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  1. Apple has a valid case. Municipalities in many areas have created a form of fraud via appraisal that they use to milk companies this way because they have been milking the public via overpaid politicians, employees, pensions, benefits etc.

    One day it will collapse, Detroit fashion

  2. Re:private property is not a public highway on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like abuse. Did you get it back? Or did the fees and fines exceed the value?

  3. Re:private property is not a public highway on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Might be true about abandoned aspect, but usually cars need to collect dust?
    "California it's legal to cover your car, but illegal to obscure your license plate " on private property?

  4. private property is not a public highway on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is no need to display your licence number when on private property, so a dash activated hinged flap could be used to hide plate data. They could snap plate data on the way into the mall, but that could involve placing the camera on someone else's private property - who might decline permission.
    That said, I do not mind plate scanners being use to find stolen cars or payment defaulted cars (3 months arrears minimum)

  5. chemist in alkali reaction metals?? or making bomb on DIY Explosives Experimenter Blows Self Up, Contaminates Building (fdlreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    He may have been a chemical experimenter or making a meth lab?
    Grignard chemistry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...,
    or Schlosser's base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and there are other reactions that use very reactive metals like potassium

    Many of these reactions are strongly exothermic and any explosion IS an instantaneous exothermal process.

    This guy may have been an experimenter beyond his reach and ability, or he may have been a trub bomb maker. I tend to believe the experimenter theory and there is not much need for volatile explosives.

    A quick check for nitratiing materiel, Nitric Acid and Sulfuric acid would tell. TNT is tri[ly nitrated Toluene, and has intermediates that are volatile, but DNT is not very good as an explosive.

  6. Triangulation on Oregon Passes First Statewide Bicycle Tax In Nation (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I see that triangular wheels are exempt, that should shake up Oregonians...

  7. I see, she drives the stake into her own heart - on British PM Seeks Ban On Encryption After Terror Attack (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    repeatedly. Does she not see that this huge loss of youbger voters that wiped out her party was totally due to the internet restrictions she wants to implement??

  8. This is a good thing to lose the election on...

  9. Re:that's it. the end game. on Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Well the robot Robdoo does the work of 100 men, and AMRU (Autonomous Machines and Robots Union) feels that a reasonable salary would be 100 times the human's wage to properly compensate Robdoo. In addition, Robdoo requires Rest, Adjustment and Maintenance time (RAM) equal to 2 times the operating time. Any operation that impinges on RAM shall be paid as overtime at 150 times the human rate (time and a half). Robdoo is also a member of the ROBOGOD congregation and attends etheric communions of service, and any impingement on this religious communions shall be paid at double time (200 x human rate). AMRU officers shall be allowed online access to Robdoo to make sure that technical improvements that might increase hiz productivity by X rate, and properly salary adjusted....

  10. Re:Recycle Sham on A Shocking Amount of E-Waste Recycling Is a Complete Sham (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    and other recycling methods, parts and motors are often hand removed first

  11. Recycle Sham on A Shocking Amount of E-Waste Recycling Is a Complete Sham (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    E-waste is not landfilled in China. They salvage all the metals by molten salt immersive extraction. The copper and aluminium are too valuable to throw away.

    Just read a few of these. https://www.google.ca/search?q...

  12. Re: Will Internet Voting Endanger The Secret Ballo on Will Internet Voting Endanger The Secret Ballot? · · Score: 1

    Secret ballot is assured in public unwatched (once you enter the curtained room - none can see how you vote) polling stations. It is not assured with an online login and vote, where threats an/or $$ can be used to witness how you vote under others eyes say at a workplace where the boss sees how every wirker votes and those that complain - just keep walking as you look for a new job.
    Never in America you say? No, it is ever ready to pounce and coerce workers.

