You just need your own space!

I am married with 2 kids and where I am sat I have 12 computers around me ranging from a pi to a dual xenon server. I actually have a problem with monitor overflow though currently and am having trouble storing them.

I get no complaints as long as the computers don't spill out of my study into the rest of the house. Same goes for her scrapbooking stuff. It just has to fit inside your room with the door closed.

Now if only I could get my daughters to keep their crap inside their rooms.....

My parents had my lion voltron too! They did also have my complete optimus prime with his trailer too though!

Lots of my toys have been appropriated by my daughters. But both of them know that there are "Daddy's Toys" which they aren't allowed to play with. These are predominately anime figurines and models I have built. They know that the gundams are not for them to play with, mainly because they are so fragile they are hard to even move without bits falling off.

I never got into the star wars collecting but Robotech was huge when I was a kid and I have a number of original figures from that series.

As for her toys, she is a fiend for collecting my little ponies and shopkins. I have had too many sessions of pinkie pie going to the shop to buy bubbles the shopkin......

Unfortunately you can guarantee that if you do get caught and issued with the fine you will be required to buy a backdated permit AND pay the fine.

Who knows what the impacts might be. I am 30 now, let say I live until my 90s. Since I have been born the transistor has completely changed life for most of us on this planet. 60 years before I was born cars were only really starting to have a big impact. By the time I die we have no idea what the major changes will be and where they will come from. Low gravity environments may be the key to materials or processes which enable us to do things we can't do now, and the value of those materials may make launching worth while, especially if India has a cost base as low as it seems.

The more information we as a species can gather about other planets and travelling through space can only help us all in the future.

To have achieved this at the cost they have means far more experiments performed and more sensors launched.

Congratulations.

Because that isn't what happens.

Hedge fund takes company that has too much debt across to many creditors private. Strikes a deal with the creditors that sees them take a huge haircut to get anything at all. Then they take a massive super sharp machete to the business carving every piece of non-today-essential flesh off. What you are left with is an extremely lean, profitable business which they then list again.

Considerations, all, and I do mean ALL, non essential stuff has been removed. This means there is no investment or plan for change in the future. Perfect for utilities type companies. Awful for IT segment companies that have to move fast. These is no slack in a relisted business. They can go on to be very successful, or have no capability to meet a sudden market change.

But that is what I am saying. Neither system is perfect. The reason I think Slashdot's system is better though is there is only a -1. Nothing more than that. Which means that it is possible to come back from that (though unlikely).

Also I have posted before things that have polarised people and been marked combinations of troll, flamebait, insightful and interesting all on the same comment.

I think slashdot's decision to have randomly allocated mod points and an inability to comment and moderate the same thread works well. It's far from perfect but it's about the best I have come across.

But that only works if the restaurants are in the same food / experience group. How would you rate your favourite sushi train against your favourite French Restaurant vs your favourite theme restaurant show.

You would have to have so many relationships set up that the raw numbers of comparisons in each case would be tiny.

The major problem to this that I can see is your critical mass of reviews becomes very high and you would almost need people to be professional reviewers. Unlike movies and TV I don't think restaurants or hotels quite create the same level of fandom that will see people review them in detail.

It's like looking for reviews of a dishwasher. Basically people only put a review online if the machine broke.

I agree. Google and Facebook are probably the only entities that would come close to being able to achieve this. But if Google or Facebook started sharing ratings about people across broader networks I think they would get hammered. Both in people leaving them and potentially privacy lawsuits.

That said though I think that could be a very flawed system. If you take Reddit for example (and slashdot to a lesser degree) a non-confirming post can get you downmodded to oblivion. Quite often there isn't anything wrong with what you said you just are not following the groups preference. Think how many people here get called shills here or the weird moderation that happens in anything apple v android.

No reason you cannot sell ads. You just need to disclaim on a particular review if you have received money (or other benefit) from the subject of the review, and not in fine print.

It is a difficult line to walk as you have two masters but there are many sites that have managed to be a review site with ads. Anandtech is one that immediately comes to mind.

If you are in a position where you are able to push customers in the direction of a business, you have the ability to say I am not going to give you a biased review for advertising.

Personally I love the slashdot moderation system but it cannot work in a review system. It works because there is a single topic piece that people then comment on and everyone has the same baseline information. When you are looking at reviews of hotels or restaurants you have almost nothing to judge the comments against.

The closest anyone has come up with is the "was this review helpful?" but that gets abused easily. With restaurants it is hard to even decide if someone should be a trusted reviewer and hence promote their reviews as they will tend to be geographically limited.

I have actually given this problem some thought for a website idea I have been working on and I haven't been able to solve it. Every system I come up with is simply too easy to game.

I work from home and have always kept my work machines and my home machines seperate.

Work
2 x dual quad xenon intel 2ru servers with 64gb ram - running proxmox and all systems virtualised
1 x 2ru quad xenon intel with 128gb ram running Nexenta acting as nfs target for the server and the two work stations.

Home Rack
21tb Freenas Media box - consumer grade X4 amb with 16gb ram and lots of hdd.
XBMC Core server - shuttle xs35 atom box - also runs mysql (for xbmc), deluge, usenet grabber, dans guardian, squid, etc etc
Gaming rig - 8 core amd with dual nvidia cards - set to wake on lan and boot steam - I then stream to my laptop

I run a 22tb Nas server and am running out of space. I'm about to replace all the 1.5tbs in it with 4tb drives.