25 years for me, and it was lame then.

Less dangerous form? Really? CO2 is CO2. If what you mean is really that there is a lower QUANTITY of CO2 released by producing one joule of electric or mechanical energy by burning CH4 than by burning oil or coal, just say so.

Also, I find it annoying when people refer to "carbon" in the atmosphere when they really mean CO2. Does anyone say there is a lot of hydrogen in the atmosphere because of the water vapor? Compounds behave chemically completely differently from their elemental constituents.

Excuse me, but you can't wave away controversy by asserting that there is no controversy. That is intellectual dishonesty. Believers (NOT accusing you personally) also engage in tainted discussion every time they invoke the mantra of "denial" and "denier". It's a loaded word, and is INTENDED to serve as a loaded word, and is taken from a playbook. The appropriate word is "unbeliever" or "nonbeliever" or "disbeliever". If that degree of honest discussion ever becomes prevalent on the side of the believers, and they show other signs of willingness to engage in mature discussion, then nonbelievers can cease using terms such as "cult", including much less complimentary terms than that.

Wait til you see X12.

It would be much more instructive to learn the laser's energy delivery in Joules than its power in PW for some unspecified but infinitesimal duration.

Well, you're all over the place. There are one or two good points buried in there, but the bottom line is, take your racism and Jew baiting and SHOVE IT, you sad excuse for a human being.

You ask "who decided". Well, as a society and historically speaking, it's poetic justice, isn't it? I mean Americans were so goddam sure they had a right to own slaves, and that having those slaves was a win, the chickens have come home to roost, right? Who to blame but themselves? Their own white asses. The fact that all those slaves just happened to be selected by color gave them an identity and brotherhood to go with their rage.

It's sad, because there are, and always have been, many Americans who are truly color blind.

People don't need more space to store HD video.
    - They don't buy Blurays like they bought DVDs.

WRONG.

They stream.

WRONG.

And for the few times they do buy a Bluray, they don't rip it, they stream or download the heavily-compressed "digital" copy it comes with.

WRONG.

- They don't store their own HD video. They post to Youtube.

WRONG.

- The HD video they do store is stored in less space. Hardware accelerated H.264 encoding is ubiquitous.

If you knew what you were talking about you would know that Blu-Rays are already H.264 or comparable, and they are GIGANTIC.

That looks like the best confirmation of the problem, instead of debunking it. They needed a Focus RS suspension instead of the regular Focus just to cancel out the extra unsprung weight of the wheels - and part of the premium price of the Focus RS suspension is its use of lightweight materials so the actual increase in unsprung mass wasn't as great as claimed. Of course engineers can fix the problem given enough money.

The reality is that when a wheel hits a bump, all the unsprung mass of the wheel suddenly undergoes a large acceleration. 'That's pretty much the definition of unsprung weight. And with a fixed, F=m*a also means the force on the wheel is proportional to the unsprung weight. This is 17th century physics.

Welcome to the conversation, intellectus superiosa slashdotus. Confronted with the results of actual engineering studies by experts in the field, which you could actually learn something from, you repeat the same tired old preconceived crap with no analysis whatsoever to support it.

That's pretty much the BLOODY OPPOSITE of net neutrality, you daft so and so. Are you this irrational on all subjects?

"But unsprung weight" is a tired old preconception. Maybe if you bothered exploring the references provided and elsewhere you would be relieved of some of your misconceptions.
Protean Electric tackles the unsprung-mass 'myth' of in-wheel motors
Heresy Unsprung, Lotus Engineering: Unsprung Weight Doesn’t Really Matter Much[The Truth]

An electric car does not have to have reduction gearing at all. In fact there are electric cars that do not. Repeat, do not. Believe it. In fact you can also do away completely with mechanical brakes.

If Tesla and GM and Nissan and others were all too timid or conservative to do it right, that is their problem.

Now who is wrong?

Wake up, there is no "safe" or "unsafe" in the absolute sense. Many millions of smokers never suffer from appreciable ill effects. Many others suffer an agonizing death likely attributable to it.

Smoking entails a risk. So does exposure to elevated radioactivity. And guess what, so does walking. If all the elderly crawled on the floor everywhere they went, or wore big honking foam rubber bumpers, there would be a lot fewer broken hips, and broken hips are a very significant morality risk for the elderly.

WTF, overwrites the MBR? What half assed OS does this attack? Windows?

Except for the little detail that it is NOT A GODDAM MODEM. Misusing terms does not change their meaning.

BTW the actual disc inside a 3.5" floppy disk cartridge IS floppy. Ever take one apart?

[root@loki ~]# pkg search kde
kde-4.14.2
[root@loki ~]# pkg search xorg
xorg-server-1.12.4_9,1

Funny, they're binary packages, don't have to compile them, and it doesn't look broken to me. If it isn't xorg-server 1.16, SO WHAT?