If the EV is not used in Southern California, but say - Minnesota in February - how much of the "Waste" heat from the gasoline engine is currently used to heat the car and melt the ice on the windshield - and how much energy will it take in an EV to deal with that issue? How much will that energy use drop the range of the vehicle? How much is the energy delivery of the Lithium Ion batteries affected by being -25 degrees Farenheit?
or do we assume that all EVs in Northern climates are stored when not in use in heated garages? And how much additional energy does that take?
With all of the recent jabbering from the left about the seperation of powers, it is time that the Legislative Branch be reminded that their job is to make laws, not to conduct trials (under the pretense of "oversight"). That's the job of the Executive Branch to prosecute and the Judiciary to judge.
If Oil Executives are making "excessive" profits, then prosecute them under an existing law. If there is no such law, then pass a law and see if the Judiciary declares it not Constitutional - but remember the Consitution prohibits "ex post facto" laws against actions before the law was enacted.
And when all the oil in the country dries up because the oil companies leave the oil business, then we can vote out the politicians who thought it was their job to define what a "fair" or "excessive" profit is for a business... and/or we can then put the government in charge of all means of production and declare that Communism was right after all.
I did a rough "back of a napkin" calculation on a similar thread a few months ago... To replace all of the oil consumed today by vehicles (which is *not* all the oil we use).. it would about triple the demand for electrical power for the United States.
In order to triple the capacity with only nuclear power (which don't emit CO2), you would need to build about 12 times the current number of nuclear power plants.
That doesn't begin to address the issues of electricity distribution. In SouthWest Connecticut, there is already a shortage of transmission capacity. The "I'm going to die from cancer from the power lines" crowd has forced decades of delay in building new power lines or increasing voltages... they finally reached a deal to increase the voltage, but at the cost of having to bury most of the transmission lines.... now the A/G of the State of Connecticut is saying he is going to take the ISO-NE to court because they had the audacity to say that the costs of burying the power lines will result in higher rates.
And you want this when?
Any why exactly are we still burning oil in New England to heat homes?
And how well does an electric car work in Minnesota in February? Possibly a nice idea in Silicon Valley, but imagine how well those ion lithium batteries will hold up overnight outside in the cold... or in Texas out in the sun all day...
Unforunately, I don't think the submitter thought his ignorant question about the "stupid" car companies was rhetorical. Reality is a real bitch sometimes.
How many years do you think it will be before there is no functioning device capable of reading a DVD? How many people have a functional 8 track player today (other than the oddball colletor) or the spare parts and technical knowledge to repair one?
This entire presentation (which I actually read) fits into the category of "If it was really that important, someone would have done it by now". The PDF is clearly intended to draw support for keeping an obsolete facility alive for no real purpose other than to keep people employed during the twilight years of their career chasing after the ghosts of their youth.
After the few hours of Apollo 11's time on the moon, the public quickly lost interest in the moon, the Apollo program and NASA. There are very few people outside the program who can even name any of the Apollo astronauts after Apollo 11. For those not born after about 1965, they have no first hand memory at all of this event. Should you recover these tapes, those people will likely say "But why isn't it in color? I'm not going to waste my time watching that"...
It's a shame that NBC reused all of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show tapes from my youth - but life has gone.
As to where Sam Preecs is (a very unusual last name), a quick search shows there are a handfull of Preecs in the Maryland area - most would be the age to be his children... (assuming he was 50ish in 1969). For those who didn't look at the details, Sam Preecs was the Warehouse Manager where these alleged tapes were supposedly stored after they left the National Archives. Maybe someone should consider picking up the phone and calling them?
Not that anybody is going to notice this or care, but the author of the original BLOG entry that was referenced in this Slashdot story has retracted his original point associating the JAPANESE company Sony running an ad campaign in Europe as having some connection to racial attitudes in the United States:
"The previous closing paragraph of my post on the PSP ads - where I mentioned the sensitivity of racial themes in the US - has attracted a lot of criticism from readers. I of course, didn't mean to imply that there are no problems with racial tension in Europe - that would be lunacy. However, in the very short space I can lend to such issues in a videogame blog, I was trying to hint at cultural differences in the way such matters are handled.
I realise, however, that the paragraph caused offense for which I apologise - especially to our American readers. It has now been changed."
Is there any country in the world that is more monoracial and lacking in diversity than Japan?
