The goal of IT is to keep itself employed, not actually solve a problem. Having started in Engineering and moving to IT at a Fortune 30 aerospace company it took about 2 years before I couldn't wait to get back into Engineering and out of the IT circle jerk cycle of paying more money to replace an existing system and having nobody that really understood what they were actually buying.

Very true, houses were a lot smaller back then when the typical house was a 1100 sqft ranch.

Imagine Dazed and Confused set today. Definitely wouldn't be a top 10 movie like the original. Compare those memories, or forgotten memories if you were too drunk, with those of today which would be getting achievment XYZ on a game. Really kind of sad in my opinion.

One of my favorite vacations was going out to see my Uncle who was stationed at North Bay circa 1980. Love the way you could look out the little windows and see the entire building sitting on giant springs. I can remember seeing the computer room that was roughly 75% empty because they had recently upgraded all their systems with newer equipment. We had a blast using the light pen on his radar screen to id all the planes flying around, or something like that. Was a long time ago.

The shuttle cost $10k/lb to bring things 200 miles up to the ISS. SpaceX knocks that considerably. Now lets talk about going to the moon, being able to actually mine something, and bring it back. There is nothing that values in the $1M+/lb to go and get. It's not cost effective and will be much more than 50 years until it is and there is any sort of land grab because of it. Until then the Moon is huge, and the players so limited there will be no butting heads.

No, they can't. The dragon doesn't even come close to having the capacity needed to bring something like this down. I'm a fan of SpaceX but to think it's a drip in replacement for everything is naive.

Someone who needs a mechanic to do a water pump should not be questioning the competence of those working in space.

The first was a mechanical pump failure. They stopped using it before it tore itself apart. In this case it's a valve that controls the ammonia flow into the boilers. Mechanically it seems fine. It's actually controlling just fine except that it believes the ammonia is offset by about 30 degrees. In other words, the current flow is what the flow should be if the ammonia were actually 30 degrees warmer or cooler (forget which) it is.

Unlike the previous failure with no shuttle it will never make it back to determine what the issue really is and they'll just toss it into the atmosphere.

We could cut down on all this silly legislation if they'd simply pass a law that let you punch rude people in the nose.

You often find small animals hiding in paper bags looking for food.

The more likely reason is she isn't really your daughter.

While I think this was taken to an extreme there are some issues to be addressed. Mainly, while as a singularity it's not a lot of power I'm going to guess that there could be an issue if every external outlet was plugged into by people charging their cars all at once. The second is a general safety concern. You now have extensions cords running to cars causing hazards. Most places require external cords to either be taped or held down to make them less a tripping issue, was this done? Presumably school was out, but you also have people charging at a middle school where there could be hundreds of kids of the age to get themselves in trouble. None of these warrent and arrest, but they are issues that need to be addressed.

He admitted it? Jail is full of innocent people too. Just ask them.

And blaming the driver. A little background. While not professional drivers Walker and the driver were on a race team together and did plenty of circuit races. The guy driving has a GT3 so is more than familiar with the class of cars in question. Each had many more hours logged racing than any pilot would have flying before being able to get his flight license. It's easy to blame the driver, and it could rightly end up that way. However, the question of whether the car malfunctioned or should not be considered street legal should also be asked. Point being, if you believe these guys had no business driving this car then nobody shy of an F1 driver should be able to by them, hence they are too dangerous to sell to the general public.

This rates as one of the worst leads into a story I've seen on here. Someone is trying way too hard.