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  1. Re:Breaking down != Degradable on A Million Bottles a Minute: World's Plastic Binge 'As Dangerous as Climate Change' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You have, never in your life, dealt with a construction company or lumber yard.

    Want to know how I know? Cedar house...you're living in the 19th century. Steel framing is the modern answer.

  2. Re:The real problem we have is flavor on A Million Bottles a Minute: World's Plastic Binge 'As Dangerous as Climate Change' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If it says 'from concentrate' on the bottle, buy the concentrate. Why pay to ship the water?

    Bottled 'Ice Tea'...fucking morons.

  3. Re:The real problem we have is on A Million Bottles a Minute: World's Plastic Binge 'As Dangerous as Climate Change' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Lovely 90% relative humidity though. I'll take dry heat over lessor heat and humidity.

  4. Just put your trash in the neighbors bin, duh. You euros aren't good at the whole innovation thing are you?

  5. We can ship you our empties. Sounds potentially profitable. Will the swedish post do the post due on delivery thing?

  6. Makes me feel good to litter. Gives me a warm feeling, helping my fellow man. Heck, throw down three empty bottles, have some charity.

  7. Install it in your freezer. Fizzy water through the door. Not complicated, but the fittings are pretty high pressure, spring for the stainless ones.

  8. Your own fault for buying an Audi. Repeat after me: "Never buy an expensive car for cheap, it doesn't end that way..."

    The stainless, double walled, cups from wallyworld cost $10. Likely about the cost of an Audi fuse.

  9. Re:Breaking down != Degradable on A Million Bottles a Minute: World's Plastic Binge 'As Dangerous as Climate Change' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In termite country? It literally is eaten by symbiotic bacteria in the termites guts.

    How quickly depends on a lot of details. Put any wood into contact with the ground and 'pretty fast' is a safe answer.

  10. What kind of lame childhood did you have? Normal spring-powered? At the low end, you have single pump air (e.g AIR-15), about $50. With a pellet and a decent shot, dead squirrel. A Daisy 880 will easily kill a squirrel with a BB. The English made some really nice BB guns, after they became subjects (ne citizens). But their government got around to banning those too, working on banning pointed sticks, last I heard.

  11. Re:Interesting coincidence: return of vinyl and on Sony Will Start Pressing Vinyl Records After 28-Year Hiatus (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Seeds? Damn that takes me back...

  12. Re:Miss the artwork on Sony Will Start Pressing Vinyl Records After 28-Year Hiatus (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't miss seeds, mon.

  13. Re:Keep the grid. Lose the meters on There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So, you're just wrong?

  14. Re: They're using subsidies... on There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Deep cycle lead acid. 1/4 the price per energy. Only downside is much heavier.

  15. Last I looked (something like 10 years ago), nation wide American power companies spend close to a _billion_ $/year on squirrel remediation and repair.

    Bushy tailed rats just love to destroy electric equipment. Smart enough to figure out ways around every practical barrier.

    We should just put a $1/head bounty on them and let the kids get some use out of their bb guns and wrist rockets. Protip: When co-workers bring their kids into the office, give them whoopie cushions, slingshots, plastic barf, remote controler electronic farters, etc and bad ideas. Their parents need to be punished.

  16. Most of the old American ones run backwards just fine, the trick was remembering to put them back in non-reversed position early enough you weren't running everything you own for the last few days of the billing cycle to avoid getting caught with a negative usage.

  17. If you cook, you don't move there.

  18. Re:Extremely expensive on There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid (qz.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Even solar/renewable nut jobs still have gas stoves. Because they work much better. Even inductive electric stoves suck big wet FESTERING donkey balls, the old school resistive ones, just no.

    Do you know how to tell at a glance at someone's kitchen that they don't know how to cook? Electric stove.

  19. Re:heres the kicker on The Biggest Windows 10 Shop? Microsoft Partner Accenture (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Black box test Accenture, study its habits.

    First data point: Based on observation: Accenture marketers must give _awesome_ head to senior executives at client companies/governments. The senior execs are putty in their hands. Excuses are accepted and the process is repeated.

  20. You'll find very similar issues around sysadmins and installers written by devs. The sysadmins will get pissy because the dev tried do something stupid...automagically setup a database etc. Attitude matters.

  21. Re:Let me guess on Research Finds 1 In 3 American Cats and Dogs Are Overweight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Your dog wants beer. Delicious, preferably flat, beer.

    Not can beer, or over hopped IPA. Good, flat, 'German' (Czech?) style beer.

    I've had three dogs turn their nose up at Bud. The look at you like WTF is that? Never had Coors in the house, but you can bet all the 'alka seltzer' style beers would get the same result.

  22. Re:Dogs should be given carnivorous diet, too on Research Finds 1 In 3 American Cats and Dogs Are Overweight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Ol' Roy...

    If you never want to eat Taco Bell again, open a can of Ol' Roy beef dog food and get a good smell. Then go immediately to Taco Bell and go in. When you go in the door, you will smell Ol' Roy beef dog food combined with Taco Bell seasoning. You will never be able to eat Taco Bell again. I can't even feed my dog Ol' Roy wet dog food anymore.

  23. Re:Dogs should be given carnivorous diet, too on Research Finds 1 In 3 American Cats and Dogs Are Overweight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Curly, bad dog! Hacking the lady's /. account. Bad!

  24. Re:Of course American cats are fat on Research Finds 1 In 3 American Cats and Dogs Are Overweight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Your cat hates you. You are it's jailer.

    Stockholm syndrome is the only reason it lets you pet it.

  25. Re:Not really surprising on Research Finds 1 In 3 American Cats and Dogs Are Overweight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Dogs get fat from table scraps. Fatties go 'timeless blur' and only re-awake when the food is gone, none for the dog.