These days it's hard to find a new construction home that isn't part of a neighborhood that has a HOA.... unless you build yourself on one of the abandoned PVC farms from 2008. Our house was the show room foreclosed on such a property, and thus we got a new house while escaping the clutches of the HOA that never was.

Georgia Tech is part of the USG system, so they're already included in this grouping if I understand TFA correctly.

Correct, all USG schools have a per semester technology fee. Sounds like they actually found a better use for it than new iPads for the mac labs, at least.

I would like to see that too. They're across the street from my office, funny enough. I wonder if I go knock on the door and ask, if anyone would talk to me?

Now if they could just make this service available to alumni, I'd be set. Heck, I'd pay them. My house isn't that far from campus, and their service clearly can't be any worse than AT&T or Charter.

'Twas $75 a year the last time I was a student in 2013. Good to know my money went to something awesome.

They also discontinued their $50 MP3 headphones with 2 GB of storage. (2GB is plenty if you're swapping in a fresh podcast once a week, after all.) These were also Walkman branded. You can still get the $99 4GB version, but the design is different and it's not as simple to use. Those $50 headphones had surprisingly good sound, they were water resistant, and they survived years of harsh treatment. Mine only finally kicked the bucket when they got stepped on. I was heartbroken.

I think there is a layer there at which point it's useful, and one at which it's not. It's fine to anthropomorphize a program when explaining to an end user why it's broken, e.g. "The program doesn't know to check for the start date of a new lease when the old one expires, it just thinks it should activate it regardless." (Actual problem we're having to fix right now.) But of course the developer shouldn't think that the program is confused; it's doing exactly what we asked of it in a nightly stored procedure, and not bothering to check start dates because it wasn't programmed to do that in the first place!

A banana a day is usually enough to keep someone's potassium about right.

Basically, if you can pick it or kill it, it's good to eat. If you can't pick it or kill it, but you can perform the labor necessary to process it into something that is edible, perform the labor OR an equivalent exercise, and then eat it.

We should all be required to run a mile and then waiting an hour before eating a steak, if we really want to simulate paleo. And then spend a day grinding grains into flour for a single loaf of bread, using a hand held mortor and pestle.

I concur regarding mismatched expectations for skill sets and salaries. I saw a local position that I'd be a perfect match for - I'd be their purple unicorn - but they were offering $20,000 less than what I'm currently making. I could probably negotiate a $5-10K salary increase based on being such a perfect match, but $20K isn't going to happen no matter how awesome I am. So I'm not even bothering to apply.

That's the case for a lot of us, I think. We just don't want to deal with opening night crowds, and we know that if we wait two months we'll be able to rent it at Red Box for a dollar.

Zero inbox also ensures that you don't miss anything (usually.) I don't file anything until I've also checked off its matching task, if there was one.

I RTFA. These pools have ALWAYS been colorful. That's partially why Yellowstone was made into a national park, after all. It's the composition of colors that has changed in the last century, due to a slightly lower temperature and thus a slightly different bacterial makeup. The summary sort of implies that it was pollution that made each pool colorful to begin with, which isn't the case. Instead of "Researchers say that the different colors of the hot springs in Yellowstone National Park are caused by human contamination" it would be more accurate to say: "Researchers have done a simulation that shows how human activity may have altered the colors in several hot springs at Yellowstone."

Well, and everyone pirating Japanese animation and Korean TV dramas. But even those have streaming available in the US via Crunchyroll now.

Why can't the places that claim to want to make money work out a deal with whatever local regional governments to sell their content for consumers? Country blocks are the stupidest thing ever.