I got to play around with one of these last year at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo and I only used it for a few minutes and was feeling queasy. I don't get motion sickness. The only other place I've felt that was when I went to see the Tornado Alley movie in IMAX and was subjected to shaky cam in full IMAX glory. Not good.

This is specific to Priussies*. I drive a Camry Hybrid and have no problem at all getting up to 65 lickety split.

Before I got my car I considered buying a Prius but couldn't figure out if the car was gutless or the drivers were gutless. Either way, the Camry was a much better choice for me. And cheaper than a Prius.

*A Priussy being the driver of a Prius.

Mazda announced they're working on a hybrid system that feeds no energy directly from the engine and has no battery. It uses regenerative breaking purely to charge up capacitors which then power a motor used to add power to the drive train. It forgoes a lot of the weight inherent in the standard hybrid setup. I'm curious to see how well it'll work. It'd be awesome if you could plug it in to charge up your caps before you took off for the morning commute.

Well, actually it is, and they would if they could get away with it.

World of Warcraft can be played as a single player game if you want, pretty much. It's a single player game that gives you the option of grouping up.

The US government borrows money by issuing bonds, which are all in USD.

We could use these time dilation drugs to allow convicted criminals serve their sentences in a matter of days rather than years.

20 year sentence? You can do your time before lunch! 40+ years? You'll have to spend the night.

You are wrong :)

The amount of money you owe is set in stone. A loan of $20 is a loan of $20, even if inflation has made that $20 worth the equivalent of $10 when you first borrowed it.

If you were to borrow money in a foreign currency, then have your inflation shoot up 600%, you'd have to come up with the same amount of foreign currency, which would now be considerably more expensive in your native currency, so it would in effect cause your loan to rise 600% the way you describe.

Many loans have adjustable rates tied to indexes (in particular LIBOR), but that only affects the interest rate that is paid on the loan, not the principle itself.

Consider yourself corrected :D

The "superior" lightning cable that doesn't use USB 3.0 and fills up with pocket lint that's nearly impossible to clean out? Yeah, you're smart.

Yep. I haven't been asked for a phone number in a long, long time. I go in there looking for their closeout stuff pretty regularly.

I haven't seen a single Radio Shack in the Portland area that doesn't have a cabinet of components. Not one.

So how does that free vs proprietary translate to good programmer vs bad programmer? It's just a different skill set, like a new programming language or a new methodology.

Yeah, like all those quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies out there. They claim to be "coin", too! They're not crypto currency,either! What a scam!

Just a recommendation for lowering your local water consumption...

Well, for one, you can use it.