Re: Phil Schiller's bashing of +Android – Who gives a damn what Schiller thinks?… 1
Re: Phil Schiller's bashing of +Android – Who gives a damn what Schiller thinks? I certainly don't
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Who would have thunk it? Make a healthy profit while paying living wages, providing… 3
Who would have thunk it? Make a healthy profit while paying living wages, providing benefits and allowing unions?
All I can say is screw the Waltons and everything they stand for!
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Costco announced record profits today, averaging $10,000 in profit per employee compared to $7,400 at Walmart.
The secret to Costco's success is paying employees well, providing benefits, and giving them an opportunity to unionize. http://huff.to/XoTt48post via fb.me/usauncut
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This SUCKS!
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Whoa. Google Reader will spin down on July 1, 2013.
A second spring of cleaning
We’re living in a new kind of computing environment. Everyone has a device, sometimes multiple devices. It’s been a long time since we have had this rate of change—it probably hasn’t happened since th…
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The best laid plans often don't come to fruition
Today, Henrik Fisker resigned from his namesake car company. Four years ago I interviewed +Fisker Automotive automotive founder Henrik Fisker at the 2009 North American International about the Karma. At that time, Fisker was planning to use a battery pack from a company called Advanced Lithium Power but they were eventually replaced by now-bankrupt A123 Systems. At the time, Fisker also claimed the car would be in full production by the end of that year, something which didn't actually happen until more than two years later.
Fisker also claimed that the company had 1,300 pre-orders for the Karma and planned to build 15,000 a year. During the 18 months or so that Fisker was building cars until suspending production as a result of the A123 bankruptcy, they shipped about 2,000 cars and at this point it's not clear if any more will ever get built.
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Instead of Lady Gaga, young girls should aspire to be more like Leena Gade
Instead of Lady Gaga, young girls should aspire to be more like Leena Gade
Gade is a race engineer with Audi Sport Team Joest and is in part responsible for leading her team to victory in the last two 24 Hours of Le Mans. Particularly endurance racing, the race engineers play a major role in plotting the strategy for when pit, when to run hard and when to change tires among other things. Gade plays a prominent part in Truth in 24 II, the film that documents the 2011 victory http://truthin24.com/film/download and it's well worth a watch. The film is a free download.
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Leena Gade at Science Museum – Fourtitude.com
Audi race engineer Leena Gade visited the London Science Museum on Sunday. The Briton led Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer in Audi Sport Team Joest to the two victories at the 2011 a…
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If I gave one of these to my wife, she'd probably smack me over the head with…
If I gave one of these to my wife, she'd probably smack me over the head with it
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Oh yeah, this tablet isn't condescending at all.
Finally, a tablet simple enough for a woman to use < /sarcasm>
Do iPads or Nexus 7s scare and confuse you? ePad Femme is here to help!
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Daylight savings time is one of those absurd anachronisms that needs to go away! 1
Daylight savings time is one of those absurd anachronisms that needs to go away!
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We should vote to kill #DayLightSavingsTime … or at least get the Whitehouse to respond…
It's the same amount of daylight arbitrarily moved about… I'm sure it made sense at some point, but now it's just annoying… like pennies.
Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
we petition the obama administration to: Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time. Daylight Savings Time is an archaic practice in our modern society. The original reasons f…
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It's not often that a car defines a whole new market segment and goes on to last…
It's not often that a car defines a whole new market segment and goes on to last for half a century
The +Ford Motor Company Mustang is starting its 50th consecutive year
Weekend Challenge – First Car Ad
My kids are asleep and my wife’s is sick. That means I’m bored. So I present a challenge to you. Find an advert for your first car. Sounds easy, but here is the twist, it has to be the correct trim le…
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It's long past time to reign in the excesses of law enforcement agencies in …
It's long past time to reign in the excesses of law enforcement agencies in America
There has been no shortage of despicable and anti-democratic actions by both the Obama and the previous Bush administrations but it's good to see the DOJ at least come out to protect the constitution in this instance. Now if only they would defend the right to photograph buildings and anything else in public places.
US DOJ defends citizens’ right to photograph police
The US Department of Justice has filed a brief in a Maryland court case defending citizens’ rights to photograph and record police officers in the course of their duty. The DOJ, in fact, goes…
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The 1.0-liter EcoBoost engine coming to the +Ford Motor Company Fiesta this year…
The 1.0-liter EcoBoost engine coming to the +Ford Motor Company Fiesta this year should be a pretty slick option
Just to be clear though, despite what the lede of this New York Times article says, this engine block was NOT checked in and carried onto the plane. The photo shown was part of a social media stunt to demonstrate how compact and light the engine is. It never went past the security checkpoint.
http://jalopnik.com/5961187/ford-built-an-engine-so-small-they-were-able-to-send-it-through-airport-security
Aside from that, getting so much power and torque out of such a tiny engine that also meets emissions standards and gets great fuel economy is a pretty impressive feat of engineering.
Packing 123 Horsepower
With the help of turbos, automakers are producing powerful, but fuel efficient 3-cylinder engines. A Ford triple, as the engines are called, is small enough to fit into a suitcase.
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