If not, I'm game.

we all know how popular flock turned out to be.

the event has had an increasing problem with guys showing up with cameras just to snap pics of the naked ladies, post them online, and charge people a fee to check them out. this certainly isn't the best approach to solve the problem, but there's little else they can do.

a good screen can last far longer than technology changes in delivering media to that screen.

there's a for-pay version of google apps which can be delivered over SSL. i don't know if the license terms are any different, or if the server-side storage is at all secure, but i'm willing to bet someone working for google could answer that question for you.

What if Jefferson's quote had been used in the article?

There are many fine traffic modeling journals out there. Physical Review E is not one of them. More telling is the lack of any references to any transportation journal articles regarding traffic flow models. While cellular automata approaches to modeling traffic flow have become increasingly popular in the last two decades, nothing in the abstract or citations leads me to believe they used an established traffic flow model.

they're not exactly fudging numbers

the FHWA puts out numbers valuing travel in terms of dollars. they do this for travel time and mileage, for both passenger vehicles and commercial trucks. how they get these numbers is questionable, but it's basically a combination of the money people earn from their jobs versus the length/duration of their commute. there are also breakdowns for different types of trips (work, shopping, leisure) and the length of the trip itself (a short trip has a different valuation per mile than a long one).

what the insurance people have done is to take these values and work them against the cost per mile of the variable-priced insurance policies and the average cost per mile of the fixed-price insurance policies. given some data on average trip lengths and distribution of trip purposes, you can build a monetization of travel under the two schemes.

the carbon savings comes from people driving less due to the higher cost of insurance relative to their valuation of their travel. if you're paying more for insurance because you drive to the liquor barn every other night to pick up a fifth of whiskey, you might think twice about obtaining such libation. saves money on liquor, too.

frankly, if this does go through in california and elsewhere, it could start to shift the USA away from suburbia hell back towards walkable town centers.

the modern ability to manage and/or cure a number of life-threatening conditions is greatly impacting the evolution of our species as well. people who would never have made it to adulthood a century ago are now passing on their crappy genes to their kids.

while you can mark up your HTML with CSS for print media, why bother? when i send documents around i almost always send PDF's since they'll look the same in just about every reader. if it's something somebody else needs to edit, then i usually go with an MS Word document, which is a very portable format these days.

The editorial page is a free-for-all -- journalistic ethics don't apply. The editors don't do any verification of the identity of people sending in letters because 99.9999% of people send in their own letters. The newspaper did nothing wrong here. The malicious action rests entirely with the principal.

the Internet!

you're probably more free as a citizen of your native UK than you would be as a foreign worker in some other country

think about it like being on a vacation. you can't fill every minute of every day with something unique and fun. the problem with being on a space station is that you're on a space station. there isn't much to do up there to begin with.

The trade-off is performance vs size. You can take this thing anywhere and you don't need to plug it in to the wall.