Agreed in principal. But when the gov't defines terrorism ... anything they do will not fit that definition. I'd wager that massacre was "officially" a gov't sanctioned rezoning initiative.

Nah. The new Lumia and Nexus 4 can do wireless charging. Those happen to be Microsoft and Google's flagship phones. Apple's phones don't do it yet, so they want to sue this competitive disadvantage out of existence. I guess they are unable to compete otherwise ...

If you own AAPL ... it may be time to start selling it off and taking your gains.

They can buy it from those of us with water. Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Chicago will become the richest places in America after winning the war with Canada over the Great Lakes :)

I mean, they are removing OIL and adding WATER. The WATER is lubricating the rocks and causing them to move ... more than the OIL was?

I think I'll run out and replace the oil in my Jeep with some good old H2O!! 20 mpg here I come!!!

/sarcasm

When you figure out how to feed people oil we'll be 10x as efficient! Only mildly sarcastic there. Just how many "calories" of solar energy are used to grow that 1 calorie of food?

(From wikipedia) The approximate average value cited,[4] 1.361 kW/m, is equivalent to 1.952 calories per minute per square centimeter, or 1.952 langleys (Ly)—or, in SI units— about 81.672 kJ/m per minute.

So for any plant that produces 1 calorie of nutritional value, every square centimeter of leaf area "wastes" the VAST majority of 1.952 calories a minute!

Bottom line, conversion losses exist. Solar energy is no more useful to our bodies as direct nourishment than crude oil. Energy is lost converting either oil (as fertilizer) or sunlight into a potato ... but without that potato you'll starve.

I wouldn't say it's the statists burning our food, or at least in my limited experience it wasn't the case. I grew up in a rural Indiana town and outside of a single factory, the largest portion of its economy is corn. When I was in HS in the 90's there were a couple years when the farmers had absolutely huge yields ... so much so in fact the price of corn went through the floor. Having family members that own large farms, it literally cost them more to drag the corn to the grain elevator for sale in gas/time/pay for farmhands than it was worth. End result? Pile it up and hope the price increases. When the price didn't increase and it started to rot, burn it and take the loss.

At first I was a bit disgusted. After all, we were just talking about starving kids in Africa and Susanne Sommers makes a great pitch! But then I realized that in order to get that corn to the folks that need it, someone has to pay the farmer or HIS FAMILY will be the ones starving. (Maybe not literally starving, but they'd certainly lose the farm.)

Makes the ethanol mandates and their timing make more sense now that I think about it. A politician (or group there of) would be very likely to make the mistake "Corn is too cheap! Let's artificially create demand by using it in gasoline!" ... without taking into account the fact that not all harvests are nearly as good.

To be fair, many (most?) Chinese see Taiwan as a part of China (if the news is to be believed).

So Mitt Romney will get us to Mars first? Color me confused :)

I know this may be borderline blaphemy ... but I've always wanted a limited multiplayer component to those games. I generally play with a couple guys, mostly to drink beer and BS about life and our wives/kids and what not over the mic (in private chat of course wouldn't want to offend the tweens!) I guess it's mostly like a pokernight, but since we are now geographically dispersed it's conducted over an Xbox controller and microphone rather than a table and stack of cards.

Not interested in the MMORPG nonsense, too many people running around that we'd rather not interact with. We actually had high hopes for Two Worlds, but it was such a buggy POS that it was literally impossible to play. Think Oblivion done by interns.

But if someone could jump in and play as your follower I think it would really add to the game. Preferably 2-3 followers actually, so one of us wouldn't be left hanging :) The drop-in drop-out system could probably work something like Diablo 3 or Borderlands.

That said, for the love of Mara please don't let MP ruin it! No auction houses or anything of that nature!

Have you seen a pug? That guy was a genius :)

Problem is, more money buys better, brighter geeks.

Only if he sings "Chocolate Rain" ... *ducks

The problem generally isn't the communities of more than 1000, it's all the dispersed "neighborhoods" in the rural parts. Back in my hometown there's multiple rural parts that probably have around 500 or so people living in them, but they're all on between 5-20 acres ... with tracts of farmland thrown in for good measure. The houses will generally cluster in groups of 5 or 6 along a stretch of road, each one on multiple acres and these clusters will be a mile or two apart form each other. Thus far it hasn't been feasible (read profitable) to run cable lines out there between these dispersed clusters of houses and this is only a few miles (about 3-5) out of town where broadband is available. It's not like they are in the middle of nowhere, but they aren't organized into communities either.

If I still lived there I would want a house out there. It's a really good life, quiet, peaceful plenty of room for the kids and dogs to play. But in reality I would have to buy a house in town because of lack of broadband. My brother that still lives back home is currently in the same situation ... and he's buying in town.

I want to take one of these setups to an organic orchard and program it to shriek in agony when someone picks the fruit. That should give those vegetarian hippies something to think about!

In theory, more local congress-critters are more receptive to their constituents wants/needs than are the national politicians. For example, in my hometown they build the cores for ship/sub nuclear reactors (or is it nuculur ... lol). As you can imagine, it's a very pro-defense spending area and our local politicians do their best to make sure more subs/destroyers/carriers get built.

To make this expensive nasa stuff fly, us US-ians will need enough of the politicians to feel like their constituents have something to gain in the near/medium term from more investment in space exploration. Sadly, outside of the Cape and Houtson ... it's a bit of a hard sell. Sure everyone benefits in the long run, but short term? Really just those precious few congressional districts see any appreciable gain.

What about the moon landing? Well everyone seemingly benefited because we beat those evil commie soviets and showed them who's boss. So I guess here in 'Merica we need one of two things: money to be made and/or a villain to defeat.