It just doesn't have the feeling of grandeur that watching someone hoon fifty tons of main battle tank gives you.

Whenever I hear someone pop up with the "I can easily get..." mantra to justify what they're trying to charge for something, my knee-jerk response is "Well, if you can get that much more, why aren't you selling it there?"

If they didn't limit the robots to punching each other, you'd wind up with something like "Robot Wars", and I gather that one of the primary intents was to keep the robots anthropomorphic to enhance the viewers' identification with them.

I used a wall shelf and two packs of S-hooks (Grundtal) from Ikea for the same purpose; the Grundtal shelving is five stainless-steel bars connected to end plates that fasten to the wall, so I can slide the hooks around as needed.

Even if it has the USB logo molded in, applying correction fluid or a contrasting color of craft acrylic paint across the icon, wiping off the excess to leave the paint only in the recessed icon, then letting it dry, will significantly improve the visibiity of the USB logo.

But that's why they went extinct in the first place — as Darwin's famous treatise "Oregano on Species" presented, it's survival of the tastiest. The dodo was driven into extinction because it tasted horrible with the Colonel's secret blend of herbs and spices. You don't see cows, chickens, and pigs going extinct, do…

It's 'beck and call', actually.

"If you don't like the way I'm driving, stay off the roads... and the sidewalks... and the lawns..."

More pedantically, they're initialisms, not just abbreviations, although if you pronounce NACA 'nack-ah', it becomes an acronym. Basically, if you pronounce the letters individually, (i.e., 'FBI', 'CIA'), it's an initialism; if you pronounce it like a word ('scuba', 'NASA', 'NATO'), it's an acronym.

Not to mention that, when Tex Johnston rolled the Dash 80, he had a cabin full of special guests, and by keeping a 1G barrel roll no one noticed what he was doing until someone looked out a window and noticed that the sky and ground had swapped places.

No, Batman's real power is a large-area intelligence drain. Look at all the high-tech, hyperintelligent members of the JLA... and when they get together, everyone keeps asking Batman what they should be doing.

From the Zompist Phrasebook:

The only other gas that is inherently 'lighter than air' by enough to make it a viable alternative is hydrogen... and the world has had a knee-jerk response to using hydrogen as a lift gas since the Hindenberg disaster. Other gases are usable — look at all the hot-air balloons, for example — but not with just the gas…

And remember, it's 'Talk Like a Pirate Day', not 'Swear Like a Sailor Day'.

There should be a point where the power connector for the OnStar hardware plugs into a wiring harness on the car; disconnect that and the unit has no power. I have yet to see an electronic unit send data anywhere when completely powered off.

"Historical correlation between CO2 and global temperatures corroborated by multiple separate physical studies of the Earth."

And you can read Lois McMaster Bujold's novel Memory for a look at what happens when your brain's connection to that digital storage gets damaged.

And I have a bottle opener that I inherited from my parents that wraps completely over the bottle cap, so that the cap isn't distorted when you open the bottle; the other end of the bottle opener is a 'cup' to reseal the bottle — you snap the cap back on the bottle and push the cup down over it to re-crimp the cap…

One of the remedies for the muddy flavor of tilapia that I've run across is to soak the fillets in milk for fifteen minutes before cooking.

Use touchscreen monitors for their desktops? Perhaps — right up until a new generation of computer users rediscover gorilla arm, which killed the last attempt to use touchscreens on vertically-mounted displays as the primary input option, back in the 1980s.