So, at what point do we scan through every page of the RIAA's website, find out that they have "borrowed" copyrighted javascript functions, and then we ask their ISP to shut them down? Sue them, sue their ISP, sue their website developer. I mean, if they want to "extend" copyright law, then they need to find out it works both ways.
Is it me, or does this thing resemble a V-1 just enough? I'm impressed that in 60+ years, there has been only minor advancement in this field. Apparently, Iran needs more German scientists. The biggest change is that the ordanance is now carried underneath so the vehicle is re-usable.
Usually, countries start out with a cruise missle platform, but Iran has leapfrogged right into UAV. It's probably controlled by a cell-phone too. Note the stubby wings that are reaward of midpoint, meaning the CG is probably somewhat more towards the rear as well, meaning the engine is heavier than the fuel supply and avionics. The V-1 was that way as well, even thought the pulse-jet engine on the V-1 wasn't much more than a tube and a set of flaps.
If you really want to make a statement, dump the Radar Gun and get yourself a real gun. Find a nice secluded spot and when you see a recless driver coming towards you, put a bullet through his windsheild. Or pop a tire. Either way, he gets the message.
If you're saying you're in the Middle East, chances are the people doing the reckless driving are wealthy because they are driving large, armored vehicles and are generally immune to small arms fire. So, even with a decent rifle, you're unlikely to be killing anyone, so, you don't need to worry about that, but the expensive glass getting replaced on a regular basis will cause them to slow down. Maybe. Either that, or they will find out hwo you are and kill you for laughs.
So really, the Middle East and Detroit aren't all that different. There's a lot of gun fire, women can't go outside without escorts, and everyone drives like jerks. And the rich people have their own laws that they don't have to follow, while the poor have to put up with the corrupt officials.
Once upon a time (while I was in fandom), yes, it was 99% male, and 1% female, so there was just about zero opportunity for fandom hookups.
But that has changed. Mostly due to Cosplay. Ever been to an anime con? It's now more chicks than guys, I am not kidding.
Also, the fantasy thing (dragons, wizards and so forth) has increased the female ratio at standard Sci-Fi cons. It hasn't hurt that Star Trek, Anime, Harry Potter and so forth has gone mainstream. Just look at San Diego Comic Con. It's now mostly goth chicks and vampires, thanks to Twilight.
This is *why* I don't go to cons anymore, as it's now for vapid teenagers, but for the younger crowd, this might be a good place to actually meet a girl.
I mean seriously; sometimes it seems as if only low-grade morons who were ejected from the short bus for being too stupid, are the only people who are capable (or interested) in running the local, state, and federal government positions.
Smart people, it seems, know they can make more in the private sector, but, then I have to wonder about these private-sector billionaires who then turn around and run for the public office (often using their own money as campaign funds). Did these guys suddenly realize there's more to be made in graft and corruption?
And there was just a poll (even posted here on Slashdot) that claimed that iPhone user have more sex partners.
I think there's needs to be a study that shows that 99.99% of all statistics are complete and utter hogwash and we shouldn't believe any of this bullshit.
If we can't believe that one cat can produce 420,000 more cats over the course of 5 years, then maybe we shouldn't believe any other statistic.
Maybe we need a more critical eye towards EVERY number hurled at us in information overload land.
So explain to me then how Dick Cheny and Robert Novak conspired to "leak" the name of a CIA operative that was actively engaged in operations, compromised her and everyone she had contact with, but that wasn't treason?
I think you mean "America used to be a place where you were free to live your life however you wanted to as long as you did not directly interfere with the rights of others, if you were white."
And frankly, even that's not true. America has always been about other people dictating what you could or could not do. If it wasn't the damn church messing with people's lives, it was crap like McCarthyism.
Everybody's got this idealized "Leave it to Beaver" picture about the USA in the past. But it was never like that, except on TV.
Somewhere in this world, there has to be someone really named John Doe. We need to get this person to sue the crap out of all the lawyers of the world for defaming him/her/them. Think about all the unwarranted arrests, pre-lawsuits, yadda-yadda that have destroyed the good name of this poor law-abiding citizen.
This individual needs compensation for emotional distress... LOTS and LOTS of compensation. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please strike down a mandate for all to remember by assigning punative damages in the hundreds of millions. Thank you.
And for those that reached 30 before cell phones.. You don't count.
That OK cupid blog covered a lot of crap, like how a much more expensive digital camera makes you look better and therefore more likely to get a date.
