Not freak weather, that is tropospheric ducting. It actually happens a lot more often than you think.

Check target. my local one has them $80 on the clearance table in the electronics section.

They started to backpedal on promises before the end of the crowdfunding, it is overpriced for what it was, and they had severe quality issues. 4 controllers with very little use in 1 year... Xbox controllers abused to hell work fine 4 years later. Yeah, it's dead, nobody cares, they cant even sell them in the clearance bin at Target.

I send signals around the globe with 5 watts. 100 watts is for the guys that have crap antennas.

RaDAR - Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio.

we make a game out of it by having impromptu events where a large group goes out and tries to get to a hard to reach location without power or anything else, erects antennas and then tries to contact as many other members on that event. It's great fun.

That game Saves peoples arses during emergencies.

Ham radio fills in the gaps for ALL natural disasters. Katrina it was a huge aspect of communications.

This is not new, this is what ham radio does.

Bring back Pope Benedict. At least he was rational. And while we're at it, arm him, and give him troops so he can do something about persecutions of Christians in the Middle East.

You want the pedophile shuffler back? Really?

His resignation was timed to deflect attention from that issue, coming as it was the very week HBO's documentary linking him (and his soon-to-be-sainted predecessor) directly to the pedophile scandals in the US, Ireland, and elsewhere came out.

And it worked. Instead of public outcry at the documented link between the then-reigning popes and the pedophile coverup, everyone was wetting their pants over a shiny new pope who wasn't to the right of Genghis Khan.

That said, it takes a really hardcore right-wingnut to want Ratzinger back.

Pay for real IT security staff. $250,000 a year each is a starting wage for Good ones. Until you do so you will have problems.

WE need to stop with this bullshit of trying to get security without paying for it. Tell these morons, DUH! you refuse to pay for it. until they understand.

You are 100% incorrect. Buddy of mine spent 6 years in Afghanistan with a M60 issued to him and never had any of that happen to him.

"Good luck getting one of those for yourself unless its an antique."

Not a problem at all In fact they are rather easy to get.

Step 1 join army.
Step 2 Pass basic
Step 3 Get M60 issued to you.
Step 4 PROFIT!

Honestly, people have the right to be drooling morons and have a degree.

Expecting people to have an IQ or education is not normal today. Let them be dumb, and accept it. They have a god given right to be dumb.

I can shoot around corners now?! Sweet. Hello Cool World, here I come.

You can also be shot around corners. Welcome to "you don't stand a chance, Bub" world.

And many do. Cake for example started as a bar band, and never really changed their lifestyle much.

No bathing in pools full of CrySTAL or snorting coke of the backs of $2000 a night hookers.

They even already have a documentary about it out.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03...

projects and in academic research, which are an already tiny, extremely competitive, and ever-smaller part of the general pool of engineering labor.

Most of what engineers do is in the broader consumer economy, engineering objects, systems, etc. for people that are already amongst the world's wealthy (i.e. consumers in the largest national economies), that they don't really need, to enrich still wealthier people that don't really need any more enrichment.

I may be a woman underneath it all, because despite being gainfully employed in a high-skill position that makes use of my Ph.D., I can't stand my job, which is all about making stuff with little direct bearing on daily life to help make rich people even richer—yet of course it is taken deadly seriously by everyone in the company, and there is a general disdain for and scoffing at "causes," like say, preventing climate change, expanding human knowledge and capability, or helping to address the massive wealth inequality on the planet.