Hmmm, not sure what to make of this. The Arcimote Pulse might make a good city car for doing errands with but the current lead-acid battery version has a range of just 40 miles. Future lithium-ion versions will go 80-100 miles. But where do you put the groceries? Storage space appears to be a [...]
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But rather than act like adults, the legislature, governor, and assorted politicos and special interests instead are mostly howling about the Blue Meanies on the other side who are blocking progress. Furloughs (mandatory pay cuts) have been ordered by Schwarzenegger and the state will be issuing IOU’s yet again. You might think that given California’s [...] Flickr photo. Si Jobling The Arctic is becoming ice free. This is new. And the Antarctic is becoming icier. However, there’s a good reason that ‘climate change’ is a better term than ‘global warming’. It implies that the results will vary depending on where you are. Everything doesn’t get warmer. Some areas will get [...] So says Nassin “Black Swan” Taleb in Businessweek. The problem is getting runaway. It’s becoming a pure Ponzi scheme. It’s very nonlinear: You need more and more debt just to stay where you are. And what broke [convicted financier Bernard] Madoff is going to break governments. They need to find new suckers all the time. [...] Infographic by The Big Picture Ritholtz explains it in a humongous graphic.(Click to view it full-sized.) Basically, it’s bait and switch. Customers call for bullion and get pushed into collectible gold where the spreads and commissions are much higher (plus collectible gold is much harder to sell. Bullion is easy.) Goldline also charges [...] Joe Romm of Climate Change responds to Bill McKibben of 350.org on what the best tactics are for reversing climate change. Should we work to elect candidates who support the cause or get into the streets with mass protests? Holding rallies about solutions will never replace the need for actually doing the messy [...] The Parowan Gap in Utah was discovered by whites in 1849 by Mormon pioneers. Prehistoric Fremont and southern Paiute carved petroglyphs here over a long period of time. The meaning of the figures is not known. Parowan Gap There are also dinosaur tracks close by (not sure where yet, I’ll figure that out [...] California state workers must now take three unpaid days off a month until the budget is passed, orders Schwarzenegger. Figuring an average of 21 working days a month, that’s a 13.6% pay cut. Meanwhile, the California legislature is still on vacation. They took the entire month of July off rather than have to deal with [...] Maybe I should call up that Obama fellow and ask for a few hundred more billion dollars So why isn’t the White House rushing to nominate her for the position? In a word: fear. This time, it’s not the ire of Glenn Beck that has Team Obama’s backbone turning to mush — it’s [...] The overall law will still take effect Thursday, but without the provisions that angered opponents – including sections that required officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws. The judge also put on hold parts of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal [...] |  | ||||
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