If you believe that anything in politics can be "objective", I have a bridge to sell you.

Good explanation. I think italian food is incredibly better, but the way they treat you in Italy leaves a lot to be desired. I remember in the old days pre-Euro, that we exchanged USD to all sorts of currencies and only in Italy we felt they were trying to always get the best of us... We had similar negative experiences in the Czech republic some 3 years ago.

You are certifiably insane :)

Have you eaten in Italy vs. in Germany? Enough said.

You must be smoking some really serious weed. I have yet to see (in the US) any medical doctor who is not in the top 10% of income of the country (at the very least!). Get a specialization and you are easily in the top 2%. All of this "insurers set prices", "having to pay the lights" is complete BS. They see you for 6 minutes because they can... that way they can see 10 patients/hour and make 200-500 k$ salaries. Compare that to any other highly qualified professions (at > 10 years education) and you see that they have a pretty sweet deal. If this were not the case, you would not see so many applicants to medical schools, eh?

Very well said. All this "oh, we want a well rounded education" is BS from the humanities departments and/or covered discrimination. If a kid works hard and has straight A's through HS, he/she deserves a lot of credit for it and should be granted admission. No ifs or buts.

Let's see... a tire with a radius of ~0.3 m, in a car traveling at 100 mph ( 45 m/s) experiences a maximum centripetal acceleration of ~6700 m/s^2). A 1 in^2*0.5 in piece of rubber (assuming density to be ~ 1 g/cm^3) experiences a "centrifugal foce" of ONLY ~4.7 pounds! That is only 4.7 psi. So over-inflating by 20 psi MAY BE A PROBLEM.

I once put 70 psi on a tire rated for 45 (and designed to be inflated at 24 for normal ops.). Only noticed that a few days later (hey the car is really bumpy, mother said). Never had any other issue :)

m = 10^{-3}, M = 10^3.

xprotolab or teensy 3.1

Check out xprotolab (http://www.gabotronics.com/development-boards/xmega-xprotolab.htm) from Gabotronics. Not too fast or too easy to use but it is very capable and Gabo provides very good support. It is self-contained (small oled screen) but can also send info to PC over USB.

Also, the "arduino" teensy 3.1 could be used to make a USB-based scope for ca. $20 (plus some additional parts) and can have a lot of other cool uses too. Check it out: http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/tee... and http://forum.pjrc.com/threads/....

Agree! LOL!

Yes, it is a BS factor, to some degree. But Scientific Reports is not Nature... that is for sure.

The 2012 Impact Factor for Scientific Reports is 2.927. For comparison, that of Nature is 38.597. Still impressive, but please lets be precise.

What are you smoking?? WE pay for the internet service (monthly bill, anyone?). So why should Netflix have to pay on top of that?? The infrastructure? Yes, coming from your monthly bill. Duh!

Your posting is close to non-sense. Who is saying that every Cessna 172 should have this device? We are talking about AIRLINERS, and in particular those that go transoceanic routes where radar tracking is not possible. On a 767-sized plane (and above) the $100k cost IS negligible when compared to other operational costs (fuel, crew, maintenance, insurance).