A war we will win once we've incarcerated every medical marijuana patient in America if need be. Only then can we really free ourselves of the scrounge of the Taliban....or something... Enjoy.

Thomas Friedman also (and perpetually) thinks it's only about six months til we win. Enjoy.

"Dam this is harder than it appeared at first glance." Enjoy.

Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown. The eight cities included in the report are San Jose, Berkeley, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Portland, Seattle, and Boise, and the time frame of the report included the ten weeks immediately following the disaster. Why have alarms not been sounded about radiation exposure in the US? Nuclear operator Exelon Corporation has been among Barack Obama's biggest campaign donors, and is one of the largest employers in Illinois where Obama was senator. Exelon has donated more than $269,000 to his political campaigns, thus far. Obama also appointed Exelon CEO John Rowe to his Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.

It's like trying to figure out where the flush handle is on some of the more esoteric new-age toilets out there. Enjoy.

are gonna be so pissed. Enjoy.

It was a simple case of rightwing Republican dirty tricks. Whocouldanode? http://thetimchannel.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/case-closed/ Enjoy.

then they are gonna do it. I can't be the only one who has noticed that consumer/client data security is not exactly a priority concern. Enjoy.

You beat me to it. Great minds think alike. Enjoy.

It's the end of IT as we know it (and I feel fine). Enjoy.

Let's point to the many long term development projects right here in the United States. Crickets. Enjoy.

Not only do we not have the flying car we were all promised would be ubiquitous by now, we also lack a retail environment where we can purchase the parts to build one ourselves. You're going to wish you'd taken a more active role in personal manufacturing when it becomes necessary to drill your own oil well in order to be able to afford the non-flying (SUCKAGE) car you're stuck with now. Enjoy.

I have a better parts assortment just lying around the house in the form of broken electronics. It's a sad statement that I have a better parts selection to choose from in a couple of graveyard electronics items than Radio Shack has in their entire store these days. That said, I too have purchased what is likely that very same full bridge rectifier from them not that long ago. I used it to convert a section of 12 volt A/C low voltage outdoor lighting into DC for some LED stuff I wanted to mix in with my low watt AC incandescent system. That in no way alleviates the disgust I feel that they haven't been in the forefront of innovation DIY offerings. I don't think it would be an overstatement to say there's more technology available in LEGO Technic toys than the entirety of the Radio Shack domain. Maybe they sell those toys there now since they've about one third a Toys'R'Us these days anyway? At a minimum, they need to hit this Arduino thing hard. Sensors, motors, switches, breadboarding and prototyping tools, etc. And price things fairly FOR A CHANGE.

Once upon a time they were called Allied Radio Shack. That was right about 1970, which, give or take a couple years, is when I purchased my first P-Box kit. I also was the proud owner of a 50-1 electronics kit of theirs. It was back when the shell of the kit was actually made of wood. Jeebus, I'm old as shit. Their catalog was not as large as Sears back then, but it was very thick. There were all manor/brand/assortment of parts for the board level enthusiast. They got split up by the government as a monopoly in 1973. After the breakup, the stores still carried more parts than they now do, but the handwriting was on the wall. CB radios and CB radio paraphernalia were as plentiful as Ipod and their various accessories back in that era. The cell phone of the late 70's. There was an entire lingo surrounding the communications platform that would make today's basher's and grepper's proud. A proper 'gaming' rig of the era, to be considered truly bad-ass, would couple a single sideband (SSB) CB transceiver (triple the channels!) to an illegal high gain RF amplifier (aka "footwarmer" IIRC) and connect it to a dual antenna system (co-phase dual antenna). The coup de grace came in the final tuning of the antennas using an analog meter to properly adjust the 'standing wave' properties of your transmissions. Ten-four good buddy? I worked at Radio Shack in the 80's part-time while attending college. CB radio was all dead, relegated to an aisle at the nearest truckers cafe. The toys at Christmas were/are a HUGE profit center for Radio Shack. They make a bunch of money on those remote controlled Chinese manufactured toys AND they suck up $$$batteries$$$ like crazy. By and large, the Radio Shack of today is just a pale imitation of a properly stocked large Walmart electronics department. The few parts they do sell are now relegated to a couple metal cabinets. All DIY items are, and have always been, marked-up to the hilt. The few remaining parts that Radio Shack still carries are priced as if they were made from platinum or gold instead of silica and carbon. Mark-up so high it would make a pawn broker blush. Nothing would please management more than a return to the heady days when lines formed to pay 20,000% markups on quarter watt resistors. So Radio Shack is looking for suggestion? I'd suggest Radio Shack dump tons of money on Make events and promote American invention with increased vigor. Carry more hobbyist parts, and at prices that show a concern for their clientele other than just snatching as much of their pitiful weekly allowance money as possible. Ferchrissakes, Doritos haven't gotten any cheaper in the intervening years. Cut a brother some slack. Enjoy.