guess they needed to generate some traffic.

In any event, even "inflation" (in the cosmological sense) is not a certainty and has taken on a life of its own similar to the legions of string theorists (who have so much invested they can't just walk away).

Because countries refuse to stop giving the ridiculous tax benefits.

Well there you have it. Exactly what is wrong with the left. A lower tax rate is considered a "benefit" as if the government is tossing a cookie out and patting the corporate (or individual) dog on the head and saying "good boy!"

The government has no inherent natural right to take money from anyone.

The far better way to view it is "companies are shifting assets and income out of our country because of the ridiculous tax penalties here."

And you are now supporting the power companies arguments for making solar generators pay for using the grid to transmit their power. Thank you.

No she is not (per that statement alone) but she is claiming a "right" which does not exist. That the Catholic church says "do not use contraception" is not the same as "even reading about contraception is a sin.". Nobody is telling her or her offspring they must use contraception. If that were the case, then she would be correct, her rights were violated.

Define a few feet please. And do pilots also report to the FAA everytime they pass "within a few feet" of a bird?

The FAA has been hell bent on gaining government control over drones and they will make up any excuse they can, the scarier the better.

that a fundamentally corrupt system is taking a little pain? They aren't even close to the woodshed yet.

There is no reason for medallions to exist any longer. The very easy solution to this is a) require a different class license for hired (hailed or called) car drivers and b) require the use of special plates (many already require a TX- type plate). I'm not even sure a uniform color is really "required" given the presense of the "taxi (un)occupied" roof top display though at this point I think yellow (at least in NYC) is so ingrained it may be a disadvantage to differentiate a hailed car.

Shockingly, the first two of my requirements already exist in most places. So again, why are we still dealing in the corrupt medallion business?

Thanks for the tips. Fortran has come a long way since then but from the code I have seen APL is one of the tersest languages out there. Is there such a thing as a long APL program? Game of life is one line (three if you comment).

Well I think the AC has hit on at least part of the problem with above ground wiring. These electric networks are very old. Many were probably put up with no idea about using a topology that would be more fault tolerant. And then came explosive growth in suburbia forcing add ons to an already suspect network. A few failures in the grid can really cause chaos.

However, even taking your 10 day outage and doubling it, over 10 years that is still 99.45% uptime per year on average.

As the head of an hoa that has been debating repaving our roads and parking areas (30+ years old) I can say this is not bullshit. We have "buried" service since the time the place was built. This means "DBC" (direct burial cable) - wire with no conduit. This past year has been exceptionally bad - one home owner has had their driveway ripped up three times to "fix" the problem with service to three neighbors. We had a number of homes running on mobile transformers after either losing service entirely or just one leg. This went on for six months before they arrived with a backhoe. Others had to endure flickering lights for over six months while waiting for the utility to replace "crabs" which split the line from the transformer to a number of homes (and is underground in an access pit that often floods).

We have access pits scattered about the property. Most are in parking spaces or driveways, some in lawns. These are connected to seven or eight transformers scattered around the property. Those lines are completely under the roads as is the line from outside the development that powers the transformers.

It is a regular clusterfuck and it is compounded by the fact that even in the 80s contractors were still using (and allowed to) aluminum dbc. As a result, our roads are a patchwork and the lawns a mess (you don't think the utility really "restores" them to what they were before do you?)

So now we are in a catch-22. The electric (and water for that matter) utility will never replace the entire runs of wiring. They will instead do this bit by bit over how ever many years it takes for everything to fail. We can't put off paving forever, but who wants to spend 500-750K on mill pave and recurb just to have the electric company destroy it?

Unless you plan and oversee the installation of such underground service yourself, assume the absolute worst. Builders do not care that the utility will start ripping up the property 10, 20 or more years down the roads as they will have their money and be long gone.

Getting close but I'd be giving up about 4 or so inches width and gaining quite a bit in height, perhaps too much. I think a lot might depend on bezel sizes and ability to position on desk - its easier to look a little lower than higher.

I've always wanted to spend some time with APL but the learning curve was steep enough that I've never been able to block out sufficient time to make it worth starting.

I agree with your sentiments as most of my use of the desktop pc is for work and not movies/media. While I would consider a 1:1 format, I would probably not want it this size - its too tall at nearly 19". I'm looking at my two 1600/1200 100dpi monitors now and I think going more than another 4" (16x16) would in the end be uncomfortable to use on a daily basis.

My ideal monitor then would be something like 32Wx16H @ about 150dpi, eliminating the bezel from two mons and giving a bit better resolution. And it would be great if the OS would allow you to virtually split the screen in two when desired.

AFAIK Clear type / sub pixel rendering only works properly in the native monitor view.

Yes. How many of those plants are there? Compare that to the number of wind turbines and solar farms, large and small, being planted right at road side. Can you say "eco-blight"?

fuck the children. I already pay a small fortune in school tax. Let them find the money for it from there.