Lots of Don's books here. http://www.betterworldbooks.com/Norman-Donald-A-H0.aspx?SearchTerm=Norman%2C+Donald+A.

While, there are boulevards in Illinois, i.e. places where big trucks are forbidden. There are not traffic lanes for car-pooling, or certain special-cars/drivers.

I got one of these letters too. It is an obvious lie. The battery is replaceable. The device has a button you can press to determine that the battery is fine. Illinois is the most crooked state I've ever experienced. Bad state. Stay away if you can.

Please don't get uppity and troll mark me. But it seems to me that it barely takes a second semester undergraduate physics knowledge and a laptop running a spreadsheet to prove that global warming is significant and real. The problem remains, it is impossible to prove how bad, if bad at all, it will be for humans. I like warm sunny beaches. move them around a few hundred yards here and there, no big deal. Put me out of a job, now that's a BIG deal. And we still chat forever about ice, well until its all gone at least. ;-{

Jupiter is 90% Hydrogen.

Mostly in a metallic form.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter

I was 'amused' by the 6th Sense more the 2nd Time I saw it. Although, mostly I was looking at all the ways he burned me and I didn't see it.

The battery/etc tech we have right now is cheaper than $8/gallon gas. Or to say it another way, if gas were priced at $8/gal people would want electric cars because they were cheaper, not just cooler. Ok, so here's a relatively obvious thing. Every year we get a better at making batteries/etc, so the cost of this goes down. The cost of gas keeps going up. Eventually these will cross. Eventually electric cars WILL be cheaper than gas. When that happens the majority of car buyers will buy electric. 2025, maybe. Who was predicting $4 gas five years ago?

467.52 seconds per stolen credit card.

It has been common for astronauts to pick out runways from space. LOTS of man made objects can be seen from space. Seeing someing 2 miles wide from 70 miles away is the same angle as seeing something 1/2" wide from 35" away. So, about the size of your thumbnail with your arm stretched out.

If I only had the mod points to + this one. lol.

mySQL is open source. Facebook has so much money and time and design invested in its current db implementation. It seems to me the cheapest, and most straight forward thing to do, is just fix their issues in the mySQL base. How much could that cost? I'll bet less than 1% the cost of a db system change.

In Russia, you don't watch TV, TV watches you!!!

If it snows, you still work. You work from home. We generally don't allow tele-commuting, the only real exception is snow.

I went flying recently. I walked through the airport, remembering when I would arrive 35 minutes before my flight and made the flight easily. Now, two hours is pushing it. Oh, and of course, there is layer after layer of junk to deal with. I'm only going from one little U.S. city to another one on a mid-sized plane. The experience has convinced me, that the terrorists have won, and we have done most of the work for them. At my work I constantly preach/ask, is this cure worse than the disease? I'm lucky that the C-Level people at my job really get it. Apparently, they don't do that at the TSA.

10 Bars to keep the atmosphere from freezing out? How much visible light would get through that? Think Venus at 0 degrees C. I think the article needs a more doubtful title.