Define the basics. Seeds + Soil + Water + Sun = plant. Am I expected to know the composition of fertilizers or how much yield to expect per acre? I probably know a bit more than the average person because I'm in middle America and my dad's family use to farm.

I can tell you the difference between a 2-stroke and 4-stroke engine but that's because I work for an automotive company.

The OP's statement was a bit ridiculous... not knowing that a certain OS requires 15% of HDD space should disqualify someone from owning a computer? What an expert knows and qualifies as "general knowledge" is most likely not general knowledge to the average person.

If you don't know the basics about farming, you do not deserve to eat.

Ooo, this is fun!

One of our production facilities installed two large windmills that supply roughly 10-15% of the power the plant uses. You would think this would lower the cost for purchased electricity, but it didn't.

The electric company raised the rates for our plant because the usage dropped enough that they entered a lower usage bracket which has a higher cost per KW/h. We actually pay MORE each month in electricity costs even though the plant purchases 10-15% less electricity..

Obviously they are negotiating the contract terms now (it may be done) but this is just one example of how the utilities have everyone by the balls. They are going to get their money, one way or another.

I'm sure for Tesla, it will be easier since they are starting from the beginning instead of doing a retrofit. However I hear similar stories from residential users. Most times people want to make the choice to use returnables but outside factors make it monetarily difficult to pursue.

I'm 5'8", legroom is not my problem. Seat width is my problem. I have broad shoulders. If I have to sit next to an adult, our shoulders will likely be rubbing unless one of us gives up the armrests and leans forward slightly.

Seat designers screwed up by using hip width and not shoulder width.

Those are some damn fine assessments you've done based on one "fuck off" comment.

I'm sure you'll go to town with my next comment but here goes.. The reason why most people hate cops is that they do not want to take responsibility for their own actions. "Stupid pig having to meet his quota of speeding tickets, nevermind that I was going 70mph in a 45." "How dare that cop arrest me for smoking pot in public!"

The entire point I was trying to make, before you basically assumed my dad has covered for a bad cop and therefor makes himself a bad guy, is that most cops just want to do their job and go home. Yes, there are some who seem hell bent on making everyone else's lives miserable by using laws to their advantage. Giving you a ticket for going 58 in a 55, as an example. My dad worked with a few like that.. simply being a jerk isn't illegal.

You also need to know that we're in a relatively rural part of the country, 100k or so people in the county. There is not much excitement or shennanigans.

You can think whatever you want. The first 25 years of my life, I grew up around many peace officers. Most of them you'd never guess they were cops if not for the standard issue mustaches. They worked to uphold the laws passed by the various levels of government.

I'm proud to be associated to my dad. You'd probably get along well with him, unless your only intent would be to antagonize.

So, in other words, you want everyone to go back and act like it was in the 80's (well, except the real guns/ammo.. though I did get in trouble for bringing a transformer in that turned to a cap gun.. but all they did was take it away for the rest of the day and tell me not to bring it back).

being an ass-hole isn't illegal

First of all, fuck off.

second of all, it was guys just being dickheads.. kinda like you.

Just like everything else in this country, a few bad apples ruin it for the rest of us.

My dad is a retired cop, very honest guy (though maybe I'm a bit biased). Most of the guys on the force were genuine good guys, of course there was 1 or 2 jackass's that would do stupid shit.

If a chest cam is going to eliminate the contradictions between the cop and the suspect, so be it. A few thousand people died 13 years ago in a terrorist attack and now the rest of us who want to fly on a commercial aircraft are treated as potential terrorists.

Even though the mission was originally set to last just 90 days?

I spent my first few years as an undgrad studying aerospace engineering. You don't build a lander to survive a trip to Pluto if your mission is the moon.

Unfortunately he has absolutely nothing to gain from proceeding further with litigation. He fought the good fight and didn't cave in to their demands. He got them to back off and created the framework for others to suceed as well.

He is a businessman, not a saint.

If they used hiragana (phonetic) it would be quite simple. I believe there are just 71.

My wife is Japanese and her family name is so rare that almost no one would know how to pronounce it by reading the kanji. Common names like Yamamoto can be read literally, my wife must always include the hiragana with her name.

Solved. So try asking it something a bit harder:
What was the dog's name in the movie "Turner and Hooch"

At work I have so many passwords with different requirements and different reset schedules that I had to turn to the low tech approach of writing every one down on a post it note and hiding it under my calculator on my desk. I do take my laptop home every evening.

Interesting enough, email is the only program we no longer have to sign in to each time, and it also does not time out after inactivity like every other program. That is the place where most sensitive business information would be located. All they would need to do is crack my windows password (while also knowing my login name).

I wish I could log in to windows and do one authentication to unlock every other program I use routinely.

I bought a Samsung DLP tv about 8 years ago that advertised 1080p (and even had it printed on the plastic framing around the screen). The tv, however, could not handle 1080p and maxed out at 1080i.