That was actually a feature on the ReplayTV DVR I had circa 2004. Actually commercial skip was what got them sued out of existence by the networks and gave TiVO a virtual monopoly until the cable companies cut them off at the knees... http://www.avsforum.com/forum/...

Hmm. What is the one thing that American blacks have in their groupâ(TM)s history that makes them different than other immigrant groups? Hmm... while those other groups surely suffered discrimination and hurdles, none had the apparatus of government institutions systematically subjugate them for generations. Anti-black racism in America is an inherently different beast than the general state of racially discriminatory practice.

Electronic computers aren't revolutionary. Sure, it's a faster version of what we've been doing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... But the fundamental concept isn't new... Sometimes speed and cost fundamentally change things even if the underlying concepts aren't new.

Sure - poverty causes crime - but what causes poverty? The connections between racial discrimination and systemic poverty in the US are pretty clear... In other words, the direct relationship between poverty and criminality is mediated by race.

You sure? "These standards specifically restrict emissions of carbon monoxide (CO), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), particulate matter (PM), formaldehyde (HCHO), and non-methane organic gases (NMOG) or non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC). The limits are defined in grams per mile (g/mi)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Well, except that in this case it increases fuel efficiency because they run leaner in order to get better MPG which also reduces CO2, Hydrocarbon, and CO emissions at the cost of increasing NOx emissions. The more I look into it, it seems that the problem is that these engines run too efficiently to achieve high enough temperatures to activate the catalyst to scrub the NOx. So the EPA is basically asking to burn off more fuel in order to heat up the catalyst. I'm sure that would reduce NOx emission as a ratio with fuel burned, but I'm not sure that the absolute level of NOx emission would be lower in that mode. Either way, calculating emissions per gallon instead of per mile seems dubious to me. http://www.rx8club.com/attachm...

I concur. It would be a better world if most people learned how to do those things.

It's because Virginia charges $10/year for them. In Ohio it's $50. Personally, I think it's ridiculous to charge every year when they only have to make it once.

Um, you do realize that this was Bush, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program

That's like saying the PC wasn't a revolution because there were computers before. Sometimes scale matters a lot.

Apple should manufacture in Detroit. Thousands of unemployed manufacturing workers looking for work.

You are, like so many others, mangling the quote. What he actually said was:

"because for years I thought what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa."

Wilson's nomination sparked a major controversy during his confirmation hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee, specifically over his large stockholdings in General Motors. Reluctant to sell the stock, valued at more than $2.5 million, Wilson agreed to do so under committee pressure. During the hearings, when asked if as secretary of defense he could make a decision adverse to the interests of General Motors, Wilson answered affirmatively but added that he could not conceive of such a situation "because for years I thought what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Erwin_Wilson