And none of the statistical analysis fits with me. No amount of f-stop can make me look better, and my number of sex partners at age 30 was still zero regardless of cell-phone type.
Of course, no one ever performs a study on people that you can't neatly pidgeon-hole. Because that would be *work*.
How about their credit scores? How about their social security numbers? Why isn't the theft of their identities treated as a netional security concern? Why isn't the buying and selling of their medical records, shopping history, the web pages they surf all a matter of national security?
Why is Wikileaks being targeted, but not TransUnion, Experian and Equifax? The government can't have it both ways (well yes, they can and often do), as it seems they are setting a double standard. It's OK to publish information about the troops if you're selling it to advertisers, but not OK to publish on Wikileaks?
Who's to say that the information TransUnion is selling is any less a threat than what's in those redacted documents? Imagine a soldier with a bad credit history being pressured to do something against national interests by someone claiming they can "fix" the credit history of the soldier...
So, the FBI doesn't care about missing PEOPLE. They only care about large corporations. And it's a good bet that large corporations don't really care if their own people go missing either, they just find someone else to fill those shoes.
So here's a great opportunity for all of us. Let's start putting bullets in CEOs, RIAA officials, etc., and make them go "missing". The FBI won't do anything about it, large corporations won't do anything about it, but, it will send a clear signal to the PEOPLE in those large corporations.
And just think about the huge cottage industry that could be built in providing security to all those scared CEOs and RIAA officials. Imagine if every high-priced lawyer needed an armored Mercedes and three guys that look like Vin Diesel just to get to work every day. Imagine if gated communities became armored, metal-plated, machine gun emplacemented, armed camps.
American could get to work again, and there'd be a lot more economic equality by providing a huge security industry that works to protect the rich from all the people that want to kill them.
All thanks to the FBI enforcing copyrights. How ironic watching people gunned down in the streets while the FBI officer handcuffs the Chinese girl selling DVDs for $5... Wait, this sounds like a pretty good script for a movie...
Twenty Three years later than what? Maybe you mean 23 years *after* Stanley Kubrick envisioned the iPad in 1968 for the movie 2001?
Stanley was off by only 9 years, a pretty good prediction, and unlike Star Trek, which almost never showed anything on the PADD, in 2001, the characters are shown watching full-screen, wirelessly streamed video to the tablet.
Frankly, the PADD was a easy device to envision, especially since you see Kirk dealing with essentially the same device in almost every TOS episode (It's a clipboard with lights).
And for some reason, the best part about TOS was gone from every Rick Berman Star Trek that followed: the background jibber-jabber on the bridge, that stuff about "gravity is down to point-eight" that is heard to make the bridge sound like there's A LOT going on... All the other bridges are dead-quiet, even the "earlier" NX-01 Enterprise.
Anyhow; Point is: Nothing new under the sun, and, to anyone who keeps his eyes open, this stuff has been around since long before ST:TNG, it's just that the internet kiddies only remember TNG because that's what *they* grew up with.
Here is Free Billions for Haliburton.. Unfortunately, we can't call it that, so it's the Bill of _____ for _____ . Trust me, this bill is nothing more than Sentators and Congressmen giving themselves and some close friends big raises at our expense, and probably fucking up our lives in some small way.
After all, any bill that actually gets anything done is shot down by one side or the other, so clearly, this is a bill that just gives money away to big companies. Those are the only bills that get passed by both sides.
Performing a Google image search for my name (which is pretty unique, I'm really the only person on the internet with my first/last name combo), and I get a lot of anime character images. And on facebook, well, they'll think I look like my cat. So, unless you "play by the rules", it's unlikely they are going to be able to *really* identify you.
As for the whole privacy issue: I would suggest that someone start a website ala Wikileaks, where they publish everything known about every corporation, and make that publically accessible. If I want to know the BP CEO's home address, how much he makes, his social security number, yadda yadda, then perhaps there will be more concern over privacy.
The only way to win is to turn it around. If citizens can't have privacy, then neither should corporations or governments. We should be working hard to open up these areas. Right now corporations have a powerful position because they are essentially running the government, and they know more about us then we do about them. But it's time we turned the tables on them and re-took control.
When people fear their government, there is opression, but when government fears the people, there is freedom.
The news media is just another arm of the entertainment industry and has all the journalistic integrity of "People Magazine". In fact "People" likely does more research than TV news.
