From the cited web page:
Paul Noel, 52, works as Software Engineer (as Contractor) for the US Army at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. He has a vast experience base including education across a wide area of technical skills and sciences. He supplies technical expertise in all areas required for new products development associated with the US Army office he works in. He supplies extensive expertise in understanding the Oil and Gas industry as well.

Born in Lynnwood Washington, he came to Huntsville Alabama, when his father moved to be part of NASA's effort to put men on the moon. Neal Armstrong may have gotten the ride, but his father's computers did the driving.

Paul is also a founding member of the New Energy Congress.

So..this guy has no training on physics, geology, chemestry. He __says__ he supplies extensive expertise in oil indusry, but how exactly? Software engineering?

I'm sorry, but I'm not going to get too freaked out by what this man says. If I can get some supporting information from a geologist I'll then worry.

I wonder if the bills will have encoded RFID chips somewhere, somewhat like they do with passports? Being that a lot of 100 bills circulate outside the US, this would be a good way to track them, and see how money passes from person to person. Antiterrorism effect perhaps?

I would imagine that cows that get regular exercise like this probably have meat that is much leaner than regular feed fed cows.

Power to help the farm AND a healthier product for the population at large? Sounds like a double win.

Collective wisdom? In today's popular culture? Surely there must be a better term than that.

If the same number of FoI requests were submitted in 2009 in 2008 then there is reason to be angry. However, if there were twice or three times the requests, then an increase in denials is consistant.

However, there had damn well better be good reason for this. O promised to be a more open administration.

Exist may have been a wrong term. Try "You are at your job to work for them...."

Please.

You are at work to work, you are not at work to read slashdot and gmail.

You have this awful sense of entitlement. Free coffee? Have to justify travel expenses? C'mon the company does not exist to serve you, you exist to work for them and provide value at a minimum of expense.

The companies responsibility is to its stakeholders to provide maximum profit. Employees are the largest expense a company has, so in lean times like these, they have to cut spending of all expenses to survive.

So suck it up and be happy you have a job, and not be part of the 10 percent who wish they had one.

I work in downtown NYC, and I can attest that the iphone does get horrible service. Data transfer rates are very spotty, and cell phone calls will disconnect at a rather frequent rate. Outside the city, on Long Island, service is much better. So i can well believe that they are oversubscibed.

Thats 30 million, not 300 million.

My BS alarm was going off at 300 mil, so I had to go RTFA.

They advertise the Iphone and the other media phones as being able to get streaming music, check football scores, write email, do all this neat stuff with AT&T! .....and then they get pissed when people actually DO it?

thank you for your ,02 cents.

Perhaps it should say "Ending government paid for manned spaceflight for a decade".

It would be really interesting to see the conservative reaction to this. Will they oppose simply for the sake of opposition, or will they applaud it and call out for the free market to provide for manned space flight.

Personally, I think stopping goverment funded spaceflight is a bad idea, there is not enough economic benefit yet for corporations to go into space, beyond quick space tourism flights.

For the top 1000, a million bucks is not a lot of money. Why risk alienating the population for what is to them a drop in the bucket?

I'm sure that apple will stop putting this annoyware into their products if enough people get angry about it. I'm sure as hell not going to buy any product that contains this junk.

Yes, there are zero emissions from the tailpipe, but the electricity has to come from somewhere. Hydro, solar, wind are all very small percentages of the total electricity generating solutions. The majority of electricity comes from 'dirty' sources, such as coal, oil and nuclear. All thats happening is the carbon output of transportation is being shifted from the consumer to the manufacturer.

And even if we DO get a much larger percentage of clean energy sources, we still have to consider the massive costs that will be needed to upgrade the aging energy grid to be able to support the huge draw that electric cars will demand. Even a few million electric cars in the US will put a huge strain on the grid.

Finally, how good are the batteries for the enviornment? Can they be recycled cleanly? And how often do they need to be replaced? After a few months of steady use?