That's a strange way to decide if you have the right to take your picture in front of something. I haven't personally purchased most of things that show up in pictures of me, but I don't think that doesn't make it okay to take those pictures. You don't have to own something to take a picture of it, and that isn't…

If it was a picture of a hot topless guy leaning against the car I feel safe in saying none of this would have happened.

Exactly. It seems a crazy overreaction. Hell, what kind of context are they even worried about it being placed into? Are they worried people are going to stumble across that photo, ignore what it was for, and say "oh female body...INAPPRO!"?

Thought through the possible consequences? It's one of the students posing (clothed) with a vehicle they helped build. How would you anticipate that being not okay, especially to the extent that they ban the entire 30 person team from competing when likely nearly none of them knew about this before it happened?

@erin in upstate manhattan: WTH are you on? Sarah is not "clearly" Trig's mother, have you not seen the article you commented on? If you don't agree with it, talk about why it isn't true. Don't say it's obvious when it's obviously not.

@erin in upstate manhattan: What are you talking about? The article isn't deriding anyone with Down Syndrome. It's entirely about whether or not one of Sarah's children is actually one of Sarah's children. If it turns out a kid who doesn't have Down Syndrome might not be hers but Gawker ignores it, then maybe you'll…

If anything that should mean that Texas would have gotten one. California and New York are by no means swing states: if your goal is political, why would you pander to someone you KNOW is going to swing your way? If electoral votes were at issue here the orbiters would have gone to Ohio, Texas, and Florida.

And you'd be mistaken. The UW's college of engineering, for example, worked on the Shuttle's aerodynamics and heat-absorbing tiles. And Boeing's contributions largely tie back to Seattle, being that most of its workforce is still here despite having officially relocated to Chicago in 2001. Had the Shuttle come to…

It has nothing to do with being a blue or red state: both coasts are largely blue, and where the greatest concentrations of people are. It was always presumed that one of the conditions for landing a Shuttle was in how many people would be able to visit it, which is going to favor the coasts. I disagree completely…

But don't forget that Seattle has plenty of connections to the space program as well with one of the best put together plans for a shuttle, and geographically makes a fair amount of sense, since those in the PNW would have to travel some of the farthest distances to see any of the other locations. It's all to easy to…

I wouldn't be too sure. Wikipedia places that firmly in the "conspiracy" category. My guess? Gagarin really was the first. It's hard to cover up anything, especially something that would have been as well documented as that, even IF they later tried to destroy the records.

I'm not sure what the problem is. The $199 tests came with (if I remember correctly) a $5 a month commitment for a year, which makes this more than half off. And clearly the company is experimenting with pricing to see what works, which makes complete sense because this is a totally new market to be own. What will…

The wind not always blowing isn't really a problem. The more turbines you build over a large area, the less and less likely it becomes that your overall power output is going to vary all that much. Some will always be turning, and some won't. But perhaps more importantly, no one is saying that our electrical…

The logic doesn't make sense. Saudi and Terrorist are not interchangeable words: it does not "defeat the point" because not all terrorists are middle eastern, not all of them solely believe in attacking the US (most of the bombings we hear about are in public places in the middle east, btw), and the "point" of…

Maybe they'll just put parachutes on every tenth floor. Or super huge inflatable slides. Or sleds in the stair wells.

Apply that logic to homegrown terrorists here in the US like Timothy McVeigh and see how far it gets you.

Because that happens so often...?

I wasn't saying there aren't plenty of women forced into it, just that saying most are hits me as pretty unlikely. And I can't think of any other activity where because some people don't do it by choice, it's illegal for everyone.

It also says that in the two sentence article above.

Conceptually, it really isn't very different from a smartphone getting a rough estimate of your location before GPS kicks in. It doesn't take 3 minutes to do that, only a matter of seconds. That's the reason why making calls in high traffic areas is important, since a rough location is a lot more useful if you're out…