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They sell bird nets for keeping birds out (or in) to cover things like fish farms to prevent birds from eating all the fish. They're relatively inexpensive and I'm sure you could get them in a finer mesh if you wanted (so drones can't drop stabbing implements, though I suspect prisoners can already make a shiv with stuff they find in the prison).

Just because it's a high-tech problem doesn't mean it needs a high-tech solution. Although prison guards might get a sense of satisfaction actively watching for drones, then commanding a Phalanx to take it out, it's unnecessary and profligate.

I got bitcoin. Where are my cock eggs?

This is a much better deal.

https://www.amazon.com/HQST-Wa...

I think 20 watt panel is a waste of time. Here's a 100 watt one at Amazon for about 100 dollars shipped free with prime. https://www.amazon.com/HQST-Wa...
That should actually work out a little better. I don't know how much it's subsidized or anything like that though.

I got bitcoin. Where are my cock eggs?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001JPH9DQ

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IKVE14M

I got bitcoin. Where are my cock eggs?

I got bitcoin. Where are my cock eggs?

I got bitcoin. Where are my cock eggs?

I got bitcoin. Where are my cock eggs?

I got bitcoin. Where are my cock eggs?

Great story!

And if you haven't yet read it, John Fogerty goes on along the same lines in his very readable autobiography, "Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music". Reading what Fantasy Records under Saul Zaentz did to that poor bastard made my blood boil ... so I went online and stuck it to Fantasy by ripping all the CCR streams I could find on YouTube.

I got bitcoin. Where are my cock eggs?

I got bitcoin. Where are my cock eggs?

I got bitcoin. Where are my cock eggs?

I got bitcoin. Where are my cock eggs?

Because $10 keyboards are crap.

- They don't have the right feel for the weight of the keys
- It feels cheap
- Is the spacing in between keys correct?
- Is it going to last? Stop filling up our landfills with cheap garbage.
- Did I mention it feels CHEAP?
- Do they have the raised ridges on the F and J keys?

You can pry my Logitech Illuminated Thin Keyboard K740 from my cold, dead hands but I can understand someone wanting a _quality_ keyboard.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591848148/

Putting aside for a moment that suicide by cop in some cases is actually a thing, and yes, I do believe that it's real, and putting aside that that an African American young man is far more likely to get shot by another fellow African American young man than by the police.

Another starting point would be to actually listen to this podcast, a super insightful interview of a criminologist.
https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/201...

He also wrote a book, When Police Kill
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674...

Civilian deaths from shootings and other police actions are vastly higher in the United States than in other developed nations, but American police also confront an unusually high risk of fatal assault. Zimring offers policy prescriptions for how federal, state, and local governments can reduce killings by police without risking the lives of officers. Criminal prosecution of police officers involved in killings is rare and only necessary in extreme cases. But clear administrative rules could save hundreds of lives without endangering police officers.

I have bitcoin. Where are my eggs?

Here's a bitcoin. Where's my eggs?

Here's a bitcoin. Where's my eggs?

Here's a bitcoin. Where's my eggs?

There is one already. You have to go to Amazon to install the Amazon Underground app, then you install the Amazon video app from it.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/...

That's why Amazon Prime, for example, is annual, not monthly.

Check again

Buy an Amazon Dot. In black, of course, to match my awesome Black MacBook.

If I need a quick and dirty introduction to a subject, I would grabbed a Dummies book. When I was the lead tester for Backyard Football, Backyard Baseball and Backyard Hockey for the Nintendo GameCube/GBA at Atari, I grabbed the Dummies book for each sport, got up to speed to understand each sport, and used it as a reference during testing.

Buy an Amazon Dot. In black, of course, to match my awesome Black MacBook.

Buy an Amazon Dot. In black, of course, to match my awesome Black MacBook.

Buy an Amazon Dot. In black, of course, to match my awesome Black MacBook.

Buy an Amazon Dot. In black, of course, to match my awesome Black MacBook.

Snow Crash: A Novel by Neal Stephenson https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FBJCJE

When I read this article I was surprised at the tone and how they treated the troll. The attitude of the writer was, "Hey everyone! We finally caught a troll! He acts all big and bad online but once we got his name he was all scared and apologetic. Don't be a scared little troll, be good online or we will find you like we found this troll." I think the writer thought he was doing a public service, but in reality he was being a corporate despot. There are people in power who want to get rid of anonymity on the internet, and the fact is, if The Man really wants to know what you do online, The Man will find out. The thing is, this problem with Russian hacking and talk of fake news is giving The Man more reasons to get rid of anonymity online.

