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Lately there has been a lot of flack going on over the Early Termination Fee (ETF) system that the major cellular carriers use to encourage consumers to abide by the length of the contract that they have signed.
Apparently a lot of people are upset that the various cellular carriers are wanting to charge a fee [...]

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So the USGS has almost completed the survey of the Bakken Formation. Estimates on the amount of oil contained in the shale formation range from 900 billion to 200 billion barrels.
A poster on Slashdot said that “Such a reserve would go a long way toward securing US energy independence.”
What exactly is energy independence? [...]

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While watching Shark tonight I saw a commercial for the new Dyson root 6 handheld vacuum cleaner.  The commercial was pretty cool.  It showed the vacuum cleaner being built, in a Lego-like fashion.
Aside from the coolness of the commercial itself, it occurs to me that the design of the root 6 is quite similar to [...]

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How heavy is your laptop bag?  According to my passenger airbag sensors my latptop bag is at least as heavy as a small child.
The way I understand the system is that if the passenger is below a certain combination of height and weight, then the airbag is turned off and the seatbelt light is not [...]

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