Let's put accelerometer watches on cops to track when they fire shots. Then we can correlate that data (given a useful timecode) with the footage from the cameras that we also need to make them wear if we're going to ensure that they operate in the public interest. They've been telling us all along that if we have nothing to hide, we should not fear scrutiny. Well, them first.

I think these reasons are pretty damned right, actually. The reason is the ol' invisible hand of the free market finally doing the right thing for a change. Microsoft has no choice but to demand what their customers are demanding, which is pretty much what a corporation should actually do, rather than trying to fuck them over at every turn with the normal Microsoft EEE strategy.

I have a feeling we'll have to go full retard to forcibly stop drivers from texting while driving. Like, putting a microcell in the car. That would be a good way to handle vehicle-to-vehicle communications, though, which is probably coming whether we like it or not. If the microcells built a mesh it would also solve the last mile problem pretty conclusively.

1. What's down there? Probably their makeup, or electric razor, as appropriate.
2. I never have understood why people who are eating on the road can't slow the shit down. On the rare occasion that I decide to do the same, that's what I do. I get over into the cud-chewing lane and stay there.
3. Acura and Audi are among the marques with a stupid control scheme for their onboard display which controls everything. BMW and Mercedes do it, too.
4. Motorcyclists can use phones now, too :p

You should note that that only applies to heavy trucks. My 1982 300SD has only an EGR, which failed and started belching exhaust straight to the atmosphere under my hood, puking all over my intake manifold. When the turbo went south I replaced it with a unit from a 1985 300SD (which I rebuilt, down to regrinding the wastegate valve seat with an old valve) which has an EGR in the compressor housing. But my 1992 F250 7.3 has no emissions equipment whatsoever. It doesn't even have equipment to compensate for altitude and turbo boost pressure like the 300SD does (the "ALDA" aneroid boost compensator) and fuel delivery is entirely foot-based anywhere in between idle and max fuel, the only times it runs on the governor. Luckily the turbocharger is pretty much perfectly sized for this engine, so as long as I'm nice to it, I don't make much smoke.

Point is, plenty of crusty-ass diesels still wandering around California. Meanwhile, Federal standards for diesels have actually done a pretty good job of cleaning them up nationwide, heavy equipment aside. What California has done recently has really clamped down on some of the stinkiest vehicles in neighborhoods but hasn't done so much to curb emissions from interstate trucks. No-idling laws (which in their day motivated the purchase of many expensive heat-pump/generator APUs) may have been fairly effective there, however. These new laws are eliminating school buses and light heavy duty trucks, some of which literally have the same engine as the heaviest diesel pickups from the Big Three, and with no less (and no more) emissions equipment.

Hopefully I either get out of California or get my truck trimmed up and sold before they go all-out and force DPF refits on light vehicles...

Originally, not. Then, there was a trend. Now, it is over.

There are handfuls of Minecraft clones, some of which work much better than Minecraft in every way, and which are Open Source. There's really no reason why Minecraft should have even been successful. When the free clones became superior, the community should have jumped ship. Sadly, inertia has won. Everybody has MC now. I gave up on the clones because I couldn't find anyone to play with, but I only bought MC on the basis that it would be Open Sourced when it was done with. So much for that plan.

Pew is the think-tank that claimed that bloggers do not engage in journalism, so my vote is "both"

You don't machine them. You spin or otherwise assemble them out of some material that will disintegrate inside the casing in the case of failure.

Yeah, who would ever think that generation methods which produce the most power when we need the most power could ever satisfy our needs?

Congratulations, you just proved that you have no idea what you're on about. Then you kept going.

So?

Engines don't have MPG ratings. Cars do.

NOx is higher and CO2 is lower per kW/h, soot is about the same but the soot is bigger so it's easier for your cilia to sweep it out of your lungs. Victory, diesel.

But what does that have to do with the price of tea in china?

Ah yes, that's a great fucking idea, given that you can often find methanol in gasoline, or MTBE, and both are toxic and readily absorbed through the skin. Why don't you just tell people to shoot themselves up with Dioxin for an encore?

What is with all the morons who won't wear gloves? You should be at worst jet black from the shoulders (I assume) to the wrists. And they also make these things called coveralls.

With diesels, the mechanic gets dirty. With gasoline engines, we all get dirty.

You mean the people who refuse to stop pointing cameras at people even though they have collectively expressed a desire for privacy because video is cool and it's the youtube age, man, and anyway the government is invading your privacy so what's the big deal anyway, man? Yeah. They're pretty terrible people.

What's your logic?

Unsupported statement.

Sure, but if it is true (Esp. after promising to release the code open source when he's done with it) then fuck him, fuck him sideways, fuck him with a rusty dildo. He's a liar and a thief and fuck him. I would never have bought in without the promise to open source the code eventually, so if he sells it now, he's a liar and fraud is a kind of theft when done for financial gain.

At least some of the clones are technically superior to minecraft, especially in the net code department where Minecraft is shit. I should not be having to mine the same block ten or twenty times because of lag. Seems like minecraft is using UDP without checking to see if packets arrive.

Yes, for two years. Then came Quake, and the Mac fanboys went back to crying into their keyboards for the year until the Mac version came out... with substantially lower frame rates than PC, dollar for dollar spent on your computer.

Which came to PC two years later, at the same quality as it was on the Mac. That was a dark time for Apple hardware.

Almost. you have to go "woohoo, I have more than you!" Because it's not just about having, it's about having more.