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  1. Re:Not enough cricket broadcasting in big markets. on India's Hotstar Sets New Benchmark With Streaming Record, Draws Over 10M Concurrent Viewers To a Cricket Match (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody has shed test cricket, well, nobody who matters anyway. It will always be the ultimate form of the game.
    A bunch of blokes playing hit and giggle is just a circus, with the supporters the clowns.

  2. Re:When Your gird is completely screwed on Tesla's Giant Battery In Australia Reduced Grid Service Cost By 90 Percent (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    SA has not has a significant power outage for two years now. Our grid is working very well indeed thanks.

  3. Always remember the immortal words of Sir Humphrey, “Prime Minister, the Dept of Foreign affairs is not there to do things, they are there to explain why things cant be done”

  4. Re:We need to keep ALL of that old infrastructure. on Old AM Broadcast Towers Get a New Life · · Score: 1

    Quite right, medium and long wave AM has the most range by far, in the terrestial environment. It has great value during natural disaters like bushfires.

  5. Re:Radiation on Old AM Broadcast Towers Get a New Life · · Score: 1

    Ive seen birds vapourised after landing on the 50kw AM open wire coax at a transmitter. Just a claw left on the centre conductor.
    The base of the big AM towers was usually many amber insulators. A steel capped boot brought too close would arc and burn, seen it happen to a trainee, followed by some olympic level hopping.

  6. Re:A high ride is a good thing? on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeh my Mazda CX5 handles very well indeed, and the turbo diesel is both more powerfull and economical than a corolla.

  7. Re:Peppers are very good for you on Eating World's Hottest Pepper Sparks Brain Disorder, Thunderclap Headaches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    If its about laying off of the insanity chillis, Im way ahead of you.

  8. AI has got the chops, but no sausage.

  9. Utter bullshit on Update: Possible Active Shooter Reported at YouTube HQ (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Flat out lie, crime did not skyrocket here at all, in fact crime rates have been going down for years. Nobody I know owns need or wants a gun here. Why do you American ammosexuals repeat this obvious lie?

  10. Re:What does this translate to price per gallon? on Tesla Raises Prices At Its Supercharger Stations · · Score: 1

    More than I ever need, but then, I dont need to overcompensate.

  11. Re:Bullshit on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    Wearing a red shirt, and not being named ensures you die shortly after teleport, does that count?

  12. Re: Questions on How Einstein Lost His Bearings, and With Them, General Relativity (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its hard to explain after Harrods was destroyed by the Vogons.

  13. Re:What does this translate to price per gallon? on Tesla Raises Prices At Its Supercharger Stations · · Score: 1

    Except of course, you are full of shit as usual Wumpus. Redline is 5500 RPM, and torque exceeds 400nm from 1800 rpm, far in excess of a petrol 3.4litre V6, and equal to a 5litre plus v8, 0-60 in 8 seconds, and tows a heavy trailer easily. It never needs to be flogged, unlike you, who cant even spell weak.

  14. Re:What does this translate to price per gallon? on Tesla Raises Prices At Its Supercharger Stations · · Score: 1

    The Mazda CX5 2.2 litre sequential turbo diesel I drive gets less than 9 litres/100km, on short trips in town, better than 30mpg imperial, more like 34 MP US gallons.
    Gets 40mpg imperial at 70 mph on long trips.
    200HP 420nm torque.

  15. Re: Yes...this is accurate on Can Electricity Travel Through Space on Astrophysical Jets? (mdpi.com) · · Score: 1

    *warning, this can lead to rampaging mobs of repectable physicists.

  16. Contents on 132-Year-Old Science Experiment Washes Ashore In Australia (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    The note was apparently a NBN installation appointment.

  17. Re:We eliminated paperjams on Why Paper Jams Persist (newyorker.com) · · Score: 2

    Amongst many jobs, I fixed copiers for a few years. You dont need a climate controlled room, for those customers who had paper dampness issues, a 20w incandscent globe in the paper cupboard worked fine keeping it dry.
    The main problem was with coloured paper, where a partially used ream would be stored for some time, the standard white was used quickly enough to not have a problem. Most copy paper is in a wax lined outer wrapper to prevent moisture from getting to it.
    Dampness caused the static charge used in the process to bleed away to ground thru the paper too, resulting in poor copy quality and jams.

  18. Just because you dont shower, dont assume others dont.

  19. Maths fail, $200 for 3 months does not equal $40 per month. Hot water is gas, so not included at all.

  20. Re:Great news! on Tesla To Construct 'Virtual Solar Power Plant' Using 50,000 Homes (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Indeed, I am in SA, and in the first year since my 2kw solar was installed at a cost of $4000 aus, I have saved $1000 on my power bills. I am producing more than I use to run aircon 24/7, but due to the low feed in rate, still have small bills of around $200 aud/ quarter for nightime use. Currently generating 90kw/h per week, and use 77 kwh per week. As the feed in is 11c per kwh and power is 30c per kwh, still get a bill, however when I get a battery, I expect bills to drop to supply charge only.

  21. Re:Well, sure, but you have to remember on Dutch Intelligence Agents Watched Russia Hack the DNC (volkskrant.nl) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Dutch liberal, now thats funny. Though even if they were liberal, they would be far more trustworthy than the US right, populated only by liars and inbred dumbfucks who believe them. Cant wait for the whining after the mid terms, when the Republican slaughter at the hands of voters starts.

  22. Re:thats nothing... on Researchers Warn of Physics-Based Attacks On Sensors (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1
  23. If you havent seen a mention for months, youre either a liar, or you never read the threads you post in.
    Republicans have only fixed it so their rich friends get richer, and the environment gets more damaged.
    That you can say anything good about this clusterfuck of ineptitude reveals just how incredibly deluded you are.
    As for Hillarys so called federal offence, its just another delusional fabrication of the right, who are so scared of her, they have continually made plainly insane allegations for 20 odd and provided no proof at all, other than the ranting of nut jobs, despite investigations by republicans, still nothing.
    You really are a dumb sad ass bastard.

  24. We seem to manage a much higher minimum wage in Australia than that proposed in this thread, but for some reason the US cannot afford decent pay? The rest of the Western world is not as selfish as Americans it seems.

  25. Re:Do you know what science isn't? on Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters On Climate Change (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    No one is claiming runaway heating. Yet another strawman.