and some other tiny details, such as not having a handicapped shower open to the public

What kind of business is required to have showers?

...then got stung again a year later because even though he had plenty of handicapped parking... and he only had one handicapped spot...

You have an odd definition of "plenty".

He closed up shop, and now has an antique shop in rural Texas, and making far better cash there.

If his problem in CA was with the federal ADA, that law doesn't change in TX. (The various fringe theories of some Texans notwithstanding.)

I don't think you understand games a service.

It helps if you know what you're talking about. Starcraft you can mod all you want in single player, in fact, they effectively encourage Starcraft mods.

They still have 7M subscribers. I'd hardly count that as dead.

General skills, aka the ability to succeed in society without reverting to drug abuse, are considered when a company is hiring.

Chemcial tests can't tell whether a person is absuing drugs, only if they are using them. (It is a prohibitionist fiction that the use of certain drugs is inherently abuse.)

If the only way you can tell whether someone is using drugs is through chemical tests, ipso facto it is not affecting their performance on the job.

Cats only eat a relatively small % of the birds they kill. I'm a cat owner, but the numbers don't lie.

My small pocket sized wifi cellular router only costs $45 for 3 GB no matter how long it takes to use that 3 GB (no time span requirement, just however long it takes to use the traffic amount)...

Who??? Give! You can't tell us about that and not tell us where to sign up.

I was answering why they don't just invalidate the patents and copy a modern CPU, and the answer is that the patents aren't the reason they're hard to copy. Intel (and others) don't patent their most critical secrets.

I completely agree they have the technology to build older designs, which is just fine. They can then decide whether the investment to upgrade is worth it to them or not.

Plus, they don't have to compete outside of Russia and other ITAR countries.

They only have to be more trustworthy than what can be imported, and "good enough" for the job at hand.

Except that a modern CPU is too difficult to manufacture. Copying the transistors in a CAD program is the easy part, building it with a usable yield is the hard part.

The chance is the same AFR of the rest of the product, but yes, it's very small.

Your worst case is that you cycle your SSD to 100% of its capability (which basically no user does anyway) inside a freezer, then put it on your dashboard as you park your black-on-black sports car in death valley for a 6 month hiking trip.

If you're not doing all 3 of those things simultaneously I wouldn't worry.

one hole per package of NAND will be sufficient

I kept wondering what geologic processes could produce such an even change in elevation.

It (along with eastern Colorado and much of the other great plains states/provinces) is an old sea bed, the floor of the central inland waterway in the mid/late Cretaceous. Flat from millions of years of sediments, tilted slightly from being pushed up as the continent drifts westward. (Dramatically so at the Rockies). The foothills of the Colorado Rockies do not "end just short of the border" at least not anywhere near I-70; it's pretty much flat east of Limon.

Florida probably is flatter, but the trees hide it. Kansas is mostly grassland (well, where it's not farms), so you have longer sight lines.

From June 2013, Job Networking Site LinkedIn Filled With Secret NSA Program Names.