Or methanol, or dimethyl ester.

Both of which can be created from water, air, and power from solar or LFTRs.

In fact, carbon-neutral (and American-made) liquid hydrocarbon fuels could be a GREAT way to store sunlight for later use.

.. then why bother with the weight and complexity of an ICE at all?

I get about 390-410WH/mi in my Volt, which (assuming 33KW/gallon) is about 80MPG. That's actually a bit lower "mileage" than I could get, but I have a bit of a heavy foot. Assuming an 80% efficiency in the fuel cell, that'd be 64MPG, roughly double the mileage of a comparably-sized and -equipped car.

(and yes, I'm an early adopter, it beats smoking crack.. Barely..)

The weather didn't make me glad to leave NYC. Looking at my most recent paystub did.

incoherent light?

IMO I'd rather see laser 'sparkplugs' first, I know Ford is working on them..

There's plenty of ideas out there, but most of the good ones are ones that they NYTimes politburo disagrees with and ignores.. All of the 'great' State-embiggening social program ideas were already had, tried, and proved failures for the most part..

As far as tech goes, plenty of ideas still get funded, and some of them are even good!

LOL! Has that been upgraded lately? LTIC it was dog slow compared to Chrome, and ISTR that it wasn't terribly well threaded (loading in one tab cold slowdown loading in other tabs).. Has it kept up with Firefox Gecko?

I reverted from 5.0 to 2.8 because 5.0's DTMF implementation is horribly fucking broken and shitty. It fails consistently if somewhat randomly (that is, I can't predict _when_ in a call it will be broken, but I can predict that it _will_ be broken), and they fall back on some sort of dopey standards excuse. Alls I knows is, before the upgrade DTMF worked with any voicemail/conferencing/phonetree system I dialed with 2.8 but failed almost always at some point using 5.0. They need to digitize a PCM sample of all DTMF tones around the world and produce them for as long as you press the number key, with the appropriate tone for the appropriate country (if there's any local variations) given the phone #.

Also, while 2.8 would choke on phone #s without leading country codes (it would say that my unlimited US/Canada plan was not eligible to dial a 10-digit US number, retardation) and 5.0 seemed to handle it better, the 5.0 interface is AWFUL, and it doesn't let you put phone #s in the 'contact' text entry bar, you have to call up the dialpad.

In both directions, Southwest really was quite nice.. I even got the refundable extra seat (for wideasses) and got both of them refunded, which was cool..

An unanswered phone is a happy phone!

ps: "Bad for someone else, but OK for me to do it!" sounds an awful lot like Al Gore and learjet liberals carping on about CO2 while they have chauffeured SUVs and private jets spewing several villages worth of CO2 as they travel from junket to junket..

... bwahahah

Of course they're desperate: Yahoo is a shithole.

Taxes in Buffalo are fucking insanity. Even if you like the weather, the taxes, utilities, etc. are bullshit.

Hell, I have a ton of friends in Buffalo, but that's what IM is for. I love to visit and get the only wings worth eating, but then I get to leave and not pay the rapacious income or property tax!

Moving to a city with zero income tax and a relatively low cost-of-living, but plenty of stuff to eat, do and see. 20 Schrute bucks if you can guess which city and state ;)

At this point, I'd need to spend $80-100k per year to pay in sales tax in an average state what I'm paying right now in income tax. Fuck income tax.

Dodgeball was Twitter before Twitter.. Google bought it and fucking squandered it, stupidity of a Microsoftian degree.

I can't wait to see Facebook melt down though, too scamilicious to IPO in the US lol...

No, what I'm saying is, if the folks who SAY it's a problem don't actually BELIEVE it's a problem (judging by their actions), then I am not convinced that it IS a problem.

Do as I say and not as I do because I said so only works if you're a parent lecturing a child, and by 'works' I mean 'something you can get away with', and only until they can free themselves of you.