The theory behind grid-tied home solar systems is that you can give your surplus power to the utility company who will give you credit in return for times when you need more power than you are generating. In effect, you are using the utility company as your storage battery, so you don't have to buy and maintain your own. This only works as long as there are always enough customers paying for electricity rather than generating their own. Eventually it's no longer cost effective for the utility company to provide storage service for free. They make their money charging for electricity, but if enough people only need them to store it temporarily, they are going to have to start charging for that service.

Given these things are going to be noisy-- I live in a quiet neighborhood. If that ends up being disturbed by the buzzing of drones I won't be ordering products from companies that use them.

Men are the ones most pressured by their careers to 'splain shit. If you can't 'splain shit, you are shit. Women aren't expected to 'splain shit.

Why should they be immune to what's happening to the rest of us?

And not how to think. You only need to do that if your ideas are not convincing and yet you have a vested interest in getting people to believe them.

And this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

the area around Chernobyl is uninhabitable. Before the accident, 120,000 people lived there. The Fukushima exclusion zone is currently a 30 km radius where all residents Were evacuated and is also a no-fly zone. The US Embassy subsequently advised Americans to keep a 80 km distance. Radiation induced cancers take decades to play out, and the claim that "no one died from Fukushima other than a few plant workers" is complete hogwash, as it's too soon to tell the longer term effects.

The claim that the Inuit have lower incidence of heart disease has not been borne out by the facts. And their incidence of stroke is high:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

66% of all websites get hacked. So if you predict EVERY website will get hacked, you'll be right 66% of the time.

So did I. I gave up in Firefox once they moved away from the "less is more" school of design, several years ago. Same reason I gave up on Netscape before that-- creeping featurism. What I want in a browser is lean and mean. REALLY mean. The more complicated a browser is, the bigger the risk of security flaws.

The actual disturbing trend is for the news agencies to stop placing comment sections on their articles. They don't really care what you think. And frankly, in that case I don't care what they think either, and won't patronize such sites...

It's probably good that we are regularly reminded that the world is full of assholes, and that walled gardens are not the sum total of reality. It may be that many people are assholes simply BECAUSE they are excluded from some of these gardens-- no doubt many of those within the gardens are assholes too, just of a different type. And if you can't figure how to deal with assholes without becoming one yourself, you deserve what you get...

It doesn't much matter, Google's UI skills really suck. The only reason the original Google search was a success is because they essentially didn't even have a UI, it was just a text entry box. When they try to add UI elements, it's all downhill. Microsoft's Ui often sucks too, but at least with Microsoft, I can at least usually tell what they're trying to do. With Google, I can't even tell what they were trying to do at all, it's pure WTF?

I would agree with this, what the heck is the problem with it? Maybe you just need to bone up on your search word skills...

Stretch those femtoseconds into hours, nice...

Stop using insulation that tastes like chicken. Or the shark equivalent of chicken...