True, you do not have a right to control the view of your public image. However, though I think âoeRight to be forgotten" is not how he should be going about ie, it would be okay for him to sue her for slander.

That should be a heads-up to her, that he grandiloquence is out of control. It also occurs to me that if anyone should be suing to be forgotten, it should be her: her essay was not only graceless, it went overboard with gracelessness. She could have been much more discreet -- praised his skill, noted that he spent too much effort on playacting, noting that he did not get an encore.

I'm pretty sure this is patented. Currie Tech came out with such a wheel, and then quickly discontinued all mention of it. Since the focus of Currie Tech seems to be Chinese imports, I suspect that their wheel is manufactured and sold in China, where such issues as IP ownership are less formidable than here.

That said, I'm not sure I'd want such a wheel, because I'd be concerned about loss of control. Every so often with my $450 currie tech bike, the pedal assist kicks in where it is unwanted, like at a light, waiting for cross traffic to end. I have a control on it: my hand brake cutout. However, I don't know that I'd have any limitation on misbehavior by a Copenhagen wheel.

I don't know whether to believe you or not. On the one hand, it sounds like a snide remark, intended to be silly. On the other hand, in 2000 I taught school at a magnet school in one of the ex-satellite countries (Lithuania), and they do use abacuses to tote up lunches. Nothing huge about that; it's not done everywhere, but if that's how the lunch lady wants to operate and it works, more power to her.

I think it was a mistake to consider them behind because they mix new technology and old. All these discussions about the failure of our schools... maybe it would be better to find a good mix.

why can't both be true? That Obama is better than the Republican alternative, and that he has hit a new low in the presidency?

Let's consider previous presidents: Can anyone argue against Reagan>GHWB>WJC>GWB>BO?

But now look where our biggest unexpected steps down were: GWB (whole new department of Terrorism, 2 wars) and GHWB (recession crash).

Not to cherrypick, I'd argue you can go back further than that.

And that isn't that Republican declared principles are wrong -- I agree with some of them them -- but the Republicans do more damage at once, given the same conditions.

But for those who want to argue that Barak's damage is worse than any, yes, I'd agree.

...of simpler times hundreds of years ago...

umm, the hard hat protects you from the idiot who left his tape measure on the I beam you're guiding.

Nonsense. The founding Fathers were avid trekkie fans. Subspace Communicators (frequency shifting cell phones) they understood. Andeif we had developed phasers instead of AK-47s, they would have had a handle on that too.

Two birds, one stone, ten mice, one cat, one bell.

Maybe Occam's razor could come in handy here. Maybe you smoked too much weed today.

Haven't you heard of Area 51 and the Zeta Reticulans?

Man, do they groove!

What use is a car if gasoline is not available on your planet, right?

You've heard of Stonehenge, haven't you?

Goodie goodie yum-yum....

The Skinkworks is where the lizardmen work.

....making fish soup.

No way.

I'll bet money that Lockheed have already had this working for years in a Black Project. I'm also willing to wager that some UFO sightings are secret experimental aircraft with fusion reactor power sources and combined electrical/thermal engines (glowing lights, hovering, vertical flight....).

Since they know it already works, they're announcing it so that they can do a (fake) clean-room reimplementation of the physics and engineering research, that makes it work, in the open so that they can get away with commercialising it/patenting it.

We live in a world where software is expected to be the kind of crap any simpleton could write.

Once upon a time, Microsoft brought out this product called Visual Basic...

Greenpeace should use a PWR to power their ships.

One fuel load lasts 30 years, there's plenty waste heat to keep the crew warm, plenty of spare power to generate electricity, and all the waste products are contained within the fuel cladding, so no pollution! And no pesky carbon dioxide, oxides of nitrogen or acid rain...

To be even greener, they could have their reactor loaded with MOX fuel i.e. reprocessed (used) uranium mixed with plutonium, thus helping to reduce nuclear waste from old reactors.

I'm sure Rolls Royce Nuclear Engineering could do them such a great deal.

Not fired. Quarantined. as is the case with the whole city. They need to take a one-month break, with robotic Amazon food and TP delivery on call.