"He [The President] shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient"
The Executive Branch (of which the FBI is a part) has always had the ability to propose legislation to the Legislative Branch - which is under no obligation to actually do anything with it.
Do you not believe FDR's staff wrote the first draft of the New Deal Legislation? Lyndon Johnson's Great Society?
The thing that people may be overlooking is that the chance that anyone at the FBI above the level of the Administrative Assistants has ever even logged into a computer is pretty small - and the higher up you go in management, the more so that is likely to be true. If you think back, there were stories here about how most FBI agents still don't even have email accounts.
Back in the early 1980s, I worked at a place where the only guy in the IT department with the really expensive 3279 color terminal was the Boss - and the one or two times a year he *had* to use the computer, he needed help in order to login. This is not atypical. In most organizations, the people at the top are the ones least reliant on technology to do their jobs. If you don't believe that, it just means you haven't had contact with them.
Just curious - does the terminology used in the article imply that this network of easily compromised computers were *nix systems?
I remember references in Levy's book to some people in the described hacking community at MIT also having a propensity for lock picking, breaking into safes, and crawling through ceilings to bypass security doors.
That's not showing off their programming skills by finding a clever way to write a smaller, tighter, faster piece of code to perform some useful computer function to improve society - it was criminal activity - period. That may be why part of the reason "hacking" picked up some of its negative connotations.
In fact, it was Robert Rubin - who had been Clinton's Secretary of the Treasury who tried to intervene in November 2001 (on behalf of CitiGroup) to keep the Enron scheme from unraveling.
(Rubin was not charged with any criminal act - which I'm sure Martha Stuart must have some thoughts about)
The Enron criminal conspiracy was built up during the Clinton years - it unraveled after the Clintons left office. To blame Enron on George Bush is like blaming the policemen when your brother-in-law gets caught robbing a bank.
One reason is that the "Y" chromosone is passed from father to son unchanged. It contains no DNA from the mother. The only difference between father and son would be a spontaneous mutation.
So if things are "normal" (in the Western sense) - meaning that the paternity of the child is correct, and the child is given the last name of the father, then there is a direct correlation between the DNA pattern of the Y chromosome and the surname of any male with that last name. (of couse, those are some pretty big caveats...)
This makes identifying possible male suspects about 100x easier when the name of the suspect is not known.
"WASHINGTON--The Clinton administration, acting at the direction of the president and first lady, created a massive computer data system with federal funds in 1994 to keep tabs on as many as 350,000 people, including large political donors, Democratic campaign workers and visitors to the White House."...
Privacy, Schmivacy.
Google WhoDB if you want to know more.
Like how Sheryl Hall (the person reponsible for the develpment of the WhoDB) was fired at the direction of Hillary Clinton when she refused to allow the system to be modified and accessed to accommodate illegal purposes related to Democratic Party fund raising activities....
A real O/S filesystem needs defrag!
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The main described change / advantage in this proposed ext4 is that the notion that a file's allocation is tracked via "extents" (a specified number of contiguous 2k blocks) rather than a chain of inode pointers (with up to 3 levels of indirection).
This is based not only on the need for a larger maximum file system, but a recognition that there is significant performance advantage to reducing read/write head movement and initiating large reads from consecutive blocks that can take advantage of the high transfer rates of today's drives. (this assumes that the OS filesystem doesn't attempt/require that the entire disk drive be cached in RAM to get decent performance)
Except for "write once" files, over time this will cause files to become physically spread over the disk and the performance benefit is reduced, unless a process periodically consolidates the blocks back into a contiguous series of blocks (ignoring for the moment that on today's disk drives, blocks may be "spared" into place that are not really physically consecutive, but just logically appear to be)...
One of the "proofs" that *nix is superior to other O/Ss has been the absence of a need to "Defrag" the file system.
A commenter on the article also raises the question of why the "right" solution isn't to increase the 2k block size limit rather than rework the internals of the block pointers, and got the response that since the linux kernal manages memory in 2k blocks, it is a nightmare in the kernal to support larger I/O transfers (although others here seem to indicate this is one of the solutions people have implemented)
Isn't "extents" a concept contained in NTFS? Has anyone looked into the patent implications of these proposed changes?