Shameless self promotion, I wrote a cyberpunk novel about this sort of thing called Girl in a Fishbowl

Buy an Amazon Dot. In black, of course, to match my awesome Black MacBook.

A Clamshell-like Chassis you say?: https://www.amazon.com/Officia...

Battery?: https://www.amazon.com/Makerfo...

Screen?: https://www.amazon.com/Raspber...

Mouse & Keyboard?: https://www.amazon.com/Wireles...

Face it, the vast majority of people are going to buy some, if not most, of some variant of these accessories (don't need the screen if you're hooking it up to an existing HDMI screen, etc.). Who in their right mind would argue for a 10/100 network connection in this day and age? Or a slow ass MicroSD card as their boot device (there may be some faster variants with adapters, but still, capacity will be limited; thus you are stuck putting the boot partition on one device, and everything else on another, which is, even on an Ubuntu-flavored derivative, a PITA). Just solder a pair of SATA connectors (+ controller) onto the board, and be done with it; combined with the GbE controller, it's going to bring the cost of the board up a whole $2. Another $1 for the SO-DIMM connectors. Call it the Raspberry-Pi 3++. Hell, here's another $1, put another two SO-DIMM sockets on it, and do what Intel has had serious trouble doing with their laptop implementations for the longest period of time: make it past 16GB of RAM.

A Clamshell-like Chassis you say?: https://www.amazon.com/Officia...

Battery?: https://www.amazon.com/Makerfo...

Screen?: https://www.amazon.com/Raspber...

Mouse & Keyboard?: https://www.amazon.com/Wireles...

Face it, the vast majority of people are going to buy some, if not most, of some variant of these accessories (don't need the screen if you're hooking it up to an existing HDMI screen, etc.). Who in their right mind would argue for a 10/100 network connection in this day and age? Or a slow ass MicroSD card as their boot device (there may be some faster variants with adapters, but still, capacity will be limited; thus you are stuck putting the boot partition on one device, and everything else on another, which is, even on an Ubuntu-flavored derivative, a PITA). Just solder a pair of SATA connectors (+ controller) onto the board, and be done with it; combined with the GbE controller, it's going to bring the cost of the board up a whole $2. Another $1 for the SO-DIMM connectors. Call it the Raspberry-Pi 3++. Hell, here's another $1, put another two SO-DIMM sockets on it, and do what Intel has had serious trouble doing with their laptop implementations for the longest period of time: make it past 16GB of RAM.

A Clamshell-like Chassis you say?: https://www.amazon.com/Officia...

Battery?: https://www.amazon.com/Makerfo...

Screen?: https://www.amazon.com/Raspber...

Mouse & Keyboard?: https://www.amazon.com/Wireles...

Face it, the vast majority of people are going to buy some, if not most, of some variant of these accessories (don't need the screen if you're hooking it up to an existing HDMI screen, etc.). Who in their right mind would argue for a 10/100 network connection in this day and age? Or a slow ass MicroSD card as their boot device (there may be some faster variants with adapters, but still, capacity will be limited; thus you are stuck putting the boot partition on one device, and everything else on another, which is, even on an Ubuntu-flavored derivative, a PITA). Just solder a pair of SATA connectors (+ controller) onto the board, and be done with it; combined with the GbE controller, it's going to bring the cost of the board up a whole $2. Another $1 for the SO-DIMM connectors. Call it the Raspberry-Pi 3++. Hell, here's another $1, put another two SO-DIMM sockets on it, and do what Intel has had serious trouble doing with their laptop implementations for the longest period of time: make it past 16GB of RAM.

A Clamshell-like Chassis you say?: https://www.amazon.com/Officia...

Battery?: https://www.amazon.com/Makerfo...

Screen?: https://www.amazon.com/Raspber...

Mouse & Keyboard?: https://www.amazon.com/Wireles...

