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NASA Summoned To Fix Prius Problems
coondoggie writes "If you want to solve a major engineering mystery, why not bring in some of the world's best engineers? The US Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today said it was doing just that by bringing in NASA engineers with expertise in areas such as computer controlled electronic systems, electromagnetic interference, and software integrity to help tackle the issue of unintended vehicle acceleration in Toyotas. The NHTSA review of the electronic throttle control systems in Toyotas is to be completed by late summer." We're really in trouble when NASA has no choice but to call Bruce Willis.
As long as there's an excuse to pay off the people that got you into office. It really doesn't matter what that may be. This gets a bump to NASA. A bump to the Auto Unions. A look over here to the power grabbers. And many other ways to distribute favors under the guise of public service.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
> We attended the same church for nearly 15 years
Quite a few neuro-scientists link religious experiences with mis-firing of parts of the brain or local attacks of epilepsy. One of those is Dr. Dick Swaab, former director of the Dutch Institute for Brain Research as it's called, and he has given a crystal clear opinion on religion in a Dutch TV series entitled "God does not exist". A transcript of what he has to say on religion and brain function can be found here (Dutch).
Now I didn't know the man, but when you're defending the notion that someone is in possession of all of his or her faculties it is not an encouraging argument to say you attended church with them for that long.