And if my car were that accurate, I'd probably be happier. Mine is overly optimistic by pretty much a minimum of 10% over, sometimes worse. Is it also never incorrect in the other direction. The trip computer has never reported lower than the calculated number. I suspect it may go hand in hand with Hyundai's and Kia's problem that required them to revise their stated EPA estimates downwards a number of months ago.

The main point I was trying to make was mostly just to confirm the numbers with a second source if possible. If I wasn't, I would be telling people my car is about 2-3 MPG more efficient than it really seems to be.

I would recommend you consider double checking your car's trip computer calculation against the tripometer and gas pump readout method of manually calculating miles per gallon. I bought a Hyundai with a trip computer that includes Avg. MPG as one of its readouts. Prior to owning that car I had gotten into the habit of resetting the tripometer on my car at every fuel up after writing down the miles from the tripometer and gallons from the pump readout (then just divide the miles travelled vs gallons to refuel the tank). I kept up that habit after getting the Hyundai and found that the manual calculation method consistently reports 2-4 MPG lower than the trip computer. If your trip computer is anything as optimistic as mine, then you may actually be getting less than you think.

Even though they mention T-Mobile support for LTE, if you look closer at the frequency support on the phone's specs at HTC's site, there is something important to note.

HSPA/WCDMA: 850/1900/2100 MHz

This will not support T-Mobile 3G in a number of areas where they haven't converted AWS from HSPA+ use to LTE use. For people considering this phone for T-Mobile, you may get stuck on 2G depending on where you live.

I disagree. The original post mentions 5 years of service with the company. I've found a number of companies that put their engineers to level 3 positions around the 5 year mark (usually between 4-6 years in my experiences). By level 3 I mean:
1. Junior Software Engineer
2. Software Engineer
3. Senior Software Engineer

I don't find the possibility of him receiving a senior title after five years all that shocking. I think most competent people should be able to manage that. I received my level 3 promotion within that same range. Keep in mind titles may vary from company to company, but that is how it works for my present job and my previous job.

This.

I've scanned the other comments, and not seen much discussion on showering or other hygiene issues when you arrive at work. I have a number of friends that work in offices within a few miles of mine, and one of the common complaints I heard from them was that the people who biked to their workplace didn't clean up, leaving them trapped in a cubicle with a smelly co-worker all day.

I typically bike for exercise outside of work hours, so I know that I'm healthy enough to bike to work (its a shorter distance than my usual rides) and I know it would allow me to eliminate other exercise by combining my commute with exercise. However, I still don't like the option as I don't want to become the offensive smelly co-worker that everyone hates. (I do find the increased commute time and weather concerns put me off biking to work as well, but I think the need for a shower at work is the biggest problem I have at the moment.)

I had read the New Yorker article previously, and while it is clear to me that Ravi was not a good or innocent person, there is something that I see common in other posts that bothers me.

There was no stored video of any sexual encounter.

Ravi used iChat to activate a webcam on his computer remotely. He viewed the video stream with a female friend in a nearby dorm. He did not have any setup to capture the video for future use. This means there was no blackmail attempts (also mentioned in other posts). As mentioned in the New Yorker article, there was an attempt to organize a viewing party of some sort, but it was canceled. The images didn't make youtube or any other public venue at any point in time.

You want to condemn Ravi for spying or wiretapping violations, that makes sense. But the sheer misinformation I keep seeing posted here about videos and blackmail disturbs me.

I had the same thing happen to me on Sunday. I swear the only sites I had open were my college's e-courses page and Slashdot.

However, per the other reply, performing a system restore from safe mode was really fast as clearing out the problem. From there, found out the A/V software was no longer updating (fixed that), found my JRE was not updating (fixed that), and found Flash was out of date (probably not the cause, but also fixed that).

Even then, it seemed like I remember hearing a ton about the radiation that came from CRT monitors.

I just makes me think, these will become popular like CFLs. Then suddenly! "Oh no radiation danger!" And then it will be time for the next technology.

Uh, no.

