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  1. Re:It was easy. on 'I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Re:It was easy. on 'I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no FCC in Baja California so the station was the most powerful in the southwest.. He was on The Mighty Six-Ninety.. There was also a children's morning TV show geared to US kids.

  3. Re:It was easy. on 'I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I camped in a place that was in a river gorge, high rock cliffs on two sides that extended for miles. No TV, radio, cell towers, etc. A contract postal worker delivered mail and a regional newspaper three times per week. There were only six copies of the paper and older people were waiting and got them. On another trip I could receive a rock radio station from Las Vegas, Nevada. The signal faded in and out. I got used to my self again without so much BS. background noise. I listened to Wolfman Jack broadcasting from Tijuana, Mexico when in the California. "Fifty thousand watts of soul power!"

  4. My high school chemistry teacher had a large version he displayed at the front of the class for the final exam. I got an A, most students couldn't read the table.

  5. EMF on Wireless Tech Company Finds Way To Charge Drones In Flight · · Score: 1

    Does GET sleep under power lines?

  6. Cheese? on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 2

    Could it be that the product isn't cheese? The label says "pasteurized process cheese food". Send it to any cheese producing region in the world and see how it's received by the locals. My mom made grilled cheese sandwiches when I was a child but I wouldn't eat the stuff today. Local stores carry a wide variety of cheese with different flavors and textures.

  7. Re:between 9AM and 5PM on Pepsi Is Testing a Snack Delivery Robot On Select College Campuses (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, wouldn't students be in class at that time?

  8. Retailers can't "ban" money.

  9. My father-in law was born in Brattleboro, He grew an orange tree in the yard at his home near San Diego so his mom could pick fresh oranges when she visited. Richard E Warren was one of the best men around, he would help anyone who asked or those who needed help and didn't ask.

  10. Re:Trendy plebs use plastic bottles. on Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    S'well bottles are my choice. Stainless steel, easy to rinse when necessary. I buy one gallon of spring water per month and my city collects the plastic for recycling.

  11. Also a Christmas movie on Using Data To Determine if 'Die Hard' is a Christmas Movie (stephenfollows.com) · · Score: 1

    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...

  12. Read This Year on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha - A True Story of American Valor. Soldiers tasked with an impossible task, becomes how to keep the man next to you alive. Accessory to War. Tyson and Lang. Advances in science and technology are used by the military. It doesn't end well. Fear by Bob Woodward. "Trump is a fucking liar" 365 motorcycles you must ride. Published by Cycleworld magazine. The first book I read that wasn't required by school was The Godfather by Mario Puzo.

  13. Re:Not surprising on A Delivery Robot Spontaneously Burst Into Flames (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The robut became self-aware.

  14. Re:Prediction on More Companies Are Trying a Four-Day Work Week (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Arizona is (or was ) a right to work state. "Here are your working conditions and wage. Take it or leave it."

  15. I don't use social media. I get home delivery of the Los Angeles Times(California,USA) which I believe provides reliable info about local and world news and events.Also read a variety of news websites from the US, Europe and Asia. I have always read a lot maybe because my dad read to me and my siblings when I was two or three years old. I trust young people to recognize fact from fiction,

  16. I have many photographs some a century old. Will my family be able to view images on a SD card or other media 100 years from now?

  17. Re:Yeah, it's tech's fault. on Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A plastic part smaller than a playing card for my camping trailer was priced at $20 US. I offered 10 and bought it. I was rebuilding the engine of my Ford/Mazda Courier and the parts man, a friend, sold me parts at 40% off list price and there were 50 and 60% off prices. The mark-up is 400% and more. My employer bought counterfeit Motorcraft parts and rebuilt clutch plates that were riveted wrong, didn't work.

  18. Re:December meteor showers? on Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight With Bits of Halley's Comet (space.com) · · Score: 1

    San Diego area, clear sky forecast. Formula One in Texas too. COTA.

  19. Re:Sea Salt on Microplastics Found In 90 Percent of Table Salt (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't need a grinder....

  20. Redmond brand salt is mined from an ancient underground deposit. Sold in a plastic container. The company uses the sea salt in promoting the product as a better alternative. You be the judge. realsalt.com

  21. Re:unintended consequences on Chinese City 'Plans To Launch Artificial Moon To Replace Streetlights' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what I meant, you expressed it better. The City of San Diego replaced mercury streetlights and a man from Tijuana , Baja California Mexico bought some to install in his Colonia, his neighborhood. It was his urban renewal project as the municipal government wasn't effective and was powered by bribery.

  22. Re:unintended consequences on Chinese City 'Plans To Launch Artificial Moon To Replace Streetlights' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The sodium lights mess up human color vision too. A red emergency vehicle would appear orange or something not red. It would be difficult to determine the color of a hit and run vehicle, etc. Sodium lights put out a narrow band of light that can be filtered out in telescopes.

  23. Moon Unit Zappa.

  24. Re:Try writing better searches on Microsoft Tackles 'Horrifying' Bing Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a requirement when I know some key words will goto the wrong site or return a BS response.

  25. Re:the planet doesn't "care"... on IPCC Climate Change Report Calls For Urgent Action To Phase Out Fossil Fuels (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    California's solution is to build more houses and freeways. "There's a housing shortage and the freeways are crowded" STOP building!! If you don't build it they won't come. Camp Pendleton and a large privately owned ranch east of San Diego California are populated with plants and animals who thrive there. The ranch has the minimum number of cattle to qualify as a working ranch. Yup, there's a certain number of cattle you must have to be a ranch.