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  1. Re:In other words, its a good business. on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Government decides what's illegal. Until they do, everything is legal, at least in the US.

  2. There's 1.3million bottles/acrefoot of water.I doubt they're taking that much.

  3. I have exactly that filter setup at mu house.... bottled water out of the faucet. Also, of you are into designer waters, I have a carbonator, a gram scale and a few bottles of food grade minerals for making my own Perrier.

    https://blog.khymos.org/2011/0...

  4. You can walk into a starbucks and ask for water and they'll give you a free glass full. I haven't done it myself, but have a friend who does it all the time. Sometimes he gets one for his dog too..

    I don't know where you live, but think that it's a requirement, at least in CA that there be at least 2, preferably four, starbucks on every corner.

  5. Re:So.... fix the laws, I guess? on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    Outrage all the things.

    The choice of the millennial generation. This posting brought to you by Pepsi.

  6. Re:Problem isn't laws... Stupid consumers on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What, with toilet water?

  7. Re: So.... fix the laws, I guess? on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    California desalinated water is $2000/1.233x10^6L of water, or 0.16220cents/L, ~6litres/penny.

  8. Re:So.... fix the laws, I guess? on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    Searching online, I found that an acre-foot of water sells for between $70 and $2000.

    An acrefoot of water contains over 1 million liters, pinky in the air.

    Why is this news to anyone with a brain?

  9. Re:Let me see here on Why You Shouldn't Imitate Bill Gates If You Want To Be Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Many people grew up in Silicon Valley at the right time.

  10. Re:Jokes aside, it's not hard on Why You Shouldn't Imitate Bill Gates If You Want To Be Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not personal.

  11. Re:Utter socialist tripe. on Why You Shouldn't Imitate Bill Gates If You Want To Be Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Gates wrote one of the original BASICs and remained one of the top coders at Microsoft throughout his career up past the $100million point.

  12. Re:For everyone nonamerican on NASA's Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet (scienmag.com) · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't.

  13. Re:The problem is not the Internet on Internet Is Having a Midlife Crisis (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    Some people just have to take every criticism personally.

    No, I'm not saying the design is wrong, I'm saying that you are a bad person and you should be ashamed of yourself.

  14. Re:once again... on Internet Is Having a Midlife Crisis (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Usenet wasn't a bastion of hope and free ideas.

    I don't know about that. I used to hang out on alt.comp.os.xxx(nt,os2,linux,?) all day in college and learned more there than I did in any of my classes. Maybe it depended on which groups you hung out in. The science and engineering groups were lame at the worst and don't remember any problems, I never ventured beyond because I didn't care.

  15. Re: Lots of folks find it hard to cope with bullyi on Internet Is Having a Midlife Crisis (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to get beat up in school all of the time and my parents had me removed from a teacher's class, does that count? (Said teacher had a nervous breakdown and quit later that year). Not for name calling, but for constantly taking my lunch away and not letting me drink from the water fountain. Maybe name calling too, but I don't remember that.

  16. Re:The problem is not the Internet on Internet Is Having a Midlife Crisis (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to work with someone who would cry during code reviews when problems were found. Things like: you do not need to sort a list to find the smallest element. Sure, there are many ways to solve problems and that's a valid way, but it is not good for many reasons.

  17. Re:Huh? on Internet Is Having a Midlife Crisis (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    you just need to look for it.

    I always thought this was the reason for slashdot (back when it was popular). Now it replays the same 30 stories in an attempt to be controversial.

  18. Re:For everyone nonamerican on NASA's Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet (scienmag.com) · · Score: 2

    The only correct answer in the pointless unit superiority war.

  19. Re:Flying cars? on Is the World Ready For Flying Cars? (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for self driving RVs where I can climb in one with a bunch of friends and family on a Friday morning, go to sleep watching tv and wake up Saturday morning half way across the country at Yosemite or Disney World.

  20. Re: BeauHD on Is the World Ready For Flying Cars? (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If it is personal transportation, and it flies from point A to point B, where neither A nor B is an airport, then it is a flying car.

    And not a helicopter.

  21. Re:A favorite quote on What Comes After User-Friendly Design? (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    One of my favorite quotes. I think I first read it on a bbs in the 80's or 90's.

  22. Make it user hostile on What Comes After User-Friendly Design? (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    from history

  23. How is text-to-speech considered AI? I built a text to speech computer (spo256-al2) in grade school. It's a lookup table in rom and a dma with counter you could build out of a few logic gates. It's a lot less ai than a web page with a text entry field.

  24. Re: China appears to be shooting for EV dominance on China Builds World's Largest EV Charging Network With 167,000 Stations (247wallst.com) · · Score: 1

    Communism is legal in the US. There are many communes that anyone can legally join. The converse is not true under communism.

  25. 1 million kilowatt-hours of power on China Builds World's Largest EV Charging Network With 167,000 Stations (247wallst.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is the equivalent of 12-40 large fuel trucks depending on how you count efficiency. @121MJ/L