That's ok. As long we get to keep our birth control and our gay rights, democracy is safe, right?

Seriously, you talk about freedom and then you complain about paying market price for fuel? (I'm going to ignore for now how other taxpayers subsidize your roads and utility lines). Every choice has its costs-- if you can afford it and you really like living out there, more power to you. Just own up to it and don't come crying to us when reality smacks you in the face. I've lived in both, and suburbia is just a bigger box. You're no less controlled, taxed or poisoned to death out there. (I find the last one rather ironic in light of suburban cuisine- Walmart, Applebees, all you can eat buffets)

So true. My family's mid 80's minivan had *no* head restraints on any of the seats. And yes, it was the passenger model.

Based on the Gawker coverage, I'd say the l33tness of this hack is akin to Microsoft infiltrating the Linux Kernel Mailing List.

This will really get interesting when this data mining bot meets a DARPA pro-government sockpuppet bot... or a PR-firm social marketing sockpuppet bot... or any number of DIY real life human sockpuppets.

A '64 Pontiac GTO did 0-60 in 6.6 s and the 1/4 mi in 14.8 s. A V6 Camry can easily match that.

Big money bets on whoever's going to win. The Republicans do their bidding unabashedly, while the Democrats pay lip service to their base before doing their bidding.

One possible explanation: Population dieoffs are followed by labor shortages and hence, more egalitarian societies. e.g. Black Death and Renaissance

For just one example of many, you may want to look up "cross range capability". That was a very expensive requirement to satisfy the Air Force... for something they never used.

Ok, so they do exist in Australia, but there *must* be fewer of them! We really do have *a lot* in the US.

There's only one kind of "tort reform" that works: real universal healthcare.
- Everybody gets their injuries treated.
- Nobody has to sue each other for medical expenses.
- Personal injury and workers comp attorneys go out of business.

It's what the rest of the industrialized world does, and they pay half of what the US pays per capita on healthcare.

Not Facebook or Google? Do you do Google searches while logged in to your Gmail account?

Just as likely that they picked it up from some raw meat in a landfill or somebody's garbage pile. Think about it... Raw meat from somebody's BBQ harboring the antibiotic-resistant bacteria gets eaten by seagulls. The bacteria hitch a ride in seagulls and end up in poop.

There's something called rain and runoff. Seagull shit gets to more places than just where you see the dropping.

That's exactly this analyst's take on the situation, from that dirty hippie magazine, Forbes:

What Solyndra's Bankruptcy Means For Silicon Valley Solar Startups

But as the companies finally begin mass production — Solyndra just flipped the switch on a $733 million factory here last month — they are finding that the economics of the industry have already been transformed, by the Chinese. Chinese manufacturers, heavily subsidized by their own government and relying on vast economies of scale, have helped send the price of conventional solar panels plunging and grabbed market share far more quickly than anyone anticipated.