The joke IS not on me: I am well aware of pumped storage stations; there is one in my country too.

Now, they only need to install electric pumps for when it's not raining, and they're 100% renewable forever!

Just for my information, suppose you sell your house with a profit, then buy another house in the same country, do you still have to pay for capital gains ?

It's not "the establishment does not like competition". Nobody likes competition. However it is actually illegal for your competitor to not abide to rules you need to abide to.

The correct way is that the market should integrate the actual, legal innovations of Uber (i.e. an app that matches drivers and riders), which should come easier if Uber is driven out of business by law enforcement.

Once law abiding taxi businesses have integrated these innovations, information asymmetry between dispatcher, driver, and rider -which is ultimately what taxi businesses are about- should plummet, and you'll end up paying something X between Uber price U and taxi price T (UXT), T-X being the value of the current information asymmetry, X-U being the money Uber currently externalizes to (i.e. steals from) driver and society.

n/t

Makes me wonder: in countries where prostitution and proxenetism are legal (Germany, Switzerland...), did anyone think of making a Uber for sex ?

Tuxracer and xbill don't count as games anymore

Pluto's Mickey's friend.

Do you really think we could afford WWI or WWII ? This doesn't mean they didn't happen. War is the number one justification for spending money countries don't have.

The other half, it's just night time.

The plural of virus is not virii. Even if it was desirable to use a latin plural form, it would be viri (actully not, virus is neutral and also has no plural form). The singular for of virii would be virius.

Not really on topic, but I have a backlog of about 100k first person sports pictures that I never ever look at, because they all look similar (5s or 10s auto shoot) and I have never found software that allow to quickly and effectively select which to keep and which to toss. What software do you use for that purpose ?

If you're not using their wireless, just put the router in a metal box.

Pluto is not anthropomorphized. He's antropomorphic Mickey's dog. Antropomorphic Mickey's antropomorphic friend is Goofy.

Nuke 'em ?