The obvious reason for the WGA tool needs to check in periodically with Microsoft is that at some point Microsoft may discover that an "authentic" properly licensed copy of Windows starts to be distributed by the warez kidz (or installed by some small computer store not properly paying Microsoft for the copies of XP) - and that original legitimate copy is then used to create unlicensed copies in violation of the EULA.
This would be similar to the notion of SSL certificates. Even though the certificate says it is valid, since it may at some point be revoked by the issuer (or the issuer may have its authority revoked), it is necessary to check the trust chain periodically, even though the certificate says it hasn't expired and tested as valid last time it was checked.
XP looks at serial numbers on the hardware (like the MAC id on the NIC card, serial# on the c: drive) to tie down a copy to a specific computer. Their mechanism recogizes that over time, people will replace hard drives, or maybe a NIC card.... but if "too many" of those identifying characterstics change at the same time, then they assume that the copy of XP has been moved/copied to another computer and forces a reactivation.
The EULA (section 13) addresses the issue of transferring your XP license to another computer: "You may move the Software to a different Workstation Computer. After the transfer, you must completely remove the Software from the former Workstation Computer."
"Why does everyone expect the federal government to pay for their excesses in terms of where they live?"
Most of these programs are step-children of the Rural Electrification Act, part of FDR's vision of it being good "public policy" to redistribute wealth from the urban areas to the rural areas. Without Federal intervention in the free market, the rural areas would be too costly to develop the infrastructure and people in the cities would end up paying more for food and the rural areas would be mired in poverty....
The fact that each state has 2 Senators, regardless of population, also encourages this type of "balance" in public policy.
FDR had little regard for the 9th and 10th amendments in the Bill of Rights and saw basically no limits to Federal power as long as it was for a good reason. It would be an interesting exercise to take that definition of fascism that was posted a few days ago, and compare it to FDR's actions.
Regarding an earlier rant about "only Republicans" start wars over oil... the reason that Japan attacked the US and brought us into WW2 was because of FDR's oil embargo against Japan following Japan's invasion of French Indochina (the country later renamed Viet Nam)...
Don't they teach any history in school any more? [rhetorial question]
- telling you how much water your toilet can use each flush - telling you that you can't build on the land you own because it is upstream from a wetland - telling your car company what its average fuel economy must be - telling you that you can't grow almonds without being part of the Blue Diamond co-op and paying mandatory marketing fees and stay within production limits - telling a restaurant owner that they cannot allow customers to smoke inside the building that they own
If someone went to all this trouble, wouldn't the purpose be to make "free" outgoing phone calls on that account? Their claim is that they are being billed for incoming phone calls they did not receive.
How would it be possible for a perfectly "cloned" phone to receive incoming phone calls and yet the "real" phone never ring when the real owner got a phone call to them? Wouldn't the caller question why the wrong person answered the cell phone and contact the real owner using another method to ask why? (email, land line, visit them in person)
When you hear hoofbeats, it is probably a horse, not a zebra. I'm betting that the partner knows something they are not telling.
I put together a graph overlaying global ocean surface temperatures for the past 10 years (with the Y axis = avg(past 10 years)) and cellular telephone ownership. The correlation is undeniable. Cell Phone Ownership causes global warming.
Was any consideration given to using an optic system so the driver would not have to tilt their head up to steer? Not only should it reduce wind resistance, it would be a lot more comfortable for the driver...
For extra credit, does the measurable increase in ocean temperature mean that the oceans are less able to absorb CO2 or do the oceans start releasing sequestered CO2? Are we positive that the Global Warming Theory doesn't have cause and effect confused? Or is it a positive feedback cycle that is about to explode out of control?
I've heard that some medical diagnostics (for instance radiologists looking at X-rays and writing a report on the findings) is already being done remotely in India.
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If the EV is not used in Southern California, but say - Minnesota in February - how much of the "Waste" heat from the gasoline engine is currently used to heat the car and melt the ice on the windshield - and how much energy will it take in an EV to deal with that issue? How much will that energy use drop the range of the vehicle? How much is the energy delivery of the Lithium Ion batteries affected by being -25 degrees Farenheit?
or do we assume that all EVs in Northern climates are stored when not in use in heated garages? And how much additional energy does that take?
and air conditioning in hot climates...
With all of the recent jabbering from the left about the seperation of powers, it is time that the Legislative Branch be reminded that their job is to make laws, not to conduct trials (under the pretense of "oversight"). That's the job of the Executive Branch to prosecute and the Judiciary to judge.
