Another reason most uneducated people think it's an assault rifle is because they assume AR stands for assault rifle.

There would be no more speed bumps and Italy would have the highest GDP? Right?

You have chosen wisely.

2048x1536 IPS touch screen VS. 1366x768 or 1440x900 plain LED

It's not "awesome" until I can play it offline.

If you compare quarterly Surface sales to annual Pi sales, you'd be correct.

The only purpose of a hood is to keep stuff from getting in the engine bay and improve aerodynamics. If you think it adds structural integrity to the vehicle, I suggest you spend a little more time under the hood. Most hoods are attached at two points by weak hinges, real structural there. Not to mention, a common hood material is fiberglass which breaks up into shards fairly easy.

Woot! has no problem doing it, I don't see why Amazon wouldn't be able to do the same.

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You assume they'll label it as a tax. While we might call it a tax, they'll call it the Bald Eagle Investment Bureau for Environmental Restoration Act.

Yes, but the government can make it harder to import/export, and they can "encourage"(subsidize) companies that actively "drill" within our borders.

I'm not saying I'd recommend that or that it would bring prices down, but the government has more than enough power to make it happen if you buy the right congressmen.

This looks like someone tried to generate an automatic "5 Insightful" comment generator and failed miserably.

With that many monitors? Doubtful.

This argument might hold water if the other Saturn V rockets weren't also stored "out to rust in the sun" for decades before they were sheltered.

I think you mean:

Zee skeell ooff a guud cheff is nut in zee receepe-a, boot in zee ixecooshun. Bork Bork Bork!

For the cost of that laser printer's replacement ink cartridge alone, I can get a quality color inkjet WITH a built-in scanner. While I might not need color prints(nice to have just in case), I'd make the case that a scanner is mandatory in any house.