When I was in school I was always excited to go to my science class because we did experiments.... unfortunately my kids never got to experience that due to, possible danger, funding, and insurance considerations all they did was read about it. {but they still have football}

I would rather they bring back science to science classes...

No, the point was if they knew what the conditions were like they may be able to predict short term changes based on being able to reproduce the same results multiple times in a identical ecosystem. Not that kangaroos and elephants would evolve in a place different from their natural habitat...

If you read the Verizon page they are proposing a solution... Netflix should connect directly to Verizon and pay them.

This should be an argument between level 3 and verizon we wouldn't be hearing about this at all if that bandwidth was evenly split up between 100+ services.

Really? The way I read it is there is a group of free websites that don't require any personal information so don't volunteer any, keep an extra spam catching email account to sign up with, and don't sweat the small stuff.

I automate low risk maintenance, it doesn't alleviate the responsibility for prior testing, a roll back plan, or monitoring the results, but it does save time. If you refuse to automate any of your work you would never make a deadline and wouldn't last very long where I work.

I always test in advance, have a roll back plan, only automate low risk maintenance, test the results remotely, and have a warm body on back up should the need arise. Saves a little sleep since I don't babysit the entire process just the result. I don't have physical access to most of the equipment since it's scattered across multiple data centers so I do most of my work remotely anyway.

"A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal."

This makes me giggle.. he was not aware of the bad boy effect..

I found it disturbing that as an intelligent college student working a full time job and having all my stuff together, the women often times passed me over for guys with drinking/drug problems that were drop outs, had criminal records, and were unable to hold any employment. Were these guys physically more attractive? Not really, I won that genetic lottery as well, they were attracted to me but I frequently ended up in the friend zone like most nice guys.

Sure the EPA does some good work but the EPA is not making competition. Currently convenience store/filling station owners are just not loosing sleep over "Should I install a new gas pump, charging station, or some other fuel type?"

Sadly it's competition that drives innovation, not government mandate. I'm not really sure how a new player would compete with the established infrastructure.

You would be correct, throwing statistical data and a computer driven model simulations at me only raises an eyebrow. I have neither the time or desire to dive into it to verify the interpretation for myself, and it is of little consequence. Cheaper, cleaner, more efficient, renewable energy should be a goal regardless of global warming, and sooner is better than later.

When I was sixteen a friend and I were stopped {by military police} because someone had reported gunshots in the area. We had no fire arms or drugs but the officer was certain that we did so they called the dog unit. My friend told them he was allergic to dogs and begged them to call his parents and keep the dog away from him or the car. {he was allergic to dogs and a long list of other things}

Then after ignoring him, searching with the dog, and not finding anything my friend started to have a reaction and ended up going to the hospital. The officers were dishonorably discharged and I think the one controlling the dog spent time in Leavenworth prison.

"The i3 performance in range-extending mode may be more limited than when it is running on battery power, as BMW clarified that the range extender is designed not for long-distance travel but purely as an emergency backup to keep the electric system going until the next recharging location." from the same article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

Neither are 100% what I was thinking but they may eventually be. The chevy volt is close but the 48 mile all electric range is a little to short for my use {more like 60} otherwise I could use all electric during the daily work commute and errands but still take long trips on the weekend without worrying about charging time or is there a place to charge where I'm going.

True, that's why I like electric mowers and weed eaters.

I looked it up the chevy volt gets about 38 miles electric and about 380 mile on a full charge and a full tank of gas... I'd probably just go over the electric range by a few miles everyday which is fine if it got 60 miles electric I'd have to make sure I used the gas engine occasional to make sure it didn't have problems.

I'm not an electrical engineer or anything but I keep thinking that a high performance gas or diesel generator should be able to charge one of these while driving and get good mileage {much higher than a regular gas engine} and better range. Doesn't the chevy volt already do this?