Central heating is a f*cking retarded idea - heating the whole house when the simple fact is an individual can only use one room at a time.

Some people ACTUALLY LIVE WITH OTHER PEOPLE. Also, you really don't know what central heating is or how it works. I have zones. Valves only allow the hot water to enter the zones where the thermostat is calling for heat.

Radiators in the halls - WTF is that for?

That's for not having it 59 degrees in the halls while it is 69 in the rooms, resulting in possible frozen pipes (in older buildings that can't be as well insulated) or condensation on the walls. Only old buildings have radiators. Newer ones with hydronic heating use baseboards (or underfloor radiators), and you usually only see them in hallways if there's an outside wall or it's a very, very long hall with a high ceiling.

You probably should realize there are a few things like HVAC which you think are simple, but perfectly intelligent people had to study in great detail to master.

I don't see any recovery after the ban. You'd think four years would be enough to show recovery.

Honeybees aren't native to the USA. Should we expect to see them isolated in the wild? That they may have been in the past was remarkable.

They have to be within 8 meters of the key and 30 cm of the car. So that means either standing in someone's garage or the driveway, or if they're parked on the street having an accomplice stand inside the apartment building/house or at least very near it.

Too easy for my comfort, but not trivial.

Because they put a FRICKIN COMPUTER in the car, and then they go on the internet or watch TV and hear that HEY, SOME PEOPLE OUT THERE ARE BREAKING INTO COMPUTERS yet they are "ignorant" of the possibility.

You act as if the USA is the only place where drivers care about the sound of their engine.

Try watching an episode of Top Gear (the real one) sometime.

Trump has four legs?

They have an interesting take on it.
The Globe and Mail's angle is quite a bit different: How Uber is ending the dirty dealings behind Toronto's cab business

The Technican Element 3 test wasn't more difficult than the Novice Element 1 and 2 together, so Technican became the lowest license class when they stopped having to take Element 1.

The change to 13 WPM was in 1936, and was specifically to reduce the number of Amateur applicants. It was 10 WPM before that. ARRL asked for 12.5 WPM in their filing, FCC rounded the number because they felt it would be difficult to set 12.5 on the Instructograph and other equipment available for code practice at the time.

It was meant to keep otherwise-worthy hams out of the hobby. And then we let that requirement keep going for 60 years.

The Indianapolis cop episode was back in 2009. It wasn't the first time we've had intruders, and won't be the last, and if you have to reach back that long for an example, the situation can't be that bad. It had nothing to do with code rules or NGOs getting their operators licenses.

A satphone is less expensive than a trained HF operator. Iridium costs $30 per month and $0.89 per minute to call another Iridium phone. That's the over-the-counter rate. Government agencies get a better rate than that. And the phone costs $1100, again that's retail not the government rate, less than an HF rig with antenna and tower will cost any public agency to install.

You think it's a big deal to lobby against paid operators because there will be objections? How difficult do you think it was to reform the code regulations? Don't you think there were lots of opposing comments?

And you don't care about young people getting into Amateur Radio. That's non-survival thinking.

Fortunately, when the real hams go to get something done, folks like you aren't hard to fight, because you don't really do much other than whine and send in the occassional FCC comment. Do you know I even spoke in Iceland when I was lobbying against the code rules? Their IARU vote had the same power as that of the U.S., and half of the hams in the country came to see me. That's how you make real change.

I'm pretty sure they don't eat every species of shark, and even if they did, there aren't enough people eating shark fin soup to eat them all. It's become unfashionable. It's also illegal in places like the US to "fin" sharks; they have to take the entire shark, which makes it a lot more sustainable and less wasteful.

We'll leave you alone in your basements while the rest of us go to work. By the way, your mom says there are openings at Burger King.

I have it on a Compaq C306US with 1 GB of RAM and a 1.73 GHz Celeron. It seemed impressive at first, but the daily Defender signature update brings the machine to its knees. Seriously, the mouse pointer will not even move, and when I was actually able to bring up Perfmon, CPU and disk were both at 100%. That's unusable. I guess the answer is to install another security package, but that's a serious WTF. In 2015, it would be nice if Microsoft had heard of I/O throttling.

The audio also doesn't work unless you disable it, then re-enable it in device manager. I reported this bug with every previous build to no avail.

I wouldn't complain, but Microsoft claimed that every Vista-capable PC could run Windows 10, and that appears to be false.

That sounds similar to what happened at Microsoft with the Bedlam DL3 incident.

Maybe start a petition on "We the People" with as many recent movie names in it as possible? Plus links to the infamous infringer, IMDB.

"Windows 10 will launch in less than a week"

If it won't launch in less than a day, I would say scrap the whole idea.