This "feature" is also responsible for freezing the entire browser whenever I open a new tab and start typing in the URL bar. It queries a friggin sqlite database to pull up all the previously visited urls I could mean to visit. I have to vacuum a database to make my browser usable.

cd
for i in */*.sqlite;
do
        sqlite3 $i VACUUM;
done;

I'd be very curious to see how many career paths this experiment just derailed. How large is this subset of string theory that just got wiped out? Also, what does it mean if the bigger version of this test doesn't find gravitational waves? Does it poke a big fat hole in relativity?

Farmers who produce grain would prefer that you buy meat.

No. We do not feed cows the same grain we feed people (absolutely NO competition between grain you'd buy and what they'd feed to a cow). Also, most cows don't eat grain. Farmers who produce grain, would prefer you bought grain.

You're incapable of eating raw carrots? I'd see a doctor about that.

That is NOT the only real difference. The biggest difference here is that there is NO variable timed engine. No cam lobes. No transmission. Just a gas powered electric generator. There is NO hybrid mode. This vehicle operators only on power from the batteries. When you take it over a certain speed, the generator kicks on to keep the batteries juiced. This decouples the generator from the power source. Also, it's not a little car. It's a 4 door sedan that gets 50 mpg on the highway.

In a church no less. He only got 2 years (he was a minor at the time). At least one of the other members is also a convicted sex offender (8 year old relative). "I'm a good person. I haven't done anything wrong. ... I don't go anywhere. All I do is go to church and home." Yikes.

The fact that anyone pays to use their software saddens me. It's absolutely awful. They're making a killing too. It's becoming the standard educational institution package, mostly because all the other universities use it. Their "clustering" solution is an absolute joke. They just recently started supporting 64-bit jvm's. That means that until recently if you wanted to scale, you had to launch multiple 1GB VM's and load balance requests yourself. The frequency, severity and apathy of the bugs is stunning. I personally don't have the capacity for hate that this "software" deserves. It's an absolute turd.

So does this mean the process produces as much electricity as it takes to de-salinate water? Or is it not a two reaction like that?

The location of their server no longer matters as GS was allowed to put a peeker in line between everyone else (on the planet) and the publicly traded ETNS. They get an opportunity to front run every transaction. Every single one. Zerohedge is a financial blog that has been keeping up with this story. Their coverage is good if a little breathless.

Link is to their "high frequency trading" tag:

http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/search/label/High%20Frequency%20Trading

Apparently my browser is incompatible with the "web app." One wonders what standards their web is based on.

Lighting is less than 6% of energy footprint. CFL's are 10x more expensive than incandescents, contain mercury, don't last as long as advertised (in fact, in my house they only last as long as incandescents) and cast a bare sickly palette. CFL's are just a waste of money. Perhaps there is an ideal living space where CFL's last the full 5 years, don't make walls look grey/blue and cost less than five bucks a pop (.88 for four incandescents at kroger).

I took the money I had allocated towards CFL's and put it into insulation with a higher R-value. Heating and cooling expenses are down 10%. Far more savings in energy and money than CFL's, and my reading lamp doesn't suck the contrast off the page I'm looking at anymore.

So the store doesn't get a sale, doesn't pay the stakeholder, who was presumably going to spend money in the state on taxable goods and services. The state still loses. The original sale doesn't generate revenue and the seller won't be purchasing anything that generates tax revenue with the proceeds of the sale that didn't happen. Sorry states, there will always be at least one state that will take advantage of this and host amazon friendly affiliate websites. This is kinda like how you can incorporate an LLC in any state you have an "agent" in (100 bucks a year gets you agent representation in any state) but no one in their right minds incorporates an LLC outside of Nevada or Delaware because of the incredibly low taxes and business friendly body of case law they've produced. You still have to pay personal income tax in the state you perform work but you get a credit for taxes you pay to other states for your state of residence taxes.

Perhaps it will be optional.

Meh. I'll just install linux over the windows install as usual.

And pay the microsoft tax?