Comment Re:Out of State Driving Trips (Score 0) 837
What about out of state drivers driving on Oregon roads.
Comment What about out of state drivers (Score 0) 837
They also use Oregon roads but do not contribute.
Comment Re:SCOTUS (Score 0) 299
Why cannot one use "SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the US)" then use SCOTUS all you want after that. To many acronyms are being thrown out.
Comment Re:For these people ... (Score 0) 268
...and Jazz.
Comment Re:Music (Score 0) 268
When my wife watches a movie the sound track is very important her. She will ask me after the movie how I liked it and my response is "was there music?" I am also in the 1-3% group and people think something is wrong with me...
Comment Re:Lets Hope So! (Score 0) 323
14 days does not work for me. I need more time to read a book. And can I give a book to someone like I can a real book?
Comment Re:Sure... (Score 1) 323
And because I am an old fart, I can increase the font size on ebooks so I do not need to use glasses. Can not do that with a regular book. And as I get older the print seems to be getting smaller.
Comment Vote by mail. (Score 0) 93
Want to get turnout up then try vote by mail. Works great in Oregon.
Comment Re:Control (Score 0) 416
How many people are swiming in shark infested water and how many are in a car or in car infested land. I never worry about a shark attack when in a car and never worry about a car accident when swimming in shark infested water...
Comment Re:Favorite Comic (Score 1) 321
XKCD has my vote...
Comment Re:coincidence (Score -1, Redundant) 104
I know it is a joke, but Boeing's customers are other airlines which do treat passengers as sacks of potatoes...
Comment Re:That's nothing (Score 0) 216
>>>Barack Obama is already "punished" the banks who stole your money--with bailouts, jobs in his cabinet, and sweetheart deals that absolve them of mortgage fraud. That'll teach 'em!
Jobs in the cabinet - yes
Bailout - that was Bush
Comment Installed a Safe ROM (Score 1) 249
I have wiped my Android and installed a ROM that is known to be safe.
Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought 451
drewtheman writes "New studies of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park shows the plume and the magma chamber under the volcano are larger than first thought and contradicts claims that only shallow hot rock exists. University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies that verify a plume of hot and molten rock at least 410 miles deep that rises at an angle from the northwest."
Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115
feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."
