A link to a spectacular crash video has been circulating on the web that shows an BMW M3 racing on the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course fly up into the air and do eight “end-o’s”, completely destroying the front end and spraying its fluids as it goes. The safety in these race cars is highly regulated … Continue reading Auto Safety Engineering versus Marketing
Compare and contrast these two quotes in a news.com article. First: “People kind of forget that we have a lot of our own copyrights to protect and that copyright law is a big part of that protection,” said Alexander Macgillivray, a lawyer at Google. “We’re a search engine that exists and knows it exists only … Continue reading Google says ramblings/facts should be open
California Senator Barbara Boxer recently spoke on the floor of the Senate. I have posted below an excerpt from her speech, which has some chilling insight into the US government’s plan to give the petroleum industry even more unregulated benefits. These petroleum companies, and those in the government who currently are or have been on … Continue reading Boxer speaks out on the “drilling bill”
A GAO study reported by the AFP suggests that the US Department of Defense could be leaking equipment secrets and weapons like a sieve: The report said that GAO undercover investigators entered two warehouses where surplus military gear was stored and obtained about 1.1 million dollars in sensitive military equipment. They included launcher mounts for … Continue reading Defense department exposed (again)