Humans are always allowed to call. Where would we be if we couldn't, enk?

She didn't get exposed to gamma radiation, she got a transfusion of Bruce Banner's gamma-exposed blood; that would drop her potential exposure considerably, at least for her origin. However, there are so many superheroes, male and female, that have been exposed to high levels of radiation over the course of their…

Ask almost any recording artist and they will tell you that they make their money from tours and merch, not album sales.

From searching for references, a clutch-activated supercharger was one that was normally disconnected from the engine, thereby avoiding wear on the supercharger when there was no need for extra power, then activated by a switch or lever operated by the driver that would engage the clutch to spin up the supercharger…

Can't be done with the technology as it exists now; the hardware captures one scan line at a time, so they have to use a scene that's completely reproducible over and over again so that the entire image can be built up one scan line at a time.

From the video, there are joysticks on each handrest.

If I remember correctly, the 'you only use 10% of your brain' came out of a period when the sensitivity of the tools that were available for detecting brain activity couldn't pick up most of what went on inside people's heads — and therefore, if they couldn't measure anything going on, there wasn't anything to measure.

The Kindle Fire runs Android. The Kindle, Kindle 2, Kindle DX, Kindle 3, and Kindle Touch all run a proprietary OS.

And didn't Amazon also announce that they're expanding their cloud farm? Load on the cloud servers is far and away the most plausible cause for a slowdown.

I think 90% is high, IF, a lot of the musical equipment is being supplied by the record label, as well as management with shows and that.

Then the royalties start rolling in. The label takes a big chunk off the top. Then takes out more to recoup the money for the studio, engineers, graphic artists, printers, advertising, distributors. All those gifts the label "bought" for them, also get taken out of the artist's cut of the royalties. In the end, the…

I'm surprised you left out Heinlein's I Will Fear No Evil and Justin Leiber's Beyond Rejection, the former involving a surgical brain transplant into a female body, and the latter a recorded backup of a personality restored into a body mindwiped by low-metabolic suspension.

The exploding coal trick was recycling prior usage; the 'coal torpedo' was invented by Capt. Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay of the Confederate Secret Service, to be insinuated into coal bunkers to cause boiler explosions in steam locomotives and steamships. Similar devices were used after the war — unscrupulous shipowners…

During WWII, the Allies tested a program to use clapped-out B-17s and B24s loaded with explosives and flown by remote control into targets in Germany; the program failed due to the primitive nature of the television and radio control technology, but not without some spectacular failures. It was discovered that it was…

I would have to go digging for it, but I believe someone's already done that — set up a fake ATM that took your card, let you enter your PIN, kicked the card back with an error asking you to start over, then after the second try announced a 'failure' and 'closing' — and if you entered the PIN the same both times, it…

It's not cheaper to make a cup narrower at the bottom than the top, it's necessary. There's a reason why cups are tapered the way they are — the mandrel on which they're finished.

Whenever I see the term "thumb drive" used, I think the person using it is probably illiterate.

I'm reminded of the times I've gotten blindsided by the locomotive on the "Well" map in Team Fortress 2.

Or this version, illustrated by Michael Linsner.

We may not have achieved 'richer', but from all the idiocy I see on the news every day I submit that we've fulfilled 'denser' with a vengeance.