What do they do in more rural areas where there aren't city blocks?

It's not a problem with the tools, it's a problem with the infrastructure. The laptops work fine, but there is no battery on earth, even in developed nations, that lasts indefinitely. The issue is that billions of people are living without regular access to electricity (and clean food, water, medicine, etc.), not that the laptop program has flaws.

My father-in-law (a consummate geek) gave all of his children pi plates last Christmas. Ours are for dessert pies, though, not pizza pies.

It's used for constructing fences (barbed wire, split rail, etc.)

90%! The only one I didn't get was the one about Proust. I've read seven of the books, the other ones were educated guesses.

It's not only about the fate of the pirates, it's about what we as a (global, industrialized, etc.) society choose to endorse and condone as acceptable behavior. It's a matter of ethics.

Hyperbolic trolls aside, I am interested in learning more about both sides of the issue.

"I see the government flipping out because children are serving alcohol."

It's the Church of England. The kids GET alcohol with communion.

Something definitely needs to be done about the pirates, but doesn't this seem like they're basically allowing rich people to hunt down other humans for sport? The organizers figure that no one's going to care if they knock off a few pirates, and the Somali government's hardly in a position to intervene.

This reminds me of those people who go on "big game hunts" where animals are tranquilized beforehand so that they can kill them easier. Only in this case the surety is provided by the ex special forces guys. How is this different than the Roman executing people as public sport?

It's illegal to get face (and sometimes hand) tattoos in many places in the U.S.

I love the coat that the Emir of Bukhara is wearing in one of the pictures. I think the perception of the past being in black and white or faded colors isn't just because of black and white photography, but also because old paintings, color photos, and artifacts have faded with time. What you see in museums had been degraded by sunlight and time, and I think that really affects what we imagine the past to have looked like.

"I’m glad she waited for an explanation before completely freaking out in public."

Yeah, because I'm sure he had a completely reasonable explanation. Like, he was sitting in a bar and this girl walked up behind him and needed a place to rest her naked cleavage. Sure.
And no, just because it happens at a bachelor party with a stripper doesn't mean that it's not cheating.

The first thing I thought was how useful it would be for camping. My second thought was that you must get pee on yourself when you remove it. Ew.

The metal also needs to be soft enough for them to do fine tuning and shaping of the pipes- at least according to the Dirty Jobs episode where Mike works with an organ cleaning company.

Look, I hear this argument all the time, that it's cheaper to eat unhealthy than it is to eat healthy. It's NOT. Yes, it takes much more work to make a healthy meal from scratch using raw materials, but if you're feeding more than one person it's cheaper to cook a meal than to buy frozen dinners or fast food. You can buy a 20 lb bag of rice for $5, potatoes for 60 cents a pound, flour a dollar a pound, carrots a dollar a pound, etc. Raw, in-season produce is not that expensive, even in places that have to truck it in (like where I live). Yes, meat and dairy are expensive, but most people should eat less than they do anyway.

From the design and apparent size, it looks like it's intended for young children. Some kids, no matter how good the parents are, tend to wander away or bolt after things. It can be scarily easy to lose kids in a crowded place. The host of 'America's Most Wanted' had his little boy kidnapped from a mall and murdered- back in the 80's some of you are nostalgic for.