Why aren't you guys at Barrett Jackson? They sold one for $1.1M, so there must be a few more there.

If it was required that there were two unions, I'd be more sympathetic to them. Unions as they stand are a monopoly on labor in the industries where they operate - a cartel that really doesn't do too much other than shovel money to campaign coffers. Split up the UAW so they have to compete both for workers and for…

More private firms are now hiring anthropology majors for work in marketing, human factors, etc. Maybe you wouldn't spend your life chasing grants for obscure research, but certainly there is need for that kind of expertise on a commercial level.

I'm not saying I think adopting Sharia Law is good, as I personally believe religious freedom is paramount and civilization benefits from the different cultures. Study after study has shown religious people donate more of their time, are more charitable, and in general engage in more community service than…

"I would rather live under a secular government than any other." I agree, because there is not "one true religion". But that doesn't mean religion is bad for society. It's been proven in study after study, that religious people are more charitable, donate more of their time, and in general help each other out more…

If you go back and read, I did not say that atheists cannot have a basic respect for human life. What I said was, that if you have no grounding principles that enshrine the basic value of an individual, then it's much easier to take decisions that murder millions. Most religions do value the individual in their dogma,…

You missed the point entirely.

Most atheists bang on about how religion is bad, should be eradicated, etc. But the fact is, the most murderous regimes of the last 500 years were those with institutionalized atheism - Pol Pot, Chairman Mao, Stalin, etc. It's undeniable that religious groups were persecuted and executed routinely in these regimes…

I often wonder what's going on here. We didn't have this problem 50 years ago. What better way to destablize American society than to make us all fear for our lives in public places and turn us against each other. If I were an evil-genius dictator of Iranistaniban, I would be pouring money into research into behavior…

Invariably, the shooter is some disaffected goth-type who has some kind of grudge against humanity. A better first step would be to take a serious look at the goth subculture and why it seems to attract these very troubled kids. Start doing some research to identify if there are any heritable traits or physiological…

I scanned the comments for witty banter about devolving into early hominids and amorphic blobs. Nothin.

"We are very careful about where we invest" BWAHAHAHAHAHAHOHOHHOHAHAHO!!!! Just thinking of all the useless crap that google has developed makes this Google's most ridiculous statement ever. Buzz, Wave, Google+, etc. Not to mention all the acquisitions that went south.

I went from a Droid 2 global to an HTC 8X, and would never go back to Android. The only thing that sucks though is maps and the lack of turn-by-turn. If you rely on turn-by-turn then you may want to consider that it may be a few more months before the built in turn by turn navigation feature makes its way to wp8 (wp7…

I'm not so sure about the 15 minute interval though - gmail uses activesync which is licensed by Google from Microsoft so i think it still does push immediately.

So this article is a link to the 15 most overpriced gadgets but has nothing to do with how to fix surface. Why even post it. Lazy journalism.

They probably got paid while in arbitration too.

Meh...atheism. The top three monsters of the last 200 years were dictators of regimes with institutionalized atheism. They probably killed more than all religious extremists of the past 500 years combined. To me this song is one of those things that sounds good on the surface, but if you actually achieved it, would be…

Great explanation and interesting side note on astrophysics. I always wondered what the "spark" was. Would be cool if copper also had excited electron states and emitted photons - we'd have glowing wires. I imagine there could be a book written on why gases have these elevated states and metals don't.

Awesome, great explanation. Interesting that gases don't behave the same as metallic conductors, which apparently don't have excited states when conducting electricity, or at least don't emit photons if they do experience a "relaxed state". Otherwise copper wires would glow.

So the bright branch things in the picture are electrons? By what process do electrons give off photons for these sparks to be seen?