If they go live on a deserted island and never come back, I'm OK with it. If not, they are a danger to society and should not be allowed to mingle with normal people.
Switches with _any_ security, may that be isolated rails or axle-counters would be ruined, not to mention the modern switches have plastic rolling supports that would melt. These were used, because the old steel plaques had to be treated with oil every day or every couple of days by hand, which costs a fortune.
So most modern railway companies use automatic electric heating when the temperature falls below a certain point. It's way cheaper than having to pay people to go there and heat them by hand. In some countries, Belgium f.ex. they use gas heating if it's only one or a couple of switches.
PS: I have been a railway dispatcher for 40 years.
"Robert Zimmerman adds that "The evidence suggests that this deep groundwater water table (as ice) almost certainly still exists at all latitudes, though almost entirely underground... "
Car makers and other hardware producers are already forced by law in many countries to provide replacements parts to anybody, sometimes for 1 or 2 decades and they have to allow 3rd party companies to fabricate them as well. That should be a general law.
"Technically not your body, but your kids. And yes, the government has some say because your kids' problems will eventually be society's problems."
Eventually? Jenny MaCarthy already made that happen. Every years hundreds of people die because of that bitch and her 'vaccinating cause autism' shtick.
A normal one costs over 10 billions nowadays, if you could convince the nimbys, but hey, if you can get an insurance company to cover the risks, I'm all for it. But good luck with that.
" Tiny meteoroids are hitting the moon each day and those "hits" never go away as there’s no such thing as wind."
The far side of the moon points to the universe. Since the near side of the moon is always pointed towards us and has for a loooong time, most of the meteoroids would have to have come from earth. But hey, why do I even try to discuss this with morons.
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"Cancer isn't contagious. Unlike stupidity."
You've heard of oncoviruses, yes?
An oncovirus is a virus that can cause cancer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But it's not as contagious as that stupidity virus you seem to suffer from.
Homo Orangus
If they go live on a deserted island and never come back, I'm OK with it.
If not, they are a danger to society and should not be allowed to mingle with normal people.
So I won't have to block 6 trackers and 9 scripts here on /. myself?
They should try Spice instead of spice.
12 billion will be the top.
Until then, every watches TV, posts on Facebook and tweets instead of having sex.
PS. If you haven't watched his TED talks, you should do so now, they are amazing.
Switches with _any_ security, may that be isolated rails or axle-counters would be ruined, not to mention the modern switches have plastic rolling supports that would melt.
These were used, because the old steel plaques had to be treated with oil every day or every couple of days by hand, which costs a fortune.
So most modern railway companies use automatic electric heating when the temperature falls below a certain point. It's way cheaper than having to pay people to go there and heat them by hand.
In some countries, Belgium f.ex. they use gas heating if it's only one or a couple of switches.
PS: I have been a railway dispatcher for 40 years.
Hardly, obligatory would be:
What?
"it looks like the driver has at least one hand over the bottom half of the steering wheel,"
A couple of Wiener sausages will do the job quite nicely.
"A broken down Tesla on the side of the road is bad publicity. It's better to tow it away and out of sight as quickly as possible. "
The car knows beforehand that it will break down and will come to a stop behind a real estate sign, Marty McFly style.
"To prevent people going to independent repair shops (like Rich's elecrified-garage)?"
It's to avoid calling Bubba from the repair-shop around the corner who has a torture-chamber in his basement.
I blocked Google Analytics on the router level years ago (so that it works on phones and tablets at home too) and I thought everybody did it.
"Robert Zimmerman adds that "The evidence suggests that this deep groundwater water table (as ice) almost certainly still exists at all latitudes, though almost entirely underground... "
Bob Dylan seems to know this stuff.
Just because you inherited money and your dad paid for a new library at Harvard doesn't mean that you aren't a stupid fuck.
Car makers and other hardware producers are already forced by law in many countries to provide replacements parts to anybody, sometimes for 1 or 2 decades and they have to allow 3rd party companies to fabricate them as well.
That should be a general law.
PS. I'm looking at you, Apple.
"Technically not your body, but your kids. And yes, the government has some say because your kids' problems will eventually be society's problems."
Eventually? Jenny MaCarthy already made that happen. Every years hundreds of people die because of that bitch and her 'vaccinating cause autism' shtick.
If you like transparent stuff.
"We should be executing 100 times more of them, harvesting there organs and using them for medical expeiments."
You definitely could use one of their grammar-organs.
"But I am sure as hell not letting anyone adjust my thermostat over the internet, or watch me (WHATEVER) either."
Then don't use 1234 as password.
This would replace the doctor, not the stethoscope.
He's the weak link.
" giant wrappers for buildings that extract energy "
The cellphone and wireless-free building where the 'radiation-sensitive' people can live.
He made his shopping lists with them for 40 years, like most users.
Film at 11
A normal one costs over 10 billions nowadays, if you could convince the nimbys, but hey, if you can get an insurance company to cover the risks, I'm all for it.
But good luck with that.
" Tiny meteoroids are hitting the moon each day and those "hits" never go away as there’s no such thing as wind."
The far side of the moon points to the universe.
Since the near side of the moon is always pointed towards us and has for a loooong time, most of the meteoroids would have to have come from earth.
But hey, why do I even try to discuss this with morons.