Haven't seen the whitewashing of his crimes against the populace at large that they're pushing in the schools? Don't have friends or family that live in that part of the world who lived through it? Well that's okay. Stalin was a mass murderer, like many communist and socialist dictatorships he set the tone for all the other countries that followed that same ideology. However, what's happening these days isn't any different from fascist groups who whitewash their favorite fascist leader.

This Mir/Weyland/X debate is NOT another KDE v.s. Gnome or Emacs v.s. VI. In those debates every user is able to choose what they prefer.

The display server choice is made by the software writer, not the end user. If the end user wants to use a particular piece of software, they will have to use the display server that the software requires. There is no choice.

In Ontario, where we have something similar to "Common Core" already in place. They pretty much gutted classical literature about the time I graduated from highschool in the mid-90's. If I walk down to my local highschool and ask them what they're teaching in terms of literature, you'll find insane things like "Twilight" and "Harry Potter." And I wish I was bloody well joking.

People who live in places under a similar system already know the writing on the walls with this, you can believe it or ignore it at your own peril. But don't say we didn't tell you.

That's because the marketing dept., hasn't figured out how to spin it as the next new hot thing. Like round corners.

A presidential car would never, ever under normal circumstances be allowed to run close to empty. It must be able to drive the President around all day and still have the range for any emergency that might occur at the worst possible moment and where boarding a helicopter or plane to get out of there is unsafe or unavailable, the nearest safe haven far, far away and getting out to swap cars totally out of the question. Yes, it weighs 20000 pounds and gets 8 MPG but one gallon is about 6 pounds. My guess is that it has a 50-100 gallon gas tank, 300-600 pounds for a 400-800 mile range is still less than half of the Model S's 1200 pound battery pack and I'm sure they always keep the tank over half full. By comparison the Tesla would have to drag around literally tons of batteries. Long, single haul emergency drives is pretty much the worst possible case for an electric.

Hi, thanks for the info. I actually learned something. :D

(Not a Comcast customer, tho... where I live, if you mention cable, they laugh and point.)

People don't complain about price hikes in Australia? What are you using for money down there? Friendly smiles? You just grin bigger to cover higher costs? I'll bet that makes your face hurt.

Hmm. I use Google's DNS, and eztv.it resolves for me as of two seconds ago (and has the couple of times I've been to eztv.it in the past month, too).

What DNS did you add?

There probably isn't a supply of bio-diesel in the capitol, so they'd have to chopper in the fuel. There is already an ample supply of Jet-A to fuel our hypothetical bio-diesel choppers due to the squadron of giant Marine One Sikorskys the president uses to fly to and from either of his 747s.

So yeah, a bio-diesel car could work among all those turbines, and it'll give the greentards another fine token to hang their hat on.

But since Washington D.C. already has an ample supply of electricity from its notoriously dirty 100+ year old coal burning power station, using a battery powered limo is probably the better choice. Then they can forgo the whole bio-diesel chopper supply thing and nothing says you love the "environment" quite like a genuine coal-powered car.

No, by starting something good, you can still lead the way.

For example, yes, build a Thorium reactor. If it happens to be cheaper than coal, and you don't put silly export controls on it, India and China might just go with that instead of coal. China, meanwhile, is also deploying massive amounts of solar as we speak, because Europe and the US lead the way, did the research and then outsourced production to... China.

Air pollution and CO2 emissions are not the same thing. For one, CO2 happens to be invisible to the naked eye...

[goes to look] I'm not seeing any complete, working drives at that kind of price. Those start at around $300. :(

Otherwise.... tell me more, and what to look for in such a drive used?

Last I heard, BluRay-R discs have a shelf life of about 6 months before they start losing data. Has this problem been solved??

I suggest that you enclose the spark gap so dried debris can't blow into it and ignite.