Actually, about 50%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification#Wechsler_Intelligence_Scales

1st "unique" challenge: Design a helicopter that can carry at least one person up to the top of a mountain
2nd "unique" challenge: Build a helicopter (in a large factory using specialized parts and machine tools)
3rd "unique" challenge: Acquire helicopter (by pulling enough money into one place in order to make the purchase)
4th "unique" challenge: Learn to fly helicopter (hundreds of hours spent in classroom and practice)

And then some musclehead climbs up using only muscle power and you think that's more impressive?

Or... perhaps the stores weren't generating enough foot traffic to justify keeping them open. Retail is a dog eat dog world and not running a tight ship will get you eliminated fairly quickly.

Hopefully this will get the creator some much needed exposure and land him a new job in the graphics department.

I ran tablets for a few years, generally wanting to not lug aournd a notebook. After having a tablet stolen, I’m back on full blown PCs again. I missed having windowed apps, real keyboards and media players that didn’t suck (I’m looking at you, Comcast, blocking HDMI playback on your lousy player).

Granted it’s not as portable as I’d like, and I still use a tablet for reading books and remote controls on my home theater, but when I want to do much of anything else I prefer the PC.

And Apple has done a good job at really integrating everything so that it all works together. For example, it’s drop dead simple to share audio/video via Airplay, as opposed to the almost non-functional DLNA mess that only works when the stars are aligned just right. If you run Safari all your crentials follow you around on the built into all products keyring. Yes, there are plenty of add-ons for other platforms (most of which likely predate Apples’ keyring), but it happens out of the box and by default with Apple products.

Insurance for nuclear power plants is set up by the government, but it is funded by the plant operators:

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/funds-fs.html

It is true there's a top limit per incident, but that's true of any insurance policy.

"Can't handle?" What does that mean?

You do realize that 90% of what you hear about Fukushima in the news is BS, right? You realize that the source of your information is heavily funded (through advertising) by the same people who will directly benefit (via increased use of natural gas for electricity production) in reduced nuclear power use?

The media isn't exactly smart, but they know not to piss off the money people.

Oil companies are also natural gas companies. They love renewables because next to every wind farm is a gas turbine generating station, which is used during the 70% of the time the wind isn't blowing enough to produce electricity.

That 15 year timeline is 100% political. There's no engineering reason for a nuclear power plant to take 15 years to construct.

And that 4GW of intermittent power that you're adding incrementally has to be backed up by natural gas turbine generation.

'merica has almost as much thorium as India, so no need.

So does Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=gimp+mask
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=dildo&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Adildo

This doesn’t make sense. If the brain spent more time dwelling on the negative, why do people gamble? It seems to me that’s the exact opposite: the brain focuses on past good fortune (I put money in this machine and got a little more back), not the bad (I put money in this machine and nothing happened). Clearly the bad result will happen far more often than the good result, yet many otherwise average people waste millions of dolars and hours of their lives in front of slot machines.

The stick shift people are basically automatic. The others are anything but automatic (but it sure is a lot of fun trying to get them going).

Ah, but what if you rideshare an autombile? Instead of having one sitting in the garage and parking lot all day, why not make it available to others? Summon your vehicle with an app and it comes to you, ready to take you wherever.

I’m sure that rush hour would make scheduling and resource allocation difficult, but for many people, not owning a car while having a reliable, economical “taxi” service could be fantastic.

And let’s not forget that the 1st world population is aging at an accelerated rate. The number of people who won’t be compentant to drive is increasing while the overall population is stabilizing.