Just look at what happened over the weekend. Chelsea Clinton got married and every network devoted 10 hours of coverage toward MAKING SHIT UP. Seriously, there was not one ounce of solid reporting, instead it was talking heads repeating hearsay testimony.
My favorite (covered by John Stewart last night on the Daily Show) was how they were guessing what the wedding was costing and you had numbers between two and six million. And then the "reporters" even admit that these numbers were coming from nothing, they ADMITTED they were pulling all this entirely out of their collective asses and none of it was true.
So, why should we believe ANYTHING the media says? If they are going to lie, and make up shit, and pull stuff out of their asses, we should assume that they are doing this for EVERY STORY. There are NO FACTS being reported.
There was that lady fired two weeks ago because some blogger cuts up her speech so she sounds like a racist. Not a single news agency did any fact checking to verify that was the speech as it was spoken -- they just repeated each other. Tell a lie to one, and they all lie, like a great big game of "Operator".
It's all lies, and anyone that thinks that "the news" is telling you anything you should accept as true gets what they deserve. Who is the greater fool, the fool, or the fool that follows him?
This seems to be the new scam for this decade. Your company/university/research-lab accounces a "breakthrough" using commonly available, cheap materials that "somehow" provide energy because the arrangement of these materials is the part no one has thought of before.
We've got: EEstor with their "ultracapacitor", Bloom Energy with the "Bloombox", Stanford's now got their Solar Gen whatever it is, there's the Science Fair Kid that made a 30% increase in PV efficiency, yadda yadda... Hell, a few weeks back even the Chinese announced a "new solar product" that was supposed to be more efficient...
Someone should go through the last 5 years of Slashdot and pull up all the articles about new energy technology and where they announce it will be available in stores in 5 years time, and let's see what the claims are versus what reality has brought us.
Because so far, all I ever see in stores or online is the same old crap that's been available since forever, plain old 12% efficient silicon-based PV panels, where you still need $2000 worth of them to run a fridge.
The Earth is trying to restore balance. Let it happen. There are too many humans on the planet. We are displacing other animals, we are causing extinctions at an accelerated rate, we are fishing the oceans bare, we are pumping oil out, and strip-mining everything.
The Earth and most of it's creatures will continue on without us. We will not be wiped out, but our numbers will be pared down. We're at what, almost 7 billion now? Cut that number at least in half to restore some balance to the planet.
When the cities flood, when the droughts come, when the food burns up in the fields and starvation is rampant, when we are resorting to canibalism, there will still be some who deny.
The bible tells the story of Noah, and how he tried to warn others of what was coming. Ironic that most of those that deny what's happening are bible thumpers. Apparently, they've never learned the stories and wouldn't recognize God if he came down and bitch slapped them.
Well mankind, your bitchslapping is coming. You can chose to prepare, or deny. It might take 100 more years, but our numbers will start dropping. We've gone from 3 Billion to 7 Billion in about 40 or 50 years, it'll probably take about 100 years to bring us back to 3 Billion.
But the planet is working on it. Remember how this year started, Earthquake after earthquake, followed by volcano. In two months we'll be discussing a new virulent strain of the flu, and then there will be more shaking, and more violent weather. Maybe we'll even get a nice rock from space. And the oil will run out.
Sure it'll take time, but it's all going to happen. We're not here forever and we're on our way down from here.
Everyone that complains about electric cars always seems to quote that there's a 10% electrical loss between the power plant and your house, but I've never heard anyone do a study of how much gasoline is lost between the refinery and your gas tank. Between spillage and evaporation, I'm willing to bet a 10% loss there as well.
Then there's the fact that a gas-engine is only 25% efficient. Most of the energy of the ICE is wasted as heat, either going to the radiator, or blown out the exhaust.
And if everyone could get solar panels on their roofs, we'd make up that 10% loss, even on cloudy days. I'm not sure how you get back the 10% loss of gasoline.
I remember reading about a woman who pulled into her own driveway and was then "carjacked" by two guys that had followed her. But she drove stick, and the theives had no idea how to operate the car. She's rolling around on her lawn laughing her ass off while the two guys kept stalling the car. They eventually fled the scene in the car they had arrived in.
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So, at what point do we scan through every page of the RIAA's website, find out that they have "borrowed" copyrighted javascript functions, and then we ask their ISP to shut them down? Sue them, sue their ISP, sue their website developer. I mean, if they want to "extend" copyright law, then they need to find out it works both ways.