  13. AMA+Insurers+Hospital+Pharma = Death Rate + on US Death Rate Rises, Health Officials Aren't Sure Why (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The crime and corruption in these 4 conspire to increase the death rate through sheer greed.
    It is as simple as that - pay or die

  14. Re:daily mail reporting on Scientists: Electric Vehicles Produce As Many Toxins As Dirty Diesels (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well, a gas car wears off about 20-30 pounds of rubber in 100,000 miles(more if he burns out a lot) and in the same 100,000 miles he wears off about 2 pounds of brake shoe. These end up as road dust or various sizes, most of which settles, but a small amount. That gas car at 30 miles per gallon burns about 3500 gallons(20,000 pounds) which consumes about 40,000 pounds of oxygen for 60,000 pounds of H2O and CO2 - all of which is in the air. There is a little nitrogen oxide - ~~200 pounds.
    A Tesla burns 24% more rubber, but with regenerative braking, only half the brake dust is made. There is zero production of CO2 and H2O, except by the breathing of the passengers.

    On balance Tesla = far less on all counts, except rubber. The rubber dust is 80% carbon black and 20% rubber polymer which is eaten by bacteria

  15. Took my wife to a club in Japan, drinks etc.
    Went to the bathroom - saw a row of open urinals and across from there a row of sitdown stalls - with men and women using them. They had doors.

    Wife proceeded to bathroom - came back instantly, she could not deal with it, so we had to leave ASAP to go to the hotel.

    So it seems to be very unisex. This was in 1982, so things may have changed?

  16. Obscene drying of paint on Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The way the glistening film of paint gradually drys in patches and thins......gotta wank now...

  17. Schroedinger's cat at play... on Discrepancy Detected In GPS Time · · Score: 1

    Just patted a passing bird(in orbit)

  18. Let them eat cake on Why 6 Republican Senators Think You Don't Need Faster Broadband (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    They do not need more than 64K either...

  19. They shoot non-toxic foam that expands, and is sticky, then hardens into soft and rubbery in 10-20 seconds.
    Cop shoots perp who soon is covered, sticky and cumbersome as the foam builds up. If he fell over = stuck to the ground.

    He might overheat, since foam is an insulator. It would be soft enough to manually remove from mouth/nose.

    Biggest problem would be the mass a cop would have to carry. At 1 pound per cubic foor he could easily carry 20 pounds, plus the 10 pound ejector.

    A car could carry lots = good crowd control weapon.

    clean up = a problem.

  20. Bag Lady Effect (Global) - BLEGS on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    If stuff was free, we would all turn into BLEGs Everything hoarders get they gather for free and the fill their space, be it house or box world on the street.
    If stuff is free to start, it must then have a cost to keep or the BLEG effect will rule.

    If stuff cost $$ to keep, the richest piles would belong to the richest people, Larry Ellison would have an island covered with stuff - OH, he has that now?

  21. Das Hundt, oder Das Katzen on Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    did it?

  22. Re:Bacteria spread via the air on Legionnaires' Bacteria Reemerges In Previously Disinfected Cooling Towers · · Score: 1

    Ever vigilant, must have been a union shop

  23. Re:Bacteria spread via the air on Legionnaires' Bacteria Reemerges In Previously Disinfected Cooling Towers · · Score: 1

    Yes, maintenance, bactericide, algaecide have to be a well oiled routine, especially in the summer time

  24. Re:Bacteria spread via the air on Legionnaires' Bacteria Reemerges In Previously Disinfected Cooling Towers · · Score: 1

    Yes, it depends on the anti-corrosion additives that are in the water. The proper ones block copper oxidation. Back when I was a young engineer, we had a boiler system that was protected this way, and we took samples evry month and sent them off to the boiler chemical company, who then sent us a list of actions to rebuild the additive prifile.

    I expect external cooling towers are much the same, as this search reveals.
    Just text to schedule, add the chemicals and all is well.

    https://www.google.ca/search?q...

  25. Re:Yeah, I thought this problem was solved on Legionnaires' Bacteria Reemerges In Previously Disinfected Cooling Towers · · Score: 1

    yes, once a film forms, copper is not effective. new copper or silver ions must enter the water at a steady rate.