I find it a sad state of affairs when the general consensus is that I need protection from my government. It should be that the government needs protection from us, the people. I'm the one with the right to bear arms. Any guesses why I was granted that right?

Yeah. We also don't seem to even have much heavy industry. That's where all the Once-American-Now-Multi-National-Corporations took the jobs to. So why worry about something that doesn't pertain to us?

I'm glad I have it.

(At least for now... my fellow US citizens seem to be completely blind to the forces at work to destroy our privacy.)

I forget the name, but I'm pretty sure I've read an article linked from /. about a ceramic engine block prototype that was being designed to promote a more complete combustion in the cylinders. The only thing I can remember from it was that it was using the exhaust gas as a replacement for oil lubrication.

FUCKIN MAGNETS?

Vapor. The state the fuel is in when it fills the cylinder inside of which it is detonated. That's how that works.

Ditto, I just figured some of us aren't as nerdy, or perhaps as privileged (I received the wonderful gift of the TNG complete box set for Christmas 4 years ago)!

Memory Alpha details a lot of canon and non-canon information though, so I still recommend it :)

where Dr. Crusher was commanding the Enterprise. She used Dr. Raega's (Farengi scientist) metaphasic shield to enter a star's corona with the Borg in persuit, and then fired the phasers at the star just below the Borg ship.

Moral of the story? Sucks get caught in a CME.

Damnit, I already posted so I can't mod you up!