For the same reason that "Global Warming" was changed to "Global Climate Change."

I like it. At first I thought it might go down the road of the Alien Gods raised humans to be cocooning stock for their favorite pets/war creatures but that would be predictable. This actually fits well into the Alien lore.

So, that would mean every one of their users would have to give FB about $83 to get to the $50 billion? I don't see that happening. Okay so if you applied a direct marketing rule-of-thumb that says 2% of your audience buys something. That's 12 million. Every one of those would have to spend over $4000 to get to…

I don't quite understand this business model. I have never spent a dime on anything I saw on Facebook and neither have any of my friends. Okay, so they're selling ad space. How long will it be before the advertisers decide it isn't worth it? But beyond that, it's not a public company yet and from what I read, it's…

Didn't work. Neither did the fence. Or the Border Patrol. I love how people think one border agent for every 8 miles is enough. "HEY!!! Don't make me run 8 miles to capture your illegal ass!! Wait, where'd he go?"

Expect to be shot and buried in an unmarked grave.

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It's a very distinctive smell.

Every time I try this all I hear is laughter followed by "What a geek!"

Generally very impressive but the facial styling is too Tim Burton for my taste. It also reminds me of the Puffs tissue characters. A little more originality please.

Even the H2 turned coolness into soccer-mom (not soccer MILF. Big difference).

If this system is so great, why did they waste their time putting it in an impractical chassis? Which brings me back to my original point. I don't give a crap if it got double that mileage. The vehicle isn't useful for anything. What they should have done is taken an off-the-lot F-150, ripped out the drive train…

I want one. Of course, by the time the pussies in Detroit get their hands on it, they'll water down the coolness factor so much that nobody will want it.

I'd also want to know the data on prisons in "fly-over" country or more rural locales where the percentage of black population is comparatively low.

There's a larger effect going on here as is evidenced by cops I know who escort prisoners to parole hearings or appeal trials or other places outside the prison itself. Many of the prisoners are simply incapable of taking care of themselves or don't want to. They'd rather be in prison because the basics of life are…

There seem to be a lot of Luddite-style futures and they seem to mirror the environmentalist movement currently in vogue. I can remember a time when the future was awesome. I'm talking visiting the Ontario Science Center in the mid 1970's. Everything back then made you look forward to the future. Now, science…

I played around with some of the high-end voice synthesis with different accents and to me, the female UK accent is the most pleasant and least computer-generated sounding.

IMHO, this is about as interesting to me as tilt-shift. Just how many toy train set images of real world scenes can you look at?

Unfortunately, power systems don't scale linearly.