Cash for Clunkers only ran for 6 months and ended in 2009. So every car traded since July 2009 has ended up on the resale market (if the car is worth it). The data showed that the effects on inventory (and therefore used car prices) lasted about 6 weeks.

It's nothing more then a temporary blip in the grand scheme of things, since there are so many other long term factors that effect the price of used cars.

The last flight of an Apollo command module was actually ended February 8, 1974, when the third Skylab mission returned to Earth. The gap would be closer to 6 years not eight, but the point still stands.

Yes, but it lost all the technical codes that would allow someone to debug why the error occurred (and prevent it from erroring in the future). Now it is just a simile face and a message that you're computer isn't working right now.

IA64 (Itanium) was actually backwards compatible with x86-32. It just wasn't very fast when it ran code in that mode on the initial version. Later versions of the Itanium were much better (mainly due to a major change of putting an x86 processor on die until the software executed version caught up).

The biggest issue was that at the price point they offered it at most people couldn't justify it for the workload they had and then AMD extended x86-32 to be 64-bits which pretty much ate the 64-bit market alive on Windows and Linux boxes.

There is nothing inherently wrong with Itanium from an engineering standpoint, it's just was the wrong product for the time from an economic standpoint.

It's a two party state. It's overwhelming Democratic due to Los Angeles and the Bay Area. San Diego is sort of split and the Central Valley and Orange Country are Republican. The end result is that both houses of the California Legislature tend to have about 35% Republican Representation.

And it's not moderate Republican either, since California tends to polarize both parties.

Yes and no. In NYC to operate a taxi legally you need a medallion on the cab. The current prices for the medallions run about $1 million and as such the industry is heavily concentrated among just a few operators who then lease the medallion to the driver (at a price of roughly $130 per 12 hour shift). Getting rid of the call center would not change the dynamics of the industry at all since the medallion regulation defines the industry more than the call center.

At least in NYC. Cities without medallions like DC it would definately effect them, but the cities without medallions already have large numbers of owner operates (and have a completely different set of problems).

The grandparent link indicated that the Yahoo Weather API is a possible alternative to the NWS. I was commenting on how the API has changed since Yahoo changed weather providers to The Weather Channel. Which is yes not NWS, but is still providing the weather backend to Yahoo at this time.

Be warned though. Since Yahoo's weather products have been taken over by the Weather Channel this API has had a number of errors like having dead internal links and missing data.

Or you can talk to the Motorola dealer about the Mesh Networks products. They work pretty good in EM situations, but they're not cheap. Which is what I think the original poster is looking for.

California is broke because of Prop 13. It basically cut out from under it the main funding mechanism for the state government property taxes and then put severe limitations on how the state could raise funds through other mechanisms by making any tax increase in other categories like sales tax or income tax too difficult to enact. As such the previous high-tax/high-service government that Californians enjoyed became unstainable.

Additionally, due to the initiative system the state has almost no control over it's finances. Something like 70% of the budget is mandated spending by initiatives, with a large portion of the remaining 30% either things you have to spend money on like police, or required via Federal funds. It's why to pass a budget every year they always need to resort to some tricks. And with the requirement that they need 2/3rds majority to pass any budget, instead of 50%+1 like every other state in the union, means the minority party has no interest to negotiate.

Are there still people today that use floppies? :)

Yes. I click on them all the time to save documents and files.

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they'd probably hang him, like they did the Rosenbergs.

Both of them got the electric chair.

The non-invasion of Switzerland is actually a very modern construct. It was repeatable invaded between it's foundation in the 1200s and 1815. It mainly stopped being invaded and allowed to be neutral because it became strategically unimportant to the rest of Europe due to mechanization and access to new territories outside of Europe.

It also acquired a reputation for allowing the nobles of Europe to hide their cash from the riff-raff in case of another French Revolution style revolt, which discouraged most leaders to leave it alone in case they needed somewhere to escape.

Were any of your customers audited by the BSA? If so they would of found out what you did was in violation of the license (even if it passed Genuine Advantage which is necessary but not sufficient for being in compliance) and would be subject to both a new license and what ever the fine is now.