Now .com is "commercial" right? Same leage as .net, .org, .info etc. The .us top domain ought to be the only one reserved specifically for the U.S. But even if the U.S. were only meddling with the .us top domain, seizing domains is like jamming radio frequencies! The dns is infrastructure! There must be other and better ways to attend problems. Go for the source, not the dns servers.

The scary part is that China probably have the "capacity" to triple their CO2 emissions, at least if we judge by how much the U.S. is capable of.

Only very recently did China surpass the U.S. in total CO2 emissions. Measured per capita the U.S. is still way in the lead. Nice animated chart om Gapminder: CO2 emissions since 1820

The funding cut will have a damaging effect on among other things American tech companies (Apple, Google and Microsoft). But most of all it hurts American reputation and influence. How can the U.S. be so out of touch with the rest of the world? UNESCO is an organisation for education and aid. Will you act the same when it comes to the IAEA (the agency that the U.S. relies on to restrain nuclear weapon development by Iran and North Korea) or the WHO (that work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to protect U.S. citizens from potential pandemics)? No, get a grips and take it like a man! You lost a voting, that's all! Happens to everyone sooner or later, and - surprise - in the U.N. and it's organizations votes do take place occasionally. It's not the end of the world, your pride can survive this and more. At least it you don't embarrass yourself before the entire world by acting this childishly. As if the debacle in the U.N. security council wasn't enough already. For God's sake try to keep some dignity or you will become the laughing stock of the entire world.

Link to article on Hägglund's new tank: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyteknik.se%2Fnyheter%2Ffordon_motor%2Fbilar%2Farticle3246446.ece&act=url Image only: http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article3246738.ece/BINARY/original/stridsvagn_468.jpg

Creativity thrives on limits. Its' not very impressive to build and ride a vehicle in 50 mph (~80 kmh) - except if it has to be powered by rubber bands only. In this case, redstone is the rubber band. Try it, its fun!

Royal Swedish Maritime museum Press release. Article in Swedish newspaper 'Aftonbladet'. In Swedish but have some nice photos and a video.

There's always going to be a need for other vehicles outside the norm - or if not a need then for fun. But its a not exactly optimal when the trucks like the Ford F-series is the norm. Those kind of heavy duty cars need a huge tax upon buying, to keep their numbers down in the used market.

Exactly my point. Isn't "54.5 miles per gallon by 2025" a rather pathetic goal?

The Prius and others are interesting experiments but it will only be a small percentage of cars sold for many years to come. We also have to look at what we can do with the rest of the fleet. 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 is an an extremely modest, if not pathetic, goal. My eight year old Citroën C5, considered a big car by European standards, is around 40 mpg. If I were to update to say a brand new Volvo V70 - also a big, comfortable and safe car - I'd do over 52 mpg (and less than 119 g/km CO2 emissions). Even a couple of years old V70 would do over 48 mpg! And we're still talking 'big' cars while the 54.4 miles per gallon by 2025 is for the average car fleet sold. Two or three years and modern cars will bloody BE at 54.4 mpg - and you will still wait for another ten years?! You might as well shut your motor industry down right now. No, the faster American motor industry gets up to modern standards the faster it gets more competitive! The Ford F-series, a dinosaur relic to be honest, is still the best selling car in the world - THAT IS F**NG AMAZING - but its more or less unsellable anywhere but in the U.S. for being so old-fashioned and having a mileage that wasn't ok even in the 70's. What will you do when if finally stops selling? The U.S. have a grand automotive heritage to defend and you are losing it. This goal is too little and too late. Where did the American confidence go? Why don't you set a goal to ASTONISH the world rather than one that makes you look pathetic. It makes me sad, I know you can do so much better than this. Fire your lawyers and get your engineers to work, you can do it if you want to!

"having a Facebook profile is like walking on a public street" [shouting your name out loud and pushing your ID up everyones face]

The big record companies share very little with the artist, but as for buying a CD or paying to download a song from iTunes (just as you can, do from Spotify if you like to!) the artists share isn't any better. So comparably it's still a reasonable price for EACH TIME a song is played by A SINGLE LISTENER, especially if you compare with what you get as an artist when your songs are played on the radio. And streaming is radio, only the listeners decide the playlist themselves. The more people play a song, the more the record companies gets, simple as that. How much (or little) that actually propagate to the artists is nothing but a disgrace, but its not Spotify's fault. The interesting amount is how much Spotify PAYS, not how much the artists actually gets. And in Scandinavia that amount has grown exponentially since the start.