What makes you think that boomers are sending a lot of emails from their phones today? Or own a music player?

I'm a boomer and the reason I have a Droid is because I got it for free for attending an Android seminar online. The display is a nice size for dialing, but nothing else is really optimized for image-impaired folks.

I think making them pay the actual total cost of cleanup might be a better solution. By that I mean they must clean every grain of sand that oil touched, if this bankrupts them good.

Only higher oil costs will move us to better fuels.

Did I miss the part of the article where it says that they desalinate the water first? Wouldn't salt water rain be very bad for farming, fresh water fish, and contaminate reservoirs, streams, and lakes?

I've observed that it downloads the route, and from there uses GPS only, except for when you change the zoom level or go to top-level view instead of 3/4th view. 2G speeds are not that bad for such small amounts of data though, especially if you only need 1 or 2 images a minute.

Because last time I checked, when I stuck my tongue out when it rained, I didn't taste any salt at all, and I am 99.9% sure that the rainwater I drank used to be in the salty seas not too long before. Just because it seems to fulfil symbolic logic doesn't mean it's true.

      You obviously have never lived near the ocean. The rain isn't "salty" enough to be tasted, but there is salt in the air. Anything that can be corroded will be corroded faster near a body of salt water.

Fuck me, I need to multiply by another 3 sec/check. So 18m * 5 * 2 * 15 * 3 * 3 = 2.43 x 10^10 = 6.75 million class-hours wasted every year just taking attendance for this requirement.

well at least she's a hell of a kisser...

You only *need* to upgrade you PC hardware about as often as new consoles come out.

"Legal gun ownership lowers crime, and it lowers it safer and cheaper than any other method available."

So it doesn't really?

    That's no twinkie. That's an ICBM that can linger in space for weeks before hitting its target.

    Ya, it doesn't quite have the same ring as "That's no moon. It's a space station.", but hey, it's a freakin' flying twinkie.

I went in for $40. I've got World of Goo already, but I thought it would be nice to have Linux versions of these games. I figure that if even the indy devs don't get financial support for publishing Linux versions of software, the market will stay slow and dry forever.

"That's real cute, linking to Google searches like that."

Whooo boy I got some news for you.

It is America's Taliban - go watch Jesus Camp and tell me otherwise.

I suspect that's the plan, according to the article he's wanting documents from the period of 1999 - 2005, and it goes on to describe what's he's demanded be produced as:

The White House couldn't even answer demands about emails from more recent time. And for retro-justifying $500,000 in grants (it's not that much, under $100k per year for 6 years), it'll take about that much more to account for it. Produce every document suspected to exist, or justify its non existence is the order. And he doesn't care if that's impractical. In fact he wants it to be. I'm sure he thinks that they'll not provide anything incriminating, but that they'll be unable to provide everything, and what isn't provided won't have accurate destruction history (I know I don't record emails as I destroy them). And so, any single missing document of the thousands or tens of thousands he's expecting and he'll have his "proof" that they must have done something because they couldn't comply with his simple request.

It's not a witch hunt. He has the witch he wants. This is the burning. Investigations as a punishment is nothing new. Even if exonerated, it will be a blow against the reputation of Michael Mann and the treasury of Virgina.

Don't know what your scientific language of choice is, but I have compared MATLAB programs to FORTRAN programs and the difference in speed was negligible. A properly written MATLAB function can be quite fast.