@Prismatist steers with his right foot: By an order of Congress, the Iowa class battleships have to be maintained in a state from which they can easily be reactivated, unless the Navy gets a ship that can deliver the same punch.

@brianbeatdown @TheCrudMan @unsungfame @Link2187 @king601 @Vaatikaiba: Ah right. Guess I just didn't RTOFA...

Is that a zoom key in place of the caps lock?

Mom?

When they announced the retirement in 2003, Richard Branson offered to buy the entire fleet at market value, and have them profitable within a year. BA refused.

@Matat: The Third Man will take on a whole new meaning...

@RB26Skyline: Hey, don't knock drifters...

@Coneaz: Because then no one with diabetes could drive...

Who stole his underpants?

@hardeho: Luminol is real. Spray it on, glows blue with blood.

@CeliaHodes:

@Whack-a-mole: Agree completely. If he raced in a "VERY WEAK" era, what does that say about the author's opinion of drivers such as Hill, Villeneuve, Montoya or Hakkinen?

@vicariousrider: Every F1 driver that's driven it since it was banned has come away raving about the grip.

@BLeyland: I was thinking Mini Moke...

This makes my decision to live forever problematic.

This isn't really new. ROM cooking has been around for many years with Windows Mobile, the hotbed being xda-developers.

I'd probably be working for the Miami-Dade CSI...

@Mr. C: Wow, hadn't heard about hime being knocked out - must have been a bigger shunt than it looked.

He's just disappointed that it didn't burn so he could put it out singlehanded again...

@bibulb: Maybe unique wasn't the right word, but it's definitely distinct from the much more common "generic shots of characters and footage from previous episodes" style of sci-fi opening.