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Ford Racing wrapping up production of 2013 Mustang Cobra Jet
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Explain to me again why we should lower corporate taxes?
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Must Read: Some Outrageous Facts about Inequality – Paul Buchheit, Mother Jones: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=328c8a39-5c45-4356-ad0e-8a08ccd845e6
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I'd love to see the government admit that "We've lost the war on drugs and there is no hope of ever turning it around." Unfortunately it's unlikely to ever happen especially now that we have a prison-industrial complex that relies on drug-related prisoners for essentially slave labor and huge profits.
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Interesting evidence on the effects of decriminalizing drugs, and instead focusing on rehabilitation:
http://www.unityrehab.com/rehab-corner/drug-rehab-instead-of-incarceration/
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While billions of dollars have been spent on our country's war on drugs, the number of those incarcerated for drug related charges continues to rise in both state and federal prisons. Maybe that's bec…
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I've signed, you should too
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Will you be signing this?
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In advance of Independence Day, a host of groups and individuals have launched the Declaration of Internet Freedom, fighting for a free and open Internet. Read this blog post by Lance Whitney on Polit…
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Talking Points Memo's +Josh Marshall asks a pointed — and entirely reasonable — question regarding coverage of the latest Republican claim about the healthcare law:
"Just how stupid are all you reporters?"
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I’ve got a question: Just how stupid are all you reporters? No, that’s not a rhetorical question. Whether you want to call the ACA health care mandate a tax or not is mainly a semantic point. It’s a p…
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One of the things that most people don't realize about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is that they are first and foremost electric vehicles.
While FCVs don't use a battery as their primary energy storage medium, they are propelled by electric motors and produce zero emissions. Plug-in vehicles like the +chevrolet Volt, +Nissan Leaf and +Honda Fit EV rely on lithium ion batteries that are recharged from the grid to store energy.
FCVs use compressed hydrogen to generate electricity on the fly in a chemical process in the fuel cell that has water as a byproduct. That means that aside from the choice of battery or fuel cell and hydrogen storage, the rest of the drive system is common to both types of electric vehicles.
Honda has leveraged the enormous amount of development it has done on fuel cell vehicles over the past decade http://green.autoblog.com/2007/11/18/first-drive-2009-honda-fcx-clarity-worlds-first-series-produc/ to implement more efficient drive motors and power electronics for the new plug-in Fit. The result is the most energy efficient car yet tested by the EPA.
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One reason electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles have hit the market with a thud is that there are strings attached. Models such as the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf are tethered. Drivers need to plug…
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Henry Ford and all of the other pioneers of the auto industry copied ideas from each other relentlessly and then built new innovations on top of them which subsequently got borrowed back. #boycottapple
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If Henry Ford used Apple's mentality, he would have sued all other car makers for having a steering wheel.
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Until now most of the ideas from the standard politicos about rejuvenating the city have revolved around tax breaks to get companies to move offices downtown and opening casinos. While having some more working stiffs in the central city helps, the reality is that the vast majority of them head straight for 'burbs as fast as they can come 5pm. Meanwhile the casinos have really only benefited the gambling companies like MGM Grand.
Detroit has huge swaths of abandonded property and turning it back to farmland and reconcentrating the populace in a smaller area is a great idea. We just need someone to help make it happen.
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Announced the Innovators Guild with IDEO and the Knight Foundation.
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Detroit Riverfront. Since I joined the Media Lab a year ago, I've been constantly amazed and amused by the tribe of iconoclasts, risk-takers, and renegades here who look to the edges for new ideas. On…
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My friend +John Voelcker asks the question "When will +Tesla Motors start reporting monthly sales figures?"
Throughout the 3 1/2 year of the Roadster, Tesla only reported sales a couple of times, when they managed to hit records of over 100 deliveries. After the initial rush of delivering pre-orderded cars in late 2008 and early 2009, they wouldn't even talk about the orders they had trumpeted for so many years up to that point.
From that point onward though, CEO Elon Musk and his spokespeople refused to get specific on the numerous occasions that I and other writers asked http://green.autoblog.com/2009/10/22/are-tesla-roadster-sales-dead-order-online-now-for-christmas-de/
As a privately held company they certainly had the right to do that. Even now as a public company they are not compelled to break out the number of cars sold, other automakers do it because registrations are public information and those interested in doing the research can eventually find out anyway.
Tesla certainly doesn't have to be open, Apple certainly doesn't breakout specific sales most of the time, but it would certainly help build confidence in a company that builds products costing fro $50,000-100,000.
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Frankly, we understand why Fisker Automotive and Coda Automotive might not want to release their sales data. Both companies have struggled mightily with delayed rollouts of their first plug-in electri…
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Between the new more responsive interface in Android 4.1 and the latest version of Google's voice search, there is even less reason not to #boycottapple now.
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Siri vs. Google Search….helpful video. Looks like Jelly Bean might be winning
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