FTFY

I have altered our agreement. Pray I don't alter it again.

I don't want anyone who would fall for that working with me.

With the right drawings you would know exactly where to hit the ship with a missile to do maximum harm. Use your imagination.

Well, that depends. If the "drawing" is a full 3D assembly, a 3D model of the ship... You can do some amazing things in SolidWorks and Inventor these days.

We keep hearing this is going to be the vehicle that's going to take us to Mars. Excuse me? Exactly how is a vehicle that can only carry 6 people carry supplies for even one person for nearly a year?

Multiple launches to first put supplies for the trip in orbit, with the last launch bringing the crew up on one of these. Assemble the Mars-bound bits in orbit, then send them on their way. I read something about this the other day, but don't remember where.

Actually it'd have to go through the Tropicana, and/or swerve around several blocks because the side of the airport that faces the strip is the runways. Getting the monorail out there would be a clusterfuck to say the least.

The part of Trop that passes north of the airport is mostly empty near the street, with the few businesses in there set well back. They could bring the monorail down to ground level (or even dig a trench for it) to keep from obstructing air traffic. Instead of bringing it down alongside Paradise Road, they could avoid that disruption by turning south sooner and going through the economy-parking lot and by Terminal 2 (which AFAICT is no longer in use) to bring it to Terminal 1. There should already be something in place to move people between Terminals 1 & 3, but if they want to extend the monorail out to Terminal 3 (I've only flown through it once), that'd be a bonus.

ownCloud's worked pretty well for me the past few months, but v7.0.3 caused all sorts of breakage on Android when accessing WebDAV shares. Switching photo uploads from FolderSync to the ownCloud Android client fixed that, but Keepass2Android still won't open my password archive directly. I can get to it over WebDAV with ES File Explorer and open it read-only in Keepass2Android, but that's a kludge I didn't need with the previous version. I'd downgrade, but the previous version is only available as source and the downloaded .deb for the previous version is gone from /var/cache/apt/archives. Hopefully they'll undo this breakage in 7.0.4.

Not to mention it being legal to rip cds you own for your own personal use.

Not to mention that iTunes itself provides this feature. "Rip. Mix. Burn," anyone? This whole story sounds like ambulance-chaser bullshit.

Sounds like a lamer version of a mood ring.

Spoke with a friend in NJ, and apparently they used to get on the order of $700 an SREC! Highest I've ever seen was $180? something like that. And as part of the estimate for ROI when I had my 7.2kw array installed, they modeled SRECs as falling off completely in the next year or so (*I'd have to dig that document out... and that sounds like effort).

I should have made something more clear: the insurance and liability risk is a key factor... If I sell an item that breaks and damages a house in a storm, and the insurance refuses to cover the item and the house... Especially if the house would have normally survived the storm without my system being installed... Then I'm looking at a lawsuit (from either the homeowner, the insurer, or a government agency). So, basically, it's not at all in my best interest, nor is it ethical, to sell you something that's not going to meet the minimum wind rating -- even if that's "Hurricane Rated Z3.4 and 80 mph winds". I just won't put the product on the market knowing I'm going to eventually be sued.

One of the problems is it has to be rated for high winds; or, you're not going to be able to insure your house if it's mounted on the roof. OK, you might be able to insure it but they might void the coverage if you get wind damage that can be attributed to the panels. Accuracy really only needs to be a +/- a couple of degrees for PV. Hell, most people mount them flat to the roof, which is not pitched anywhere near ideal. some of the larger synchronous motors probably do have enough torque to push over a single panel; and, you can build a cam driven system that tilts the panels in a cyclic fashion. Problem is, if the power ever goes out it's going to be hell to reset all of them. Theoretically, you could use a system that relies on the Sun to heat and expand a liquid, pushing the panels from a "morning" orientation to an "afternoon" orientation. In the end... You're still going to pay more than $200 for a structure with "motor" that's strong enough to do the job and well built enough to survive for 10 years on a rooftop. You could probably make it for a couple hundred dollars; but, you'll never buy it for cost -- you'll end up paying double that (at least) after manufacturer overhead (design and support) is rolled into the cost, and the distributor(s) and installer(s) mark up the price.

Someone mod this comment 'Funny' please. Oh, for the want of mod points...

There's another reason besides aesthetics... the mounting is simpler, cheaper, and stronger if the panel is mounted parallel and close to the roof surface.