"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

@Lion_Knight: Or it could cause a brain-drain where college grads saddled with too much debt choose not to pursue the public sector because it doesn't offer a road out of near poverty. Pluses and minuses.

@Helba: Hubris is Humorous.: I'm not so sure. Farm subsidies by and large affect only a handful of crops and benefit bigger farms disproportionately over smaller ones.

@Ryodestined: Or even just have congress do it. The problem isn't a lack of representation, it's a lack of will to do anything drastic at all.

@Karlott: What I find particularly weird about it is the lack of any "tyranny of the majority," which my education has told me should be an issue in a Democracy. The uber-wealthy have somehow managed to avoid the problems the ire of the people, unlike so many other minorities. Where's the tyranny perpetrated by the…

@AkkiRonin: Because being able to mail a letter across the country for 44 cents sucks? Or have the private sector do it so I can pay more and fail to deliver to unprofitable areas of the country?

Pick a date and lets have all the Europeans celebrate the discovery of the land some of their ancestors have been living on for thousands of years. Because lord knows Columbus day makes a lot of sense here in the US.

@OtherTimes: I really hope you're joking considering he worked with SETI, wrote fiction and nonfiction books about it, and is deceased.

@liftedngifted1: If it was running Touchwiz, it would be the international Galaxy S. E.g. they wouldn't be making this phone.

@ivealwaysgotmail10: I doubt it would go away. If the ticker was at all on demand like that, then what's the benefit of it over the notification drawer? In my mind the only rational for the ticker is that it is ALWAYS there.

@sneakypoo: Most of the time when I run across one of these "back in those days" or "the youngin's today" digressions I have to cringe a bit. I'm young enough that by the time I started watching movies CGI was cheap and omnipresent, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy and appreciate the continuous attack scene in…

Well this is disappointing. What happened to the 1600x900 display option for the Envy 14?

@Akio Morita: At any given moment Japan usually holds more of our debt than china.

@snarky30: No kidding. I searched this page immediately after I saw the picture for "leslie."

@Trez: It depends on the LCD. The SLCD in particular that HTC has chosen to use instead of the previous AMOLED screens is supposed to be harder to view in sunlight.

Now to sit patiently and wait, because if history tells us anything it's only 22 years until we get to the Halo bookmarklet where you can lob sticky grenades onto a geriatric Gizmodo hologram.

@bthoefer: I'm curious, do you think this'll change in the foreseeable future? I imagine that these ultra-light bikes are both stronger and cheaper than they used to be.

And I had already accepted that US cyber defense was made up of a bunch of incompetent boobs. How am I supposed to take this?

@Brian De Leon: Going by what I've overheard in theaters after the trailer the common reaction seems to be "Huhhuh that looks so stupid Facebook is lame they might as well make a Myspace movie."

I think this was in Inception.