This is exactly the same profile as any other e-waste. I'm fine with treating LED bulbs as such.

It's not a quirk if pretty much every fukin language does it.

I still have my JRC NRD-525. Man that thing would pick up anything. Cell phones, baby intercoms, cordless phones, military radio, etc etc.

Too bad so much is encrypted now.

Yes, and what is the alternative? McCain?

DO YOU REALLY THINK HAVING THAT SENILE WAR MONGER WOULD BE BETTER?

If we had elected McCain/Palin we would be in far worse shape. Just call up the recent statements he's been making.

We would be at war in a dozen countries now had we elected him.

Far Side >> all of the above.

Umm if it had zero effective power it certainly wouldn't be a bully pulpit. In fact it wouldn't even be a regular pulpit.

Mercedes already has a pothole detector in one of it's high end models. Basically it's a camera tied into an active suspension that cushions the impact of driving over a pothole.

I suppose it could be considered a solved problem.

Mafia owned companies are some of the best run and most customer friendly. They are in it for the long haul, not to just make a quick buck.

Any place served by American Water.

Randian Paradise Haw Haw.

That's complete horseshit (along with this article). It's like saying math is a subset of CS because nearly all maths will be calculated by CS.

Stats is orthogonal to CS. You don't need one to do the other.

Having both though can give you a skill set that's quite useful.

For me it goes like this:

Electric company - thug
Water company - thug
Gas company - ok
Cable company - thug
Wireless company - thug
Phone company - thug (stopped using 8 years ago because they wouldn't repair their lines)
Trash company - ok

So there are 7 private companies I deal with for important services. FIVE of them are monopolistic thugs that do things like sending bills without reading the meters and fail to keep their infrastructure in reasonable repair (try having to boil water for two weeks because the water company didn't repair their treatment facility after a storm damaged it years ago and see what your opinion on this is).

These state sanctioned monopolies are the children of Satan. Or maybe Eris. They get into the regulators knickers and generally then do anything they please.

Comcast is now bidding to own the interwebs. Tell whoever you can that this would be a disaster for America.

The problem with your analysis is that the laissez-faire folks would see points all of your stipulations as Marxist.

1. In unfettered capitalism monopolies are fine. While you don't want regulated markets. construction of monopolies through price manipulation etc. is fine. This is how we ended up with stuff like Standard Oil. Look what happened with the breakup of AT&T - gradually the companies formed by the split re-merged. Only regulation has prevented formation of a monopoly.

2, 3 and 4 are obviously restriction on free commerce and therefore Marxist.

If you read the article there is a statement that the methane is converted to CO2 before it reaches the surface. It is a fuel source after all.

The thing is, where else is this going on? Like those mysterious holes in Russia?

I visited these folks when they had an open house a few years ago.

It isn't too often you can visit a place that's working on fusion reactors.

I'm already getting profiled ads based on my Amazon shopping.

Annoying as fuck. Looking for more ad blocking extensions.