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Batteries Continue To Suck
pvt_medic writes "As technology continues to grow, and we see more and more of a shift to portable electronic devices in our daily life, we are still constricted by one simple thing: Batteries. Newsweek has an interesting article about the lack of development in battery technology. 'Ironically, in our headlong rush to create sophisticated untethered computing, the most problematic technology turns out also to be the oldest: those nondescript metal cylinders that never seemed to be included with our Christmas toys.' And for those of you who would like an extensive overview about batteries, ExtremeTech.com has a nice overview."
my mom sucks more
...things have become stagnant because of some logistical backwards compatible form factor issue or if it's just corporate greed not wanting to get battery lives up. The longer a battery will last, the less incentive people will have to purchase batteries more often.
Why is this article hitting the front page? The article is from back in 2001. Did anyone else notice the date?
Michael got fucking fired.
FUCKING FIRED!!!
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If batteries didn't suck, there'd be less reason to buy more.
end of story.
They tried to blame the Iraqi's for ass raping her! Wrong, she took a dong up the shitter right here at home willingly and Flint has the evidence!
NEW YORK (AP) -- Pornographer Larry Flynt says he bought nude photos of Pfc. Jessica Lynch to publish in Hustler magazine, but changed his mind because she's a "good kid" who became "a pawn for the government."
Flynt told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he bought the photos last month from the men who purportedly participated in the amateur shoot with the Army supply clerk. The soldiers "wanted to let it be known that she's not all apple pie," Flynt said.
"My first intention was to publish them, but I don't think it was the best, positive move I could make," Flynt said in a telephone interview. "She's very much a pawn for the government. They force-fed us a Joan of Arc."
In an interview with the AP on Tuesday, Lynch declined to comment on any aspect of the matter, including whether such photos exist.
Her attorney, Stephen Goodwin, said in a statement: "It's incredulous that anyone would think it appropriate in any way to attempt to publish unauthorized photos of Jessica -- photos taken before she was deployed to Iraq and before her capture and rescue."
The interview with Lynch was scheduled to publicize her biography, "I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story," which was released Tuesday. It covers the days between March 23, when her 507th Maintenance Company convoy was ambushed in Nasiriyah, and April 1, when she was evacuated from a hospital by U.S. commandos.
After her rescue, the young soldier from Palestine, West Virginia, was celebrated as a hero prisoner of war.
Goodwin also said Lynch had never claimed to be a hero, saving that description for her rescuers.
"She is and will remain -- not a Joan of Arc, not a hero -- but a young woman honestly and openly dealing with the high price she has paid for proud service to her country," he said.
Flynt said the photographs appeared to be taken in an Army barracks, and showed Lynch topless and fully nude, frolicking with the soldiers.
He would not say what he paid for the photographs, which he said he'd lock in a vault.
"Some things are more important than money," he said. "You gotta do the right thing."
Flynt has been paralyzed from the waist down since an assassination attempt in 1978. His magazine won a landmark Supreme Court decision in 1988 that held that even pornographic spoofs enjoy First Amendment protection.
I love you too, sweetie!!!!!
XOXOXOOXX
-Jennifer
Turns out the Iraquis have a little Kobe Bryant blood in them -- they like the old corn hole, too.
Five minutes after Lynch was captured, they're passing her around like a pack of smokes, fucking her in the ass, turning her into their own personal goatse man.
As Americans it is our patriotic duty to go to war overseas and kill as many filthy sand niggers as possible. Send their heathen asses to burn in Hell for all eternity. It's what Jesus wants us to do.
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The reason batteries suck is because they are bulky and short-lived. Sooo, the answer is obviously to make them smaller and to make them hold more energy. These, I believe, are the keys to better batteries. It's my honest opinion, but I'm sure I'll be called a troll because I dared to speak what I believe. I would design and develop the next generation of batteries myself, but that's a fat chance considering how impossible it is for dynamic, forward-thinking and original minds to be accepted into the scientific ivory tower occupied unjustly by their lesser peers.
Tesla had this problem licked early last century, until funding dried up, and they tore down his Magnifying Transmitter... and we're stuck without powerless - here's in 1900's:
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever
in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made. This is one of the
reasons why I feel certain that of all my inventions, the magnifying
Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future
generations. I am prompted to this prediction, not so much by thoughts
of the commercial and industrial revolution which it will surely bring
about, but of the humanitation consequences of the many achievements
it makes possible. Considerations of mere utility weigh little in the
balance against the higher benefits of civilisation. We are confronted
with portentous problems which can not be solved just by providing for
our material existence, however abundantly. On the contrary, progress
in this direction is fraught with hazards and perils not less menacing
than those born from want and suffering. If we were to release the
energy of atoms or discover some other way of developing cheap and
unlimited power at any point on the globe, this accomplishment,
instead of being a blessing, might bring disaster to mankind in giving
rise to dissension and anarchy, which would ultimately result in the
enthronement of the hated regime of force.
The greatest good will come
from technical improvements tending to unification and harmony, and
my wireless transmitter is preeminently such. By its means, the human
voice and likeness will be reproduced everywhere and factories driven
thousands of miles from waterfalls furnishing power. Aerial machines
will be propelled around the earth without a stop and the sun's energy
controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and
transformation of arid deserts into fertile land. Its introduction for
telegraphic, telephonic and similar uses, will automatically cut out
the statics and all other interferences which at present, impose
narrow limits to the application of the wireless. This is a timely
topic on which a few words might not be amiss.
(Nikola Tesla, From 'The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla')