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  1. Re:Distraction on New Heating Technology Uses Seawater and Carbon Dioxide (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    About the time I was ready to grid-tie they would say you can't have that remove it and I would be out a bunch of money.

  2. Re:Distraction on New Heating Technology Uses Seawater and Carbon Dioxide (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    How do I convince the city to let me have a couple small roof top wind turbines? Apparently I can have an attic ventilator but if I connect a generator to it suddenly it harms the wild life and is unsightly therefore not allowed.

  3. Re:As a motorcyclist.... on U.S. Goverment Shames Texting Drivers on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have had two cars totaled by texting drivers while parked in front of my house and I used to live in a school zone. I try to never park on the street any more and bought a house a little farther from the school zone where there is less traffic.

  4. I'm not so sure either...

    How about municipal/community utilities there is no competition in power, gas, etc.. I'm not really sure how it would need to be managed but not having share holders to maximize profit for is a start. Perhaps reducing the costs of some basics as apposed to basic income would be more likely to benefit all.

  5. Re:Why can't such a band buy its own license? on Kindle Unlimited Scammers Gaming the System At the Expense of Real Authors (annchristy.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about ASCAP but BMI has a large amount of popular music and doesn't allow the band to license, they claim it's the venues responsibility. I've never played covers or if I did it was while in college and they took care of it.

    My brother is on an indie label and doesn't play covers, one of the bars is a decent size venue and is located near the highway and a hotel the local indies bring in a lot of touring indies and other signed artists to play there. This draws a crowd from in and out of town and the other bars either don't have the size or try to compete with cover bands.

  6. Re:It's unclear whether they chopped it up or not. on Ford Spent $200,000 To Dissect a Limited-Edition Tesla Model X (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they did tear it apart but as ford is a very old company perhaps they weren't looking to copy but instead look for violations of their patents. Ford has a truck load of patents and were even producing electric cars before Tesla motor company was around there are many parts that could be patented outside the electric power train also.

  7. Re:Social networks are a tool on Stephen Fry Urges Young To Flee 'Dystopian' Social Networks · · Score: 1

    Sorry the message I got from the summary was advertisers want you to use social media because buy more crap.

  8. I work from my home office and am familiar with those meetings, although I'm the one putting everybody to sleep.

    Now I know why that guy wasn't listening when I told him there where 4 or 5 other departments waiting for him to finish so they could start... He was reading a book.

  9. Re:Another example of rigging the system on Kindle Unlimited Scammers Gaming the System At the Expense of Real Authors (annchristy.com) · · Score: 1

    Classic rock cover bands have that issue also, in order to play the venue has to have a license and they have to apply to all the various copyright holders. Where I live there are no cover bands because the local bar owners are back stabbers that report each other every time a band plays even if it's not a cover band and no covers where played and no copyrights violated.

  10. perhaps that's why they were free... only one page.

    A 300 page book which is probably close to average size and would probably take me 4-5 hours to read not that I couldn't read faster but we are assuming I am lazily enjoying the book with some coffee, a snack, and my feet kicked up so let say an average of 4.5 hours 9 books a week, I wish I had 5.5 hours a day to kick back and enjoy a book.

  11. Re:Isn't that -more- expensive? on Americans Abandoning Wired Home Internet, Shows Study (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I would tend to attribute the mobile fixation of poor people on innumeracy and stupidity.

    You need to take into account that these people need a phone of some type for emergency calls and job opportunities so they will be paying for a phone regardless. Straighttalk offers 5gb or 10gb of 4g data with unlimited 2g, unlimited text, and unlimited calling inside the US for $45/m or $55/m you will not be getting an internet connection and a phone especially with unlimited calling inside the US for that price.

  12. Re:That's pretty surprising on Netflix Has Twice As Many US Subscribers As Comcast (allflicks.net) · · Score: 1

    You know I was thinking about the same thing but internet only and a netflix subscription is a heck of a lot cheaper than what I used to have. I used to have a provider a long time ago they wouldn't allow you to get their internet without a cable tv subscription, I don't know how long that lasted before I signed up but I was able to drop the tv after a little less than a year. Back then you used to still be able to get local channels on an antenna, if you had one of the big aerials you could get 7 channels where I was today not so much.

  13. Re:A world where we will never be forgiven. on UC Davis Spent $175,000 To Bury Search Results After Cops Pepper-Sprayed Protestors (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this the same one where the videos all over youtube showed the students sitting on the ground on their hands one in the background yelling close your eyes and don't give them cause while campus security was telling them not to block the walk way while another security guard walked up the line of them spraying them with pepper spray and the students just stayed there on the ground trying not to move?

  14. Re:Two Things I Want on Phone-Friendly Movie Theaters For Millennials Could Be Reality Soon (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Not in this case he was actually annoyed by it and she was mostly on facebook and playing candy crush. The argument would go something like
    "I'm going to hit the gym and maybe shoot some hoops"
    "I thought we were spending time together"
    "I've been sitting here watching you on that stupid phone for an hour put it down and lets do something or I'm going to the gym"

    or

    "Put that stupid phone away my Mom invited us over for the holiday, my dad cooked, the entire family is here, and all you've done is sit there playing candy crush and suck oxygen"

  15. Re:I dunno about you... on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Honestly my junk is probably cleaner than my hands it's been locked up in clean underwear while my hands have handled money and all kind of other unsanitary things. Wash your hands before you take a whiz.

