Why is it that liberals and leftists almost always find "racism, sexism or something along those lines" even when it doesn't exist. Boggles the mind. If I said dogs eat their own vomit, I'm sure somewhere some liberal is flipping out because of it.

Yeah except that with our current farming methods and land use, we have plenty of room. And if we use some of the more fertile places in the world just for food production instead of turning food into fuel, we could easily support another 3 billion, and upwards of 7 billion people.

Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that you're also an ardent environmentalist? And with that, you have strong Malthusian leanings.

How funny that it's the left who always, and I mean *always* bring up some form of racism, or sexism, or who knows what else in order to try and attack a person, or a point. Really now, I guess when that's all your views and talking points centre around--that's all you can say.

Useful protip: We don't have confederate flag draped tents in Canada.

Plenty of them do, you're just not listening to the right ones. Boortz, and Rush do, so do several other smaller hosts that are on a smaller number of stations(under 20). Oh and the tea party does, but obviously they're racists for doing so(because that's what the flappy headed fools in the media say).

We've had the same problems in Ontario(pretty damn far north from Florida). The heavily domesticated bees are suffering colony collapse, wild bees are thriving, in the last 5 years I've had 4 new hives pop up on my property in different areas. And my property isn't big, 38x120ft. Each time, I got my cousins boyfriend to come and collect the hives. These hives are doing fine, with only a normal 10-30% winter die off. While his heavily domesticated bees are suffering upwards of 50% or collapsing unless a new queen is transplanted from another hive.

Yeah you should just stop right about now. Here's some fun facts, a 3 year top of the line PC is more powerful than the current generation of consoles. My 2 year old PC, which I build for $600 was ranked 3rd fastest in the world in the Phenom II X4 965/560ti category with WHQL drivers for roughly two weeks, without any baseline tweaks. I haven't benched out my current one, but that one ran me right around $500. And with that $500, I'm playing at 1080p, getting a nice steady 40-60fps, on a AMD X6 FX-6300 w/ Sapphire 7950.

Now, if you're dropping $800-1k on something, and not beating the current generation of consoles you are: Buying from the wrong places, or live in a part of the world with massive import tariffs.

Try about half of that. Or right around the cost of the "next gen" consoles, and will still be more powerful.

Pft filthly lies. Everyone knows that it costs $4000 to build a gaming rig. /console fanboys

Crop growers need bees. Beekeepers supply bees. When bees die, beekeepers make more. Maybe crop growers pay more and prices increase a little.

If pesticides on crops are killing bees, crop growers might have to decide whether they want the benefit of the pesticide at the cost of paying more for bees. It's probably not a hard calculation for them.

This is only "alarming" for drama people.

There's no danger of a fuel shortage. The new US centrifuge enrichment plant is up and running, and the second section of the plant is under construction.

This is a reasonable idea. The items to be delivered are small and light, and pharmacies tend to have a customer base within a few miles. Many pharmacies already deliver. This would be cheaper and faster than sending out people in cars and trucks to carry tiny packages.

Here's a list compiled in 2011.. The last of the "orginal 27" patents expires on March 28, 2014. MPEG-LA has later patents, but maybe you don't need the technology they cover, or can attack those patents.

Having worked for a company a decade ago, where the Indian government tried to blackmail them for "back taxes" I'm going to hazard out on a line that it's probably not on Nokia's end.

The original application on which this is based is dated May 3, 1999. So this predates Bitcoin. Only prior art earlier than the priority date is relevant.

The life of the patent counts from the priority date, so this patent, if issued, will run out in 2019. The USPTO doesn't consider this patent to contain patentable subject matter; they've issued a 101 Non Final Rejection. (You have to look up the patent application in USPTO Public PAIR to see this. Public PAIR has the status info for all patents as they go through examination, and images of all the actual documents. All the letters and forms back and forth between the applicant and the USPTO are in there. PAIR is kind of slow, and there's a CAPTCHA to prevent it from being scraped in bulk, so the data in PAIR isn't indexed by search engines.)

No, DVDs use some of the newer MPEG 4 features. But online video doesn't need all that stuff. Youtube, Netflix, etc. are probably within the base MP4 spec, for which the patents have mostly expired.