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  1. If the GOP get in.... on White House, 35 States To Boost Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ... It will be $50 for a charge,, and you'll still pay the gas tax..

  2. With the programing available, $1 a month should cover it...

  3. Fuck Apple.

  4. Excellent news... on The Ham Radio Parity Act Unanimously Passed By US House (arrl.org) · · Score: 2

    I sent my reps the email.

    I am glad that it may have helped.

    (Amature Radio Service Operator).

  5. Re:If they were collecting information on Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points, your 100% spot on...

  6. Fuck Apple.

  7. Apple on Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fuck Apple.

  8. Wish I had Mod points...

  9. Shared cars.. on Autonomous Cars Could Be Worse For Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1

    And these shared cars will be as clean as the shared restroom at the football stadium...

  10. Re:Damned if you do, damned if you don't on Have Your iPhone 6 Repaired, Only To Get It Bricked By Apple (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    SU = Super User...

  11. What fun is that?

  12. Re:They forgot something on The Realities of a $50 Smartphone · · Score: 1

    My Sprint HTC one M7 received an update for Stagefright, and some other things, this morning...

  13. Ad Block on Philae's Lost Seven Months Were Completely Unnecessary · · Score: 1

    Forbe's will not load if Ad blockers are running on your browser...

  14. Re:No... on Proposed California Law Would Mandate Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    I wish I had (+) mod points.

  15. Re:Every Russian has a dash cam because.... on Moscow Plane Crash Caught On Passerby's Dash Cam · · Score: 1

    Or just realise that you regularly leave your car unattended outside, at the mercy of nature and people in the area, and don't worry about small dents and scratches. Leave the dents there and just polish off the scratches to prevent rust. Cars need to look shiny and pristine only if you're foolish enough to believe everything the marketing department tells you.

    Don't be so American, in some countries, like Japan, it's actually illegal to drive a car that has a dent in it.

    Citations please.

  16. Re:hunting? on Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time · · Score: 1

    Smoked pigeon doesn't taste bad at all.

    Been there done that..

  17. Re:CN Tower on World's Tallest Free-Standing Broadcast Tower Completed · · Score: 1

    Ate dinner at the restaurant near the top of the tower, on our honeymoon.
    Elevator ride, in the glass enclosed cab, was interesting at night...

  18. Re:Another will hit us, probably soonish on Friday's Solar Flare Twice As Energetic As Monday's; Earth Safe · · Score: 1

    Congratulations!

    Ken

    KD8DWO

  19. Re:Wrong hands or wrong spectrum? on Citigroup Questions Whether US Spectrum Shortage Exists · · Score: 1

    Don't forget all those greedy hams! They have a whole 26 MHz at 33 cm they're never using! That's a half of a freaking channel! Just take it! They got no lobbyists!

    Yes we do.
    ARRL.org

  20. Re:An effort to avoid tariffs in Brazil on Is Apple Moving iPad Production to Brazil? · · Score: 1

    Some of the real reasons for Apple/Foxconn chose to produce iPads in Brazil:

    • Better engeneers
    • Sorter shipping distance
    • Saner time zone

    But the most important reason:
    Considerable tax reduction (as translated by Google Translate)

    "engeneers".. engineers..

    Fixed that. :-)

  21. Re:CB vs Ham on SABAM Wants Truckers To Pay For Listening To Radio · · Score: 1

    Five watts input into final output stage. Four watts out the antenna jack.

  22. Re:CB vs Ham on SABAM Wants Truckers To Pay For Listening To Radio · · Score: 1

    I doubt that you'd be in front of most /. readers, since most have some science background and might recognise wavelengths etc.

    Anyway, 10m is the 28MHz amateur radio band (10m being the wavelength). Ham gear is more powerful, and can drive larger linear amplifiers (the 'kicker' in CB parlance). A 1600W linear is going to need around 100W of drive, so the ham radio would work nicely. I think the legal limit of a CB is something like 10W, which would underdrive the linear.

    The US obsession with RF power never ceases to amaze me, especially when I'm using 5W to talk to an operator running 1500W. The QRP mantra: power is no substitute for skill.

    As you say, I can't believe I am biting at the troll ...

    The US CB legal power limit is 5 watts.

  23. Re:Don't Be Too Proud Of This Technological Terror on The Tipping Point of Humanness · · Score: 1

    I think he is alluding to the 1930s Coca-Cola marketing campaign in which the first depiction of Santa Clause as we know him now--the fat, jolly fellow with a white beard and a red and white suit (which incidentally were the colors of the Coca-Cola logo)--was introduced.

    Depictions of Santa Clause prior to this varied in the colors and girth of the mythical person.

              -dZ.

    I cannot mod you up,, but that is interesting..

  24. Re:Slow sales.. on Windows Phone 7 Sales Continue To Struggle · · Score: 1

    T-Mobil has very poor or non-existent coverage in my rural area.

  25. Slow sales.. on Windows Phone 7 Sales Continue To Struggle · · Score: 0

    Could AT&T being the sole service provider have anything to do with the sluggish Sales?