When he gained the presidency he got rid of the more pro-Arab foreign service hired by his predecessor. He bowed to all US desideratas he could get away with without angering the local populace too much. His early career in Neuilly was largely started through his good relations with the strong Lubavitch community there. He also happens to have Jewish ancestors.

In other words, yes, it's real news if you know the slightest thing about Sarkozy. Here's a hint, if you want to know things, Fox News is probably not the way to go.

Only recently have they started getting cheaper, but not by much. Those that are noticeably cheaper are also of noticeably worse quality.

Internal combustion engines have about 25% efficiency at best.

Large scale thermal power plants achieve twice as much. You have some transmission loss, but since batteries, their chargers, electric motors and power electronics each have nearly 95% efficiency, you still come out ahead. Plus electricity can come from renewable sources, and on top of that battery charging can be deprioritized to accomodate for their intermittent nature.

Just about anyone can make a drivetrain, especially an electric drivetrain. But he's making a promising type of batteries, and those represent the bulk of the cost and difficulty in making a viable electric car.

It's a non-problem, and the "solution" is bound to be more inconvenient and more expensive than what it "fixes."

Nobody uses calculator nowadays (or at least, only occasionally), and dialing a number, in the age of online directories is .. quaint.

If Google was serious about patent reform, why would they spend $12 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility to get their patents?

Huh, let me see, it could be because as long as the patent system is not reformed, and it is not, they have no choice but to do this?

Not sure if trolling ... or just thick.

They're defending themselves, as they should.

Classical liberal economics state 3 very simple conditions for a free market to work:

1. People are rational

2. People are free to choose what to buy, and who to buy from

3. They have perfect information

There are many reasons each of those conditions need gov't help not to be annihilated:

1. People are not that rational when it comes to health and death, or when they are addicted.

2. Monopolies. 'nuff said.

3. False advertising, misrepresenting investment risks, deliberately fucking up accounting, astroturfing, ...

Most wage earners will be unaffected. Only those who hold plenty of currency will be impacted.

Such as the Linux kernel.

You're quite the comedian!

Also the track records you speak of includes many spectacular failures, including bankruptcies.

Well, it's Cobol++, but it's Cobol nonetheless.

It's a proprietary dialect of Cobol.

So much fucking better.

That's one of the major points in this change.

Keeping API compatibility slows down development. On the other hand, from what I can tell it's not that hard to update your extension to the new APIs.

- The user interface is the worst of any software product I've ever used, and I'm not exaggerating.

- The user documentation is even worse

- I'm told the developer documentation is worser still, esp. if you don't speak German.

- COBOL is so fucking awesome.

- It costs a leg, an arm, your first born and your left nuts. Oh and your soul.