  16. Re:Two Things I Want on Phone-Friendly Movie Theaters For Millennials Could Be Reality Soon (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    My son had a gf that would basically sit on the couch with him doing what the heck ever on her cell phone and called it spending time together. If he tried to leave the room or go do something other than sit next to her being ignored she would get mad.

    I told him if it bothered him he should break up with her by text with a smiley. "i want to break up :)" "we in the same room u ain't said nothen for 2 hours"

  17. Re:landlubbers abound on Piracy Fails To Prevent Another Box Office Record (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    I can see myself waiting a few months and paying $1.50 to rent the dvd from redbox. I still haven't seen the force awakens but it's at redbox so probably this weekend.
    As for 10 year old tv shows netflix or hulu because $25/season is more than I'm willing to pay.

  18. Re:What a stupid bitch on Sprint Quickly Pulls Video Ad Calling T-Mobile 'Ghetto' (fiercewireless.com) · · Score: 2

    Power chord is 3 notes a 5th and an octave from the chord tone such as C,G,C this is common in rock guitar because the fingering pattern is simple and is the first three notes of a bar chord finger pattern but it is not the only fingering pattern to omit the 3rd interval of a chord that's common in rock guitar a 4th is also very common because it is even simpler than the power chord and only uses one finger {check out some Randy Rhoads}. When the guitar plays a 4th such as G, C another guitar, bass, or possibly other instrument will likely play the associated 3rd and chord tone giving you C,E,G,C across multiple octaves so that the result can have a major or minor sound. A good two part guitar piece would include passing tones, suspensions, escape tones, etc... all common to classical music.

  19. Re:Not for long... on House Panel Approves Bill To Protect Older Email From Gov't Snooping (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    On one side we have disproportionate fear pushing people to blindly try to take security and privacy away from the public while on the other side we have the public's need for their data and e-commerce to secured against theft. Those agencies pressing for more and easier access to data and communications are trying to take advantage of that fear to make their jobs easier while not addressing the concerns of the public's safety from theft and fraud.

  20. Re:This must be why paternity tests are illegal on Genetic Studies Prove Cuckolded Fathers Are Rare In Human Populations · · Score: 1

    I said I don't understand it, because it doesn't make sense. Like women that go for guys that are dangerous but are really just fuck ups that can't manage to stay out jail. I've been skying, spelunking, and rock climbing in Colorado that's dangerous. Bungee jumping terrifying and dangerous.

  21. Re:This must be why paternity tests are illegal on Genetic Studies Prove Cuckolded Fathers Are Rare In Human Populations · · Score: 1

    I don't understand the entire "alpha male" thing, I spent my summers working on a farm or in a metal shop so physically I was stronger and faster than many of the so called jocks. I even played football, basketball, and ran track for a season when I was in school. I was never really considered a geek or a nerd although I certainly had the grades, and didn't enjoy sports. I'm nonviolent in general but am only a push over so far, I've been in a bar room brawl before.

    The supposed "alpha male" is usually just a jerk that will eventually get his shit messed up by a someone that is tired of putting up with it. Maybe it won't be a bar room brawl maybe it'll just be a boss that says "Alright, your fired" job after job.

    When I was a freshman the varsity football team was going to do a little hazing and one of them was supposed to send me dumpster diving, he ended up dumpster diving himself with a black eye and a bruised ego instead.

  22. I'm not a full time developer but am sometimes tasked to fix our dev's junk. The last thing they want to hear is someone telling them that I'll be consulting until they are back on track.

    They don't like working with me because I'm an "Unknown quantity". {basically I'm more comfortable with c or c++ than whatever angular, jquery, or framework of the moment they happen to be using}

  23. Re:So, when is /. going to participate... on Top Tech Firms Urged To Step Up Online Abuse Fightback (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm under the impression that it's the nuts that have the loudest voices or get the most attention. It's almost as if the media intentional seeks them out to plaster all over national news, I'm not even sure it's news any more it's like shock reporting where they find the craziest thing to air just to bring in viewers it might as well be News at 10 with Howard Stern.

    There has not been a presidential candidate worth voting for since before I was old enough to vote your choices are... let me see which is less likely to completely screw everything up.

     

  24. Re:Diane Feinstein - Queen of a fascist state on FBI Telling Congress How It Hacked iPhone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The 15 million identity theft victims a year will probably not like that she is helping the criminals by attempting to make that theft easier. Perhaps she should work on something that is important to the voting public and not fear mongering.

  25. Re:I read this as on Top FBI Attorney Worried About WhatsApp Encryption (usnews.com) · · Score: 2

    I wish they would stop trying to play James Bond and start promoting better security to reduce those 15 million identity thefts a year.