Take a look at Amazon's patent history. First, they kill Barnes and Noble with one of the most obvious and trivial patents ever issued, the infamous 1-click patent, and now they've patented a photo on a white background. Very nice. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...

You've omitted from your calculations the fossil fuels required to raise the corn and produce the ethanol. This is significant.

Excellent sanity check!

You're right. The crux of powering cars is the efficient storage of energy.

No, electricity is a bunch of electrons. Stop hugging the electrons and they won't be so excited!

It's much simpler.

It's a battle with paperclips through the plastic thermostat shield. Once when the AC was too cold, I won the battle by going outside and flipping the master breaker on the compressor.

That's got to be really embarrassing, especially for all the people who didn't catch the error.

It would be nice if the Oklahoma Legislature would use some of this money to halt its war on education. With 22% annual budget cuts, Oklahoma schools aren't doing so well.
http://newsok.com/report-oklahoma-leads-nation-in-percentage-of-cuts-to-school-funding/article/3882174

Slashdot does not care one whit. You are no longer the customer. The more time of yours they can waste, the more money they make selling it to their customers.

This is absolutely right. It's also easier to write, in many cases. Most scientific applications don't need things like lambda expressions or derived classes. Many people who write applications as tools in their research don't want to spend time learning esoteric aspects of languages.

Injection wells are the cause, according to USGS.

Slashdot won't take this comment because I typed it too fast, so I'll type some more. Apparently Slashdot designers no longer use keyboards, because their new site is so cumbersome and slow to use with a keyboard, and they have no clue how long it takes to type a comment.

Sure, if you consider the bribes, campaign contributions, lobbying gifts, and other payouts.

You are incorrect. For example, the National Park Service ordered their rangers to begin using the term "Climate Change" and stop using "Global Warming" around 2005 or 2006. This also took place in many other agencies that dealt with the public. Previously, "Global Warming" had been used in official publications.

Get a cheap, new VHS player. It's higher quality than the expensive ones were 30 years ago. Something like Toshiba SD-V296. A used one will probably work, but you're taking a chance that it's sold because it's unreliable.