It's glass fibers in a plastic matrix. Polyester plastic is a common matrix material for fiberglass, but others can be used as well. Without the plastic, the glass fibers would not hold together other than woven mats that would then basically be a glass fiber textile.

I still hold by my position that society has been trying to dictate the way people live their lives for thousands of years not based solely on crimes with victims but by a persons behavior as well. Etiquette, morality, traditional gender roles, fraternal groups, religious organizations. There have always been groups of people that pressure others to conform. People on the outside are treated poorly. I'm not saying that this is how things should be.

Your comment said trying to control other people's lives was profoundly anti-social. I'm telling you this is the essence of what social organization is. The best you can do is find a social group that has similar beliefs and behaviors to your own.

Really only if you consider eating too much and not being able to handle the intense high ODing on it. I generally consider an overdose to be a life threatening situation, as in actually life threatening, not that you believe you're dying.

Really, this problem wouldn't be so bad if people didn't consume normal brownies in massive quantities. If you just ate a normal amount of the pot brownies you'd be less likely to have this issue.

Perhaps you've just heard of this thing called society. It has been all about conforming to social norms with punishments for doing tabboo things for thousands of years now. The only real changes have been what is a norm and what is a tabboo.

I think the general idea is that if accidents and natural causes were the top causes of death, people would be living longer before dying. Yes, death is certain, but it comes a lot sooner the worse your behavior is.

There are countless children that never met their father even though he is alive and well somewhere. Countless more that have slight recollections of a parent from when they were young and before they left their lives. People don't follow through on their responsibilities and you can't force someone to raise their children properly. Is it really worse for a child to be orphaned because their parent killed themself with a gun, than to be orphaned because their parent just left?

That's a valid option to improve your experience. I like the AC's approach too, if a site is overbearing with their multi-page articles, overlays, and ads, just stop reading the page at all and don't go back. That's the true method to "vote with your feet" on the web.

When we've burned up enough coal to reach that point everyone in those other countries will be screwed too.

You can't compare insolation levels like that either. comparisons of Germany to Alaska insolation levels are over an entire year. During that year, there are parts of Alaska with days that are under a few hours, and parts of the year where there is constant sunshine. The time of the year in Alaska that people need energy the most is in the dark cold winter, but that is precisely when there is little to no sun at all. If storing solar energy for the night is a hard problem, imagine trying to store it for the winter.

a wide variety of sources? You mean Kazakhstan or Canada. They control just over 50% of worldwide Uranium production. Australia, Namibia and Niger have the next 25%. Then you have Russia, Uzbekistan, and the US. That's really it. Full list here

Of course Canada and Australia (the US too, but they're at 3% of the market and probably use most of it internally) would most likely not have any problems selling Uranium to Germany in the future

Funny thing is your average hard drug dealer does the same thing. They make money at the detriment of their loyal customers. They know they'll keep coming back because they are horribly addicted and have nothing else to do. If they eventually do lose a customer, they find a new crowd of young customers that haven't gone through the cycle as many times to get jaded.

Much better examples of red flags.You're right those are all bad signs. I also think it's interesting that he mentioned Freescale first and it didn't come into existence until 20 years after he started in the field.

I certainly wouldn't give him any money, but then again I don't give money to any kickstarter projects. I think its best use is for more arts and media focused projects. Movies, games, and other consumable content. People have been trying to use it as a replacement for angel investing for technical products and that is ripe for scamming.

If you can't come back with at least one example of a red flag you might want to work on your communication skills.

Seriously, a guy asks you what you are seeing that are red flags to a scam, and all you basically say is that if he can't see them that's his problem.

I don't really see much in that link you posted. Other than his odd explanation for not having much of an online presence it sounds legit.

Are you having a bad day or something? Some cable boxes have a switched power receptacle on the back of them that you can plug your TV into. Stop assuming you know what people have and then being a major douche to them.

I have a roof mount antenna with no rotator or preamp and get every channel broadcast in my area.

I also don't have a dvr. Part of me "cutting the cord" was to stop consuming so much stupid content on TV. Having a DVR that always has shows recorded I need to watch doesn't help that.

But I guess you think you know how everyone lives. Wow.