Reshared post from +The Verge

California could be split into six separate states if a new proposition passes?

Sadly, such things cannot be unseen. Who would have thought that Jar Jar Binks could actually be considered not so bad??

Despite all of the advances in battery technology over the past century, they remain woefully inefficient methods of storing energy compared to many other systems.

The best batteries in use today hold about 250 Watt-hours per kg. When someone claims they have a viable method to hold 400 watt-hours per kg, you have to take a look. By way of comparison, a gallon of gasoline has about 11,400 watt-hours per kg

Fortunately for +General Motors they paid very close attention to what Envia was doing before investing too much in the technology. ?

Reshared post from +Road & Track

Play Six Degrees of Colin Chapman and help us find other cars that used his incredible ideas: http://Roadandtra.ac/6267dVr1?

Illinois congressional candidate compared Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson to Rosa Parks:

"In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians"

Robertson is completely free to say whatever ignorant and idiotic things he wants. No one is persecuting him or stopping him from being offensive. However, just as Robertson is free to ask an uninvited trespasser to leave his property, A&E has a right not to provide a platform to spout his beliefs. ?

Reshared post from +Don Denton

Don’t buy the right-wing myth about Detroit

Conservatives want you to think high taxes drove people away. The real truth is much worse for their radical agenda

Excerpt:
In the wake of Detroit’s bankruptcy, you may be wondering: How could anyone be surprised that a city so tied to manufacturing faces crippling problems in an era that has seen such an intense public policy assault on domestic American manufacturing? You may also be wondering: How could Michigan officials possibly talk about cutting the average $19,000-a-year pension benefit for municipal workers while reaffirming their pledge of $283 million in taxpayer money to a professional hockey stadium?

These are fair questions — and the answers to them can be found in the political mythology that distorts America’s economic policymaking.

As mythology goes, the specific story being crafted about Detroit’s bankruptcy is truly biblical — more specifically, just like the fact-free mythology around the Greek financial collapse, it is copied right from the chapter in the conservative movement’s bible about how to distort crises for maximum political effect.

In the conservative telling of this particular parable, Detroit faces a fiscal emergency because high taxes supposedly drove a mass exodus from the city, and the supposedly unbridled greed of unions forced city leaders to make fiscally irresponsible pension promises to municipal employees. Written out of the tale is any serious analysis of macroeconomic shifts, international economic policy failures, the geography of recent recessions and unsustainable corporate welfare spending.

This is classic right-wing dogma — the kind that employs selective storytelling to use a tragic event as a means to radical ends. In this case, the ends are — big shocker! — three of the conservative movement’s larger long-term economic priorities: 1) preservation of job-killing trade policies 2) immunity for corporations and 3) justification for budget policies that continue to profligately subsidize the rich.

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/23/dont_buy_the_right_wing_myth_about_detroit/?