If Oil Executives are making "excessive" profits, then prosecute them under an existing law. If there is no such law, then pass a law and see if the Judiciary declares it not Constitutional - but remember the Consitution prohibits "ex post facto" laws against actions before the law was enacted.
And when all the oil in the country dries up because the oil companies leave the oil business, then we can vote out the politicians who thought it was their job to define what a "fair" or "excessive" profit is for a business... and/or we can then put the government in charge of all means of production and declare that Communism was right after all.
Isn't that the point in the final analysis?
I did a rough "back of a napkin" calculation on a similar thread a few months ago... To replace all of the oil consumed today by vehicles (which is *not* all the oil we use).. it would about triple the demand for electrical power for the United States.
In order to triple the capacity with only nuclear power (which don't emit CO2), you would need to build about 12 times the current number of nuclear power plants.
That doesn't begin to address the issues of electricity distribution. In SouthWest Connecticut, there is already a shortage of transmission capacity. The "I'm going to die from cancer from the power lines" crowd has forced decades of delay in building new power lines or increasing voltages... they finally reached a deal to increase the voltage, but at the cost of having to bury most of the transmission lines.... now the A/G of the State of Connecticut is saying he is going to take the ISO-NE to court because they had the audacity to say that the costs of burying the power lines will result in higher rates.
And you want this when?
Any why exactly are we still burning oil in New England to heat homes?
And how well does an electric car work in Minnesota in February? Possibly a nice idea in Silicon Valley, but imagine how well those ion lithium batteries will hold up overnight outside in the cold... or in Texas out in the sun all day...
Unforunately, I don't think the submitter thought his ignorant question about the "stupid" car companies was rhetorical. Reality is a real bitch sometimes.
How many years do you think it will be before there is no functioning device capable of reading a DVD? How many people have a functional 8 track player today (other than the oddball colletor) or the spare parts and technical knowledge to repair one?
This entire presentation (which I actually read) fits into the category of "If it was really that important, someone would have done it by now". The PDF is clearly intended to draw support for keeping an obsolete facility alive for no real purpose other than to keep people employed during the twilight years of their career chasing after the ghosts of their youth.
After the few hours of Apollo 11's time on the moon, the public quickly lost interest in the moon, the Apollo program and NASA. There are very few people outside the program who can even name any of the Apollo astronauts after Apollo 11. For those not born after about 1965, they have no first hand memory at all of this event. Should you recover these tapes, those people will likely say "But why isn't it in color? I'm not going to waste my time watching that"...
It's a shame that NBC reused all of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show tapes from my youth - but life has gone.
As to where Sam Preecs is (a very unusual last name), a quick search shows there are a handfull of Preecs in the Maryland area - most would be the age to be his children... (assuming he was 50ish in 1969). For those who didn't look at the details, Sam Preecs was the Warehouse Manager where these alleged tapes were supposedly stored after they left the National Archives. Maybe someone should consider picking up the phone and calling them?
"I would expect at the National Archives there is room to lose nearly anything."
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Has anyone looked inside Sandy Berger's socks?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/08/berger.sen
Not that anybody is going to notice this or care, but the author of the original BLOG entry that was referenced in this Slashdot story has retracted his original point associating the JAPANESE company Sony running an ad campaign in Europe as having some connection to racial attitudes in the United States:
7 /07/psp_ad_post_a_quick_explanation.html
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/2006/0
"The previous closing paragraph of my post on the PSP ads - where I mentioned the sensitivity of racial themes in the US - has attracted a lot of criticism from readers. I of course, didn't mean to imply that there are no problems with racial tension in Europe - that would be lunacy. However, in the very short space I can lend to such issues in a videogame blog, I was trying to hint at cultural differences in the way such matters are handled.
I realise, however, that the paragraph caused offense for which I apologise - especially to our American readers. It has now been changed."
Is there any country in the world that is more monoracial and lacking in diversity than Japan?
Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution:
"He [The President] shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient"
The Executive Branch (of which the FBI is a part) has always had the ability to propose legislation to the Legislative Branch - which is under no obligation to actually do anything with it.
Do you not believe FDR's staff wrote the first draft of the New Deal Legislation? Lyndon Johnson's Great Society?
