Road construction is largely privatized and the unions have little influence. Construction companies, on the other hand...

The construction companies which build our roads are not interested in your idea of roads that last longer.

"Spry"? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

It just comes in black now, but they're going to make a really big deal out of it next year when they release a white version after many delays.

Why would G4 be responsible? The production company should be if it was their helicopter (which is not at all clear from the wording of the article). Networks always require that productions be insured before work starts.

I know her name. She's Mom Biddle.

Haha! My mother does the same thing. She will actually copy and pages of text from NOAA weather reports and paste them into SMS and send it to me. I don't have time to read through it, of course, so when I get around to asking what the point was I'll get a simple "I just wanted to let you know it might rain where…

Giz is going to write stories about topics that interest their readers. If Osama stories are getting the pageviews and generating comments (which lead to repeated pageviews) then they'll keep it up. You have given them a pageview (by reading a story you knew you had no interest in) and have added a comment saying…

Hmmm...moved to Sandybridge...upgraded processors...upgraded display controllers...added a blindingly fast new port design. Yep, nothing new or improved here.

"Ever notice how many cars drop out of the average NASCAR race? It's a lot like that." In general, you're right that high performance machines are more prone to failure because they are used close to their limits, but the high dropout rate of cars in NASCAR also has a lot to do with the economics of racing.

No company in the US wants to be in the business of providing inexpensive medical services. Doctor's offices are designed for consultations and very simple diagnostic services. Hospitals are designed to deal with serious surgeries, sophisticated diagnostics, and true emergencies, which can all be very expensive. …

Probably because their licensing agreement allowed them to use it in this way without additional fees. DLC is essentially an extension of the original product so this is just further CoD:BlOps promotion and not a distinct product. My bet is that there was a blanket right to use the song for all CoD:BlOps ads. …

The writing and storytelling were pretty mediocre, I'll agree, but you're criticizing the basic rules of zombiedom. If a writer is going to change those kind of things, you'll just get a zombie Twilight. The shifts in zombie rules are slow and reflect the fears of society. Zombies have gone from supernatural…

The internment camps during WWII did an awful lot to uproot and scatter the Japanese-American communities that did exist and post-war life in America had all Americans moving around more than ever before which limited the creation of new communities.

Except that the corporation providing the network connection has been granted a limited monopoly and various exemptions and easements required for doing business. In exchange for that, they have always had to abide by "common carrier" status, meaning they cannot favor one type of traffic over another. This didn't…

HDMI cables are very short. Except for the long ones. [www.monoprice.com]

That social baggage doesn't export. Jalop's just about the hardware.

Contracts, brother, contracts. Everything we hate about the way entertainment is delivered is usually dictated by contracts between the property owner and those who have traditionally delivered it to us.

I'll bite. It's a very dramatic series of fantasy books. The writing isn't great and the characters have lines like pompous Medieval Times actors, but the story is really fun and engaging. Lots of intrigue and twists. Tons of characters all scheming against one another across generations. It's also one of the…

The problem is that you can't get HBO without going through an approved carrier. Cable carriers have HBO locked into them so you won't see HBO service unbundled from other cable channels anytime soon, which means you'll be paying an additional $75/mo. on top of HBO's $15 to get things like HGTV and Lifetime.