@elitesoulman: You need all three. You use the sailboat to measure the radius of the earth by watching it disappear over the horizon, and the rock to measure the gravitational acceleration of the earth at its surface. Use the calendar to measure the angular velocity of the moon.

This it's actually fairly easy to do using a calendar, and a rock and a sailboat.

@salt_bagel: If you have kids, then don't buy them happy meals. Nobody else's kids are your concern.

@jskinner82: lol seriously man. and where is my freedom to be paid a million dollars a year.

@DarenTx: Would I have been able to buy a happy meal in San Fran if this had gone into law?

@salt_bagel: It is about individual freedom, because fundamentally the issue is people - individuals - making decisions about their food that a certain subgroup disapproves of. So you want the government to "help" people make the "right" choice. For their and my own benefit. Because obviously, your opinion of what I…

@DarenTx: There's nothing wrong with necessary regulation. This wasn't necessary regulation.

@charlesfro: [en.wikipedia.org]

@Gene: I went to a fast food place this afternoon, just to test this theory. It was the nearest one to where I work: an A&W. I didn't leave it squashed in a package for half an hour after receiving it.

Thank god. Sanity in California.

@anitesh.jaswal: If you want someone to take care of you, you can always just live with your parents. Don't force it on everybody else.

@SprinkLeTimeMexico: Because the government isn't my motherfucking nanny, and America is supposed to be a free country where people can choose what they want to eat.

@parachoid: This won't improve solar cell efficiency. There's a difference between absorbing and absorbing usefully, and solar cells already do a lot more of the former than the latter. This is a metamaterial effect.

@Will Richey: I don't completely disagree with you (although I don't completely agree either). However, the fact that Microsoft invested an enormous amount of effort into the development of Kinect's body recognition algorithms doesn't have any bearing on whether reading depth information is, or is not "half-assed." …

@RevProtocol: Nothing wrong with tinkering; tinkering is the only way to get from point A to point B, for any values of A and B.

And if I go to a really nice restaurant, order a very nicely prepared meal, then pack it up and take it home... it's going to look like crap.

@Odin: Indeed. If you let it sit around for a while in its packaging before taking a photo, it'll get all compacted and soggy, and the lettuce will wilt.

@szrimaging: There's life outside digital existence.

@RevProtocol: I'm not expecting anything but a slew of half-assed hacks, like this that generate initial excitement, ad-views and back-patting, but whose poor quality ultimately serves to diminish the long-term viability of the technology.

@TomServo: The butthurt is strong in this one.