You can still steer without power steering. It's just WAY HARDER.

Speaking from experience, cars built w/o powersteering have larger steering wheels and more favorable steering box ratios. So long as your moving, turning the wheel will be difficult, but not impossible.

Steering while stopped? Forget about it.

If you run out of gas again, turn on your 4-ways and start moving over... don't stop, let the car coast. Stop once you're out of traffic. People will get out of your way. It's better than stranding yourself in the middle of traffic.

And no, I didn't lose power steering because I ran out of gas. I had a full-size van that would shut down in turns, exactly when you didn't want the power steering to fail. Granted, that van had generously geared steering, so it wasn't so bad. I could re-start the engine before I lost too much momentum. Other cars I've had motors quit on me have been worse, but still relatively easy to move.

TFA also states that it will accept modified (I assume spliced wires) controller inputs as well - computer reads them as keyboards. If I was more into ROM playing, I'd plunk the money down.

Remember the warnings on those polarized glasses?

"Warning! Do not wear outside!" Dunno if it was for spatial awareness or if the polarizing messes with your eyes in higher sunlight.

But if they can't improve on 50cm, I'm just getting a 2ft extension cord for fixed items.

(sorry for mixing units)

Oh, and didn't Northern California want to secede from Southern California?

Until when California Secedes, We'll dam up the rivers that are turning all your desert land into fertile farmland. We could always turn the water back on... for a price ;-)

Although, that would be a way to patch a cracked case

At 10,000 tons annually (assuming no down time), a reactor can gross the company $300,000 - $500,000 if they're getting $10/bbl. Assuming they're selling for a modest 5% profit, that's $15,000 - $25,000 per reactor. Hope they got a couple of reactors for that $5mil price tag.

Fortunately, at $10/bbl, they are way under competitor prices for oil, so if they end up having to pay for scrap/salvaged plastic, they have room to increase the price.

The summary mentions that the end product can be blended with crude. Can the product be refined on its own, or is it inferior quality to light sweet crude? Will this be another blend of gasoline/diesel to advertise? 10% recycled oil, 10% ethanol, reformulated, etc.

...just make sure your steel-shafted umbrella isn't the highest structure in the immediate area.

I've almost wanted to learn the song, just so I could do it when asked. Fortunately, I stopped playing after college, so I don't get the request anymore ;-)

Kanye's the jackass. Didn't you see TMZ? ;-)