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Asking for a source is not needed when Google can do the job quite quickly. More than half a dozen places in the US southwest have over 80% sunshine from sunrise to sunset, and a good portion of those are cloudless days.
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/08/01/080111-news-yuma-1-5/

As for Bouvet Island (top level domain .bi), it does technically have clouds - but the temperature year-round is just above freezing, so you can't see the clouds for high fog. All you see is grey. And due to this, there are no satellite pictures actually showing the interior of the island. http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/HPDOCS/misr/misr_html/bouvet_island.html
Only a couple of lucky photos taken by plane on rare cloud/fog-less moments.

As for Beijing, surely no source is needed for the problems they've been having lately with smog?

He must live in Detroit.

I don't even know what Prussian Blue is.. but trying to associate Ron Paul with the extreme outliers in his group of supporters is an error in reasoning. Ron Paul has some screwed up groups that support him; Ron Paul does not support the screwed up groups.

Prussian Blue was a pop duo of brainwashed blond twins who were denying the holocaust, and at the same time as pitching racist and white supremacist views. They also described Adolf Hitler as a great man with good ideas... They've changed a bit now. Still, not someone you wanted to be related to when they were active. I don't know if Ron Paul was.

Interesting, though, that it's only certain departments, not the entire company.

Somebody at Microsoft kind of needs to have a Mac if they're doing to keep writing the OS X version of Office; They also have iOS clients for Skydrive, their XBox Live gaming platform, and reports of an Office for iOS product have been floating around for a while now.

Microsoft *is* actively developing for these platforms, so if they put a blanket ban across the company, that would kind of hinder the efforts of those groups to produce a product.

quick hands on

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/02/21/022112-tech-apps-office/ /w metro interface.

The "News Corp iPad newspaper" is The Daily - http://www.thedaily.com/

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/07/21/072111-opinions-column-cafe-dalmia-1-2/

"But to the extent that carmakers have complied with CAFE, it is less through radical innovation and more by simply slashing vehicle weight. In the 15 years after CAFE standards were first introduced in 1974, vehicle weight diminished by 23 percent. But every 100-pound weight reduction results in a 4.7 to 5.6 percent increase in the fatality rate. A 2002 National Academy of Sciences study concluded that CAFE's downsizing effect contributed to between 1,300 and 2,600 deaths in a single representative year, and to 10 times that many serious injuries."

I totally agree that the cars will have to be made incredibly light in order to meet the new standards. I don't agree that so many additional deaths are worth the savings in fuel. Given a choice, you could make a decision as to whether the increased risk of dying or being seriously injured in a car accident was worth the savings to your pocketbook and the environment. Here, there is no choice, the government has decided for you - you will increase your likelihood of dying in a car wreck because we say cars have to follow these standards.

Another important point, imo, from the same article:

"Sean McAlinden, chief economist at the Center for Automotive Research, notes that it is technologically impossible to squeeze anything beyond 45 mpg in fuel economy from current vehicles. That’s why Europe’s fuel economy has plateaued at that level, despite $8 per gallon gas. The 56-mpg-mandate will require a total, top-to-bottom overhaul of cars. Every part of a vehicle from its transmission to its engine would have to be replaced."

So, even with the large taxation on fuel in Europe, they can't seem to get current technology to perform at the levels needed by these standards. Now, what costs less for these companies (ie, better for the bottom line): To completely top-to-bottom overhaul their entire manufacturing systems and pour immense amounts of money into R&D, or to lobby the government to reduce the new standards? Want to guess which one will happen?

They can skydive, have night vision, and have titanium teeth. What's so special about one prison guard dog?

Pay then entirely in Flooz.

Let the "I love my [insert brand name] PDA" comments commence!

I love my pad of sticky notes and pencil!

I wish I'd carried one of these in my CS courses.

And here's another one!
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