Hopefully they'll start integrating these deCaptcha tools into Firefox and Chrome. Captchas became so hard it's impossible for mere humans to solve them.

smart uses some tech to compensate for the lack of crumple.
Basically some slightly-time-delayed absorber built-into the chassis.
The german word for it is "Tilgermasse" couldn't find a proper english term for it.
A lot of ppl fear driving smarts but being more endangered in a crash is just FUD.
Especially crumple seems to be a fetish of US car makers after their historical ignorance of it when they built massive chunks of metal that behaved the way you fear smarts would do.
It's probably already a tradition to lack behind in the automotive industry. ;)

see smart fortwo
vs BMW 5 series


not too much of a difference, except that you have higher chances to kill pedestrians in a BMW :P

IMHO the main problem is that none of the left / center / right sides have REALLY changed. They all seem to have the same views and prejudices like decades ago.
Being annoyed of hardcore capitalism doesn't mean that one is either communist or socialist. But that's what ppl seem getting accused of all the time. Center/conservative for me has the flavor of being stagnant. The right wing has that stench of chauvinism. And classic left-wingers seem too naive and unrealistic.
I for example love the "Floating above, thus transcending this question" option that's how i personally roll. Time to move on. I believe it's time to try something new altogether.

after i explained what GEMA is / does: "wtf? so they're the music-nazis of the world?"

As always with Apple products it's alot easier.
No hassle with assembly and danger of hurting yourself in the process.

And ofc all transparent and glass for cooler looks: http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/18/boost-iphone-reception-with-a-glass/

And turning conservative? Why all the hate for change? "I hate it because it doesn't look the same way as before" ?!? Same way like the latest Tips & Tricks on your flavor of OS.... latest example OSX Lion. I saw a couple of articles already that list nothing but how to turn off the newest features and make it look and behave like the old version. Then why even bother upgrading? Are you trying to become the next breed of those 50% of die-hard-2011 win-XP users because Vista was horrible once and Win7 is just a polished turd in your opionion? Let loose of the past already, it'll never come back. And it's good that way.

so you can have more than one battery bricked?

on german news they said there are no gas lines as norwegians solely use electric heating since they have an abundance of clean energy (water).

On a very questionable blog as an "original source".

Looks like someone want to drive traffic to his site.
smells fishy