I'm reading the 10 kWh pack may be more like $4500 rather than $3500. I like that 10 year warranty though .. and you get whole-house surge protection of course, I'm sure.

In terms of energy required to produce it, that is. Those very high temperatures and pressures worry me; they won't come cheap.

We'll know where it came from :-)

Okay, now you're just talking crazy.

"I never want to live in a USA where wacky shit like this Postman ain't funny anymore. We're supposed to know the difference between a good-hearted eccentric and the truly malicious. Give him a dirty look and a "don't do that again" thing. And maybe actually do something about campaign finance reform."

Campaign finance reform? Makes you wonder who the wacko is, eh?

Agreed on that! That dumb broad couldn't find the "high road" if she were thrown off an overpass. Which, come to think of it, might not be a bad idea.

Of COURSE not, fool! This is a school board, after all. Who would question the wisdom of a school board? I mean, look at what a great job they're doing at educating our kids, right? Of course, I live in Nawth Ca'lina; I might be spoiled.

All three or notorious for corruption .. in everything! Why should we be surprised that AT&T call centers are vulnerable to corrupt employees?

As a later Slashdot article confirmed:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/... 'Revenge Porn' Operator Gets 18 Years In Prison

[cheers]

Well, not very much.

But now they'll be coming for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F......

Just think of it. For ANYTHING to work flawlessly (I guess: it returned, didn't it?) for 675 days. Let me repeat that: Six Hundred And Seventy Five Days! Hell, my damned TV won't run that long without a reboot! Amazing, absolutely amazing.

http://www.phantomreport.com/w...

Heh, I don't know why, but the nose wheel chocks just look so "normal" you know? Like it was a C-152 or something.

Love that little bird: no drama, no fuss, no schoolteachers in space suits. Just a little spaceship that you load up on top of a Centaur, blast it into orbit, and then check on it every year or so while it does whatever it does.

And then land, check the tire pressure, clean the windows .. no wait, it doesn't HAVE any windows! Top off the coolant .. and do it again!

Something dropped out of someone's pocket.

This would never happen if they forbade pockets, you know.

Bah! The tunnel entrances are barely visible at all!

Obviously essential for paleontologists!

A half dozen or so pieces of fossilized bone. One of which is part of a femur. NONE of which are hips, legs, feet, brain case, etc. With what they have, they might as well have pictured our long-snouted proto-croc riding a Harley!

Kid doesn't like it: let him buy his own damned car, _and_ his insurance, _and_ his maintenance.

As an Army brat in Germany, I couldn't afford a car, but motorcycles were really cheap so that's what I had. Then into the Army and definitely no money, so I was 20 before I finally owned my own (a really worn-out TR-2 I bought from my First Sergeant). I never have owned a new car; guess I just got in the habit of buying used ones. Never had any children of my own, so I haven't gone through that "Beautiful People" issue. But there again it's the question of who's running the household. If you've turned it over to the kids, you _deserve_ to be murdered in your sleep.

I've wondered for years when we were going to run out of music, run out of "original" ideas. There are only so many combinations of notes, riffs, beats. Like another comment suggests, it might be time for something different in the way of copyright, "ownership" of music, etc.