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faulty device
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Maya calendar
On Dec. 21, or thereabouts, the ancient Maya calendar rolls over to start a new 394-year century, or baktun. And that's pretty much it, despite all efforts by writers and filmmakers to market the notion that the Maya predicted the crack-up of Earth this year.
"People tend to worry about the wrong things," says MIT physicist Max Tegmark, who ( Read more... ) -
new safety systems
I think it is backward that the new safety systems they are making for vehicles claim to "connect the driver more with driving." It is more likely a disconnect.
Unless when the system overrides the driver it yells, "WHAT ? ARE YOU STUPID ? NOT PAYING ATTENTION ?"
"YOU ARE AN IDIOT !"
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created jobs ?
The Trick or Treating is over for the grownups. The election is over.
Did you get what you wanted ?
I will say both sides created jobs, for awhile.
They gave business to the paper mills making card stock.
The ink makers.
The print shops making post cards.
The post office delivering post cards.
A weeks worth of stamps on election post cards.
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Full Instrumentation
Not that long ago automobiles had meters, gauges, for the driver to use.
Monitoring road speed, engine speed, water temperature, oil pressure, charging system, fuel amount......
Not enough knew what the information was telling them.
Not enough bothered looking at all.
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