You OWE them your education, the roads you drive on, the clean water that comes out of your taps, defending your right to live in a country not being military taken over by say Mexico, the list goes on

Yes but people tend to freeze up in dangerous situations so the whole 'rushing' thing probably won't happen. It's fine and good to sit at home and be like of course, the terrorist only has 12 bullets, there are 50 of us, so of course we'll all rush him. But when you're actually there, and while the maths is the same,…

Battery life, portability, plus where I am the lecture halls have no or very iffy wifi connections, so the data connection on my ipad is perfect. (for looking up references, etc.) plus the lack of true multitasking capabilities actually helps you focus. Also if you've actually tried taking notes in school on any…

Actually a roundtrip first class ticket now from london to tokyo is $33,000. (I know bit further but at the time, london - new york was probably the furthest you could go, similar to london - tokyo nowadays.

Well it is, but rather you shouldn't think of 'replace' as in that tablets will completely perform every function that desktops did, but replace in the sense of how cheap point and shoot digital cameras have replaced film (or even slrs). There will always be professional photographers and 'enthusiasts' who insist on…

I thought it's also because of supply chain issues. You could hire workers in the US to assemble all the parts together for just $65 more...but all those parts are found in china/asia so there'd be an even higher cost associated with shipping all those parts across the world, for an american worker to assemble at an…

That's not really true - Texting is faster for the receiving party -> Everybody's reading speed is faster than speaking speed - and that's not to mention the need to repeat things often i.e. "what was that phone number again? 510 53...no it was 35? so 350, why don't u start again" or repeating addresses or having to…

I know that 90% of the time all we do is word processing and movies, but it's still good to have the option for that last 10%. It's why they are supposed to plan highways/phone networks for the 10% of the time when everyone's using it. Even if not on a regular basis at some point you'll want to run ur pictures through…

15*4 = 60 days, 9 months = 270 days. Even taking into account the larger labour pool (which is in itself a large advantage, it doesnt completely explain why its easier to hire in china. Simply put there are more engineers as a percentage of the workforce in china as in america, which makes it easier to hire better…

Blue moon is shit compared to a real belgian beer. Plus, they rely on sexist discriminatory advertising in addition to making shit beer so I pretty much have a list of all the beers millercoors brew and refuse to buy/drink them all. I can understand making tasteless, low-alcohol swill - but then to have the audacity…

Does that work if I just use my email for comments, rather than signing up for account via facebook/twitter? Actually on that...can I still get starred accounts etc. if I just stick with email only?

There's a difference between a character who is indestructable simply by virtue of his body, literally indestructable, vs. a character who is 'technically' indestructable because you know the story revolves around him.

I used to dislike Lady Gaga too - the music was catchy, but the lyrics were never just simple standard song material, and her over the top dressing sense etc.

Actually this model seems closer to a consortium formed to create a standard, rather than 'destroying a financially viable market place'. It's kind of like manufacturers teaming up to create the USB standard or CD standard, just in this case it's an 'android standard'. Sure USB may have 'killed' the market for 20…

I know but that's a particular unique way of doing that process, the metal compound. The equivalent of this would be a patent on...welding the edges of hammers full stop, not just the metal compound.

Umm wth did that anti-chinese rant come from? There aren't any major Chinese (and I'm assuming you mean PRC) android phone makers. HTC is Taiwananese, and the biggest android phone makers are probably Samsung and Motorola (Korean and American) Most of the parts etc. are made by Koreans, Japanese or Taiwanese firms,…

wait it was just 4 years ago in 2007? Why isnt that still a couple of years ago?

I just stick to imported beers, generally if it's good enough for them to ship it over to the US- it's probably decent enough, and generally european countries have had such a long tradition of beer-brewing that the average one beats out most US ones. I know there are microbreweries in the US which are excellent, but…

You can try using half the spice packet? Actually my girlfriend picked up these other ones from a korean supermarket called Shin Ramyeon Black. It's the same noodles, but a substantially better broth mix. There's too mixes, one of which is the spicy one, the other is this beef stock style. So you get a mildly spicy…

Umm that is a very ignorant/sexist thing to say...everyone gets lonely sometimes...and especially your comment about 'acceptably attractive ones' Are you saying that women that don't fit your arbitrary designation of attractiveness don't matter and deserve to be lonely? And you know...the same thing applies for guys…