But the Chrome OS hasn't even shipped yet and is viewed by many outsiders as another outlandish engineering side project.
In part, the outrage and hyperbole work because the mainstream media, insecure about their own status in an atomizing world, play into the tyranny of split-screen coverage where almost any claim — no matter how outlandish — becomes one side in "an interesting debate".
Elsewhere there is an outlandish energy to the side supplied by the likes of Marc Albrighton, Shinji Okazaki and Jeffrey Schlupp.
Therefore, the citizen bombarded from both sides with outlandish numbers about "out years" should ask: What are you going to do for me, and take from me, in the short term -- say, this Congress and the next, and this president's four-year term?
Tony Jones, Fran Kelly, Emma Alberici, Leigh Sales, Steve Cannane and Annabel Crabb, among others, are highly talented ABC journalists and are able to routinely present the "other side", no matter how outlandish, all the while maintaining the proverbial poker visage.
But despite his devilish — and undeniably outlandish — intentions, Sin bares his vulnerable side when reuniting with his long-lost sister, who is coerced into acting as bait to aid in her brother's capture.
Activists on both sides have fanned these flames, making outlandish claims (not based in fact) about what the other "side" is trying to do, and who is most victimized by current campus sexual assault adjudications.
Many are shaped like bells, but others are more outlandish: Thammayangyi is a pyramid with stepped sides like a Mayan temple's, while Ananda's central golden stupa resembles a Fabergé egg.
"The Consul" goes to any lengths, any outlandish emotive gesture, to win over our sentimental side.
