Buffy the mouse slayer is digging another nature show, this one about racoons 1
Buffy the mouse slayer is digging another nature show, this one about racoons
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How is bringing a lithium ion battery into the cabin any safer than having it in… 5
How is bringing a lithium ion battery into the cabin any safer than having it in a checked bag?
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TSA Surprise- NO Lithium batteries in checked luggage!
Heads up Photographers and HDSLR video folks- on a recent job to Fiji, my coworker and I packed our DSLR batteries in our checked luggage. When we got to the job site (a remote island) we discovered our 13 DSLR batteries had been removed from our checked Pelican cases! Job was almost torpedo'd by this, but fortunately we had one battery in each camera that we had on carry on, so we weren't completely sunk.
But, beware- the rule is you have to carry-on those batteries on flights. Evidently they are a fire hazard. Take note and skip the surprise on your next travel shoot!
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/assistant/batteries.shtm
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TSA: Safe Travel with Batteries and Devices
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) protects the nation's transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce. TSA's regulations, restrictions, and job openings are l…
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How the Chrysler "Halftime in America" ad might have turned out if we had…
How the Chrysler "Halftime in America" ad might have turned out if we had taken Mitt Romney's advice in 2008. I'm sure the hundreds of thousands of Americans that work for Chrysler and its supplier network today would much rather have seen this result.
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Daimler shows the world how not to build a luxury automotive brand!
Maybach was perhaps the epitome of everything that Jürgen E. Schrempp did wrong as the CEO of Daimler from 1995 until he was ousted in 2005. The whole thing is an example of hubris on wheels and based on the estimated €1 billion that Daimler spent to develop the cars and establish the retail network, CAR estimates that the automaker lost an average of €330,000 on each of the 3,000 units sold over the past seven years.
Next year Maybach will again recede into the annals of history and it seems like it probably won't be missed.
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Maybach: soon for the scrapyard in the sky · The Maybach 62 is very l-o-n-g · There's no faulting the quality on a Maybach… but the taste? The double M badge for Maybach · Maybach will be axed f…
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More evidence that any sort of extra-judicial copyright enforcement is likely to…
More evidence that any sort of extra-judicial copyright enforcement is likely to cause more problems than it solves. Making it easier for so-called rights-holders to take down content without truly proving that it infringes on copyrights, will undoubtedly lead to chilling effects and censorship.
#sopa #pipa
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EXCLUSIVE: How The NFL Fumbled Chrysler's Commercial
Chrysler's Clint Eastwood ad was the most controversial commercial (for various reasons) of this year's Super Bowl. But it wasn't controversial enough that someone acting on behalf of the NFL should h…
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Outstanding news for everyone in California! 9
Outstanding news for everyone in California!
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It's about damn time! One more step towards ALL people being treated like humans again. It absolutely blows my mind that in this day and age this issue is even in question, but considering that only 50 years ago interracial marriage was still illegal in a lot of states I guess I shouldn't be too shocked that this country is still full of small minded bigoted hate mongering zealots.
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Appeals Court Rejects Gay Marriage Ban
A federal appeals court panel in San Francisco ruled Tuesday that California's voter-mandated ban on gay marriages, Proposition 8, was unconstitutional, in a closely watched case that could eventually…
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Sales of hybrid vehicles reached an all-time high market share of 2.79% in 2009 before… 9
Sales of hybrid vehicles reached an all-time high market share of 2.79% in 2009 before falling to just 2.11% of all light duty vehicles sales last year. Based on that less than stellar market penetration would you consider this statement reasonable?
"Given America's insatiable, if not illogical, thirst for hybrids,"
Considering that aside from the Prius, no other hybrid vehicle has ever sold out its production capacity, insatiable is not the word I would use there.
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The reality is that big telecom and cable companies generally don't give a damn…
The reality is that big telecom and cable companies generally don't give a damn about existing customers. It's all about the growth they can trumpet in their financial results every 3 months. How else to explain all the great introductory deals they offer to new customers while ignoring loyal customers that have been there for many years?
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If AT&T is going to throttle users on unlimited data plans, it has a moral obligation to give them enough information to avoid hitting the threshold. Otherwise, it appears to be little more than a passive-aggressive way of forcing people to move to tiered plans.
Man up, AT&T, and do the right thing.
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I honestly wish I could say that this was a surprise, but frankly I'm surprised… 1
I honestly wish I could say that this was a surprise, but frankly I'm surprised that Fisker actually got as far as it did. The 125+ years of the auto industry is riddled with far more failed brands than successful ones and jumping in at the technological bleeding edge is a great way to be among the latter group.
#fiskerautomotive #fisker #electricvehicles #ev #phev
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Some ugly news from Fisker: losing federal funds, laying off 66 and having to abort Project Nina.
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With federal loans blocked, Fisker halts work on Project Nina, lays off 66 workers
Fisker Automotive's bumpy 2011 appears to have given way to an even rockier 2012. A little more than a month after recalling 239 of
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With the examples of the Lockheed-Martin F-35 Lightning fighter and the Boeing 787…
With the examples of the Lockheed-Martin F-35 Lightning fighter and the Boeing 787 so prominent right now, it's clear that it's probably not a good idea to start regular production of a major aircraft before you even fly a prototype for the first time.
Both programs, one military and one civilian encountered multi-year delays and billions of dollars in cost overruns because of the decision to proceed with production before a maiden flight. Aircraft like these are far too complex to assume that they you can accurate simulate everything before building even one example. This is especially true for programs like this depend on huge networks of suppliers.
The problem now is that there are dozens of aircraft that have been built while testing is still ongoing and problems are being found and resolved. All of those changes now have to be retrofitted back to those planes that have already rolled off the line. Boeing built 40-some 787s before the flight test program was completed last September. Since that time, Boeing has only managed to deliver 5 planes to customers while others are being reworked, a process that takes several months per plane (longer than the time to build it in the first place).
It will be interesting to see if the lessons of these failures are incorporated into future programs. I think Boeing certainly is, now that it has opted to build a re-engined version of its high-volume 737 rather than an all-new plane. Similarly, acting Pentagon procurement boss Frank Kendall is acknowledging that this process should not be repeated. Let's hope their memories aren't too short.
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The next Pentagon acquisition czar says early production approval of the F-35 was
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