Because if the art is too good, you can't just say, "all of this will be clearer once you sign over the check and we build the prototype." And when the prototype is half baked, you can then say, "You're already 5 billion into the project, and another 3billion in funding will see it through, so why not just sign over…

Precisely. Bill may have correctly predicted the rise of the tablet as a dominant & desirable platform, but what he got wrong was his prediction that Microsoft was at all competent & capable of executing that vision.

Interesting, thanks! And yeah, it's pretty awesome that pretty much anyone can now data mine the surface of the planet for this type of thing.

That's true, which means the thieves have abilities beyond what I originally considered if they can manipulate light and shadows outside of what the laws of physics tells us should be possible.

Well, it's not a really a fake book though, is it? It has actual content, no matter how tongue-in-cheek the intent may have been.

Well, it's not a really a fake book though, is it? It has actual content, no matter how tongue-in-cheek the intent may have been.

This is part of why I get extremely annoyed at family functions and holidays when people insist on taking up large chunks of time posing for photos.

Hmm... to me, those look like depressions, not mounds. Which means... the ancient pyramids were STOLEN!!!

It's photoshopped, I can tell from the pixels.

It actually sounds very "Count of Monte Cristo"

Just because this can be categorized as them "thinking different than you do" or as an "opposing viewpoint" doesn't mean that it is not also bigoted. Believing that black men not only shouldn't marry white women (as well as codifying it in law in some places) and should be lynched for it was also an opposing…

So Samsung has a ruling that states its product is legally less cool than Apple's. Apple has to perform a little bit of public self-shaming. Sounds like a lose/lose for everyone involved. If only more patent disputes ended in this way, perhaps there'd be fewer frivolous ones to start.

Your sentence construction here is awkward and ungrammatical. I generally ignore many rules of grammar myself, but in this case you have done so to the detriment of readability.

Except the letter writer makes the same mistake he accuses the food critics of making, assuming everyone likes their food the sames way: " Except for most greens, foods are best with a crust and a thoroughly done interior. That is the best texture."

Truly fantastic, Golden Fleece seems to have had brief distribution in northern NJ about 2 years ago, but despite frequent searching and attempts to special order, I'm now left with only memories...

I'm glad I checked before posting to see if someone had already said the exact same thing

Off topic, but the nature of this question means I have no good place to ask it: What's with the disappearing stories? A few times a week, I open Gizmodo articles from google reader only to find them missing/deleted, with only a google cache remaining.

Which means SOMEONE in the town must have known what it was. Imagine their embarrassment when something they though was silently disposed of becomes the center of news story that proceeds to go global.

Only when he takes on the form of limestone.

Well, for the initial withdrawal at least, he didn't "decide" to take the money. He accidentally asked for too much, and BoA, via faulty algorithms or some sort of glitch, "decided" to give the man what he asked for.