Is it me, or does this thing resemble a V-1 just enough? I'm impressed that in 60+ years, there has been only minor advancement in this field. Apparently, Iran needs more German scientists. The biggest change is that the ordanance is now carried underneath so the vehicle is re-usable.
Usually, countries start out with a cruise missle platform, but Iran has leapfrogged right into UAV. It's probably controlled by a cell-phone too. Note the stubby wings that are reaward of midpoint, meaning the CG is probably somewhat more towards the rear as well, meaning the engine is heavier than the fuel supply and avionics. The V-1 was that way as well, even thought the pulse-jet engine on the V-1 wasn't much more than a tube and a set of flaps.
If you really want to make a statement, dump the Radar Gun and get yourself a real gun. Find a nice secluded spot and when you see a recless driver coming towards you, put a bullet through his windsheild. Or pop a tire. Either way, he gets the message.
If you're saying you're in the Middle East, chances are the people doing the reckless driving are wealthy because they are driving large, armored vehicles and are generally immune to small arms fire. So, even with a decent rifle, you're unlikely to be killing anyone, so, you don't need to worry about that, but the expensive glass getting replaced on a regular basis will cause them to slow down. Maybe. Either that, or they will find out hwo you are and kill you for laughs.
So really, the Middle East and Detroit aren't all that different. There's a lot of gun fire, women can't go outside without escorts, and everyone drives like jerks. And the rich people have their own laws that they don't have to follow, while the poor have to put up with the corrupt officials.
Everywhere it's the same...
Once upon a time (while I was in fandom), yes, it was 99% male, and 1% female, so there was just about zero opportunity for fandom hookups.
But that has changed. Mostly due to Cosplay. Ever been to an anime con? It's now more chicks than guys, I am not kidding.
Also, the fantasy thing (dragons, wizards and so forth) has increased the female ratio at standard Sci-Fi cons. It hasn't hurt that Star Trek, Anime, Harry Potter and so forth has gone mainstream. Just look at San Diego Comic Con. It's now mostly goth chicks and vampires, thanks to Twilight.
This is *why* I don't go to cons anymore, as it's now for vapid teenagers, but for the younger crowd, this might be a good place to actually meet a girl.
Is it because they can't get *any* other job?
I mean seriously; sometimes it seems as if only low-grade morons who were ejected from the short bus for being too stupid, are the only people who are capable (or interested) in running the local, state, and federal government positions.
Smart people, it seems, know they can make more in the private sector, but, then I have to wonder about these private-sector billionaires who then turn around and run for the public office (often using their own money as campaign funds). Did these guys suddenly realize there's more to be made in graft and corruption?
And there was just a poll (even posted here on Slashdot) that claimed that iPhone user have more sex partners.
I think there's needs to be a study that shows that 99.99% of all statistics are complete and utter hogwash and we shouldn't believe any of this bullshit.
If we can't believe that one cat can produce 420,000 more cats over the course of 5 years, then maybe we shouldn't believe any other statistic.
Maybe we need a more critical eye towards EVERY number hurled at us in information overload land.
So explain to me then how Dick Cheny and Robert Novak conspired to "leak" the name of a CIA operative that was actively engaged in operations, compromised her and everyone she had contact with, but that wasn't treason?
Really, did anyone not see this one cumming?
I think you mean "America used to be a place where you were free to live your life however you wanted to as long as you did not directly interfere with the rights of others, if you were white."
And frankly, even that's not true. America has always been about other people dictating what you could or could not do. If it wasn't the damn church messing with people's lives, it was crap like McCarthyism.
Everybody's got this idealized "Leave it to Beaver" picture about the USA in the past. But it was never like that, except on TV.
Somewhere in this world, there has to be someone really named John Doe. We need to get this person to sue the crap out of all the lawyers of the world for defaming him/her/them. Think about all the unwarranted arrests, pre-lawsuits, yadda-yadda that have destroyed the good name of this poor law-abiding citizen.
This individual needs compensation for emotional distress... LOTS and LOTS of compensation. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please strike down a mandate for all to remember by assigning punative damages in the hundreds of millions. Thank you.
And for those that reached 30 before cell phones..
You don't count.
That OK cupid blog covered a lot of crap, like how a much more expensive digital camera makes you look better and therefore more likely to get a date.
