120 proof in pure powdered form, if you mix it 1:1 by weight into water, you'll have something slightly less potent than Vodka or Rum, with 20% sugar in the mixture (from the powder coating.)

Who is 'we'? The .01% of consumers that are tech savvy enough to know what a backdoor is and why we don't want one? Meanwhile everyone else will continue to buy routers based on which picture on the box looks better.

The Man wants us to pay for power.

Free power.

Power from the Sun.

An unlicensed, unregulated nuclear fusion reactor that gives us free power.

Power from the Wind.

An unlicensed, unregulated energy distribution device that consists of air that respects no international or state borders.

The Man wants you to be Serfs.

And this is why Solar and Wind are dangerous.

Because Freedom.

Point me to a law where this is illegal. Police agencies have used helicopters for decades, and the Supreme court has thrown out evidence if there wasn't probably cause to look over a fence. There is some semblance of balance.

The local ghetto bird flies over our house several times a week on it's way to and fro whatever it's going to and fro from. There is nothing today that doesn't prevent that helicopter from having a camera on it. Oh wait .. it does. It has even shown it's very bright light into our backyard on occasion as it searches for something. Just yesterday, it flew in circles in the area next to our house for at least 30 minutes. The first time, it flew over, I realized I was crouched down in what could be taken as someone hiding (I was drilling holes in the concrete to attach a shade structure to), so I stood up and watched it fly over the next time just to make sure they saw me.

The only things different that I can tell is I can hear the helicopter and not the drone, the helicopter can't stay up as long, and it probably can't fly as high. Try and dehumanize it as much as you want, a person still has to review the footage to make any sense of it. Just as people review traffic camera footage before the tickets go out. In the end, you can still go to court and have a real person testify as to what was being recorded and interpret it.

Oh, and you should really trust all the encryption protocols since Reagan.

(under breath ... suckers ...)

Sure.... I've heard that before... rollback fixes everything... When the time clocks lose punches because they can't upload data to the attendance system you can just tell managers to manually reconcile timecards for 10,000 employees since IT didn't bother to test anything.

Which is not a problem, if the legislators, governor and regulators are working for the public. The public needs a grid and base generation capability, and the utility is guaranteed a safe and reasonable profit if it provides these things.

Bostonian here.

My work has taken me to cities all over the country, and I have to say that I've found New Yorkers to be the most considerate and helpful big city denizens in the US. The picture of the typical New Yorker as an obnoxious ogre is a phony movie and television trope.

People mistake adaptations to the pace and concentration of urban life as unfriendliness. Yes, people don't smile and nod at everyone they meet as they stroll the length of 5th Avenue, because after three or four blocks they'd need a chiropractor. But approach one of those people on 5th Avenue for directions, and most of the time he'll be pleasant and eager to be helpful.

Of course, you take your chances approaching strangers in any big city, but I also think that a lot of the treatment you receive is determined by the attitude you bring with you. I've heard wildly different reports on the infamous rudeness of Parisians, but the reports are usually a reflection of the kind of person making the report. Courteous people tend to be met with courtesy wherever they go, and obnoxious people get a rude reception.

Actually, we find menses depends on the culture and biological constraints.

In some areas it's as young as 12, in others as late as 18.

Earlier births lead to more early births, later births lead to more later births.

Age of male partners historically has been much older in many locations, but is closer to age of female partners in most locations nowadays.

A friend of mine was a grandmother at 29, and she has a professional job. Other friends have had children at ages much later than 29.

Admittedly, Zimbabwe is probably more of a democracy than we are ...

When legal basis is secret, everything is legal... or illegal, as the keepers of the secrets deem fit.

I've seen a lot of manuscripts that follow this basic template in my writing group. You have an enemy (often Muslims speaking dog-of-an-infidel Arab-ese) who launches a ludicrously successful EMP superweapon, and in the collapse that follows a charismatic leader with a military background emerges to lead the building of a new, and looks-likely-to-be-better society.

I've seen enough of these to justify doing some research on the physics of nuclear EMP, and have yet to see a Ms that is even remotely scientifically accurate. These stories come out of a sense of dissatisfaction with where 200 years of democracy have brought us. These authors long for rule by extraordinary men (always men), unencumbered by the dead weight of by-definition-mediocre 300 million ordinary people. Remove technology, remove most of that 300 million people and set the remainder to the task of survival, and there is no longer any constraint on the greatness of the extraordinary few.

Of course there's nothing wrong with an authoritarian fantasy, any more than there is anything wrong with a story about the restoration of the "rightful" king. You can enjoy such a story without *really* believing you'd be better off under a charismatic military leader or king. The key to enjoying such a story is "suspension of disbelief".

Do some 40-mile rides. You'll figure it out. New riders don't understand it at first, of course, and swear they won't become one of those spandex cyclists. Once they start doing longer rides, the light comes on and they figure out why those cotton cargo shorts won't cut it anymore. Happens all the time.

P.S. Cycling clothing doesn't cost $700. It can but, for almost everybody who doesn't buy Rapha, that's not what it costs by a long shot.