"...had the Globe reporters not started snooping around, we wouldn't have known engineers and even members of the local government were covering things up, not reporting their findings or ineptly dragging their feet:"

I don't get it. The whole point of the camera phone is its convenience. It's a great camera because it's the one you always have with you. You always have it with you because, a. you need to take your phone and b. it's small, lightweight and just easy to stick in your pocket.

Eh, I got out of Atlanta because of how poorly the city was run. I wouldn't really put the cops in that basket though. They probably had one of the toughest jobs since no one at city hall would back them up.

I completely support subverting these types of contest for the simple reason that I wish the format of these shows would die a quick and painful death.

I find it a dark and scary road to always give the government the power to decide what is needed, what is good for society and the power to pass judgement on all things that will "raise society up" as you put it.

Yeah, I am pretty much sold into the whole Apple ecosystem (grew up in graphic design and desktop publishing so I even lived through the horrible years of the 90s).

Nothing happens to it. The reason that the nook is a better (or more agile if you prefer) book reader than Kindle is because you can purchase books from just about any ebook store, except Amazon's.

This sort of reads like the beginning of a Smokey and the Bandit sequel.

I'd like to see the guy's tape measure that has cubits on it.

When I was in my twenties I did not have a land line.

I used to own a condo where I live. I absolutely prefer that style of living over having a house with all of the maintenance and upkeep you have to stay on top of.

Decapitation was not his punishment for smoking in a non-smoking area.

It stems from the original meaning of faggot, which is kindling.

Sounds to me like he doesn't particularly like giving tickets and was just trying to make decent conversation to distract himself from his crappy job. I'm guessing he is ordered to do it in order to raise revenue and he was making conversation to get through his day.

Generally speaking, negative stereotypes of the U.S. south, especially the southeast, is the last universally accepted attitudes of bigotry it seems.

Agreed. I have a GTI and it is a lot of fun.

It's actually even worse than this. The bailouts are, obviously, given to the companies that the government chooses to name, "Too Big To Fail."

I think the main problem with all of this is that people will always find an excuse to think that any rules don't apply to them.

Taking away the arguments for cost, whether this will scratch the phone, whether the case itself will get scratched/dented, or whether the case will kill the radio/wifi signal I would say that the placement and size of the logo on this thing makes it look tacky.

I don't doubt that the day is coming when we will have to pay sales tax on all purchases, regardless of online or in person. I don't think this one will make it this time though. The Fed govt can't seem to agree on anything right now.