And none of the statistical analysis fits with me. No amount of f-stop can make me look better, and my number of sex partners at age 30 was still zero regardless of cell-phone type.
Of course, no one ever performs a study on people that you can't neatly pidgeon-hole. Because that would be *work*.
How about their credit scores? How about their social security numbers? Why isn't the theft of their identities treated as a netional security concern? Why isn't the buying and selling of their medical records, shopping history, the web pages they surf all a matter of national security?
Why is Wikileaks being targeted, but not TransUnion, Experian and Equifax? The government can't have it both ways (well yes, they can and often do), as it seems they are setting a double standard. It's OK to publish information about the troops if you're selling it to advertisers, but not OK to publish on Wikileaks?
Who's to say that the information TransUnion is selling is any less a threat than what's in those redacted documents? Imagine a soldier with a bad credit history being pressured to do something against national interests by someone claiming they can "fix" the credit history of the soldier...
So, the FBI doesn't care about missing PEOPLE. They only care about large corporations. And it's a good bet that large corporations don't really care if their own people go missing either, they just find someone else to fill those shoes.
So here's a great opportunity for all of us. Let's start putting bullets in CEOs, RIAA officials, etc., and make them go "missing". The FBI won't do anything about it, large corporations won't do anything about it, but, it will send a clear signal to the PEOPLE in those large corporations.
And just think about the huge cottage industry that could be built in providing security to all those scared CEOs and RIAA officials. Imagine if every high-priced lawyer needed an armored Mercedes and three guys that look like Vin Diesel just to get to work every day. Imagine if gated communities became armored, metal-plated, machine gun emplacemented, armed camps.
American could get to work again, and there'd be a lot more economic equality by providing a huge security industry that works to protect the rich from all the people that want to kill them.
All thanks to the FBI enforcing copyrights. How ironic watching people gunned down in the streets while the FBI officer handcuffs the Chinese girl selling DVDs for $5... Wait, this sounds like a pretty good script for a movie...
Twenty Three years later than what? Maybe you mean 23 years *after* Stanley Kubrick envisioned the iPad in 1968 for the movie 2001?
Stanley was off by only 9 years, a pretty good prediction, and unlike Star Trek, which almost never showed anything on the PADD, in 2001, the characters are shown watching full-screen, wirelessly streamed video to the tablet.
Frankly, the PADD was a easy device to envision, especially since you see Kirk dealing with essentially the same device in almost every TOS episode (It's a clipboard with lights).
And for some reason, the best part about TOS was gone from every Rick Berman Star Trek that followed: the background jibber-jabber on the bridge, that stuff about "gravity is down to point-eight" that is heard to make the bridge sound like there's A LOT going on... All the other bridges are dead-quiet, even the "earlier" NX-01 Enterprise.
Anyhow; Point is: Nothing new under the sun, and, to anyone who keeps his eyes open, this stuff has been around since long before ST:TNG, it's just that the internet kiddies only remember TNG because that's what *they* grew up with.
Now Get Off My Lawn.
Here is Free Billions for Haliburton.. Unfortunately, we can't call it that, so it's the Bill of _____ for _____ . Trust me, this bill is nothing more than Sentators and Congressmen giving themselves and some close friends big raises at our expense, and probably fucking up our lives in some small way.
After all, any bill that actually gets anything done is shot down by one side or the other, so clearly, this is a bill that just gives money away to big companies. Those are the only bills that get passed by both sides.
Please Mod UP Parent!
Performing a Google image search for my name (which is pretty unique, I'm really the only person on the internet with my first/last name combo), and I get a lot of anime character images. And on facebook, well, they'll think I look like my cat. So, unless you "play by the rules", it's unlikely they are going to be able to *really* identify you.
As for the whole privacy issue: I would suggest that someone start a website ala Wikileaks, where they publish everything known about every corporation, and make that publically accessible. If I want to know the BP CEO's home address, how much he makes, his social security number, yadda yadda, then perhaps there will be more concern over privacy.
The only way to win is to turn it around. If citizens can't have privacy, then neither should corporations or governments. We should be working hard to open up these areas. Right now corporations have a powerful position because they are essentially running the government, and they know more about us then we do about them. But it's time we turned the tables on them and re-took control.
When people fear their government, there is opression, but when government fears the people, there is freedom.
For copying her DNA!
The news media is just another arm of the entertainment industry and has all the journalistic integrity of "People Magazine". In fact "People" likely does more research than TV news.
