$5 AT&T IPv4 Address Surcharge on all smart phone accounts in 5....4....3....

Traffic circles have major downsides. First, they take up vastly more real estate than a stoplight or stop sign intersection. Second, they require drivers to know how to merge. Many many drivers no longer know how to merge correctly. In some states (Missouri), it's pathological. And third, traffic circles completely and utterly fail when traffic volume exceeds a certain threshold. That threshold varies depending on the size of the circle and the merging competence of drivers, but regardless, it is universally lower than throughput a well-timed stoplight can achieve. In older cities, traffic circles fail on the first check. There's no room for circles. End of story.

Save Complete Page in Firefox doesn't get even close to all the pieces. This must be preserved, to be played every year on May 21st. Is there a save Addon that can get it all automatically or do I have to spelunk in my cache?

It's a trap! They're just trying to encourage greater uptake of Google Chrome! 'cause it plays like crap in Firefox with a lot of tabs open, but is very smooth in Chrome, with the V8 engine underneath it.

Those evil evil Googlers...

Few people in America have Garages to charge their electric cars.

More have Street parking in front of their townhouse or single family house.

Typical myopia of a city-dweller. Try looking at numbers before talking. Cities in the US haven't changed appreciably in population since the '50s. Nearly all the population migration in the past half century was into suburbs. Where a whopping 52% of the country now lives. One of the major distinguishing factors of suburbs vs. urban areas is the high availability of both garages and private driveways. Add to that the entire rural population, another 25% of the country as of 2000. They can do practically anything they like on their property, with no homeowner's associations to worry about. So slightly more than 75% of the country is trivially able to charge an electric vehicle right now, and that ignores numerous garages in cities.

There is a potential market for a street-side charging station, but it's much smaller than you imagine.

That's already taken care of. The rolling blackouts in California were frauds, perpetrated by Enron, which was gaming the California electricity tariff system for money. A fair number of those responsible are in prison now.

There's one other good reason to use an electric car. Pure performance. Electric motors have more torque than any ICE of comparable weight. For people who drive cars for fun, not just utility, electric cars are the way to go.

You do realize that most large scale commercial air conditioning units are gas fired, right? As in natural gas? They don't use electricity for anything other than low voltage control systems.

Google actually tried that for a while. Sort of. There was a little grey X in a box near the end of each search result that would hide it on the page if you clicked it. Complete with a cute little animation of the result poofing into a cloud and contracting on itself. I used it every time I saw expert-sexchange come up in searches.

It went away a while ago. Presumably somebody wrote a bot to X every search result ahead of their own, then spammed the hell out of it.

None of the answers to you so far really come out and say it. The opinion on Slashdot is correct. Consumers have a right to consume any and every nonphysical that has been created. It's called the public domain, and copyright is intended to protect it, not stifle it.

From the very beginning of the concept of copyright, it was sold as a means to be sure that every idea is eventually available to everyone, without price. It is meant to improve the richness of free ideas by granting a short term, temporary distribution monopoly on ideas in an effort to encourage publication of ideas. Once the idea is generated and fixed in a tangible medium, the clock starts, ticks down, and then the idea is free, to everyone, everywhere.

So yes, Slashdot thinks such a right should exist, because such a right DOES exist, and has always existed, and it's a sign of how horribly twisted and warped copyright has become through the efforts of modern industrial concerns that you don't know that anymore. The right to consume ideas exists and ultimately trumps the right to control distribution, and that right is explicitly enumerated in the US Constitution. Creators are neither rare nor godlike. Nor are they worthy of your misplaced veneration.