The thing that people may be overlooking is that the chance that anyone at the FBI above the level of the Administrative Assistants has ever even logged into a computer is pretty small - and the higher up you go in management, the more so that is likely to be true. If you think back, there were stories here about how most FBI agents still don't even have email accounts.
Back in the early 1980s, I worked at a place where the only guy in the IT department with the really expensive 3279 color terminal was the Boss - and the one or two times a year he *had* to use the computer, he needed help in order to login. This is not atypical. In most organizations, the people at the top are the ones least reliant on technology to do their jobs. If you don't believe that, it just means you haven't had contact with them.
Just curious - does the terminology used in the article imply that this network of easily compromised computers were *nix systems?
How many of those three people do you believe uses a computer or email to communicate with others in the government?
To a carpenter, the solution to every problem is a hammer...
I remember references in Levy's book to some people in the described hacking community at MIT also having a propensity for lock picking, breaking into safes, and crawling through ceilings to bypass security doors.
That's not showing off their programming skills by finding a clever way to write a smaller, tighter, faster piece of code to perform some useful computer function to improve society - it was criminal activity - period. That may be why part of the reason "hacking" picked up some of its negative connotations.
In fact, it was Robert Rubin - who had been Clinton's Secretary of the Treasury who tried to intervene in November 2001 (on behalf of CitiGroup) to keep the Enron scheme from unraveling.
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http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_ar
http://www.nationalreview.com/levin/levin010303.a
(Rubin was not charged with any criminal act - which I'm sure Martha Stuart must have some thoughts about)
The Enron criminal conspiracy was built up during the Clinton years - it unraveled after the Clintons left office. To blame Enron on George Bush is like blaming the policemen when your brother-in-law gets caught robbing a bank.
One reason is that the "Y" chromosone is passed from father to son unchanged. It contains no DNA from the mother. The only difference between father and son would be a spontaneous mutation.
So if things are "normal" (in the Western sense) - meaning that the paternity of the child is correct, and the child is given the last name of the father, then there is a direct correlation between the DNA pattern of the Y chromosome and the surname of any male with that last name. (of couse, those are some pretty big caveats...)
This makes identifying possible male suspects about 100x easier when the name of the suspect is not known.
I think I may have even learned that on Slashdot:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4736984.stm
http://www.aci.net/KALLISTE/whodblat.htm
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From the LA Times - 1/30/1997
"WASHINGTON--The Clinton administration, acting at the direction of the president and first lady, created a massive computer data system with federal funds in 1994 to keep tabs on as many as 350,000 people, including large political donors, Democratic campaign workers and visitors to the White House."...
Privacy, Schmivacy.
Google WhoDB if you want to know more.
Like how Sheryl Hall (the person reponsible for the develpment of the WhoDB) was fired at the direction of Hillary Clinton when she refused to allow the system to be modified and accessed to accommodate illegal purposes related to Democratic Party fund raising activities....
Official court document:
http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinion.pdf/992665.
The main described change / advantage in this proposed ext4 is that the notion that a file's allocation is tracked via "extents" (a specified number of contiguous 2k blocks) rather than a chain of inode pointers (with up to 3 levels of indirection).
This is based not only on the need for a larger maximum file system, but a recognition that there is significant performance advantage to reducing read/write head movement and initiating large reads from consecutive blocks that can take advantage of the high transfer rates of today's drives. (this assumes that the OS filesystem doesn't attempt/require that the entire disk drive be cached in RAM to get decent performance)
Except for "write once" files, over time this will cause files to become physically spread over the disk and the performance benefit is reduced, unless a process periodically consolidates the blocks back into a contiguous series of blocks (ignoring for the moment that on today's disk drives, blocks may be "spared" into place that are not really physically consecutive, but just logically appear to be)...
One of the "proofs" that *nix is superior to other O/Ss has been the absence of a need to "Defrag" the file system.
A commenter on the article also raises the question of why the "right" solution isn't to increase the 2k block size limit rather than rework the internals of the block pointers, and got the response that since the linux kernal manages memory in 2k blocks, it is a nightmare in the kernal to support larger I/O transfers (although others here seem to indicate this is one of the solutions people have implemented)
Isn't "extents" a concept contained in NTFS? Has anyone looked into the patent implications of these proposed changes?
