For linear acceleration, yes, but for rotational acceleration it's really only hair cells in the ampulla of the semicircular ducts.

Agreed. But, you know, thinking about the environment requires, uhmm, thinking, and for most people that's a terribly inconvenient thing to do.

...for the Midwest you need to also implement 'pothole rapid avoidance' programming, as well as a 'flipping-off-the-Ford350-dual-tire-guy-who-cuts-you-off-just-to-show-who's-boss-in-the-carstate' mechanism.

It's kind of hard mapping all the rest of the ocean, you know... It's wet, dark, no wifi, and no beer.

Question now is how the inventor of animated gifs gets killed. Because he MUST be killed.

Me too. Now - does 'knowing' you make me un-weird (and vice versa)? After all (-) x (-) = (+).

Yeah.... riiight.

I don't think that has to do anything with being picky. It's more about producing something which is 'good'. If you're in the writing business, do it well, both in terms of your research, and your grammar, and spelling. Just because it's free, it needn't be shoddy.

You forgot the Autobahn, as well as Kaffee und Kuchen.

Shouldn't a place like this be in Florida?!

'Works absolutely anywhere' - hmmm - have to give this a try, so let's put this.... OUUUUCH!

+1! And it does look utopian!

This Gary Larson cartoon comes to mind...

Walk across any campus nowadays: what you see - each and every student looking always down at a phone, texting while walking/talking/eating - is even more ridiculous than (the relatively few) people using these olden day bricks...

For anyone interested - here's a link to an installation in a church in Germany that plays John Cage's 'Organ2/ASLSP'. It's going to take 639 years to play the piece!

'Animal vacuum'? Can it suck cats from sofas? Is there room for a poodle in the bag?

Probably would not work under these circumstances.

So that the enemy thinks he has to deal with the Swedish chef.

"Candy company"? How darest thou? It's not 'candy' - it's chocolate, divine German chocolate! And, as the slogan says, it is 'Quadratisch - praktisch - gut'.

"monocle-wearing oil barons": couldn't help, but this came to mind.