So if the earth is approximately 4.54 billion years old and this clock is representing a day between creation and doomsday... Hmm, 1440 minutes in a day, 3 minutes till midnight... Carry the two...

We can expect the Earth to exist for another 9.5 million years!

Whew... I was about to panic.

We could make a civilization within the series of tubes!

Compliance car or not, they can obviously make it. Why not sell it everywhere? More importantly, if only 2 states can buy it, how the frick does it make sense to have a federal tax credit? Why the hell am I subsidizing a car I can't buy?

Pardon the Seinfeld title... The Spark seems like a good candidate for an electric car. Small, lightweight, city car. Indeed there is an electric version! But only for sale in CA and OR... What's up with that? I am in the market for a tiny city car and I am already considering a Spark. I would totally get the EV version if it was for sale in GA. There are electric cars coming out the wazoo in the area I am in, but no Spark EV for me? Seems like a missed opportunity especially considering the marketing potential of the Sparky Spark.

Sim City 2k had rail, buses, and subways. The rail worked fantastic! The other two, not so much.

Yeah, don't. I have Cities XL 2012 which is the exact same game as 2011. And the reviews are that XXL is the exact same game again... The engine crawls and there are a bunch of functional issues. That being said, the size and complexity is welcome. I think there was a lot of potential, but it is killed by a bad engine and a bad interface. Sim City 4 is a great game. My only gripes are autosaving would be nice due to crashing issues and I miss being able to randomly generate terrain... The idea of rigid regions isn't my cup of tea.

I was also shocked at the names of the two different games from two different publishers. That being said, I don't think Cities XL is that terrible of a game. It's just more of a hardcore simulator with some crappy game elements tacked on top. It is plagued by being overly complex and running like shit. But the sheer size and scope of the game is what the next Sim City SHOULD have been. Combine the depth and scale of Cities XL with the fun and usable interface of Sim City and it would have been epic.

Heck I would be happy with a stable version of Sim City 4 without the stupid regions and just standalone cities that can have randomly generated terrain.

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Powerful people in the US have a vested interest in a big government. It's the never ending circle of government cooperation with the rich. The government protects the rich in exchange for lavish "contributions" that bring the politicians into the elite class.

I'm envisioning this going the way of NASCAR and there end up being massive horse pileups to keep the crowd entertained...

Admittedly though, the limits on depth of boreholes on Earth have been due to excessive heat at depth. That wouldn't be an issue drilling through ice.

Yes and when they originally ran the Uverse, it was awesomely fast and awesomely cheap. A year later it was the same speeds and the same crappy prices as TWC was offering...

Is this one of those things that both is and is not a tax depending on what you need for it to be Constitutional?

It would be a working transmission for a radio controlled car maybe... But aside from using the 3d prints to make molds for castings, I don't see what good this does anyone.

What about those with a last name and no first? Teller? First president who won't utter a lie?

It's obviously man made climate change that is the problem with growing grapes and rice in the desert!