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Comment Re:But does it report artificially low ink levels? (Score 1) 270

Have you complained to Keurig directly about the "genuine K-Cups" that will not function and asked for replacements? The only way to prevent this sort of crap is to raise a stink about it. Also consider returning the coffee maker and gving it a negative review on Amazon. Seriously, why are you putting up with this quietly?

Comment Re:No, It Won't (Score 1) 326

Note that the income of the 1%, if distributed evenly among the 99% would represent only about a 14% pay raise across the board. The wealth of the 1% would nearly double the wealth of the average American, if uniformly distributed.

Claiming that redistribution would double the average wealth is not quite right. The upper 1% control about 30% of the wealth. Redistributing this would make everyone else 30% richer on the average. Doesn't sound like much, does it?

Let's put numbers on that. There is about $120T in total wealth in the US. The upper 1% control about 30% of this, or about $36T. The population of the US is about 310M. That comes out to a redistributed wealth of about $120,000 per person, or about $360,000 for a family of three. So basically you are talking about a house, free and clear in a moderately high end market for every family in the US.

Comment Re:How would we know? (Score 2) 819

Exit row seating usually offers a bit more leg room with no reclining seats in front of you. It used to be free, now many airlines charge for it. Therer is no shortage of takers.

I am 6 foot 6. I would rather stand for two hours than try to sit in one of those seats. Only problem is that i am not allowed to stand (I have asked) and on many planes I can't stand up straight anyway. I don't need the knee defender. If you are sitting in front of me, you will not be able to recline your seat.

Comment Re:people charge of traffic lights are engineers b (Score 1) 144

You would be surprised how conditioned you can become to traffic patterns always being a certain way. I nearly caused an accident last week when I turned left in front of a car that was going straight. I am a good driver... why did I do that? The intersection was where two small neighborhood roads intersect the main road. After I screwed up, I realized that In the last 25 years, I had _never_ seen a car go straight through that particular intersection. I unconsciously assumed that he was waiting for the light so that he could turn left, like cars always do.

Traffic engineering is not about saving gas. It is mostly about preventing accidents. That is one of the reasons you see so few Yield signs these days.

Comment Re:Source is HVAC Contractors (Score 2) 303

Do you have a cite for this decomposition into carbon tet? You would have to knock the fluorine(s) off the R11 or R12, that is not so easy to do. I can see where bromine containing halons could decompose into chlorine containing halons given a mixture of chlorine and bromine containing halons and some UV light.

Comment Re:CLEAN, SAFE, (Score 1) 343

Assuming a 30 lifetime, a 1.1 GW output per reactor, 2 reactors and 90% uptime, the 4.4 billion dollars decommissioning cost works out to 0.84 cents per kilowatt hour generated. There was a third smaller reactor that is also being decommissioned that is not counted. That is a pretty good deal.

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