This update is worse than OSX Lion and I can't even decide not to upgrade. Feh.

Wikipedia has a good list of pros and cons. IMHO, this first-to-file thing is ripe for abuse. If you are among a team of people working on something that they intend to patent, one member could sneak off and file before the group does claiming that they had all the ideas. How do you argue against that? It's a…

I'd expand that to all tort lawsuits.

IMHO, you could go further back and blame it all on Truman. MacArthur wanted to bomb the bridges on the Yalu River because the Chinese were sending supplies to North Korea early on in the war. Truman didn't want to "offend" the Chinese. So instead of cutting off their supply lines, the North Koreans got over…

We're on an express elevator to Hell. Goin' down.

How come we haven't seen a movie about someone who might have been killed in the 9/11 attacks but went to get coffee or something and was so desperate that they decided to fake their own demise? Or have I missed something?

I'll bet that if the mosquito population were threatened, nobody would give a sh*t.

I thought it rather odd that Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio wasn't on any of the making-of parts of the DVD collectors edition until I saw a clip of her during the CPR scene where the camera ran out of film and there was a shot of the script log sheet saying she got pissed and walked off the set. So is she a prima donna…

IMHO, he got into trouble because he was a threat to church authority. The existence (if you can use that word) of a vacuum flew in the face of church doctrine that says God is everywhere. Of course, there can still be radiation and energy in a vacuum but nobody knew about such things then.

I'll bet that you could trace back Ellison's works to Campbell or Greek tragedies or Beowulf. Sure, this guy has some good stuff but he's too pretentious for his own good. I get the same feeling with Clive Cussler stories.

Well said, sir.

Damn, man, I really didn't want to know there was a term for that.

1) Stop destroying my packages and then denying the damage claim. The box was in pristine condition when I gave it to you.

How about some real-world test audio? Like if I'm driving in an 80s-vintage pickup truck that isn't filled with sound-deadening foam everywhere?

IMHO, I'd have more interest in publicly-funded science if I could participate instead of watching from the sidelines.

A modest proposal: If you're a politician and you don't know anything about something that you're planning to pass a law on, recuse yourself from the discussion and abstain from voting on it.

These are particularly nasty because they have an explosive penetrator inside. One thing I find appalling is that we aren't allowed to import the inert training rounds into the US so that military companies could find ways to defend against them thanks to ITAR restrictions. Of course ITAR doesn't stop the Russians…

It's what we call a "shake & bake" colony.

Step 1: Don't be an idiot. If you're in a wildfire prone area, DO NOT SET A SIGNAL FIRE!!!

Weeeeelll....given that the DoD went to Obama with the plan of attack and he sat on it for 16 f*cking hours and that Navy SEALs risked THEIR lives and did the deed, I'd say that the only credit Obama deserves is pulling his head out of his ass long enough to approve the mission. This piece of fiction suggests that…