Probably. I thought that starting with the P166 ones they were all MMX but then I could not be remembering things correctly since that was around 20 years ago. And now I feel old.

"A terrible social crime". Sounds like he's mad because his wife couldn't read Facebook.

You need to plate it with teflon.

What bothers me is the idea of that being a colony rather than just an outpost. Where to you get metals? Can you split the CO2 into C + O2 and than use the C for bulk fabrication? It seems as if graphene can be either conductive or insulating, and nanotubes are pretty strong, but now we're talking about a rather extensive fabrication facility just in the initial set-up.

I consider asteroids a much more reasonable habitat. (I'm not sure that Mars is a good choice, but it sure sounds better than Venus.)

Depends. How safe a neighborhood do you want? I believe that the normal asking rent for an apartment in Oakland was around $1500/month a few years ago...but I haven't actually been looking in the last 30 years, so I don't know what neighborhood is implied by that price.

12 * 1,500 = 18,000, so it depends on your other expenses...and whether you want to live that cheaply. OTOH, neighborhood is *VERY* important. And I also don't know what size apartment I'm talking about.

My suspicion, however, is that there was no intention of living in a downtown area, and that commute was as important as cost. Of course, for enough money you can find a sufficiently desireable location in a city, so saying money is the basis isn't incorrect.

LA is not a single city, San Francisco is. LA is the larger metropolitan area, but that's a lot more than one city. (Of course, the original poster said "bay area", not San Francisco.)

Units should be of the appropriate size to what you're measuring. Farenheit is more appropriate for judging room temperature and even cooking temperature when you don't need to be precise enough to get down to fractions of a degree.

The metric system has a lot of value, especially when doing precise measurements. When doing rough measurements at human scale it runs into problems. The meter is about the right size, but centimeter, or even decimeter, isn't a good replacement for foot. And for many purposes centimeter is too small to replace an inch. (When you start using fractions of an inch this advantage disappears.)

One can argue whether a Kilogram or a pound is the more useful general weight, it seems pretty much a draw to me. Ditto for Kilometer and mile. And when being precise metric is the clear winner.

OTOH, for outside temperature, a rough measue (Farenheit) is not only better suited in size, but also in accuracy. You don't get an accurate outside temperature, because it varies too much from place to place. So it's best not to pretend that you do. Which means avoid fractional degrees, whether Farenheit or Centigrade (okay, Celsius, but Centigrade is a better name).

Fell free to, no complaints here, especially since I am not a very good word smith. I just want more people to get active with their elected officials since so few do.

Wow that is a very low bar. I felt somewhat cheated when I took this course at the local technical college as I thought they were going to go really in depth but didn't. Not really knowing much about DB other than the high level stuff and how to write a simple dumb query that pisses off DBAs I did get something out of it but wanted more.

This sounds not so different from one of the public university systems here in Minnesota. The MNSCU system is comprised of the state colleges (technical and community) that offer various trades and associates degrees and then a number of Universities offering bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees. The credits all transfer easily between one of these schools and another. I have a cousin who took advantage of post secondary program for MN high school students and entered college as junior but ended up getting shipped to Iraq with the national guard for a year. He managed to complete his degree in 2 years once he got back and didn't have to shell out any money for it.

If you don't think tyranny can accomplish anything good, why do you promote democracy, aka "tyranny of the majority?"

What we should be doing is filing FOIAs for all data collected on our elected officials. So in this case I should file a FOIA for Representative John Kline, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Senator Al Franken, and President Obama. There would be a legitimate reason for the electorate to know who their elected officials associate with, besides it is just the meta data so no big deal or at least that is what I keep being told. Also there shouldn't be any national security issue with receiving this information as these people aren't terrorists and there shouldn't be an ongoing investigation that would be compromised.

Hey not all Americans are for FISA and we do try to stop the shit they do. Problem is that too many of my fellow Americans are too apathetic to help out even if they do dislike these things. Then there are the people who believe it actually makes them safes since the government is doing something and support it but not real strongly who sadly are probably the majority.

I have already contacted my congress critters. Unfortunately Senators Klobuchar and Franken seem to support these unconstitutional actions with their vote on the USA FREEDOM Act and don't seem to like our freedoms. I have also contacted my Representative John Kline but his is of similar mind in these cases and seems to be even more supportive of these actions in general. Since I am not in either Keith Ellison's or Tom Emmar's districts they really don't want to hear from me but they were both against this bulk data collection and may be sympathetic. Below is the body text I sent off to Senator Klobuchar, Senator Franken, and Representative Kline both in paper form and in e-mail. I specifically mention their votes on the USA FREEDOM act so depending on how your congress critters voted you may need to change that part if you just do a copy paste.

Well they had lots of the older instructions online but not for this loft bed. It just may have been too old for even that. I really haven't had a complaint about their stuff in general and even have some of their inexpensive pine shelves. By the way their pine furniture looks awesome if you sand it, stain it, and apply a couple of coats of poly, and while it is a bit more expensive than the particle board stuff it is a lot nicer especially with a good finish applied and will last longer.

Yes I realize this is IKEA furniture, just because it is inexpensive and sold in flat pack doesn't mean it has to be complete crap. It just gets to live in the basement in rooms where hobbies are done where utility is more important that overall niceness.