They want to sweep and clean the streets, so when cars are parked on the street, it makes the street sweeping less effective.

A crack of poppers

OK. So here’s some questions. The button has some sort of function — you can hear the power relays clunk in the second video. So what’s the key life (total actuation count over the life of the product) of the relays and button? Did the rest of the system design team use 1 button press per charge or 10 per charge? And…

If it was just a few minutes of an engineer’s time; then it’s very low quality. If they executed it with high quality, it was way more than “Just a few minutes”.

A couple of quick, disorganized comments.

It’s from the musical Chess, about a grandmaster chess match (competition? duel? meet?) set in the cold war. The music and lyrics were written by the two dudes from ABBA.

He seems awfully high strung.

Dear Football,

About 30% of Tesla’s float is held in short positions; compared to GM’s 2.75%, so maybe the market isn’t that out of whack.

Tesla has cash-flow problems that GM doesn’t.

Ron Paul; not Rand. When the rule was adopted, the RNC insiders were concerned about an iconoclast outsider distracting from Mitt Romney’s nomination. Mitt had enough pledged delegates to win on the first ballot; but by adapting rule 40(b); Ron Paul’s pledged delegates wouldn’t be given a voice.

I don’t know... I think this is the ultimate Caesar hair.

Teddy Bear Tosses are awesome. Here’s the video of the 2015 Calgary Hitmen Teddy Bear Toss goal - which collected 28,815 stuffed animals which were donated to 50 local agencies. This brought the Hitmen total to over 300,000 toys collected.

Who knew that every porch-couch in East Lansing had such high midichlorian counts?

The same thing you do with any other cybernetic organism.

I wonder if the mothers in Pleasant Valley are going to complain about how hard life is tomorrow.

The auto loan default rate is not remotely like the housing loan bubble.