2013/11/25-2014/2/5 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:54754 Activity:nil | 11/25 California, model for The Nation:
http://tinyurl.com/k6crazn
\_ 'And maybe the transaction would have proceeded faster if Mr.
Boehner's office hadn't, according to the D.C. exchange, put its
agent - who was calling to help finish the enrollment - on hold for
35 minutes, listening to "lots of patriotic hold music."'
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2012/5/16-7/20 [Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:54390 Activity:nil | 5/16 Can anyone tell me what Greece is hoping for by rejecting austerity?
From here it seems like the austerity is a pretty generous attempt
to keep Greece from imploding entirely. Are they hoping the
Germans will put them on eternal state welfare, or what?
Also, why would an outright default mean they must leave the Euro?
Is it just that they won't be able to pay basic gvmt services
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2010/11/2-2011/1/13 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/President/Reagan] UID:54001 Activity:nil | 11/2 California Uber Alles is such a great song
\_ Yes, and it was written about Jerry Brown. I was thinking this
as I cast my vote for Meg Whitman. I am independent, but I
typically vote Democrat (e.g., I voted for Boxer). However, I
can't believe we elected this retread.
\_ You voted for the billionaire that ran HP into the ground
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2011/12/5-2012/1/10 [Transportation/Car/Hybrid] UID:54250 Activity:nil | 12/5 "Eight Ferraris wrecked in million-dollar pileup"
http://www.csua.org/u/uw3 (autos.yahoo.com)
"Police and video reports say the wreck began when a 60-year-old
businessman from Fukushima driving a Ferrari F430 attempted to pass a
Toyota Prius, but instead hit the guardrail. That set off a chain
reaction among the cars driving in a tight formation behind the lead
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2011/7/10-8/2 [Transportation/Car/Hybrid] UID:54141 Activity:nil | 7/8 Is there some reason we can't have mass market nat gas cars?
\_ Not enough infrastructure for refuing. Chicken and egg.
\_ Not enough infrastructure for refueling. Chicken and egg.
\_ It has less than half the energy density of gasoline. -tom
\_ So you have to compress it, which results in huge explosions
during a crash. Same for flywheel tech.
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