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Joe Biden also drove a Caddy

let's see.. According to Forbes... In order of sales here's the largest 11 in the world.

VW
Toyota
Daimler
Ford
BMW
GM
Nissan
Honda
Hyndai
SAIC (Chinese)

The top 10 up there represent the major manufacturers that sell cars in the US other than Tesla and Fisker is about dead anyway.. SAIC doesn't sell anything in the US, so really what's the other 8 on his list? Some guy in a garage building kit cars?

Snap a photo of someone with a smartphone, analyze an image against a database of social media or Flickr pics and, voila, you have a name. From there, it's easy to get someone's age, hometown, interests, news coverage, you name it.

Finally a solution for stalking pretty girls in bars ;-)

FTFY.

Wait... anyone else have a sudden feeling of deja vu ?

I would say that the Time Person of the Year is worth more than the Peace Prize, just because they're more honest: they give it to people who've had a great impact on the world, not necessarily a positive impact.

Bluewater Wind has a deal to sell energy from a proposed wind farm off the Delaware cost, but it needs $800 million investment to move forward. Bluewater's project will "nameplate" at ~600 MW with average delivery of ~200 MW.

Meanwhile Delsea Energy has filed initial permit applications with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the US Army Corps of Engineers to build a utility scale wind farm project offshore New Jersey. Delsea will nameplate at 300 to 400 MWe with average delivery of ~100 MW.

Both of these projects are looking at 3 MW to 3.6 MW turbines (~200 for Bluewater Delaware, ~100 for Delsea New Jersey) that have 300 foot towers.

Kohl-bert Spays-pert?

Damn it!

I blew most of my mod points moderating tjstork as "Funny" and upmodding other rebuttals to his nonsense. Sorry I didn't see your post sooner.

Yours is one of the best summaries I've read of why the (Islamic) world is how it is, and how we might just get to experience our own version of it.

Anyhow, for an interesting perspective on whether or not China is truly a looming threat, read this: http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080803/OPINION09/808030349/1004/OPINION

(Posting anon because I've already moderated and because I don't care about karma)

For every blog that gets read, 100 newspapers (online or printed) get read. So one wonders if this lady will get a call too:

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080726/BUSINESS/807260323

If not, then Comcast is picking off small low-lying fruit instead of dealing with the larger, more widely seen issues. Silly.

Did you RTFA? Their picking off of the "small low-lying fruit" was featured in The New York Times. I'm pretty sure it's more widely read than "delawareonline.com". For that matter, Slashdot is probably more widely read than delwareonline.com.

For every blog that gets read, 100 newspapers (online or printed) get read. So one wonders if this lady will get a call too: http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080726/BUSINESS/807260323 If not, then Comcast is picking off small low-lying fruit instead of dealing with the larger, more widely seen issues. Silly.

I'm not the OP, but I believe it.

Having biological and chemical weapons lying around is a liability waiting to happen. They're hard to control, and hard to account for. (Sir, the warehouse reports that we have 5,347,761 moles of VX gas available.)

Disposing of them is environmentally hazardous. For instance, you don't really know that much about the products of the disposal reaction. Check out one story about how the disposal is problematic. (check out how many related stories there are in the side bar.)

Besides, if we needed to, how hard would it be to make more?

Here is yet another skeptic scientist:

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl e?AID=/20070201/NEWS/702010363/1006/NEWS

It amazes me how the Bush administration can spout rhetoric in total opposition to its actions, and people will still buy in.

In case you haven't noticed, there have been several "State's Rights" issues during the Bush Interregnum. In all these cases, the Bush administration has come down solidly in favor of increased federal authority.

In one of the more egregious cases, the Federal Government is in favor of redrawing the boundaries of the state of Delaware so that a large foreign-owned oil company can construct a LNG pier serving the state of New Jersey. In that case, the Bush administration is actually championing the "rights" of British Petroleum, with collusion from corrupt New Jersey authorities, to override the demonstrated will of the citizenry of the US state of Delaware.

When will US conservatives realize they've been betrayed by a pack of radical facists, who favor any corporation from any nation over the rights of any individual anywhere?

And what he doesn't want talked about is the fact that he would like to see oil companies taxed around $4B to subsidize this for California. Great, just what the public needs. More taxes on the cost of their already expensive fuel. Ethanol becoming cheaper? Sure "looks" that way when taxes artificially inflate the cost of oil even more.

I'm against subsidies, but if you're going to do them, then do it on things that make sense like that Tesla Roadster. If I were in CA, I'd be furious at this elitist ass who wants me to pay for a technology that is useless to me. If the people of CA are smart, they'll send a $100M in R&D funds to Tesla to build general purpose cars instead of this rich man's scheme to line his own pockets.

I lived in Delaware from 1984-99 and still keep up with the news from there. (I now live in the Boston area.)

Governor Minner just signed a needle-exchange bill. Story here. What scares me is all the cameras all over downtown Wilmington. Yeah, theoretically you're out in public and subject to observation, but actually observing you used to require a lot more effort than it does now. Like, a cop actually had to tail you or something. Or someone who knew you had to be in the same place and recognize you. Now you can observe a whole lot of people in an automated fashion from a central location. Add in facial recognition software and the situation is open to all kinds of abuse.

And then there are all the stories I'm reading about people ODing on heroin in Delaware. WTF?