Face it, the vast majority of people are going to buy some, if not most, of some variant of these accessories (don't need the screen if you're hooking it up to an existing HDMI screen, etc.). Who in their right mind would argue for a 10/100 network connection in this day and age? Or a slow ass MicroSD card as their boot device (there may be some faster variants with adapters, but still, capacity will be limited; thus you are stuck putting the boot partition on one device, and everything else on another, which is, even on an Ubuntu-flavored derivative, a PITA). Just solder a pair of SATA connectors (+ controller) onto the board, and be done with it; combined with the GbE controller, it's going to bring the cost of the board up a whole $2. Another $1 for the SO-DIMM connectors. Call it the Raspberry-Pi 3++. Hell, here's another $1, put another two SO-DIMM sockets on it, and do what Intel has had serious trouble doing with their laptop implementations for the longest period of time: make it past 16GB of RAM.

The US armed forces have been fighting an unwinnable war in Afghanistan for 16 years. Many people in Afghanistan hate them and wish they were gone.

Military robotics is a leading-edge field.

Hmmmmm.

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While you're at it, buy an Amazon Dot. In black, of course, to match my awesome Black MacBook.

Non-affiliate link:
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Then I figured they only had one book.

"YouTube for Dummies"?

I'm pretty sure that some seemingly smart person will propose one day to release bacteria into the oceans that can digest plastic and eat it. Just that person will cause us more trouble than we ever wanted. The reason we use plastic is because it can't be digested by bacteria. If we teach bacteria how to do it efficiently we'll get the bill sooner or later by not being able to continue to use plastic for most of its purposes, like containing food, or to keep the bacteria out from medical equipment (non septic stuff is always packaged inside plastic, that's not for the cool looks), etc.

Someone already contemplated this in this 1973 sci-fi novel Mutant 59: The Plastic-Eaters, specifically as a way to deal with plastic bottles, but things get out of hand when the bacteria mutates and starts consuming other types of plastic, like electrical insulation.

We don't base it on population because NY and CA would always win.

Oh well allow me to retort.

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

Article two, section one, clause two US Constitution

That puts a direct limit on the number of electors to never be more than the number of members of the House plus the number of Senators. So like OK as you specified, in OK they have five representatives and two senators. Thus, the state of OK gets seven electoral votes. You can technically have fewer, but never more.
    So that brings up the question, why do you have five representatives? Glad you asked.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.

Article one, section two, clause three US Constitution

As you might guess a lot of that has changed but do note the term of ten years. Know what happens every ten years? Yeah, that's right it's called a Census. Guess what it's function is?

The states are not just "artificial jurisdictional areas we call states". You grossly misrepresent their place in the pecking order.

You are grossly under informed about the topic at hand. Might I suggest this?

Amazon Prime Video has four times as many films available for streaming.

Which doesn't matter if you have a new LG or Samsung Smart TV in which Amazon Streaming no longer works... https://www.amazon.com/forum/a...

You have clearly never heard of Biovita steaks.

Go read The Incal comic series, and come back later.
https://www.amazon.com/Orphan-...

In a nutshell, their main selling feature is that you have to kill the steaks yourself, and they can be quite deadly.

Pi is $50 shipped, last I bought one.

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$15 for a case

$15 for a DECENT power supply that supplies 2A or more. Lower power supplies you have a chance of filesystem corruption which is what I ran into until I stopped cheaping out on the power supply.

I don't know how you qualify "decent power supply", but me thinks you may have over-paid for those three items.

$30 for a pair of acceptable controllers

Since we're comparing a Pi against a laptop, this is a cost that would be shared by both, and thus, is dishonest to bring it up as a negative against the Pi.

$20 - $800 for a MicroSD of varying size. I use a 64GB one personally, and for that size you need to spend at least $30 on a decent card or you run the same risks as a crappy power supply.

Probably your only valid complaint, though I'm guessing the 800 was a typo and you really meant 80. But the Pi has USB ports so you can opt for a smaller microSD card (and aren't limited by the size of the card regarding the number of games).

So the question now becomes, what is cheaper? A microSD card and USB HDD, or a laptop minus $50?

The fun part about RetroPie is it automagically detects controllers on startup. Check out the Controllers section of their docs to see common examples.

I tend to leave my Pi on, so I have a few wired 360 controllers attached to it (power-a xbox 360 controllers, if you're curious). I find they work pretty well for NES, SNES, PS1, and Genesis (with minor remapping) games, and they are ergonomic enough that I don't get X-Box claw or any other hand cramps. They don't have quite the same feel as original controllers, but I find I'm able to do stuff like the Mock Ball and other timing-dependent tricks just fine. Of course, you could also just find some original controllers and get a USB adapter.