a LOT of static electricity. Why not use that to charge the car's battery? When the car is running low on juice, I can just pull off my sweater and harvest the power to recharge the battery!

I'd explain more, but I have to go to a meeting with a patent attorney...

tires heat up a little, so this tire converts the increased temperature to electricity to recharge batteries. How much does a tire heat up? How much energy can be extracted from that heat? How complex is the mechanical coupling that moves that recovered energy to the battery?

Sure you can get some electricity from a temperature difference. It might be enough to run your wristwatch. Recharge an electric car's battery? Yeah, sure, youbetcha!

Does this mean that fewer people will be sent to medical/dental misinformation sites, or is the fact checking software unable to verify information by searching through peer reviewed journals?

This ought to get the young earth/evolution deniers panties all twisted up!

If you hope to one day collect a social security check from the Ponzi scheme that it is, you'd better start welcoming immigrants with open arms.

Better yet, produce a game for Xbox or PS4 in which the players are operating drones and think that they're playing a game when they're really fragging people on the ground. You won't have to pay them- they'd pay for the privilege to play.

Don't be silly!

Have you ever seen the view from a tall building? How about from an airplane? From 18k feet you can see a lot of ground. Predator drones can stay up for many hours (maybe even days at a time).

Parrot drones fly at rock-throwing altitudes for about 10 minutes at a time. How many thousands of them (and people to operate them) do you think it would take to view the same area as one predator flying at 18k feet?

is still a rat!

The part being copied would have to be something that is unavailable otherwise and/or very costly to be worth the time/effort to counterfeit it with a 3D printer. It would have to be something for which the market is very small but very willing to pay, because if the market were large, 3D printing wouldn't make sense- you'd fabricate the counterfeit in a way that's more cost effective for producing large quantities (and would probably give a higher quality result).

Maybe parts for exotic sports cars? But who isn't going to inspect and quickly know they're looking at a fake? What exotic sports car mechanic is going to risk his reputation by buying and installing counterfeit parts?

Jewelry? Too much scrutiny applied there, too.

Nope. Anything that costs a lot is going to be scrutinized. Anything that doesn't cost a lot isn't worth counterfeiting, especially not with a 3D printer.

If there's a drone directly over my property it probably isn't looking into my home, but my neighbor's.

If someone wants to look into my windows with a drone they are probably going to do it from some distance away from my property, thus affording a better view. Unless you can get your neighbors signed up for this you're screwed.

I think it is more likely that your flash unit was disturbing the sensor than the eels.

Nicki Minaj from an angle other than the one with the camera pointing at her butt?

The science clearly demonstrates that vaccination works, period. To deny it is idiocy. Anyone can be an idiot, including some physicians. They are in the minority (and wrong) among physicians.

pro means with, con means against.

con- against, anti
scientious- science

So they want to make exceptions for stupid science deniers... THAT is the Mississippi (and the politicians) we expect!

If we can fix the NFL, maybe there's hope that we can get the drawing of congressional district boundaries out of the hands of politicians...

Nah...