppose.

How do these “millions” die, pray tell? Saddam had SCUDS he flipped at Israel but millions of Israelis didn’t die. The United States and South…

Yeah...those numbers were similar to what Saddam liked to brag about...and we have 20+ years of further experience in that debate.

The biggest problem NK’s military would present if they got into a real scrap with us would be the size of the waste and disposal task once the “battle” was done.

I’d concur on most of that stuff except for one category of events: things like when they shelled the South Korean island or sunk the South Korean naval vessel. I’m entirely down with isolating the country while doing what can be done to help their populace (which, given the iron control their government exerts, is…

I have an Alta and the only complaint about it I’d make is that the straps have a tendency to come apart. I’m on my second strap and I’ve had the device almost exactly a year now. The metal “receiver” that is glued into the rubber strap...comes unglued. I discovered this as I retrieved my Alta from a book bag. …

It’s remarkable how an article like this can even attempt to suggest that NK’s actions are somehow the responsibility of the United States. This is a country that started the Korean War, has assassinated and murdered people around the world who dared to say naughty things about their various Dear Leaders, who starves…

In addition to temperature I expect you need to take into account how rubber and plastics break down under radiation. You know how plastics fade and get brittle with time outdoors here? We have a radiation belt and much thicker atmosphere that helps screen out such radiation. Mars...not so much.

In totally unrelated news: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Alhaji Minkailu Mansaray, announced yesterday, at a press conference he held at the departures terminal at the local Sierra Leone international airport, that that mysterious Nigerian email prince finally came through for him and…

That may very well be. We weren’t discussing IF more money would be allocated. We were discussing your “how, who, why” question...not whether it’ll happen. If the world functioned on logic, it’d be a vastly different place.

I think you misunderstand the nature of the factors in play. The plane could have been brought down by terrorism. That needs to be pursued. Because the potential search areas referenced in this article are so much smaller, the costs to do so would be much less than what’s been spent to date...and if spending a…

I can think of a number of entities who would want to locate the remnants of the plane. Malaysia (it was their national airline), China (it was mostly their citizens), Australia (it appears to be closest to them), Boeing (it was one of their planes) and the passengers’ families who might could hire a private salvage…

No need. Wait long enough and it’ll find us.

I disagree. One of the major reasons we all have a President Trump to talk about is the media’s persistent and constant attempts to mix in editorial to sway the reader’s opinion when reporting news. It’s become so endemic that people don’t see it as a problem because it is the norm. The news consuming public is the…

It costs money to allocate a ship, fuel it, provision it, equip it and crew it. That cost goes up for every extra day you keep it on station performing sonar sweeps or robotic dives to examine candidate crash sites. These costs exist whether it’s a private firm doing the searching or a naval asset.

My critique to that would sound something like “if you find yourself arguing technicalities to justify an editorial decision...chances are you could be doing it better”.