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Correction: they're legally required to give it to you - if you ask.

Counterpoints: http://en.velib.paris.fr/ http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/14808.aspx http://www.citybikes.se/en/ http://www.dublinbikes.ie/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bix…

It might be possible: it doesn't cost anything to publish to the Little Printer, anyway. Publishing app specification dox here http://www.bergcloud.com/download/Little_Printer_Publ…

All of you talking about this as a printer appear to have missed the point very slightly. This isn't a general purpose printer, its more like a personalized newspaper producer. Edi…

You're thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...

Note: I am NOT claiming this is easy. It's incredibly hard. But nothing else works .

Well in that case, you've got big issues with the science curriculum, and that might be a better place to start...

I said he was one of the commanders of a guerilla army committed to the destruction of a country he now is Deputy Prime Minister of. If he is no longer a member of the Army Council…

Well, history says different, and how things actually happened tends to have more weight than theoretical speculation about a perfect employment market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Ballistics is occasionally interestingly counterintuitive, but perhaps that was overkill. Bully for you. But it's the idea of prioritizing what is essentially a technician's job (y…

Point of information: the world population is currently predicted to peak at 11 billion, due to the rest of the world going through demographic transition. So not ever-growing - th…

So you think schools should teach programming over fundamental science ? As a very learned person said, "[physics] runs the shit that runs the shit that runs the shit that runs you…

When a terrorist hate group is the elected government of the Palestinian Authority, we expect you to deal with them as the elected government. Not to like it, but to do it. Martin …

What about biological production of plastics? Or bioinfomatics or computational biology, where they're understanding current biology, not engineering new stuff? You've discarded al…

It's a Red Queen Race: everyone's running as fast as they can to stay in the same place - and burning cash by the ton to do so. Red Queen races tend to be good for advancing the st…

Accepting "education is for a job" in the first place: you're lining your kids up to chase the biggest growth area of the last 20 years, when biotech is likely to be the most succe…

Why do you think the world hates them, then? (aside: There's a long distance between "please stop allowing or encouraging your government to treat other human beings in this terrib…

Thus the confusion. ",)

Was this not previously titled "first panorama...," or am I losing grip on reality? I admit to either being possible.

I am being paid a number of arbitrary denominators of value per time period. Government declares that the arbitrary denominators of value now buy half the number of a different arb…

Nope: http://www.amazon.com/Mars-Uncovering-Secrets-National-Geogr... published by the National Geographic from Pathfinder images in 1998.

Well, it would signal seriousness about a two-state solution (how is this http://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/westbank.... ever supposed to be a country? It's been a…

It's the expansionism, and the dispossession of Palestinians that requires, that gets all activists of my acquaintance _really_ het up. Why exactly all the settlements in the West …

You want pithiness AND accuracy? What next, blood? :-) But yes, you're entirely correct.

You have access to infinite payphones just outside your door? More seriously: what's wrong with asking developers to think about what their creations are enabling?