"Ken Barbee (whose parents evidently hated him with a passion)"

Does it come with an elven dagger that glows when orcs are around? Because I'd buy it in a heartbeat then.

So how many of those knives and firearms were in the possession of people who actually had the intention of using them to do bad things on the airplane? Zero? So what's the point?

I seem to remember at least one person dying from this (because he did it during a rain storm and drowned).

A friend of mine bought one when it came out. Beautiful machine. It's amazing how many iconic designs came out of Apple. I particularly like the Cube and the iLamp (which I handed down to my parents and is still in active use, running Leopard, a decade later).

Newsflash: it was hotter during the Medieval Warming Period.

Historically, China simply didn't give a shit and didn't do anything to combat rampant knockoffs. However, since China's entry into the WTO, the government has had to start giving a shit, because letting everything go the way it had been will get China kicked out of the WTO. So they care more now than they used to,…

We had a good theatrical distributor as well (Abramorama) and were able to play in 29 markets in 2009/2010. Pretty good for an indie documentary, but DVD sales is where you recoup the money.

No, don't move here! It really, really sucks! Don't do it!

I feel your pain. I especially feel your pain while we are still working on recouping the $300,000 spent producing an award winning indie documentary that hasn't yet had the good fortune of going viral like the Polish bros film has.

I've been in IT since before the web. Get off my lawn.

Go look up the prop 13 revenue charts vs. spending.

We actually didn't. The revenue generated by Prop 13 has increased on a significant growth curve since it was passed. Our problem is that spending per capita grossly outstripped it.

The pictures were in their email accounts. He logged into their email with their phished passwords, grabbed the pictures, then logged into their FB accounts and posted them there.

I shudder to think where he would choose to strap it.

He got the house for nothing (or, at worst, $16, if they counted the filing fee as the purchase price). If he were in CA, that would mean zero property taxes. As this is in Texas, not sure how they will assess the value of the house.

The video really ginned up this story.

This would have made the Sand Pebbles engine accident scene even gruesomer.

Depending on how discreet a discrete card could be, maybe they could have. But I assume that today's discrete GPUs aren't discreet enough to do it.

I happen to like glossy.