Technical reasons decided where to put the reactor. Like all nuclear power plants, Fukushima needed a massive body of water to assist in cooling the plant. Japan isn't known for its huge rivers or lakes, so the coast becomes the default location to place power plants.

I'm afraid I have to disagree with some of your conclusions.

They were lucky. Their immediate ancestors were the group of people who caused the Great Depression, still considered to be the worst economic collapse this country has ever experienced. The government was largely unsuccessful at fixing it until World War II rolled around and restarted our economy. Suddenly the manufacturing capacity was needed to supply ourselves and our allies with weapons.

I'll agree with that, but point to WWII as the source again. Must of the rest of the industrialised world had been destroyed by war. Factories and production through out Europe and Japan had been destroyed to win the war. The US responded by rebuilding them, which involved selling our industrialised services to them. When you are the biggest or only source of an item or service, of course you will be doing well.

This to me is just the conclusion of the rebuild efforts. The US being the only source of high tech products was not a sustainable model. Other countries were sure to develop similar abilities. An example, you never hear much about non-American cars from the 50s. But with the 60s you start to hear more about European cars (like the VW bus so popular with the hippies you metioned) and with the 70s you start to see the sales of some of the now iconic Japanese cars (like the Honda Accord). Similarly during the 50s airliners were generally a US product from companies like Boeing, Lockheed, and Douglas. Once the 70s rolls around and you see the start of Airbus.

No, our economy would have declined even had none of those practices ever been employed. We had it good selling to the entire world after a major war. The rest of the world caught up, wanted their share of the pie, and were willing to do things cheaper than we were. We would have lost sales to the rest of the world either way.

So in conclusion, the Boomer's ancestors f-ed things up every bit as badly as we did (the Great Depression), WWII saved our economy and we were lucky there were no major strikes on the US mainland, and finally the world recovered and our position as the dominant producer became unsustainable.

Do you honestly think arresting people would have met with any smaller number of complaints to BART than turning off cell phone towers did? I can absolutely see headlines about the horrible BART police arresting innocent, peaceful protesters.

I think the protesters put the BART authorities in a no-win situation. Based on everything I have read and heard, the protesters were planning to be disruptive and attempting to coordinate in a way to avoid the police. Had BART done nothing, I think they would have been blamed for any bad that came out of the protests. Obviously, if the protesters did something bad and BART knew they were going to be there, BART should have done something to stop them. If the protests had somehow gotten out of hand (see London riots), BART likely would have been sued by anyone injured.

On the flip side, it seems to me that any action BART took would have reflected bad on them as well. Obviously shutting off the BART run cell towers was not well met. I don't think arrests would have worked out well either. What is left? Searching people as the enter BART? That hasn't gone well for the TSA a lot of the time. I can't really think of what other action BART could have taken to try to protect their other riders from any problems generated by the protests.

I think the only way this would have worked out well if is BART indicated they needed to not protest on the platforms and the protesters listened and agreed to protest outside the stations.

The G2 has a keyboard. Its true the G2 keyboard is a 4 row instead of a 5 row like the G1, but its usable. However, ever since I replaced my G1 with a G2, I typically used the swype virtual keyboard instead of the physical one. Its possible to extract swype from the original ROM if you backed it up before flashing CM. That is what I did. Swype + CM 7.0.3 is nice.

Exactly. NASA's budget has generally been less than 1% of the national budget for well over a decade. Even if you cut all of NASA, is wouldn't have equalled the number of billions claimed for the most recent budget cut. NASA's budget was never was truly huge either, peaking at 4.4% during the Apollo era. I think people have historically overestimated just how much money is currently spent on NASA, all things considered.

That being said, this is not what we need at the moment. When NASA achieved the moon landing, it was gulping down the budget at a significantly higher rate than now. The last thing we need is a new spending initiative when we are having so much trouble cutting the budget. Politicians will always have some pet project in their home district. That is no excuse for adding spending while everyone else is trying to cut the budget. As much as I have loved the space program in the past, I hope this gets shot down until the country can afford it.