White steel roofs last 20 years without problems. Dont use this junk paint, get a standard white powdercoated steel roof and call it done. Plus you end up with a roof that will last over 2 decades and eliminate leaks, Ice buildup, etc....

and you nailed it. This "paint" is raging BS. simple latex white paint is exactly as effective as this paint is. so buy a $6.95 gallon of bright white latex and ignore this snake oil.

NEJM is part of the vast right-wing conspiracy harping on the dangers of Ebola merely because faux news tells them to?

(I'm going to assume you're either European or referring to Europe by your snark; we'll just set aside definitions of developed as something we might fundamentally disagree on.)

Critically: the US has an overall population density 1/10 that of countries like Germany. If you can't understand the impact of that, you're not paying attention. Further, the US doesn't have draconian commmunity laws that compel people to only build new homes within town limits, as some Euro states do. (Making the effective density of populated Europe much much higher.) If you buy land in the US, you can usually build a house on it, whether you're in a town or not. Ergo, the ability to quickly/cheaply stretch power to remote locations has more value here. It's a tradeoff that people make in their home choices, whether they recognize it or not.

In places like cities, where population density warrants it, yes, the power cables do usually go underground.

If, as the op asserts, it's an ongoing problem regarding the major lines that feed the municipality, then eventually the municipality will address it with their local utility. If the OP has such a problem with it, and is sure everyone else does, I'm sure it will provide a firm point for them to be elected to the city council to fix it. Or wait, was he not actually looking to get off his ass to FIX the problem, just whine about it?

You apparently forget that utilities are state-sponsored and validated monopolies.
I'm not sure blaming capitalist mechanisms here makes a ton of sense.

Yes I do, when he is making money off of my work, I get paid. Let me guess you are one of those complete scumbags that expect friends are your slaves?

Short lived for lead acid? last time I had a solar setup my lead acid batteries lasted 10 years.

And this was 15 years ago, today the newer lead acid tech is even better.

Grid intertie systems are available that failover to local battery storage.

Then the answer is having a couple of military in full battle dress holding guns to the heads of the CEO.

Yes I said heads. One gun pressed into the forehead, the other a shotgun jammed into his junk. The marines must YELL at full volume all the time at him.

Why is the power grid so crummy?

Simple. Pure unadulterated greed. The power company does not want to spend the money making it not crappy.

I still have SDLT tapes that are still readable after 15 years. Hell I have Bernoulli disks that are still readable. The one working like new drive was packed with it along with an assortment of SCSI cables and a current working SCSI to USB adapter and a linux driver on a CD. hopefully if anyone needs to read that data in the future they will figure it out.

I actually did the same thing 3 years ago for a friend. he arrived with a stack of 9 track tapes and a desktop tape drive. Luckily I was able to find an older PC with an ISA slot and installed the card linux had drivers for it and even had the tools to convert the data to standard ASCII. Read all 20 tapes and handed him a DVD disk with the contents of all the tapes. Made a cool $2000 for sitting and watching tape spin. it was cool.

Yeah, my stupid. Not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that.

-1, facepalm.

It's almost like this is a very HARD PROBLEM that hundreds if not thousands of very, very bright people have been working on for years without much success.

Huh. Who'd'a thought?

(I think this entire project, while worthy, shows a staggering level of conceit, if not profound disrespect for brilliant scientists and engineers of previous generations. "Well, if we just get some smart people - I mean GOOGLE smart - and let them think about it, I'm sure they'll find the answer!")

Sometimes the historical ignorance displayed by people today is breathtaking.

"I don't know if he was guilty."
You should have just stopped there because the rest of your post is essentially: "I don't really know anything except what some media outlets have told me, based on histrionic eyewitnesses and a need to fill a 24/7 news cycle with outrage, but I'm vaguely upset because the outcome doesn't match the presumptions I've come to from this incomplete information."

1) The police have every reason to try to protect their officer. One hopes that they're honest about the data they're presenting, but we've seen plenty of examples of it not being so.
2) the 'community' - from political leaders to thugs that just want to get a new TV, sneakers, and beer from a looting rampage - have every reason to try to see the situation in the worst possible light.

It's abundantly clear (from the physical impossibility of some of their observations) that many of the so-called witnesses are lying. It's possible that the cop is lying.

The ONLY people that ostensibly saw and heard every viewpoint and piece of evidence were the grand jury and the judge. It may not be perfect, but that's as close as we can get to objective.

To be "upset" about something from as peripheral a pov as we have is ludicrous. (To loot a store, or burn a restaurant in 'outrage' is idiotic.)

PS I fail to see how this is "tech news for nerds"?

....but I sincerely hope that my car of the 2030s will be designed by engineers around the necessary performance requirements of the roads of the time, not fucking "design consultants".

I'm more interested in how people repeatedly get paid quite hefty salaries to come up with this overproduced, artiste-crap.