Mainstream news is almost totally ignoring the debacle, so at least one organization is talking about it.

It's not really a conspiracy theory when gun dealers openly say, "Yeah, we knew that buyer was a drug runner but the ATF agent in our back office told us to sell him the guns anyways."

They're slow off the line because the driver is trying to keep the gas engine from kicking in.

I hate those things because they've ruined the entire concept of carpooling in the D.C. metro region since they get a solo pass for the commuter lanes.

Now get off my lawn!

If you had switched from an 80's GM to a 90's GM, you would have experienced a similar difference in performance and quality.

I have a Logitech wireless keyboard that lasts 1.5+ years on a pair of AAA batteries. That's at least 40 hours per week every week. Quite impressive, especially considering there's no on/off switch at all. I chose it because it was comfortable and the wireless feature seemed a waste, but it's been rather useful.

It also came with a wireless mouse that I don't use because I have one that's more comfortable, but it works just fine.

If they are striving for literal interpretation, they should observe that is says GOAT, not COW. Also, an older goat or some other goat's mother's milk would be fine.

Oh well, more bacon cheeseburgers for the rest of us.

I had all my vaccines at once as an adult. It was awful! Sickest I've ever been in my life!

Doctor be damned, my kids will be getting them one at a time.

I've always wondered why dentists give away toothbrushes. You'd think they would hand out candy after the visit.

Go over to the "Last year, I spent the most on ..." poll running right now. The guy who just spent $900,000 on a house
. Look at his posting history.

Doctor.

Must be tough times. He only had $600,000 cash to put down.

They all left early on Friday, came in late on Monday, and have been in a meeting ever since. It'll probably be back online sometime Thursday.

Funny thing is, they would confiscate your toothpaste, but they'd have to let me through with my gun, since I have to declare and check it in with my baggage at the ticket counter.

Satellite and Terrain tiles seem to follow similar patterns in file sizes. The 'normal' view is vast amounts of nothing. What you see in the browser is an overlay of the terrain/sat/normal PNG images plus the actual map view GIF. So you have two sets of data to analyze.

It's a lot of data. I once cached (ripped off) enough map tiles to build a mobile GPS enabled application for a small geographic area and the number of tiles is absolutely huge when you consider all the zoom levels. Triple the number of you want all three view types. If this works at all, you're looking at some serious hardware to pull it off. There's a reason Google builds data centers over hydroelectric dams.

Not to mention getting the data in the first place. Google makes it difficult to get at the raw map tiles.