not to mention the 'heating element' covers the thing? wtf? And it would have to be very hot to metl snow fast enough not to require plowing. And just imaging what a plow could do to it. How do they handle frost heaves and other shifts in the road bed?

this whole thing is impractical for roads... maybe walkways it might work.

tops-20 for me

its all you really need

Indeed - if anything, BSD's do much of what they claim in their FAQ that Linux does not.

At this point, it is hard to envision any OS displacing Windows/OSX/BSD/Linux without providing a radically different approach that allows users to do things not possible before

Probably unknown to many people is that US city epa estimates include driving on the highway.

Granted, you are an AC dolt. This is not so much about capitalism as it is about philantrhopy and making use of an open market to reach the goals that are set by those organizations. Put another way - Balmer, Buffet, Gates et al all could independently finance any of the NASA observatory projects. Do you seriously think they would tolerate the mismanagement, cost overruns and general stupidity that has plagued so many of those? It is not that NASA can't ultimately get the job done - they do - it is the waste of resources (people and money) to get there that is so abhorent.

perfect example of the "must have it now I'm so bored" generation. OMFG the x-ray telescope was delayed 5 years! The horror! Delayed confirmation of other planetary systems by... 30 years. 30 out of.. 14 billion. Can we seriously get over it?

and you have a ton of dough for everything else. There is no good reason to send men to mars. I'm not even sure there is a good one for establishing a base on the moon, the "lesser" challenge.

No, NASA - aka the USG - is the sugar daddy to the astro researchers. There hasn't even been thought to seeing what it would take to operate a project independently. In fact, maybe if these projects were done privately from start to finish they would not see multi billion dollar cost overruns time after time.

What historical observations is this to be compared with? By the sounds of it there is nothing prior to 2005 - certainly nothing in the 40s thru 80s. Given that the few researchers down there are not running around the perimeter of the continent checking on where ice ends and sea begins, how do we place the current observation in context? Seems that we can't.

And I have stuff dating back to the 80s. Even the ones which were abused at parties are ok.

on Arxiv is peer reviewed or even 'good' science. This would seem to fall under that category.

I have no issue with three letter agencies doing the job they were tasked to do - provide the USG with foreign intelligence gathered offshore. The problem is when they turn those same techniques inward.

And lest the foreigners cry - your governments are spying on the US too, often on behalf of your nationally domiciled corporations.

Unless you can have a controlled study where both groups take the same exams and have the same labs/assignments the "result" is meaningless.

thank you for saving me the trouble.. its hard to take anything seroiusly when they can't even get those simple figures correct.