The obvious reason for the WGA tool needs to check in periodically with Microsoft is that at some point Microsoft may discover that an "authentic" properly licensed copy of Windows starts to be distributed by the warez kidz (or installed by some small computer store not properly paying Microsoft for the copies of XP) - and that original legitimate copy is then used to create unlicensed copies in violation of the EULA.
This would be similar to the notion of SSL certificates. Even though the certificate says it is valid, since it may at some point be revoked by the issuer (or the issuer may have its authority revoked), it is necessary to check the trust chain periodically, even though the certificate says it hasn't expired and tested as valid last time it was checked.
XP looks at serial numbers on the hardware (like the MAC id on the NIC card, serial# on the c: drive) to tie down a copy to a specific computer. Their mechanism recogizes that over time, people will replace hard drives, or maybe a NIC card.... but if "too many" of those identifying characterstics change at the same time, then they assume that the copy of XP has been moved/copied to another computer and forces a reactivation.
The EULA (section 13) addresses the issue of transferring your XP license to another computer:
"You may move the Software to a different Workstation Computer. After the transfer, you must completely remove the Software from the former Workstation Computer."
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/eula.mspx
Your XP license applies to one computer, not one person.
(I am not associated with MSFT - only a customer)
"Why does everyone expect the federal government to pay for their excesses in terms of where they live?"
Most of these programs are step-children of the Rural Electrification Act, part of FDR's vision of it being good "public policy" to redistribute wealth from the urban areas to the rural areas. Without Federal intervention in the free market, the rural areas would be too costly to develop the infrastructure and people in the cities would end up paying more for food and the rural areas would be mired in poverty....
The fact that each state has 2 Senators, regardless of population, also encourages this type of "balance" in public policy.
FDR had little regard for the 9th and 10th amendments in the Bill of Rights and saw basically no limits to Federal power as long as it was for a good reason. It would be an interesting exercise to take that definition of fascism that was posted a few days ago, and compare it to FDR's actions.
Regarding an earlier rant about "only Republicans" start wars over oil... the reason that Japan attacked the US and brought us into WW2 was because of FDR's oil embargo against Japan following Japan's invasion of French Indochina (the country later renamed Viet Nam)...
Don't they teach any history in school any more? [rhetorial question]
Here are a few more to add to the list:
- telling you how much water your toilet can use each flush
- telling you that you can't build on the land you own because it is upstream from a wetland
- telling your car company what its average fuel economy must be
- telling you that you can't grow almonds without being part of the Blue Diamond co-op and paying mandatory marketing fees and stay within production limits
- telling a restaurant owner that they cannot allow customers to smoke inside the building that they own
The list is pretty endless actually...
If someone went to all this trouble, wouldn't the purpose be to make "free" outgoing phone calls on that account? Their claim is that they are being billed for incoming phone calls they did not receive.
How would it be possible for a perfectly "cloned" phone to receive incoming phone calls and yet the "real" phone never ring when the real owner got a phone call to them? Wouldn't the caller question why the wrong person answered the cell phone and contact the real owner using another method to ask why? (email, land line, visit them in person)
When you hear hoofbeats, it is probably a horse, not a zebra. I'm betting that the partner knows something they are not telling.
I put together a graph overlaying global ocean surface temperatures for the past 10 years (with the Y axis = avg(past 10 years)) and cellular telephone ownership. The correlation is undeniable. Cell Phone Ownership causes global warming.
Was any consideration given to using an optic system so the driver would not have to tilt their head up to steer? Not only should it reduce wind resistance, it would be a lot more comfortable for the driver...
Two thoughts...
Don't SLR cameras tend to make an audible noise when the viewfinder mirror is moved out of the way while the shutter is opened and closed?
Can you pirate a movie using a SLR camera? Tape a concert?
The atmosphere of Mars is 95.32% carbon dioxide.
Why is Mars not a warm planet?
http://www.nineplanets.org/mars.html
For extra credit, does the measurable increase in ocean temperature mean that the oceans are less able to absorb CO2 or do the oceans start releasing sequestered CO2? Are we positive that the Global Warming Theory doesn't have cause and effect confused? Or is it a positive feedback cycle that is about to explode out of control?
Is it worth considering constructing many new nuclear power plants if it would reduce CO2 emissions?
There is no such thing as an "ex-Marine".
I've heard that some medical diagnostics (for instance radiologists looking at X-rays and writing a report on the findings) is already being done remotely in India.