That's computing's secret, it's all derived from commodity parts now, which is why even the big computers are somewhat affordable. Most of the commercial/industrial processor lines are dead.

...of Microsoft-free Fridays?

Stow-n-go is one of the best vehicle inventions of all time. It allows for one vehicle to work as a seven passenger around-town vehicle, a four or five passenger road trip vehicle with room everyones' stuff, or a two person cargo van. If you don't need to go off-road and don't need to tow a second vehicle on a trailer behind it then those Mopar minivans are just about perfect for families.

A lot of people can't accept this, they think it's some affront to their machismo to drive a minivan.

There are TONS of truck-based SUVs being sold around here, along with Class-1 trucks.

Don't assume that your region is indicative of the rest of the country. I'm well aware that Boston, MA vehicle sales are not the same as Houston, TX vehicle sales.

If people want local recycling, there needs to be a local market for the recycled product. As an example, in my area, even though households are encouraged to put glass into their recycle bins, at the sorting centers the glass is extracted and sent to the landfill, as there's no local demand for used glass. A friend of ours used to manage one of the local landfills, and this came straight from the horses' mouth.

This African site might not be what was hyped, but all kinds of things are sent away or dumped into a landfill if there's no demand. If you want recycling, there has to be a use for the material being recycled.

I think we should blame the Medium.

Because you do not name the SUV I do not believe you.

On average, car-based SUVs (which are usually classed as "CUVs") get almost car-efficiency, but truck-based SUVs, the only ones worth owning as true sport utility vehicles, still lag behind cars.

I think that the exemptions for SUVs and trucks need to be eliminated entirely when under a certain GVWR, and that basically "half ton" trucks in the form of Class 1 light trucks sold as lifestyle trucks need to meet this standard. "three quarter ton" trucks sold as Class 2 trucks need to meet a fairly stringent standard too.

In this case, the concern, which I think is fairly small but I can't deny that weirder things have happened, is that what's considered a normal, "meets expectations," level of productivity could be based on results obtained through the use of these grey-market or black-market drugs. This takes an already high-strung workforce and puts unreasonable expectations on them, such that more people may abuse these drugs and suffer the negative ramifications of them, who wouldn't otherwise be inclined to try them in the first place.

I struggle enough with caffeine and the negative effects of trying to keep intake manageable that I can't imagine how bad an addictive substance with much worse withdrawal symptoms would be.

Bitcoin has no inherent worth. At least fiat currency, in physical form, can be burned for heat or used to clean-up after using the bathroom, or melted down and used for weights for fishing.

Bitcoin has no tangible component at all, so it has no inherent worth. It's value is entirely dependent on the demand for it by others.

I really, really wanted to buy a Nexus 6, but between the lack of modular battery and the lack of SD slot, I don't think that it's the right phone for me. Shame really, I want the right LTE bands and all of the other stuff that it has, but I also want the ability to have modular storage.

When the officer comes to your window with exasperated claims about the speeds he had to reach to catch up to you, and then asks you why he pulled you over instead of telling you why he pulled you over, then the tone of the traffic stop is set by officer.

Up until that point I had operated under the assumption that the police would treat me fairly. That stop combined with the two court appearances to get the citation dismissed completely dispelled any belief in the Joe-Friday cop.

...make people, not computers, buy and sell.

It'll never happen, but given that it may be hard to convince a jury that the DoJ's claim is true due to the technical nature of the 'crime', I don't see how it's going to improve when commodities and stock traders can manipulate the markets simply through the act of offering to buy and sell.

Officers can find ways to bring criminal complaints if they want. I was once pulled over for supposedly squealing tires and was issued a misdemeanor citation rather than a civil traffic citation because the officer had a bug up his ass. Even the prosecutor felt it was a waste of his time, so it got dismissed. Thankfully it resulted in citation with a requirement to appear rather than arrest, but either way the officer had a choice in how he handled the situation and he chose to be a dick.

Or when a lack of mobile version actually matters?

I've been using small devices to get to the Internet since the days of my Palm T3. There have been lots and lots of sites with mobile versions that were or are utter crap, and using the 'desktop' version on the mobile device is preferred or even necessary to use the site well. I don't see necessarily having a mobile site as being good.

The thing is, in a real wiretap, they're only tapping the one call. In this thing's case they're intercepting all calls for everyone in the area whose phones end up using it, not just the one call. That's why I think they need to go through the carrier, so the carrier can tape the one line or the series of lines that they have a legitimate claim through the courts to gain access to.