Just look at what happened over the weekend. Chelsea Clinton got married and every network devoted 10 hours of coverage toward MAKING SHIT UP. Seriously, there was not one ounce of solid reporting, instead it was talking heads repeating hearsay testimony.
My favorite (covered by John Stewart last night on the Daily Show) was how they were guessing what the wedding was costing and you had numbers between two and six million. And then the "reporters" even admit that these numbers were coming from nothing, they ADMITTED they were pulling all this entirely out of their collective asses and none of it was true.
So, why should we believe ANYTHING the media says? If they are going to lie, and make up shit, and pull stuff out of their asses, we should assume that they are doing this for EVERY STORY. There are NO FACTS being reported.
There was that lady fired two weeks ago because some blogger cuts up her speech so she sounds like a racist. Not a single news agency did any fact checking to verify that was the speech as it was spoken -- they just repeated each other. Tell a lie to one, and they all lie, like a great big game of "Operator".
It's all lies, and anyone that thinks that "the news" is telling you anything you should accept as true gets what they deserve. Who is the greater fool, the fool, or the fool that follows him?
This seems to be the new scam for this decade. Your company/university/research-lab accounces a "breakthrough" using commonly available, cheap materials that "somehow" provide energy because the arrangement of these materials is the part no one has thought of before.
We've got: EEstor with their "ultracapacitor", Bloom Energy with the "Bloombox", Stanford's now got their Solar Gen whatever it is, there's the Science Fair Kid that made a 30% increase in PV efficiency, yadda yadda... Hell, a few weeks back even the Chinese announced a "new solar product" that was supposed to be more efficient...
Someone should go through the last 5 years of Slashdot and pull up all the articles about new energy technology and where they announce it will be available in stores in 5 years time, and let's see what the claims are versus what reality has brought us.
Because so far, all I ever see in stores or online is the same old crap that's been available since forever, plain old 12% efficient silicon-based PV panels, where you still need $2000 worth of them to run a fridge.
I prefer bdsmgames, but those are much more difficult to apt-get install...
USCG stole something else as well then, their Acronym. USCG is the US COAST GUARD, not the US Copyright Group. These guys should get a clue.
The Earth is trying to restore balance. Let it happen. There are too many humans on the planet. We are displacing other animals, we are causing extinctions at an accelerated rate, we are fishing the oceans bare, we are pumping oil out, and strip-mining everything.
The Earth and most of it's creatures will continue on without us. We will not be wiped out, but our numbers will be pared down. We're at what, almost 7 billion now? Cut that number at least in half to restore some balance to the planet.
When the cities flood, when the droughts come, when the food burns up in the fields and starvation is rampant, when we are resorting to canibalism, there will still be some who deny.
The bible tells the story of Noah, and how he tried to warn others of what was coming. Ironic that most of those that deny what's happening are bible thumpers. Apparently, they've never learned the stories and wouldn't recognize God if he came down and bitch slapped them.
Well mankind, your bitchslapping is coming. You can chose to prepare, or deny. It might take 100 more years, but our numbers will start dropping. We've gone from 3 Billion to 7 Billion in about 40 or 50 years, it'll probably take about 100 years to bring us back to 3 Billion.
But the planet is working on it. Remember how this year started, Earthquake after earthquake, followed by volcano. In two months we'll be discussing a new virulent strain of the flu, and then there will be more shaking, and more violent weather. Maybe we'll even get a nice rock from space. And the oil will run out.
Sure it'll take time, but it's all going to happen.
We're not here forever and we're on our way down from here.
Everyone that complains about electric cars always seems to quote that there's a 10% electrical loss between the power plant and your house, but I've never heard anyone do a study of how much gasoline is lost between the refinery and your gas tank. Between spillage and evaporation, I'm willing to bet a 10% loss there as well.
Then there's the fact that a gas-engine is only 25% efficient. Most of the energy of the ICE is wasted as heat, either going to the radiator, or blown out the exhaust.
And if everyone could get solar panels on their roofs, we'd make up that 10% loss, even on cloudy days. I'm not sure how you get back the 10% loss of gasoline.
Right on.
I remember reading about a woman who pulled into her own driveway and was then "carjacked" by two guys that had followed her. But she drove stick, and the theives had no idea how to operate the car. She's rolling around on her lawn laughing her ass off while the two guys kept stalling the car. They eventually fled the scene in the car they had arrived in.