Judging from carfax reports, it seems like vehicles with 100K miles on them generally have multiple entries for accidents and such. I agree, 100,000 isn't enough....but doesn't seem all that bad. I guess it depends on what percent of the time a car spends going 80mph vs stopped at a stoplight.

a crash "only once every 100,000"

That seems to be an improvement over our human drivers. Will the car be allowed to text message while driving however?

I think we are all missing the blame. The voters are the ones who keep voting in politicians who are controlled by the wealthy. Washington was mostly not in favor of the bank bailout, but felt forced to pass it. If they didn't bail out the banks, our retirement funds would shrivel and they would get voted out.....or at least that is what they were being told by the corruption behind the system. So after initially being against a bank bailout, many politicians hung their head and voted for it. This is exactly why the corruption behind the republican party keeps pushing to privatize every fund possible, such as social security and pension funds. That helps them take control of the 1 item they still don't control.....our vote.

Besides, the government grew under Bush by more than any president in history while the debt grew under Obama more than any other.

If you are one of the people blaming one party over another, then you are part of the problem. The republicans are crooks, and the democrats idiots for not being smart enough to expose it, and not being able to find actual solutions. Your choice, corrupt or stupid....most politicians seem to fit into one of those 2 categories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt http://www.aier.org/research/briefs/750-big-government-under-the-bush-administration

So are they no longer trolls then, just regular users? You then probably need to send the most trollish trolls into the uber-troll maximum-security bubble.....or else they will offend the regular trolls!

What happens when the troll version of the site has more traffic, viewers, comments, and ad generating revenue than the non troll version? Which one is the true site then? Do the trolls then rule?

The story of the single cat was probably this one. It is based on truth anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephens_Island_Wren

"No, evolution's 'aim' was the propagation of its own dna. Our aims are different"

Excellent point. And to bring it back around....we are doing this so that we can propagate our own DNA. Evolution at work! The fungi-raising ants have surely went through this already; maybe it would be easier for us to evolve and meet the corn halfway.

You seem to prove my point.

"So tell me, which number is better, $45,000 or $36,000."
You should have said....
"So tell me, which number is better, $45,000 or $36,000 + $10,000 in assets". This assumes you were smart enough to invest in areas that added value to your company. Most small businesses would anyway.

Even at the paltry 10% tax rate, the watering system is looking pretty good......then consider the benefit to the watering-system company, and all of the related industries. Without that encouragement, the owner sits on the cash and tries to pocket as much as he can. This sure seems to be happening as the tax rates on the wealthy have dropped since the 70s. What else is causing the growing gap between the classes?

How about we set the tax rate at 50%. You sold $100k, expenses were $50k, profits are $50k. Then your profits are $25,000 after taxes. OR, you could invest that $50k in another employee, and some equipment. You pay no taxes now, and you own a business with a value which has increased by more than $50k (assuming you spent money on company growth/talent/assets), and you are only out $25k.

So tell me, which number is better, $25,000 or $0+$50k in growth. Which one breeds a growing business, and which one breeds a climate of trying to milk your company for all it is worth so you can buy a small island?

I am not an economist; just a voter trying to understand. The republican soapbox lecture on economics seems completely backwards to me.

Lets just drop that old saw right now. Taxing the top 10% does NOT discourage job creation..... taxes can encourage growth.

Taxes are based upon PROFIT. Give a wealthy man a choice between paying taxes or investing in his assets/employees/business, they will choose to create jobs.

By having low taxes on the top 10%, you encourage them to pocket as much money as they can....and use that money to buy up competition. You are then encouraging larger monopolistic businesses...which I feel are less efficient, worse for the economy, worse for the country, less rewarding to their staff, and then are "too big to fail".

On the contrary, tax the heck out record profits, and you encourage the top 10% to invest in their people/business/assets.....thereby helping the economy.

Am I missing something. Seems like common sense to me. I don't think the democrats understand economics either though....

Asking about the whooshing noise. Classic.

We have those already. Soda machines.

Wow, I don't know anyone that uses hotmail or live messenger anymore. I don't even see any youth using either. They all use gmail or yahoo. Yahoo seems to be preferred for chat, and google for email. i am not sure why.

Distant 3rd? Any sources? I see it clearly as first in our small town mid-western USA schools and businesses. Maybe it is just popular in this area.

I don't understand? I can useIE or FF and just scroll to the bottom of the page.

I don't understand the Experts Exchange hate in other posts on here. Experts Exchange does try to organize solutions to problems.........unlike the plethora of websites that just scrape data from sites like Experts Exchange. It is the others tech sites I plan to block.

Experts Exchange works pretty good for a small IT department as a cheap source for help on occasion.

For once, I agree with someone on slashdot entirely. Wow.

"I don't think teacher's pay is really that bad. "

I agree. It isn't that bad. The teachers that got in 15+ years ago actually make a really good wage now. Also, living in a larger city helps. In rural areas, it is still pretty low though. The average teacher in Wisconsin is making something like 45K per year, plus another $5k contributed to their retirement/pension for them. So, $50k average. Not bad at all. The problem is, the big cities are pulling that average up. The teachers with 5 years of experience or less, in the rural areas, are making under $30k. Why go through all the trouble of teaching when you can go get a job fresh out of high-school and make just as much?

Yeah, you can make a decent wage teaching if you stick with it for 20 years...........but is it really worth it?

You may have heard about the political turmoil here in Wisconsin lately. The teachers are going to lose half of that pension contribution......we already have trouble attracting talent to the public sector. The tax payers are stuck on the idea that private sector workers don't have a pension and this apparently means that public sector workers shouldn't either (even though most private employers offer a retirement plan, with the majority not contributing to it). Anyway, it is just a political smoke screen. The bill is about other issues, but uses the pension issue to con the voters who won't even read the bill themselves.

"I just described is how colleges work".

Times seem to be changing. This was true a few years ago, but colleges now collect/grade homework, and the tests are quickly becoming a smaller portion of your grade. Yeah, I dislike it. I always did well on tests (did not do the homework). My tests indicate that I learned more than my classmates, and had the time to involve myself in other school and community activities while my peers studied and did homework. Now, returning to college, I struggle. Classes are heavily graded based upon homework and jumping through hoops. Years ago, I am not sure I went an entire day without sleeping through at least one class, but still Aced the courses. Now your grade would be docked for sleeping in class. Times are changing. Colleges are now run like high schools. Highschools are run like middle schools, and elementary schools are just sad. Disclaimer: There are still great teachers, but I see less of them than I used to. I mostly see teachers doing the same thing as everyone else.....and it doesn't work.

Also, teachers (at all levels) are forced to pass kids. They are told that they MUST pass their kids. No child left behind! So, the result is that teachers grade the homework and attendance as a higher percentage of their grade, and the tests become less important. This seems to be spreading. This does help the struggling kids pass, but it also turns the creative and insightful students into dull worker-bees.

Specifically, I would like to see science education revert back to what it was when I was in school. We were given critical thinking challenges and exercises; now I see mostly worksheets and temporary memorization of terms. Very disappointing. Maybe I was just lucky....but somebody needs to step up and demonstrate to the education system that there is a better way. The crappy pay of teachers doesn't help.... and we act surprised when our kids teacher isn't the cream of the crop.