They have weight sensors in the seats for that very reason (or at least should).

Note that you do NOT purchase the movie on the disk, you purchase the physical media and a license to view the disk in any manner the studio decides as terms of the license.

http://www.avvo.com/legal-answ...

The first few support my stance, and the last two do not seem to, however I think they're wrong in that renting out a movie does not constitute 'disposal' of the DVD. BTW IANAL, YMMV.

...protein, for example, is used to build/repair structures and is not burned as "fuel".

I guess all of the carb-free Eskimos died from starvation - wait, no they didn't.

FWIW, the magic number '5449610000583686' mentioned in the article passes the Luhn Algorithm, and is therefore valid as a credit card number. The BIN indicates the card was/would be issued by the following bank, transcribed from this site:

Bin: 544961
Card Brand: MASTERCARD
Issuing Bank: HSBC BANK (PANAMA) S.A.
Card Type: CREDIT
Card Level: PLATINUM
Iso Country Name: PANAMA
Iso Country A2: PA
Iso Country A3: PAN
Iso Country Number: 591

FWIW, the magic number '5449610000583686' mentioned in the article passes the Luhn Algorithm, and is therefore valid as a credit card number. The BIN indicates the card was/would be issued by the following bank, transcribed from this site:

Bin: 544961
Card Brand: MASTERCARD
Issuing Bank: HSBC BANK (PANAMA) S.A.
Card Type: CREDIT
Card Level: PLATINUM
Iso Country Name: PANAMA
Iso Country A2: PA
Iso Country A3: PAN
Iso Country Number: 591

And since it was a non-US carrier, it was required to have an ADS-B mode-S capable transponder which has a burned-in hex address that cannot be easily changed, so some level of modding/diag manipulation would have to happen.

For some reason Dr. Cox's delivery irritates the hell out of me - I can't watch him for very long. I don't know if it's the pacing of his speech or what.

And Bill Nye had the ever so cute and perky Suzanne Mikawa on the show. She made a lot of teenage boys very interested in science.

That's because websphere runs by default on IBM's proprietary JVM.

... it was completely expected for the pests to overcome it ...

Let me put that in context: "it was completely expected for the pests to overcome it since the seed company bought off congresscritters to not require refuges to prevent resistance."

Your wish was once frighteningly true. Dr. Lobotomy used to drive around in his lobotomobile doing lobotomies with an ice pick.

+1 for peaking [sic] my curiosity.

That would be piquing.

I read it as "Women confirmed able to trigger 'out of body' experiences at will" and would've believed it, too.

Page 24 of their paper shows an even worse capacity vs temp curve that they arrived at experimentally. They determined that they'd have to provide battery heaters to maintain sufficient battery capacity for their needs.

The temperature is irrelevant ...

Temperature has a very large effect on the storage capacity of the batteries they use to store the generated power until needed. Currently (hah!) they bury the batteries to protect them from 'temperature extremes'. As shown in this PDF, the capacity of a gel cell drops off quickly once you hit about 0C. At -20C you've lost 50% of your capacity.

Too bad they chose a gel battery instead of an AGM one - according to this PDF, the AGM has superior low temp performance, although the gel cell tolerates deep discharges better. "Gel battery power declines faster than an AGM battery as the temperature drops below 32F (0C)."