Green Party Candidate for US Senate in MD killed while riding her bicycle, hit by an SUV.

menuitem · 1 year

"Shipley said investigators are trying to determine whether Pettigrew had reflective clothing on or had operating lights during her pre-dawn ride, but it was not obvious at the scene that she did."

Wake-up, cyclists! If you're riding in the dark, you better have lights on your bike, and reflective clothing is even better. And riders who don't have lights on when required by law for motor vehicles ought to be cited.

midir · 1 year

Intel inside.

frycook · 1 year

That's what big petrol did to squelch production and use of ethanol in automobiles, by pushing the US Government to enact prohibition. http://www.stargatezero.com/forum/index.php?topic=2359.0;wap2

star-d · 2 years

Godwin's law, as explained in The Economist magazine: "A good rule in most discussions is that the first person to call the other a Nazi automatically loses the argument."

nousplacidus · 2 years

Yehuda makes an excellent case for the syntactic elegance of Ruby with respect to metaprogramming. Many features of Rails take advantage of this to add dynamic behavior to classes. While I'm sure that Rails could be implemented in its entirety in Python, I doubt it could be done with the same level of conciseness.

AdamSelene138 · 2 years

Overlooked? The unit of magnetic flux density (tesla) is named after him. He joins the ranks of Faraday, Ohm, Volta, Ampère, Watt, Newton, Joule, Curie, Kelvin, and Coulomb by being one of the very few scientists that have a unit of measure named in their honor.

dave · 2 years

Rubens' exposing himself in an XXX theatre hardly qualifies for "sex offender" status.

osn2003 · 2 years

Neoprene protection cases are a must. Gelaskins also work without adding the bulk.

theanimation · 2 years

reminds me of Jabba the Hut for some reason...

kcb2 · 2 years

Works great on 2nd generation iPhones, but it doesn't work at all on the 1st generation model.

stumo · 2 years

What about the town of Whistler, where the skiing events will take place?

star-d · 2 years

"Agreed, but the vast majority of USA voters want it optional and affordable, which of course is impossible."

I don't buy that. The only demographic that seems against the idea of mandatory or universal health care is young healthy people (a key Reddit demographic for sure). A CBS/NYT poll two years ago reported 64% of respondents agreed that the US Government should guarantee health care for all: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/01/opinion/polls/main2528357.shtml

star-d · 2 years

Health insurance should be mandatory and affordable. There's already precedence for mandatory insurance. Many states require registered autos to be insured. Many mortgage lenders demand homeowners to carry insurance as well (and in some cases, mortgage insurance as well).

fuzzo · 2 years

I'm left breathless from the extent the breakup of the AT&T monopoly has been undone. The seven Baby Bells are now merged into three, with AT&T being one of them (recall that the '84 decree severed the parent company from all of the regionals). Long distance as a business has given way to cellular, with AT&T being one of the major players. And regulation has hardly kept up, leaving the Death Star with even more control than it had 25 years ago.

That said, hardware manufacturers should be free to make deals with companies as they wish. If Apple wishes to limit its share of the cell market by locking out other US carriers, so be it.

star-d · 2 years

At the very least, we need to outlaw the practice of insurance companies denying coverage on the basis of preexisting conditions and chronic illness.

star-d · 2 years

Yup, in the same manner Apple's iTunes did with the recording companies.

ch00f · 2 years

It supports the video MP4 media from iTunes. It won't play MP4 audio files purchased from a 3rd party. It also doesn't play some video formats found on YouTube.

ch00f · 2 years

I've tried playing MP4 audio files on my AppleTV without success. The really weird thing is that AppleTV does support MP4 video, but not audio. Go figure.

ch00f · 2 years

AppleTV. I can't stop thinking that Apple has orphaned this turkey. Here's what pains me the most:

Several CODEC's are missing -- most notably those supporting MP4 audio.
Still no Netflix support. My TiVo box has it. My laptop has it. You can buy a $100 box from Netflix that has it too.
Poor user interface. Apple opted to use the same basic remote control offered on their laptops. This means lots and lots of scrolling through settings. TiVo is much easier to control by comparison.
Closed system that requires hacking to modify and upgrade.
Brittle synchronization with my desktop Mac.
The disk size on the original model was way too small (32 GB), and not easily expandable.

star-d · 2 years

The Supreme Court has a long history of striking down laws enacted by Congress when they are determined to be unconstitutional.

Fundamentally, I think it's wrong to patent a business method. One cannot patent a mathematical formula or an idea. What's the distinction with business methods that allow them to be patented? The patent law has been abused to the point where innovations in software engineering are being suppressed.

In the same manner that only specific expressions of an idea are protected by Copyright, only specific expressions of a business method should be protected, but not the method itself.

fernly · 2 years

I'm a big fan of http://gotAPI.com, which has a nice, searchable doc format for Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, HTML, XML, databases, and many other languages and technologies.

star-d · 2 years

Their next move will be to start selling tube based amplifiers.

MikeSeth · 2 years

That's the first time I've ever seen an animated LOLcat.

star-d · 2 years

not necessarily -- check out this post about the new Aptera 2e: http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/03/17/aptera-rebuts-safety-concerns-of-its-three-wheeler/

tvgnus · 2 years

Southwest has a lot of class. While many other faltering companies are involuntarily laying off employees, they are offering incentives for employees to leave.

I will continue to book flights on them every chance I get.

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