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Barr Sues Over McCain's, Obama's Presence on Texas Ballot 918

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 18, 2008 @09:03PM from the try-getting-the-signatures-for-a-3d-party-in-pennsylvania dept.

corbettw writes "Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party's nominee for president, has filed a lawsuit in Texas demanding Senators John McCain and Barack Obama be removed from the ballot after they missed the official filing deadline."

Comment Re:I don't want to excuse the cops, but... (Score 1) 1819

by xnickmx on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @10:55AM (#20653633) Attached to: University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally

He asked for it. Totally asked for it. By being really annoying. I mean REALLY, REALLY annoying. Did you see how annoying he was? That was the most annoying thing you could ever do - ASKING STUPID AND ANNOYING QUESTIONS. They should have tased him earlier. In fact I wish police would tase people when they honk their car horns, or if they talk too loudly or have bad breath. Nothing shuts people up like tasing them. And they deserve it. Because they are so annoying. People should just stop being so annoying, then police wouldn't have to tase them. I mean really, just stop being such jerks and the police will leave you alone.

Capacitors to Replace Batteries? 499

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday June 09, 2006 @06:42AM from the going-and-going-and-going dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MIT's Joel Schindall plans to use old technology in a new way with nanotubes. 'We made the connection that perhaps we could take an old product, a capacitor, and use a new technology, nanotechnology, to make that old product in a new way.' Capacitors contain energy as an electric field of charged particles created by two metal electrodes, and capacitors charge faster and last longer than normal batteries, but the problem is that storage capacity is proportional to the surface area of the battery's electrodes. MIT researchers solved this by covering the electrodes with millions of nanotubes. 'It's better for the environment, because it allows the user to not worry about replacing his battery,' he says. 'It can be discharged and charged hundreds of thousands of times, essentially lasting longer than the life of the equipment with which it is associated.'"

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