A big part of AT&T's problem is really that the iPhone's radio sucks. When tests are done using a different device, AT&T scores pretty good. I switched from AT&T (not the iPhone) to Verizon, and I don't see any improvement in call quality.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/business/13digi.html?_r=4&ref=technology

Come on, everybody knows the Earth is round - like a circle. The Bible clearly states that. Now if you want to try to argue that the Earth is spherical, that a different matter.

No one has yet figured out how to extract "shale oil" - which isn't oil at all - without requiring more energy as input than the energy output you get in the crude oil.

Canadian tar sands are a bit easier to extract than shale oil. But for every unit of energy input, they only get about 1.5 units out in the form of crude oil. Fortunately they have lots of natural gas in that area, so that's what they use for energy input.

But they could simply use the natural gas to generate electricity, then use the electricity for electric cars and get a similar energy gain due to the fact that natural gas power plant and electric car have a combined efficiency better than the combined efficiency of an oil refinery and gasoline powered car.

"Republicans deny that this was a political choice" the WSJ reported

That's a story from an alternate universe, where publications like the WSJ really are fair and balanced. I checked out KPCB's webpage and found that both Al Gore and Colin Powell are directors. So why did the WSJ play up Gore's involvement, but not Powell's?

http://www.kpcb.com/team/byers

Yeah, at the beginning they made it sound like Al Gore was the main owner of the company. Sounds like now that they're part of the Murdoch's organization, they're adopting Fox's "We distort, you decide"

Hawaii is the only place in the US that uses oil for a significant amount of electricity. On the mainland it's coal, nuclear, natural gas, hydro, plus some wind and solar. I doubt oil is used to produce even 1% of electricity in the mainland US.

It's always seemed strange to me that an all knowing, all powerful, and just God, won't help a sick person unless somebody else asks Him to.

Here's an article that gives another possible reason. It's hard to recruit volunteers for a study that really have a condition like clinical depression. If you actually recruit a bunch of people who are just temporarily feeling down instead of having true clinical depression, then of course they tend to get better whether they were given a sugar pill or a real anti-depressant. And they would have gotten better if they had taken nothing.

Ok, I haven't drunk the cool-aid and bought an iPhone yet. But my understanding is that it has a web browser, which means you can go to dictionary.com and look up words like this This (NSFW)

Doubt this will go over well with their viewers, if someone tells them it's a tax

Under Eminent Domain, the government still has to pay fair market value for what they take.

I see a Playstation controller in number 3

I don't think either company has the other by the balls. They're both making a ton of money off this partnership.

But at some point, the addition of enough cars means you have to widen the highway, or build a totally new highway. Don't know about where you live, they're constantly building new roads here, and there's a cost for that.

There's also a cost to maintain the roads. And cars driving over those roads do damage that has to be repaired. Large trucks cause much more damage.

In both cases, it's hard to see that adding just one more car means a new road has to be built, or and section of road has to be repaired, But it eventually adds up.

Unfortunately, most people don't have the time to go through medical school.