Considering the plastic is concentrated in gyres and not evenly distributed? Yes...yes that is a lot.

Nothing wrong with getting drunk, but its probably the poor decision to take your car to the bar rather than a cab or the bus.

No, mining coal is pretty bad too. The waste slurry that comes off those mines is stored in large ponds, and sometimes breaks out and devastates small communities.

DEF isnt a terrible pain, to be honest. Its just another expense. I dont have to fill the DEF tank every time, and about the 3rd fillup of my twin 150 gallon tanks is when I need to. Most fuel stops have bulk DEF at the fuel islands, I just pull out a different nozzle when I'm done fueling and press another button.

I drive a 2013 Freightliner with a DD15 15 liter diesel fitted with DPF and DEF. 300,000 miles on it. Its fairly quiet and doesnt stink a bit.

All new trucks in the US have DEF (urea) systems and DPFs now, my 2013 Freightliner doesnt belch a bit of black smoke, either.

Hitachi still makes harddrives, no?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/14/262476413/chase-says-it-will-replace-2-million-credit-cards-due-to-breach Chase is saying something different.

It could be the new Battlebots.

Cause my medication requires a paper scrip each month.. no refills... plus random drug screening to make sure I'm not selling it... go figure...

Don't diss the Aztek, yo! I still think they look neat, and sometimes I miss mine!

But I pull it only half out of my pocket, hit the button, see if the text I got was from my kids or if there's an urgent issue requiring me to leave the theater to make a call, or go home/work. So maximum exposure time is less than 3 seconds, and any light would be directly to my left (so, the stairs, or my wife...), or reflected off my pants.

I actually still use Trillian, expressly for the continuous client functionality. As there is also the iPhone app, OS X, Windows, etc, not every IM service allows you to log in in multiple locations simultaneously, and allow you to start a conversation on a mobile device, continue on a Windows box, then finish it on a Mac, and have the IM logs and history available on each one. And since a lot of my friends, coworkers, etc, don't rely only on Facebook chat, and I occasionally will send something important to someone, or they to me via IM, being able to look at 1 unified history for that person, and not needing to look on system A, B and C to find the logs, is quite beneficial.

I've seen some other clients that will do similar things, though mainly on the mobile side only (IM+). Pidgin also does not have a released binary for OS X. You can use one of the ports (Fink/MacPorts), or compile from source (people here may not have issues with that, average desktop types will), or use Adium, which uses the core of pidgin, but, so far, the only decent, and frequently updated, all in one IM program with persistence over multiple clients is Trillian.

You can get cable modems at most big box stores, amazon, newegg, best buy, etc. Xoom, Motorola, and a few others. Work fine with Comcast, though you do have to call them so they can add the HFC MAC to your account. Now, the Moto ones WILL do routing, but only when the cable network is down (ie: it'll do DHCP on the 172 range, so that when the internet dies, if you're just using a switch, your LAN connects still work, but that really only counts if you're using a switch, and each system has an IP assigned from comcast, and not using another router for wifi, etc)

Mossy 500? :D