@ochee_: Interesting. Unlikely to alter my leather buying habits (currently: 0), but interesting.

@ochee_: I don't know, elephant is a little appealing in its own terrifying way because your smart half knows it was probably poached and suffered greatly at the hands of the guy who's trying to sell you an elephant-leather wrapped Leica.

Ostrich leather is kinda ugly, who knew?

@togenshi: Yes, but it works both ways. The developed worlds birthrate is by and large below 2 and dropping, so it will grow by exponentially fewer people. And as the developing world follows in its footprints, the population curve will slowly level off.

@DouchieSnacks: Don't worry, we'll run out of arable land long before then and start eating people.

@ParryLost: He gives and takes.

@majornougat: Good catch

@cheesel: Back in the days of the G1 it was rumored to work like that, but since then it's lost all coherent meaning.

@IphtashuFitz: I haven't bought anything on iTunes in half a decade so excuse my french, but didn't they give up on fairplay awhile back?

@tedknaz: If you can honestly tell the difference between 256kbps MP3 and a 256kbps AAC, you're not buying your music on either service anyway.

@Baroness: You're really taking the pro-spammer position here?

@Bant: Electric Burger: All that link is telling me is that Canada had more members than other non-US countries

@improprietary: I imagine Ryanair has had a few more passengers than Soyuz over the time period.

@Seven06Renault: But we're not talking about an exact robotic replica of the human leg, just mimicking one. It doesn't need to have the same level of complexity, or to operate in the same way. It just needs to have generally the same performance.

@Bant: Electric Burger: Considering Facebook began in the US, was there ever that day?

@Seven06Renault: We already have bipedal robots, why wouldn't sprinting bipedal robots be possible? I cannot imagine that it isn't possible to, in all the ways that really matter, mimic the action of a human leg...given a few more years to hash out of a few crazy materials and some good code.

@AwokeKnowing: That is not at all what was said, and I'm not sure you could have phrased that in a more baiting-way.

@smokin3000gt: Bad logic, since you could say the same thing about any tax. No one deserves anyone else's money persay, but there's an argument to be made that we all deserve some societal support, and some people can afford to chip in more than others.

@karelj: Didn't know about that, point conceded. I guess I just have a hard time remembering there was ever a time when Iraq had any semblance of a functional air force.

@Nitesh: This was my introduction to facebook. Anatomically it may be questionable