What people seem to forget is that point-source pollution is much easier to deal with than distributed pollution. It's not that we don't currently have a nuclear waste disposal site, it's that we have many disposal sites located around the country, usually in more populated and more geographically unstable places. Even if Yucca Mountain isn't guaranteed to be ideal for eternity, it would be easier to deal with there for the simple reason that it's all been gathered in one place. If it was possible to overcome NIMBY to get these plants built in the first place and continuously store waste there, it should be possible to overcome NIMBY at Yucca Mountain.

That being said, the IM client certainly wasn't free from spammers, but it wasn't any worse than other IM clients, including the ones still popular today (Skype, Facebook.) There were still a large number of people using MSN right through the very end, including myself. If it were still running, I'd still be using it. As crappy as the newer MSN clients were, there *were* patches out there to remove the ads and such, and you could connect using Pidgin or other third-party clients. I can't say as much for Skype...

MSN Instant Messenger got a bad reputation as being related to the system service named "messenger.exe" which was an entirely separate thing for sending messages to other machines on a LAN.

I couldn't even log in with Pidgin anymore, a few weeks after they locked out the official MSN client. I got some kind of error about the connection failing. This was all a couple years back. As far as I know, MSN has been dead for quite a while.

This is in Houston. In the party-type situation where you need to roll up a bulk amount of weed in a fashion that it burns slower, blunts are used. The upside to that is it becomes "two or three blunts", not "five or ten joints".

The specifications for this mission were that the rover should last 6 months on the surface. Currently we are at over 100 months.

tl;dr on the whole post BUT... I've had my iPod nano in daily use for the past 8 years and it's still going strong. True, it doesn't need to power any motors - but the design specs probably also allocate a lot less weight to the battery.

When did they become an EU company... perhaps when they set up servers and other operations in EU territory?

I'm in the US and have been a daily potsmoker for the last 8 years (barring a few months break). I have never seen tobacco mixed into a joint, not once... it seems to be a European thing. Now, there is the practice of using cigar wraps to roll a "blunt", and sometimes those cigar wraps are made from tobacco pulp, so that could be seen as mixing tobacco with marijuana. I prefer not to smoke blunts, either.

Scraping the crystals (technically trichromes) off cannabis is how hashish is made. Dissolving it into a solvent, then evaporating the solvent, gives liquid hash oil (also called honey oil, dabs, wax). Dabs are becoming more prevalent within the past few years as they are theoretically healthier, having a better ratio of plant material to THC. A recent issue of High Times featured a method of extracting hash oil using drinking-grade ethanol, instead of butane which was the formerly used process. Not only is it less likely to explode, it also placates people who are arbitrarily afraid of "chemicals", so I see dabs gaining massive popularity within the next few years.

What should they be doing to "attract women"? For that matter, what are they doing to "attract men"? Could it be perhaps that the nature of encyclopedic editing appeals more to men? No, that'd be too easy and go against what feminists and their cohorts have been beating into me for decades... must continue with forcing "equality" through perverse incentives instead of promoting equal opportunity and cooperation between men and women...

It's better than the Chrome dicksucking in Firefox. You know I actually used some of those menu items that got hidden, things like "reopen last closed tab" and the history menu, that don't have buttons available...

If you want eye candy, I'm sure it's skinnable, but you can't put back lost functionality.

I've used the NTSC filters since they started showing up in emulators, and they definitely look more appealing than unfiltered video - but for this to be a sound comparison, I suggest having both images be the same size.

Lol, are you for real? I guess you've never accidentally backed out of a driveway with the parking brake still on - it's definitely possible and not particularly hard to do either. If the car is already in motion, and the throttle is floored, that brake won't do much at all. This has been my experience with both foot- and hand-type parking/emergency brakes across different manufacturers on 1980s through 2010s models.

It's possible for bits to flip, at least in consumer-grade PC hardware, from normal background radiation. I'm not sure what kind of hardening, redundancies, or error correction were used in Toyota's systems...

I'm reminded of the song "Red Barchetta" by Rush, look it up if you're not familiar and don't hate classic rock.