http://arstechnica.com/science...

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Lovely Japanese take on the curse of distracted walking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Bump: 66% of people have run into others when using a smartphone while walking.
Fall: 3.6 % of people have fallen from a platform when texting while walking.
Trip: 18% of people have tripped when using a smartphone while walking.
99% of people think using a smartphone while walking is dangerous.
73% of people have used a smartphone while walking.
Please look forward when you are walking.
Using a smartphone while walking is dangerous.

Roast Turkey, of course.

It's RED MERCURY powered hair, derrrr.

My object all sublime.
I shall achieve in time —.
To let the punishment fit the crime —.
The punishment fit the crime —.

Space Balls

Yeah, and I want an electric pony.

There. I said it.

George: "What, the curtains?"
William: "No, not the curtains, lad. All that you can see! Stretched out over the hills and valleys of this land! This'll be your kingdom, lad!"

If you download the Times' front page image from The Intercept and explore for this bit of Python (Monty),
thank you for preserving evidence of Rupert's typical Orwellian thinkfuckery.
For your complete safety, please ensure you wash your eyes thoroughly (to match your new brain sparkle).

Actually, the major factor influencing the life span of photovoltaic panels is the corrosion of the silver metal interconnects.
The plastic backing sheet slowly absorbs water from humidity and breaks down to create corrosive acetic acid.
The fastest breakdown is the hot humid (tropics), the least is cold dry (alpine).
This failure mode has been solved for the newest panels that are made with an impermeable glass back sheet instead of a PVA backing sheet.

Please google "beef..." as it will cut down the amount of snarkasm in your posts.

As for the HECO study, try google "heco nrel study".
Oh thats right, asking for stuff as Anonymous Coward "some one do it for me NOW or I'll throw shit".

Since the US calls them skeptics and the rest of the English world calls them sceptics. I propose the following:

Climate change deniers from now on, are to be called septics.

They stink. They are pollution.They are a waste.

[Australian slang etymology: septic tank = yank]

Christopher Hitchens called conspiracy theories "the exhaust fumes of democracy".
I suggest you stop sucking the tailpipe of capitalism.

Monica got there years ago...

I predict 100% certain the next roll will not be a 7