The US may be able to supply its own energy, but US oil is still a part of the worldwide oil market, and prices here fluctuate based on world events. East Asia is screwed in the short term because scheduled deliveries of oil are not happening, but in the long term hypothetical that the disruptions continue they'd switch to get their oil from somewhere else, and everyone's prices would go up.

$10 isn't all that much these days. Around where I live burger flippers make 50% to 100% more than that.

I say, welcome to the long tail, enabled by technology. In the past few days I've listened to songs whose performances span more than a half century, and whose compositions span ~350 years.

New artists are now in competition with hundreds of years of music. And they're now competing in a space where most people are renting their music, where people don't have their childhood libraries already purchased; new music competes with old music for money via stream nums.

Boogers. Responded to the wrong post.

I say, welcome to the long tail, enabled by technology. In the past few days I've listened to songs whose performances span more than a half century, and whose compositions span ~350 years. New artists are now in competition with hundreds of years of music. And they're now competing in a space where most people are renting their music, where people don't have their childhood libraries already purchased (and thus would bias toward purchasing new music); new music competes with old music for money via stream numbers.

A village in the middle of nowhere salvaging washing machines sounds like a place where mining BTC will be in direct competition with powering lights.

Why are delivery drivers tipped in the first place? Just have them do the job and pay them for it.

Having a chauffeur in every car and loading cars one at a time make this system look very unscalable.

A developer cannot reach an Android user through the App Store, but I do have three app store applications on my Android phone, all of which I've used to install apps.

Shatner is bilingual. He speaks Esperanto. Or, at least, he could when he made a movie spoken in Esperanto.

The Hobbit was published in 1937, while the Lord of the Rings was published in 1954 and 1955.

According to Herbert his screenplay was "awful".

"I did a screenplay and it was awful. It was too long. It lacked the proper visual metaphors. I was too close to the book to be able to see it as a film. David didn't have that problem. Working on this film with David has taught me one great deal about taking the printed word, a screenplay, and making it into a film."

Right near the end of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rTvjJxUebA&feature=related

Because kicking 2/3 of the drivers off the roads is being less of a nanny than making people wear seatbelts.

The problem with shaky cam is that it is trying to give the impression of a camera and/or cameraman inside the action. But that's not what I want. I want to be in the action. Not through the proxy of a camera. My eyes and brain have the ability to compensate for a good amount of shaking. When I see shaky cam it pulls me out of the movie, because I am painfully aware that this is not what it would look like were I in the action.

I understand that by not giving something the eye can focus on they are attempting to replicate the confusion and frenzy that take place in battle, but I think there are better ways to convey these.

Also, when they had the unsteady camera filming the conversation between Kirk and Pike in the bar that was way too much. Unless I'm drunk over at the next table and can't sit upright for the life of me I don't expect to be bobbing about.