What is this expressed as a percentage of those same companies profits?

I don't know what Hollywood's profit was last year, but the total revenues were "only" $8.95 billion. So one can safely assume that profits were substantially less than that, and thus a $5.4 billion loss due to piracy is indeed a substantial hit on their bottom line. As in, they made less than half what they could have made.

What if your employer (assuming you're employed) told you they could only afford to pay you half of your salary? Wouldn't you feel that warranted some sort of reaction on your part? Of course! Then why is everybody so surprised that the MPAA is trying to protect their products? Why are they being made out to be the bad guy when it very clearly is a huge and real problem?

"The five nominated films collectively have accounted for little more than $200 million so far, barely a ripple next to Hollywood's 2005 domestic revenues of $8.95 billion, which were down sharply as audiences proved apathetic for many time-tested movie formulas." -- Delaware Online

If anyone is wondering why this is getting a (moderate) amount of national attention, it's because Delaware's cours (for whatever reason) are usually looked at as setting precedents for the rest of the country, at least until something moves beyond a state court; this is more true for corporate and business law than for the above case.

The "blog" everyone is talking about is actually just a bulletin board and you can see Cahill discussion is continuing on it.

There's also local coverage of this event (which obviously got front-page news).

As far as the parent poster is concerned, these people are making a huge issue out of it because Smyrna is a very small town in a very small state and actions have very immediate and state-wide repercussions. (Mind you, most counties in the US are bigger than Delaware). People here try very hard here to sound important. I can only imagine the egos of some of these "bloggers" must be through the roof.

I can beat this by a mile. A friend-of-a-friend of mine got busted for changing 3 of her failing grades to A's. How? All the grades are filed electronically. She guessed one professor's password; two other times, she called up campus IT services, claimed to be a professor so-and-so, claimed she should log in, and could they change the password for her? And IT services happily went along. She was busted for (among other things) federal identity theft, which always struck me as odd since it never crossed state lines.

Astropower went bankrupt in February and was bought by GE's PV division in March.

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I also wanted to add that pigment based inkjet inks from DuPont have now also surpassed the color gamut of dye-based inks on professional as well as desktop printers.

I seem to recall a similar debate over the U.S.'s attempt to push the use of CDMA at the expense of of GSM in Iraq.

Perhaps, but that was then (when we all imagined a groovy peaceful Iraq starting a domino effect of democratisation across the Arab world), And this is now, when I can't see the mobile phone market in Iraq being very relevant for the next few years.

This is more akin to how the US has berated china over keeping its currency artifically low against the Dollar, while doing the same thing to Europe.

Or the Way the US has slammed the EU's fine against Microsoft as the 'opening shot of a trade war', While ignoring its own illegal subsidies and tariffs which have been in place for years.

The saying was, 'war is an extension of politics by other means', Today it has an addition of... " And, Politics is an extension of economics by other means".

We saw the dot com bubble burst after everyone decided thast the internet was the future of commerce, and we still have not fully recovered from that one.

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It'll catch on here, if for no other reason than because it's profitable for businesses - They get to keep 'loose change', and such. See this article for details. (Non-WSJ link, to protest their 'registration required' policy)

A good candidate for issuing such a card is probably The Gift Certificate Company.

Get with the times Germany.
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When a new user first runs pine, it asks them if they would mind sending an anonymous message that would count their use.

I still use pine. It's very very fast. Like searching for some text in a folder with 2500 messages is almost instantaneous. It also helps me cut through crap, reply quickly, and move on. Plus I don't have to use a mouse. I do have my priorities and just load up with 800 mg of Ibuprofen first!

I am old, 43, and suffering from RSI in a muscle in my right shoulder blade from using the mouse too much... However, that doesn't stop me from playing some decent first person shooters with my mouse.

Which reminds me, I was recently quoted in the newspaper here on a story about abandoning the mouse. My quote was ""If you tried to use keyboard commands for an online shooting game, you'd be dead before you could load your weapon," said Ken Weaverling, computer services manager at Delaware Technical & Community College."

I actually said "first person shooter" but the reporter changed it to "online shooting game." Still it was kinda neat even though people where I worked were wondering if they should call Tom Ridge's boys after me...

I stopped and checked 'em out this year when I saw the huge (over 200') towers along route 76 (the Pennsy Turnpike).

No dead birds under the towers.

No "annoying noise" as someone else claimed. Of course, annoying is a relative term - I am annoyed by large trucks and trainloads of coal passing by my community, and I am really annoyed by the way refineries in my area keep blowing up. (I regret that I can't find a link to the deadly 1981 explosion that literally shook three counties). But I'm not annoyed by the sights and sounds of the big modern windmills.

See this site for more info.

Here's an expanded article from the Wilmington News Journal.

The police units taking the photographs are known in some Wilmington neighborhoods as "jump-out squads" because they descend on corners, burst out of marked and unmarked vehicles and make arrests in seconds ... This is known as a "Terry stop," ... On one shift this month, the officers told a group of men after a Terry stop that they were breaking the city's loitering laws, which bar anyone from blocking passage in a public place if asked to move, and could be arrested on the spot.

During that stop, the police took the men's names and addresses, snapped their pictures and let them go.

here is a better article about the practice as well as some legal explanations for and against it. It also has quotes from people in the affected neighborhoods.