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  1. Re:Global warming on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 3, Informative
  2. Re:Yes. on Online Storage For Lawyers? · · Score: 1

    I was going to suggest underwater. As in the old joke, what do you call 10 lawyers underwater?

  3. Re:Well, hm... on NASA Names Space Station Treadmill After Colbert · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe it was all a PR stunt.

    Ding, ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!

  4. Hot and Cold Mouse on Some of the Weirder Ideas From CHI 2009 · · Score: 1

    I can see this being a great idea, right up until somebody gets horribly burnt by it. Maybe it could have uses in porn?

  5. Also - twitter makes you amoral on Facebook Users Get Lower Grades In College · · Score: 1
    Can Twitter Make You Amoral? Rapid-fire Media May Confuse Your Moral Compass

    The study raises questions about the emotional cost-particularly for the developing brain-of heavy reliance on a rapid stream of news snippets obtained through television, online feeds or social networks such as Twitter.

  6. Re:Bring back proper DLC! on Bethesda Talks DLC Size and Limitations · · Score: 1

    I, for one, am waiting for a boxed set of all the DLC. I'm want to pay with real money, not Mickey Mouse Microsoft dollars (which you can't buy in exactly the right amount).

    For me, the window is closing though, I haven't played FO3 for a couple of months and I'm rapidly losing interest.

  7. Re:Precisely on Bethesda Talks DLC Size and Limitations · · Score: 1

    I have to agree. I've seen maybe one or two crashes in hours of game play and nothing that took the whole system down. Sounds like there's something else going on.

  8. Re:1 step forward, 2 steps back on Tesla CEO Says Gov't Loan Is 99% Sure and Deserved · · Score: 1

    It's Li-ion not lead-acid. Not that that makes keeping it in your living room much more attractive.

  9. Re:$50k *after* subsidies on Tesla CEO Says Gov't Loan Is 99% Sure and Deserved · · Score: 1

    Swapped out at the dealership is one thing, swapped out at in your garage or at a "gas" station is another thing. According to Tesla's site, the battery pack weights 450 kg (~1000 lbs). Not something you can just whip out quick and stick another one in.

  10. Re:1 step forward, 2 steps back on Tesla CEO Says Gov't Loan Is 99% Sure and Deserved · · Score: 1

    Sure, it's easy to swap a 450 kg (almost 1000 lbs) battery pack in your garage.

  11. Re:$50k *after* subsidies on Tesla CEO Says Gov't Loan Is 99% Sure and Deserved · · Score: 1

    battery swapping is the key.

    I don't disagree with you, but I don't think battery swapping can work without much smaller batteries. IIRC, the batteries in the Tesla are huge and take up a large amount of the space in the car. It's not as easy as popping out a couple of D-cells.

  12. Shocking! on GameStop Selling Games Played By Employees As New · · Score: 2, Informative

    Record stores (some of you maybe old enough to remember such things) play the CDs in the store before people purchase them too! Don't really see the problem.

  13. Re:Eh? BBC can't export? on Red Dwarf Returns In a 3-Part Showing · · Score: 1

    David Brent is so utterly self-absorbed that he thinks he's a great guy, though he's one of the most dreadful people you'll ever meet.

    I think it is interesting to compare David Brent (UK Office) with Michael Scott (US Office). Michael Scott, while being pathetic, is actually quite a sympathetic character. He seems to really care about his employees and wants nothing more that to be their friend. David Brent, on the other hand, has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. So, I think you might be right about Americans wanting sympathetic heroes in their sitcoms.