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  1. Re:tribution on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    Actually, my Sequoiadendron gigantea appears to line up with the apparent target of the 3-dish ridgeline array, but I doubt he'll still be depending on those in the 15 or so years it'll take for us to blot out that bit of sky.

  2. Re:$400 a month? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    We bought a house with an HOA. I was annoyed as all fuck by the {all the neighbors, every fucking one} who mounted their satellite tracking arrays as close to the street as possible. {Actually, one guy, the developer who built the neighborhood, went with the ridge-line of his two-story.} I haven't come up with suitable retribution yet, but I didn't let out a peep of my concern at the meeting. Life is too short, gotta choose your battlefields carefully.

  3. Re:Revenge on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, what can I do to help?

  4. Re:$400 a month? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    Our society agreed to be bound by the restrictions of The Constitution, but figures that since the dudes that signed it are dead now, we can slide. Society makes pretty free.

  5. Re:$400 a month? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    HOA, Committee of Vigilance, Lynch Mob, it's the American Way.
    If you refuse to adapt to your environment, at least be aware of the possibilities.

  6. Re:$400 a month? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    That appears to be addressed in the text. Even places that are "ELIGIBLE to be registered" as historic are exempted. Personally I'd rather be tasteful on an installation. As much as I hate my neighbors, I'd rather be known for using other methods to assault their sensibilities. I've got SOME scruples.

  7. Re:OMFG on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    That guy REALLY hates his neighbors.

  8. Re:Shh... on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    Good god, Man, you don't think I'm actually printing it, do you? I just read it from the display.

  9. Re:Wiki help on Earth's Radio Telescopes Combining Forces · · Score: 1

    The summary made this sound like something that should be already happening. Thanks.

  10. Re:Good Freaking Luck on Trying To Find White House Missing E-mails · · Score: 1

    Another cliched punchline from the outgoing admin. Why am I too tired to laugh.

  11. Re:Remote or AI? on The Unmanned Air Force · · Score: 1

    Mishap rates are being attributed to the development phase. These are being tested on-the-job, that alone is a cost benefit. Price/performance ratio will increase with each unit deployed.

  12. Re:Not surprising on The Unmanned Air Force · · Score: 1

    Down at the bottom of the Wikipedia MQ-9 page: "four aircraft, four ground stations and five years of maintenance support, all valued at US$330 million." Pretty cheap, if you don't consider the public relations price of sending robotic killing machines to spread goodwill in sensitive regions.

  13. Re:Nonsense on DC Power Poised To Bring Savings To Datacenters · · Score: 1

    I was wiring up a flower garden for a guy, it is "inconceivable" how hard it was to talk him into rewiring the transformers and supplying 240v.

  14. Re:The arguments of olde - don't carry much weight on DC Power Poised To Bring Savings To Datacenters · · Score: 1

    240v should carry more load on the same hardware, so I'd be willing to daisy-chain another power strip, if I were one to do so.

  15. Re:The arguments of olde - don't carry much weight on DC Power Poised To Bring Savings To Datacenters · · Score: 1

    IANAEE but just this morning I was wondering what the power factor of direct DC storage systems were, or how best to apply correction in the home systems.

  16. Re:1K Unemployed on Telephone Scammers Ordered To Pay $50M · · Score: 1

    Using the bank model, we'd send them additional funds, so they could re-structure their operation into a more highly profitable enterprise. Stop offshoring our telemarketing! These are 'good jobs' for Florida residents!

  17. Re:member Woodstock on Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms · · Score: 1

    I try to avoid ingesting "soil".

  18. RTFA on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    Oh. I see that bill was prior to the solar installation. So, I guess the penalty worked.

  19. Shh... on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't tell anyone, but there's a tab on the first page that's labeled "print". I don't get to wait for ads and pictures to load, but it has the text.

  20. Re:$400 a month? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    I'm probably wrong, as I merely inferred this from the phrasing in TFA, I thought our Fearless Utility had penalised him for outlying consumption numbers on the cloudy month when it got cold. That's to encourage conservation.

  21. Re:$50M Vs. $172M on Telephone Scammers Ordered To Pay $50M · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it's a corporation or LLC, probably got some boiler plate fine print on the contract their customers agreed to that will keep everyone out of gaol.

  22. 1K Unemployed on Telephone Scammers Ordered To Pay $50M · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least no one is talking "Bail-out".

  23. Re:Equally Misleading on Internet Not Really Dangerous For Kids After All · · Score: 1

    My kid's taste run towards some of that hentai dreck, and I am sure he's been goatse'd, but I don't think even that has really ruined his life.

  24. Re:Looks like ... on Captain Dying Planet · · Score: 1

    Eew. Thanks for pointing that out.

  25. Re:*plop* (mind blown) on Internet Not Really Dangerous For Kids After All · · Score: 4, Funny

    Quick, Smithers, massage my brain. I'm trying to think.