Being forced into showing some humility over this is a nice thought, but...
Felix Ortiz is from Assembly 51. Lets take a look at the 2008 election results:

State Assembly - District 51 - General
80 of 80 Precincts Reporting - 100%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Ortiz, Felix (i) Dem 14,648 86%
Garcia, Luis GOP 2,134 13%
Coen, Grace Con 282 2%

I believe he would be fairly safe claiming 1+1=1 with those numbers.

If you read (or at least scan) the paper being referenced by the article, this is only studying sobering up faster (or more accurately the time until BAC is effectively 0). They are not testing headaches and hangovers. The only mention of headaches and hangovers is a throw-away sentence in the discussion section at the end.

I kept thinking that they just took the 20 min. running time and divided that by 1 day. This is roughly 1.38 percent. Make an assumption about energy consumption being constant while the machine is running, and viola instant buzzword compliance. But then I read the article,

*the JuGene supercomputer at Forschungszentrum Julich requires about 52800 kWh for one day of operation on the full machine, the IBM demonstration required an estimated 700 kWh

Which is roughly 1.32 percent. So no big surprises.

Yep that is amazing. Not the same thing as 2^(-14). Not at all.

(And just to preempt some wise ass C programmer, I do not mean -16.)

Oh yah, YOUR MOM has prior art.

... and both were as wheelchair replacements. One individual was Vietnam vet and was missing his lower legs. He used a platform that was attached halfway up the shaft of the segway and balanced forwards and backwards on that. The other person had muscular dystrophy. He was unable to walk without arm braces. Hate on the segway all you want, but they are a great technological solution to some problems.

In summary,

Best quote from the article:

Giant shiny spider paperweight!

For the Americans in the audience, 1 £ kg = 3.33 $ lb.


I recommend not saying this aloud for it sounds very silly.

I'm just waiting for the advertisement that says:

I can't wait to get PLAID by the Australian government.

I'm going to make a reasonable guess that you took >= 5 years for the PhD. (If you finished in less, please don't be insulted.) This puts you graduating at Spring 2004 or Winter 2003 at the latest.

What popular social networks are you talking about? It certainly wasn't facebook.

I'd have lost this bet too. I live in NYC and I would have bet it wouldn't have lasted a day without receiving a shift kick to its ever smiling cardboard face by a crowd rushing to their respective destinations.
The pictures seems to be taken near NYU ( Broadway and Waverly and WSP ). Maybe people who hang around universities are particularly helpful?
From experience, these are relatively calm areas (for NY). And I don't see evidence of it crossing streets. Is there any evidence of the author trying tougher challenges like union square or handling traffic lights?

And yes, there has been construction off and on 4th and Broadway (2 blocks south of the sidewalk picture) recently.

The song playing in all of the pictures is Lithium by Nirvana. Lets just look up what that song is about:

The song ... tells the story of a man who finds religion as a last resort after the death of his girlfriend.

*blink* I dunno what exactly this says about why the car was built, but I think there is an employee at Tesla who needs a hug.

My hypothesis is that all this talk about ring shaped diaphragms got 'em all hot n' bothered.

Also Nate Lanxon, I am keeping my sennheiser headphones away from you.

If there were a lot of suspected offenders of this policy, the good ole head on the pole could solve the problem and be cheaper (and safer) than firing all of them.