It's not the free market. Those alfalfa farmers get subsidies. Not sure about Nestle... considering it's a public water company, I'd say it's reasonable to impose consumption limits.

Not sure why you have this anti-avocado agenda. You're just regurgitating the 1970s and 1980s "facts" that claimed high fat diets made people fat. That's like claiming that drinking a lot of water makes you retain water. Avocados are 160 calories per 100g. That's not high for a "snack food". Most of their carbs are in dietary fiber, which is good. They have some saturated fat, but that's low in relation to the unsaturated fat so I wouldn't call it a problem unless your doctor is worried about blockages. They're also pretty damn high in several vitamins.

It's a lot better than dipping your chips in sour cream and onion dip, I'd say.

It's an interesting concept, isn't it? Funny how governments treat the same water. When water flows through my property, the government tells me what I can and can't do with it-- even if it ends up in a lake with no outlet. In some areas, you can't even collect the rain, which is pretty much an anti-green, anti-science policy. So the government owns the water-- until it's flooding your basement, causing toxic mold to grow. Then that's YOUR problem.

Yes, it is. He'd be giving somewhat less than $30 billion to a politician's campaign. I mean, you can't write a check to the government with "FOR WATER PIPELINE PROJECT ONLY" in the memo.

The UK handled everything per the law. They received an extradition request from a country they have a treaty with regarding this. They are required by the treaty to deal with these, they can't ignore them. So they reviewed it in court, to make sure it was a valid request per the treaty and decided it was. He appealed and the case moved up the chain until the high court heard it and decided that this extradition request is legitimate under the treaty, the UK has no standing to refuse.

Up until this point, Assanage was in no trouble in the UK, he hadn't broken UK law, they were just acting based on the extradition request. However then he fled. That is now a violation of UK law. He violated the conditions of his bail. That makes him a criminal in the UK. Skipping bail doesn't make you a "political prisoner" it makes you a standard criminal.

The most local radio stations in Santa Cruz are the university station which is weak and an AM station which is literally in the middle of a slough at sea level.

Now I live in Kelseyville, which has three radio stations I get clearly, but all of them are repeated and I wouldn't count on 'em.

Wait, you left this anonymous comment? Because that was really fucking douchey. I assumed, since it was an anonymous comment, that comment was a reply from the same person who left this comment.

Now yeah, I did fail to put the comment together correctly — I failed to include the anonymous comment that would have made it make sense — but you failed to log in for just one comment you made in the thread.

So everything you said was factual, but it was not clear, because it wasn't clear that you said all of it.

I mean it is a really, really minimal legit player base it could possibly effect. You would have to be someone who plays only F2P games, and has made so few in-game purchases that you haven't even spent $5. There are just extremely few people who are like that. Further, even people like that can still play, they just can't participate in some of the other Steam features. The games are still available to them.

None of the restrictions are on buying or playing games. So even if you've never spent money (I'm not clear that retail doesn't count but let's say it doesn't) you can still play all the games you've got, and buy more games to play (at which point your account becomes unlocked). So you can do with it the main purpose: Play games, including free to play ones. It isn't like they are demanding money to unlock an account.

Also in the event this really was an issue for someone, they could just buy something cheap. I mean if you've dropped $50+ on a retail game it is not that big a deal to spend another $5 if it comes to that.

There are few places in this world that are pleasant in the summer and not frozen hellscapes in the winter. Generally if you want to avoid the snows of winter, you need to endure quite a bit of heat in the summer. Or maybe you haven't had to endure heat and humidity on a daily basis. Humans function a lot better when they're not spending most of their time expelling heat.

You are clearly the one who is confused, both previously and now. I am not asking anything. I am calling attention to your failure.

Or come up with new ways to use the power, which ought to be pretty easy. Make carbon fiber, or hydrogen. If the power is just going to waste anyway, and the power company is serving as a waste load, efficiency doesn't matter.

Yeah, but as it turns out, they're not actually very good at it. Any inverter worth more than a couple hundred bucks is better at producing a reliable sine wave than PG&E, for example.

I sure hope it's a flat fee. I live in the sticks.

That's for the best. When the focus of the experience moved from toys to packaging, it all went wrong. Now parents can read reviews before they click buy.

Try again.