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This thread is hilarious if you use GreaseMonkey to change each instance of Elsevier to Elrentier.
If you dont and read it straight, then its very sad that the rentier business model (IP trolling, patent trolling, etc) is such viscous immorality.
A common complaint about the all-electric Nissan LEAF has been its short range, officially 75 miles on a full charge according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. To address that challenge, Nissan could add options for consumers to purchase bigger battery packs to boost the LEAF’s all-electric range, Pierre Loing, vice president of product and advanced planning and strategy told PluginCars.com. “The packaging easiness (of the battery) makes it easier to put more batteries in the car, and you will see this,” Loing said during an interview this week at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show.
EV range is such a hard problem, unless you think about it.
Nevertheless, we need to understand that $SUBJECT's inability to see reality
is rooted in his faith, and in powerful psychological conditioning,
and that will never be changed by exposure to anything as simple as facts.
Something the EPA should look at is huge health (bill) implication for veterans exposed to dense acrid smoke from open-air burn pits on military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This is a seriously appalling way to run garbage disposal: 10 acre open pit fires going 24/7 burning all camp waste.
First, there is no such thing as an "assault rifle."
Oh I get it now. All guns are DEFENCE weapons. Gotcha.
Great
The next advancement from a phone that catch on fire from overheating Lithium battery,
is a phone, with super duper silicon caps, that will experience uncontrolled disassembly.
IN.YOUR.POCKET
but I ran out of money.
64GB iPhone 5 with gold plating plus $10,000 iTunes credit.
Get that over-reaching sense of entitlement embedded early.
Back last century, returning to Australia from MacWorld Boston ('97 as it was the infamous Jobs' praising MS-IE),
I presented an empty 'pineapple' grenade, for inspection to the 'anti-hijacking' pre boarding security at Los Angeles.
I had unscrewed the fuse out of the body of the grenade and I presented the two pieces saying: "You may not like this..."
But once they saw the grenade was mounted on a small base board with a small plaque that read:
"Customer Service. Please take a number" with a square tag with the number "1" on the pull ring of the pin,
they laughed and waved me through...
Just lifted this from boing boing because it fits
Known for his biting satire and his dedication to Socialism, [dissident East German songwriter Wolf Biermann] chronicled his life under surveillance with a powerful sense of humor, and nowhere better than in the “Stasi Ballad” from 1974, with its classic refrain – “Die Stasi ist mein Eckermann.”
That is a reference to the German poet Johann Peter Eckermann, who patiently chronicled the utterances of that Olympian figure of German literature, Johann Wolfgang Goethe – ultimately published in Goethe’s Conversations With Eckermann in the Last Years of His Life, which Nietzsche called the “greatest work in the German language”. Here is an English rendition:
I feel a common humanity
With the poor Stasi dogs,
Required to sit through snow and downpours of rain
Tediously listening to me through the
Microphone they have installed
Which catches every sound,
Songs, jokes and soft curses
Sitting on the toilet and in the kitchen
Brothers from state security – you alone
Know all my troubles.
You alone can attest,
How my whole human effort
Is committed with passionate tenderness
And zest to Our Great Cause.
Words which otherwise would be lost,
Are captured firmly on your tapes,
And – I’m sure of it – now and again
You sing my songs in bed.
I sing my gratitude to you,
Stasi is my Ecker,
Stasi is my Ecker,
Stasi is my Eckermann.
Arab spring
Climate change summer
American fall
Nuclear winter
Fuck the parade.
Demand that Obama appoint Snowden to head a presidential agency charged with NSA oversight!
When I buy oranges that are naturally grown, I know what I'm getting.
RTFA please.
Your naturally grown oranges are suffering an insect-borne bacterial disease that is killing the industry, by stunting/souring the fruit.
The current BAU solution to this problem is: more insecticide. Much more.
Hope you enjoy your orange juice, now you know that it contains 3x as many pesticide residues.
The GMO technology is about saving orange juice as a product, by inserting a gene from spinach.
Monsatan really sucks. More about patent raping for $billions than better food.
It's what's for dinner!
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
