I think they might, for a few femptoseconds see a formation of particles that could, from the right angle, be mistaken for the words, "We're sorry but the universe does not have imagery at that zoom level." Or, just possibly, "We apologize for the inconvenience."

is insignificant compared to the power of the force...

Forgive me if I missed any embedded sarcasm, but you do know I was kidding, right?

Thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU!!! -Exxon.

"You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords..." - "The Operative"

That's what you get for buying into the idea of the moderated, controlled app store. Someone can control what you can put on what is supposed to be YOUR machine. That's why I won't own any Cripple products, like the iFad, iTampon, iPhony, nor will I buy a Sony Gaystation, nor any AndroidBS based equipment, etc. If I own it, I can do whatever the fuck I want with it, that's the rule. If your system is designed to allow someone else to restrict what I can do, then fuck you and fuck your system. I have a PC with Linux, and I do what the fuck I want with it. I dual boot into WinDOS to play games, (just about all it's good for) and eschew anything with a "marketplace," for that exact reason. The DMCA (Disgusting Money Control Act) and the people who use/abuse it have the ability to stop you from doing what you want, but not me. Want the latest, hotest movies, music, etc., FREE? Don't *download* them or get them from a "market," etc., just share amongst yourselves. When I was a kid and played games, my friends and I had a neat way of not all having to pay the outrageous cost of buying them. We simply traded them. When I got tired of playing Ultima III, for example, I traded it to someone for BardsTale II, and he got Ultima III in exchange for BardsTale II, etc. Sure, ONE of us had to pay for any given copy of a title, but we didn't ALL have to pay, and no one could have sued any of us because there was no electronic trail for some bitch-shyster to follow. End-of-Rant.

You can mine my movements all you want, you can even sell the info to the highest bidder, but it's worthless, I assure you. I cannot be marketed to in this way, I don't click on ads on my computer unless I am personally searching for a product... basically, to use an old analogy, I don't buy anything over the phone unless I initiated the call. So there is no way for you to get money out of me, more effectively, or indeed at all, by simply knowing my location. Sorry, you can't do it. Knowing where I am and attempting to bombard me with advertisements won't work. I am fairly confident I am not the only one who defends his hard-earned dollars that way, so the people who might sell this information are tricking the assholes who might pay for it, and so I just have to laugh, since what's being sold is utterly worthless as far as I am concerned. They might as well be making the information up.

How about digital food? DigiFoods, if you will. You know, like finger sandwiches. :)

I wonder how this post will be moderated if I remark "Good idea"?

What makes you think that's safe? Your prejudice against plastic and cardboard packaging won't help you, Lumpy. Unless you personally verified the quality of the food, water, and air going into the animals whose carcasses are being carved up at the meat counter, as well as the drugs they may have been given, you're not really any safer. The beef you get, for example, was fed with a mixture that included the extracts of OF THE FAT OF OTHER COWS, which I'm told is permitted only in some countries. (I think Japan, for instance, had the good sense to outlaw this...) since the cows can pass diseases to each other this way. It's how they make extra money off the fat they can't do anything else with, they use it to make the other cows fatter without having to buy or produce more of the other ingredients, like hay, corn, molasses, etc. I can't imagine they do things much different with other animals. As for the wheat, since the GMO wheat you're so scared of is modified before it even goes in the ground, making your own pasta won't help you, since you'll be using flour made from the same wheat. Here's what you need to do, Lump, if you really want to live "healthy" without the fear you will be contaminated by FrankenFood. Live in a cave, thousands of miles from anyone else. Raise all your own crops yourself, inside the cave, seal it off from the outside world, so the bad air won't contaminate them. Purify your own air and water, use NO spices you didn't also grow yourself. Test all the seeds and plants and animals you started with, to ensure no GMO contamination, etc., and prepare to live a miserable, sad, lonely existence. You know what, this would be way easier to do on a spaceship, or space station, off earth altogether. Why not just get off the planet, since there are so many dangers here you might eat something "bad". By the way, do you like corn? You do know that corn, A.K.A. maize, is something the Native Americans/Mexicans modified from thousands of years ago, when it started out as a species of grass, right? So no matter how pure you might think corn is, for instance, it's not. That goes for many of our other crops and animals, (domesticated) though not to the extent corn has been. You just can't get away from it, so might as well enjoy it.

Damned near anything made with the leftover bits of various farm animals could be regarded as "FrankenFood" without tinkering with anything's DNA, and people have been eating that shit by the tonne for YEARS!!! Why worry now, just because they're trying to make the garbage you call food HEALTHIER? :)

It would take more than enlarging certain items. The "over-sized starter motor" would have to provide enough power to turn the engine against its internal resistance, and keep the car going forward overcoming all the internal resistances of the parts, (with the car potentially dragging a trailer, or loaded to capacity, or both, while possibly moving into a headwind, uphill, or all of the above.) The real solution is not a half-measure like you've suggested, but just to go whole-hog hybrid. Or I guess that would be no-hog, or whatever. A starter motor is only designed to produce enough force to get the engine going against it's internal resistance, up to about the engine's idle speed. If you try to start moving the car under it's power, you have the additional internal friction of the transmission, the hubs, to say nothing of the aforementioned force needed to keep the car going. Then you have to use the starter to crank the engine (or whatever it's attached to) that much faster because of gearing. If you don't step it down, the starter motor will have to be vastly larger, (think approaching the size of the engine itself) to provide the torque at lower RPM's to move the vehicle. The added fuel consumption from having to make the car about 500 pounds heavier with all that extra starter motor, (to say nothing of extra battery) will negate the cost savings, and then some. If you go all the way to hybrid, then the advantage is realized because that vehicle is DESIGNED to do that, and the motor isn't attached to the engine in the same way, (AFAIK). In fact, I think a hybrid probably has a starter motor for the engine altogether separate from the motor which drives the wheels, which makes sense, that way the engine operates fully independently of forward speed, and the transmission doesn't need to be designed around the idea of having to also make it pull starter-motor duties. Good idea, though.

What kind of vehicle do you have? If your car is too small, or too motorcycly, or scootery, you may have to help the sensor pick you up by adding a magnet to the underside of your ride. Check the web, there are numerous sites that will give you the details. My solution to this, when the magnet trick doesn't work is twofold. One, if traffic is clear, go anyway. Hope not to get ticketed, (haven't yet). Two, avoid that intersection, and complain to the city, or whomever the authorities are who control that, because the sensors are supposed to work, if they don't, the sensitivity may be off, or the device may be malfunctioning. The people who live parasitically off your tax-money are SUPPOSED to fix it, so let them know it's not working, and they should take care of it for you.

I would not own a vehicle with this anti-technology. If I could not buy one without it, I would buy it, then rip it out/circumvent it/bypass it, or rip the antenna off, or whatever. When I come up to a light, if I am going to be idling more than what I'd guess to be a minute, I thumb the engine-stop switch, then flick it back to run. (If I were worried about wear/tear on my starter motor, or were worried about the engine restarting, I wouldn't) I already do this on my own, but I require it to be MY choice. Note that I didn't say anything about the key. That's because I have a motorcycle. If I had a car, on a hot day, and I had the windows up and the A/C going, I wouldn't want some asshole at IBM or the city's traffic management nazi HQ deciding to kill my engine (and my A/C) for me. No, thanks. Why don't they go invent something useful instead, like an off-switch for children, or a bug that can fly through the open half of a half-open window?

That those giant Smurfs in Avatar play, isn't it?