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@ animemaster: You are very wrong about the dangers of conducting autopsies. Numerous diseases can be transmitted during an autopsy. Do a bit of research. I'd give you some links; but the PopSci system would flag them as spam. Here's a couple of search terms you could use: "occupational hazards" "autopsy workers".

@ meyaht Apparently, you've never made a print larger than 8" X 10" -- nor have you ever tried to crop a photo to zoom in on a smaller area. If you just want snapshots, you could probably just stick with your cell phone cam. If you want to shoot portraits, landscapes, or panoramas -- you need plenty of pixels. Ordinary, high-quality 35 mm film is equivelant to about 15 megapixesl. Large format film is equivelant to over 50 megapixels. Who needs that much detail? Any serious photographer.

wheath; If you don't care -- why did you bother posting? It takes far longer to read anything that doesn't use standard grammar or spelling. That may not matter for personal correspondence. It does matter when you're posting to a public site; where hundreds, or even thousands of people may be exposed to your post. My reaction? I don't care to waste the time it would take to decipher your shorthand, non-standard grammar, and poor spelling.

DonChino, BMW is actually helping consumers by leasing, rather than selling, the first batch of electric Minis. By leasing, BMW will assume all of the risks involved. The people who lease these cars, will essentially be beta-testers. Even if the electric Minis came with a comprehensive warrenty -- that would still not protect the consumer as much as leasing. It is likely that the costs of production -- especially the costs of batteries -- will come down. Also, it is highly likely that the endruance of battery packs will improve. In fact, the entire premise that electric cars can replace ICE vehicles depends on improvements in battery technology. Early adaptors would feel like the first iPhone buyers, when the price of newer models dropped -- thus reducing their older cars' trad-in values. Leasing protects the consumers -- and it would also protect BMW from the inevitable lawsuits, and bad publicity that would ensue from all of the problems that come with any new technology. BTW, the premise of "Who Killed the Electric Car" was a joke. It was a crockumentary, pure and simple. GM's EV1 was a very sophisticated automobile -- that had to rely on battery technology that was totally inadequate for the task. The Tesla, which uses the most modern battery technology available, costs over $100 grand & we still don't know how well it'll perform in real-world conditions. GM, and others, are pouring money into crash programs to develop batteries suitable for electric cars. The Volt will be a plug-in hybrid -- it'll still have a back-up ICE to recharge the batteries -- and there is no existing battery pack on the market that can meet this far less challenging task.

Distracting, flashing, blinking animated ads make it nearly impossible to read the content that attracts one to a site. If advertisers and site creators want people to turn off their ad blockers -- the first thing they need to do is stop making obnoxious stroboscopic ads.