(we already own them and new F-16s can be bought for about a third of an F-35),

Those allies don't want to buy the $3 billion air wings needed to make those ships useful.

Doesn't seem any worse than USS Enterprise or the Kennedy

College is not work. Never has been. Never will be.

He wouldn't refund your credit card? Heh. You should've hung up on him, called your CC company and have them charge him the hell back, which means he has to eat a $50-100 chargeback fee plus your refund.

Or an indirectly lit part of a room. Say, the wall opposite of your window. Sun comes in and is softened by bouncing all around. No need for an off-camera flash if you have one of those.

I though the climax of revolutions was quite clever. There's the philosophical +1-1=0 angle you mentioned. It also made a lot of sense based on what had been said up to that point (obsolete programs going to the source, the Oracle's talk on choice and seeing the future).

You can build a nuke pretty much anytime you like. They’ve actually streamlined the permitting process considerably. You just need $10 billion and 5 years to build the thing.

You don't need a nuke to create an EMP. There's pulse generators.

The military 707 is the C-137 (excepting E-3,E-6,E-8).

If there isn’t a hell, sitting in a cubicle for 16 hours straight with boss that you must worship like a deity sounds like an awfully close alternative.

Eh...modern IP law was rewritten by and for Fortune 50’s (fuck you, Disney), but the original concepts date from the middle of the last millennium. US Patent #1 was famously signed by President George Washington. The Copyright Act dates from the same year, 1790. It granted the author 14 years of ownership, with a 14…

It’s trademarks that are defend-or-end.

Damn. I really hate running.

So...you could blow up the push up test, and then tell them to fuck off for the sit-ups and running?

Or just use the snap function in Windows Vista/7/8/etc. Then each doc takes up precisely half the screen. And then when you need the full screen, you just maximize.

There are always outliers, sure. Compulsive gamblers, smokers, 7-nights-a-week restaurant diners all have expensive habits. Find any activity humans engage in and you'll find someone doing it to absurd excesses. That 5% of the population needs their own special tutorial on saving. The rest of us (particularly the…

That is probably wrong. Phthalates are classed as "anticipated to be carcinogenic" by the NIH pending additional studies. It's a toxin and, generally, anything toxic is carcinogenic at lower levels. If it can kill you, it can mutate you.

Depends. Leave a water bottle in a car on a hot sunny day and it could very well be heated to the point of leeching phthalates. Same thing if you microwave it or put it in a dishwasher when the item is not declared safe for those uses.

Dogs and cats are far more susceptible to cancer than humans. Think about it, how many 12 year old children have cancer? Thankfully, not too many. A 12 year old dog? Not that unusual.