The ability to buy oatmeal for breakfast. Vegetables for lunch. Rice and beans for dinner. Without coming up short for rent.
@whitehouse what #40dollars means to me: 1 week groceries
Fully Aggregated Multiplexed Activity Streams- So you want to train for a luxurious life aboard ISS? A whole new REALI-TEE!So you say you want to train yourself for the luxurious life aboard the international space station? You could start with a year on the road in a 32’ RV. That’s our primary roadmap for 2012; which has the side benefit of enabling any number of interesting experiments and productive hacking opportunities along the way. Of course, living aboard the RoboRig Env […]
- Something’s Going To HappenSomething wonderful. Just when you thought markets were “back to normal.” Just when you thought it was safe to stop thinking again and go back to hiding in meaningless routine. Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse. Just when you knew life couldn’t be better. Just when you thought you hit your life’s pinnacle. Just when you thought you hit rock bot […]
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Ancient seagrass: ‘Oldest living thing on...infoneer-pulse: Ancient seagrass: ‘Oldest living thing on earth’ discovered in Mediterranean Sea Australian scientists sequenced the DNA of samples of the giant seagrass, Posidonia oceanic, from 40 underwater meadows in an area spanning more than 2,000 miles, from Spain to Cyprus. The analysis, published in the journal PLos ONE, found the seagrass was betwee […]
- X-Bus: Transform Your CommuteDetails at http://www.vta.org/xbus Gilroy to Lockheed Light Rail in just over an hour, with wifi http://www.vta.org/schedules/SC_121.html There is zero reason to not have self-driving, 100% solar-powered, electric-engine buses running in synchronized pods well before 2030. Only reason forecast is not for 2020 is widespread institutional mailaise and incumben […]
- X-Bus: Transform Your CommuteDetails at http://www.vta.org/xbus Gilroy to Lockheed Light Rail in just over an hour, with wifi http://www.vta.org/schedules/SC_121.html There is zero reason to not have self-driving, 100% solar-powered, electric-engine buses running in synchronized pods well before 2030. Only reason forecast is not for 2020 is widespread institutional mailaise and incumben […]
- Which operating system should Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop, choose for its mobile phones, and why?Michael Silverton voted up an answer.Nagib Tharani, Entrepreneur. Foodie. Forro (Brazil) Addict. ... As Stephen Elop elegantly put it, Symbian won't cut it. It is far easier and far less costly to "jump" than to try and evolve it. Having two or three different OS's for different segments is also a messy situation, and frankly they don […]
- "Capitalism has shortfalls," says Richest Man in the World, Bill Gates.“Capitalism has worked phenomenally. Look at North Korea versus South Korea, or China before and after 1979. Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t ... take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. We don’t have to [ask] whether capitalism is wrong.” - Bill Gates: 'I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it […]
- Wireless Slum Lord Data Pricing Turns Back Clock 20 Years or MoreThe most ancient of readers will recall when “Ma Bell” tried to charge us for connecting a second rotary-dial phone to the same line, in the same home. So obviously full of #FAIL on a thousand metrics.Grown ups in general will remember when incumbent DSL internet providers in the 1990’s tried to charge us for using a home hub or router to share our land line […]
- So you want to train for a luxurious life aboard ISS? A whole new REALI-TEE!