I'm in Tampa, and my service for Netflix has gone down slowly but surely for many months. At this point during peak access it shows me video that looks akin to 240p YouTube clips. Fingers crossed that these clowns overstep their bounds and force some net neutrality legislation.

Yeah, but EarthGP was ruined by Honda completely recently.

The USSR never did?

I was talking about in the US dude. And yeah, there are BARELY any on the road here.

Ask your what how much? But seriously. Your problems with medical bills could be solved if you lived in a country with socialized medicine. I've met people like you, bitch about the government and taxes and "ObamaCare" while you're bankrupted by our ridiculous medical system and screwed by our low wages and jobs exported to India. Somehow, more republican stuff is the answer! If you had even read the summary you'd realize they are trying to do more with what they have by way of a private partnership anyway, not raise your taxes $2 a year (you need that money for medical bills, wah!). GTFO.

I know this is way late but: -2 Stroke lawnmowers haven't even been common since the 60s. 4 Stroke has been king for a long, long time here. -Modern 2 stroke can be designed with something called direct Injection, which is solid and very far from vaporware. Emissions are less than 4 strokes(!!) People tend to vent there anger on small engines toward 2 strokes but really aside from string trimmers, weed eaters, and pole saws/chainsaws, there is very little in the way of 2 stroke use (in the US). Further, 2 stroke has a distinct power to weight advantage. Retrofitting direct injection onto existing 2strokes in places where they are dominant is a lot more environmentally sound http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... "EnviroFit, a non-profit corporation sponsored by Colorado State University, has developed direct injection retrofit kits for two-stroke motorcycles in a project to reduce air pollution in Southeast Asia, using technology developed by Orbital Corporation of Australia.[64] The World Health Organization says air pollution in Southeast Asia and the Pacific causes 537,000 premature deaths each year. The 100-million two-stroke taxis and motorcycles in that part of the world are a major cause.[65][66]" The EnviroFit quote is just one example, please do check wikipedia on this one if you are curious. Look I'm no shill of Briggs and Stratton, just trying to set the facts straight. I am, however, a big fan of old 2 stroke motorcycles like the Yamaha RDs and other cool old 2 strokes. I'd love to fit mine up with a direct injection kit, but because 2 stroke has been so successfully combined in peoples minds with pollution and smoke (for good reason admittedly, without direct injection these things are pretty dirty, but the tech isnt rocket science and has been around for decades) 2 stroke direct injection retrofits are expensive and few between. Thats because very few 2 stroke motorcycles have even been sold since the 80s here in the US. Honda has been fairly instrumental to the 2 strokes demise, as any MotoGP fan will tell you. Anyway, I'm going to save this as an early draft for the token "Ugh get rid of the 2 strokes" comments I read a lot.

If you read the article it goes into detail about said issue. Basically, the project will not itself distribute any non-free materials, but you can load your own (and people do, it seems, for full functionality). So for example you may have to use the binary blob to get your WiFi working on your phone. I wouldn't be so dismissive about the possibility of drivers being developed for certain handsets that are fully open sourced, via some stab at reverse engineering. Now as far as quality....

Wow, you used Windows Me?

My point is that our food sources are not as good as food sources of the RECENT past.

An opinion certainly, but a point too.

Now, you probably won't die from food poisoning, but things that kill you slowly (but fairly surely if you look at a large sample) like pesticides and heavy metals are in our food chain as well.

I agree with the majority of your post but

Do we really have cleaner food (pesticides, GMO drift, soil contamination, water contamination, poor soil quality) than ever? E. Coli from fast food tomatoes is not unheard of at all. Meat has to be cooked so carefully temperature wise largely because of factory farming. You don't hear about food contamination issues unless its as big as the Peanut Corporation of America issue years back (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_Corporation_of_America). And there is a good example of how things can go wrong despite this huge system in place to keep our food free of contaminants (in PCA's case it was salmonella). They hadn't been inspected in years. And that's the norm apparently. US FDA inspects less than 10% of incoming foreign produce, and I don't know numbers on domestic/import produce, but at the grocery store I see mostly produce labeled from another country. I won't argue with reliable, but I feel today's consumer has to be more scrutinizing about the source and processing involved in their food than say our grandparents or even our parents when they were young.

No. Pharmaceutical grade speed was commonly prescribed in the 50s and 60s (perhaps a greater time period). It was a sort of, hey just tell the doctor you need it type thing, like allergy medicine. He checks for contraindications but basically just gives it to you. It was not known for being expensive to produce, that is NOT why we have illegal meth labs. We have illegal meth labs because getting your hands on said pharmaceutical speed these days (if you use stronger product than the average ADD medicine) is much much harder than it was before. Also, once you become a meth addict to the point that people notice it, good luck getting any kind of speed prescription, its a big liability for the doctors office.

Brighter than dying of cancer, but we are dealing in hypotheticals, right?

Well, methane is a greenhouse gas more potent than C02. Also I believe its relatively clean burning itself compared to cardboard, paper, or wood scraps.

Evidence that supports the idea that animals may be able to experience empathy will result in us treating animals more ethically, or at least I'd wager some scientists involved feel that way. I doubt they get some sick pleasure from it, I do understand your concern though.