Or, you know we could negotiate a salary that we are happy with given the job descriptions we are applying for. Since I make between 2 and 3 times the median wage I'm ok with answering some emails off hours or waking up to a page once every 6 months due to a system problem. Then again I'm a tech lead and hence management so I'd be exempt under just about any rules =)

No, corporations exist to protect the OWNERS, not the executives or the board. In criminal cases the government is perfectly capable of prosecuting the individuals who committed or ordered others to commit crimes.

So does this finally mean we'll get Simultaneous voice and LTE/SVDO back? Because all the current generation Qualcomm processors lack dual radio paths for some reason, this despite the fact that the previous generation had it. I have to assume it's because they used so much power/transistor budget on 'more cores!!!!' that they didn't have room for an RF design to accommodate features that are actually useful.

4/0 3 conductor cable is only 2,548lbs per thousand feet according this chart which puts it at 2.5lbs per foot, hardly something that your average adult can't handle. For reference this listing puts a fuel hose at .6lbs/foot but it looks significantly thinner than what's required around here.

Considering I actually have 600A 480V service in my datacenter and can go and physically grab the cable and note that it is significantly less thick than the line coming down from the fuel pump I used this morning I'm not sure where your theory crafting is coming from.

480V 600A cables are smaller in diameter than current gasoline lines and probably not that much heavier per meter, though that would take ~20 minutes to fill a 100kw battery instead of 3-5 minutes for a gasoline fillup.

Or, you could send your broken phone to phoneambulance or any of the other third party sites to have it repaired, or heck pay the manufacturer to 'fix' it (ie give you a recertified used one).

My point is it seems whenever you add the words embedded PC or hobbyist to the description you get an instant 50% bump in cost relative to the same/similar hardware in other uses. Perhaps it's because of the much smaller runs relative to a consumer device, but PCB's aren't really that expensive.

Seems pretty expensive considering you can get a Dell Venue 8 with 2GHz dual core/2GB ram/32GB flash/battery/screen/case for $179. Still, for a lot of projects it would be useful.

It's far too pricey for cheap ass geegaws - if it was really carbon fiber, it would be way way up there in price.

Not really, CF is only slightly more expensive than fiberglass to make in sheets, it's complex forms that have to be vacuum kilned that get expensive (mostly because it's a batch rather than continuous process and so slow and labor intensive).

50k tons is indeed huge, the presses that extrude the entire side of a full sized van are only around 2k tons and they shake the ground for a hundred acres around them even though they sit on huge shock absorbers and isolators. I should see if my dad has any contacts at the Cleveland Alcoa site with two of those mega presses.

Peppers are fruit and hence ARE the offspring of the parents...

That reminds me of my dads indian friend, he often left curry cooking all day while he was in class and teaching. One day we accompanied him home at the end of his school day, when he opened the door it was like being maced (and I too am a bit of a chilihead). Another friend told us when he moved out that the landlord had to strip the existing paint and put on 3 coats of thick paint just to get the smell down to where someone else could stand to be in the place long enough to sign a lease =)

An auto-upgrade option could make it a good party game, have the game do some quick analysis and if a drop is better overall for the character have it equip on pickup. Obviously you'd want to be able to disable it if you're at all a serious player, but for a quick fun game it would be a neat twist.

Loot 2.0 and the new more granular monster scaling did fix most of the brokenness with D3, there no longer an item wall at Act 2 Inferno where you can't progress without grinding for gold to buy items you have almost zero chance of finding yourself, now you find actual upgrades on a fairly regular basis that allow you to continue on to higher difficulties and you don't run into this steep cliff where you go from slaughtering monsters to being slaughtered through no fault of your gameplay but rather bad itemization. Now I'm not saying you can just jump in and hit Torment 7 in a day, but I took my HC wizard from 43 (Act 3 Nightmare in D3 1.x) to Torment 1 in two weeks and when I found my killing power a little lacking in Torment 1 it was because I was having my health yo-yo more than I would like rather than suddenly being one shotted like happened multiple times under 1.x.