It really depends on the GPS. My old cheapy Garmin was awful about giving me enough advanced notice. My current Android with Google Maps is wonderful and gives me plenty of warning about the next exit or turn.

The US produces %0.11 of our electricity via solar. just over 2 TWh (source [PDF]). We have how much landmass and we don't even come close to Germany's output. Depressing... I'm curious to know what programs Germany has in place to support adoption of solar and wind energy production. Although it would likely never happen, it would be nice if we could replicate some of that here, in the more weather-stable parts of the country. Even better if we could have some decent mass storage solutions to allow solar to really support the whole grid on a larger scale (as opposed to locally).

You would not want to fry the population with mass-produced tasteless breading. To bread the right way, I suggest the following:

1 dozen eggs (per human)
1 lb flour
3 boxes of bread crumbs
herbs and seasonings to taste

1) Mix seasonings in bread crumbs.
2) Coat a damp human in flour.
3) Dunk human in eggs and then roll it around in the bread crumb mixture

Then you can fry and bake the human, but make sure that it's fully-cooked. You can get diseases from undercooked human.

I totally would if I could. Seriously, was it necessary to prove your point?

I still can't get 4G or LTE on Sprint in the San Francisco Bay Area. Glad to know I'll be covered if I ever make it to Mt. Fuji.

um, you do know the history of tulip bulbs, right?

thanks to both of you. I'd hope that Ridgewood Hotels has done their research about all manner of potential catastrophes.

I wonder how the whole thing will be able to move if there's a tsunami? Obviously above-ground hotels don't fare too well there either, but I'm interested in the mechanics of a partially-submerged structure being able to handle that kind of hit. Still, sounds like a cool place to visit.

And it's making it difficult to navigate the site. Plus, there doesn't appear to be a way to get back into classic once you're in mobile. Looks ok, just needs functional work

I flew on them to and from Australia to the US. Well worth the cost to get on one, but on the return trip, we were delayed for 4 hours due to some engine problem. They did fix it, and we were back in the air, but the experience, and other subsequent reports, makes me nervous about them. I hope they get the problems resolved, as they really are a joy to fly on for long trips.

Why else would you feel the need to mount them?

although I have my issues with Zynga as a company, it's not much different than any other game or service that runs on microtransactions. The real lesson here is that emotional and financial investment in a web-based game controlled by a third party is always subject to cancellation. People need to recognize that their micropayments are for temporary gratification, and not permanently.

Admittedly, there's nothing inherently wrong (from a business perspective) about a company choosing to shutter some of its lower-performing properties in the interest of reducing costs. The problem is that Pincus has a history of building up a large and popular product, getting a decent-sized population of users, then destroying it through poor management or general asshattery (see Tribe.net). Why anyone thinks he's a good CEO is beyond me.

your listening data is already being collected. She may or may not be asking for listener email addresses, but if not, the statistics on your likes and dislikes and other listening patterns are part of the music genome project anyway. How would the artists' ability to view your listening patterns (without identifying you specifically) violate any right to privacy that isn't already given up as part of your agreement when creating an account to use the service?

Oh, given the cranial-rectal inversion around here sometimes, it's still a site for proctologists