Depending on the distance, a carrier pidgeon might be faster since it can carry a lot of packets, probably at least a few TB of flash.

I had this problem and after trying several things I finally found a solution: Buy an Anker USB cable. I tried just about everything else with my tablet. I have a USB power meter. The Nexus 7 2012 seems to be extremely sensitive to the resistance in the USB cable. The Anker cable is much fatter than most cables I've tried. Before I switched to this cable I've had my tablet go dead while plugged into the charger.

Here's what else I tried:
I replaced the USB connector on my tablet (fairly easy to do). This helped but I still had problems.
I tried numerous chargers including the Anker charger, which helped but didn't solve the problem.
I tried many different USB cables. Some would help briefly but none ever charged quickly, the best one was the stock one that came with the tablet, but even that didn't work too well.

Once I switched to the Anker cable I was able to charge at over 1A for the first time. None of the other cables came close and I tried a lot of cables, including the Amazon Basics cables (which are otherwise nice cables).

I don't see much drop in range in my Tesla when I use the AC. Heating it will impact the range, though if I pre-heat it using shore power then the range drop is quite a bit less.

Hydrogen is not cleaner and generates more greenhouse gases than a decent hybrid or diesel vehicle. The only way to make hydrogen in an affordable manner is to crack natural gas. You use 20% of your energy capacity of the hydrogen just compressing it. And the hydrogen must either be generated on-site (around 70% efficient) or transported in tanker trucks which aren't very efficient for the energy density. Fuel cells also suck. They're maybe 50% efficient at best and quickly start to degrade. By 70K miles the fuel cell output has dropped to around 70% of its rated capacity and have dropped considerably in their efficiency.

The Tesla battery typically contains over 90% of its original capacity at 100,000 miles.

Fuel cell cars right now are very heavily subsidized and don't make a lot of sense. They're certainly not very green when you take into account the well to wheel efficincy. A hybrid vehicle or a diesel vehicle is more efficient than a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle.

That's what I ran into years ago when I ordered my Prius. I could get any car I wanted as long as it was white or possibly black. I wanted neither and a certain set of options. I had to wait 6 months to get the car I wanted, and it was my 3rd choice for color. They kept offering me white cars which I didn't want.

When I ordered my Tesla I chose exactly what color and options I wanted. I still had to wait 6 months but I got exactly what I ordered. The service I've gotten from Tesla is far better than the service I have gotten at any dealership by far.

The dealers like to make the claim that they protect the consumer. This is total BS. My father bought a Fisker Karma (I tried to talk him out of it) and once they went bankrupt, so did his service and warranty support.

To understand her position you need to understand where she's coming from. She's probably one of the few politicians to have seen gun violence first hand. She was there when the SF Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated. She grabbed Harvey Milk's wrist to check for a pulse and her finger entered one of Milk's bullet wounds and was badly shaken by the event.

See the Moscone Milk Assassinations.

It seems that Mozilla will also be dropping CCNIC..

I woulder if it could have been due to the "Ticket Avoidance Mode" in the upcoming software update? Video here.

The sad part is that states like Florida are making it harder to install solar. On top of that, Florida is fighting energy efficiency. Other states are adding fees to solar users at the behest of the utility companies.

I live in California and am getting solar installed later this week though not nearly as big of a system as I'd like due to limitations of my roof. PG&E has some of the most expensive electricity in the country because of our state's corrupt public utilities commission. Average rates are around $0.194/kwh (compared to Santa Clara $0.113/kwh). PG&E has been quietly lowering the thresholds to push people into higher tiers of power as they make their homes more energy efficient. On average I'm paying well over $0.19/kwh so solar makes perfect sense.

And Germany is also shutting down nuclear as fast as it can to replace it with coal, which releases far more radioactivity into the environment than the nuclear power plants it replaces!

I have had the same experience with Comcast Business. The business service for me has been the exact opposite of their residential service. The business technical support's first response isn't "have you rebooted your PC" and usually the first level support person has been able to resolve everything. The few times they've had to come out they were prompt and resolved the problem, having had to replace the line from the pole a couple of times (apparently the squirrels like to chew on the cable).

Residential just plain sucks.

A huge portion is used by the almond growers. It takes about a gallon of water per almond and they're a high-profit crop.

When I grew up the water was handled by a private company, Citizens Utilities. The water was undrinkable and came out of the tap brown. The emergency water supply was from an old leaky tank up on a hillside that provided 3 minutes worth of water. Oh, and the water costs a fortune. The residents passed a bond measure to buy out Citizens Utilities, spending a fortune to do it. They had to rip out and replace the entire system when they switched to the county water system. The county water was much better and a lot less expensive. The county system also makes use of RO of brackish water to help supplement the water supply and makes an active effort to refill the underground aquifer where possible, though the last few years of drought have made that all but impossible to do. The county buys water and passes on the cost to the users.

Some things can be privatized just fine, others not so well. The problem becomes the monopolies involved and how they skimp on maintenance and do everything they can to maximize profits. We have this problem with PG&E. They have a horrible record of maintenance and even though most power is generated using natural gas, which is at record lows in terms of cost we have about the highest electricity rates in the country. It was the same thing when we had Citizens Utilities for water.

It takes about a gallon of water per almond. I don't think there's nearly enough grey water for what they need.

In my current car it can be difficult to tell what your speed is unless you look at the speedometer frequently. There is no engine noise to go by. Newer models of my car read the speed limit signs and give a warning if it is exceeded by a certain amount and the adaptive cruise control already takes into account the speed limit (though it allows you to exceed it as well). The new model already reads speed limit signs. If a car is very smooth and quiet it can be quite easy to speed without realizing it.