It seems to me that one easy way would be for the battery to just quit working entirely. People will figure out that it needs to be replaced, even if they don't know the precise reason why.

In fact, I even know of a revolutionary device that could be used to accomplish that function: it's called a "fuse."

Remember that any suit that can protect the wearer against virus is also impermeable to air. That means the suits heat up. They are sweating profusely as soon as they get their suits on, and they can only remain suited up for less than an hour before roasting in their own juices. When every surface is soaked in sweat, it's impossible to recognize when it's the patient's infectious sweat or your own.

We have the technology to make climate-controlled underwear (although admittedly it might be hard to find a way to exhaust the heat without compromising the seal).

We know the best practical approach is to use a buddy system, and have them help each other. Even so, the first buddy to disrobe is still handling the infectious materials while helping the other to strip, so they still have to be vigilant.

It seems to me a good plan would be to have the person on the next shift suit up, then help the person on the previous shift remove his suit. That way, the only person at additional risk is the last person in the chain.

How do we know what the audience "prefers?" Simple: the "industry association" of propagandists hires Nielson to poll a carefully-chosen selection of the most brain-dead, white-bread Americans to decide whether they prefer the misinfotainment perpetrated by propagandist A or the misinfotainment perpetrated by propagandist B. (Seeing a broadcast of actual facts isn't a choice, of course, so exactly nobody "prefers" it.)

Perhaps the Honda CR-Z, but that isn't exactly very popular (in fact, it's a flop; I'm surprised they still sell them).

What did they expect? It was supposed to be the successor to the CRX and (first-gen) Insight, and was way worse than either of them. They should have made it out of aluminum, at the very least.

Yep. For example, my old VW runs on biodiesel just fine, and all I had to do was replace the fuel injector return lines with Viton ones. (I might have to rebuild my fuel pump with Viton seals too, eventually.)

You joke, but their newest ship actually has sails!

From Wikipedia:

The ship is also designed to be one of the "greenest" ships afloat, and to showcase this quality, it runs primarily using wind power, with a 55 m mast system which carries 1255 sq meters of sail and is backed up by a "state-of-the-art hybrid". On board the ship can store up to 59 cubic meters of greywater and blackwater, avoiding the need for disposal at sea. All materials, from the paintwork to the insulation, have been chosen with a view to sustainability, and each component has been supplied with transparent ethical sourcing.

(It still uses diesel engines for maneuvering in port, of course -- I'm honestly surprised they don't run the engine on biodiesel. Maybe it's a logistical issue?)

I misspoke. I was trying to say that supporting or agreeing with the First and Second amendments are not mutually exclusive. Or in other words, that -- contrary to what "conservatives" would have you believe about "liberals," or what "liberals" would have you believe about "conservatives" -- lots of people think it's good to have the right to free speech and the right to bear arms.

And by the way, they're both all-encompassing: The First Amendment affirms your right to say whatever the fuck you want, especially things the government doesn't want people to hear. The Second Amendment affirms your right to self-defense, especially against a tyrannical government. They are nothing less than rules written by violent revolutionaries for violent revolutionaries.

To argue that some silly law or court ruling overrides the First Amendment should be a criminal offense.

Replace "First" with "Second", and your statement is still perfectly valid.

Yes, yes it is.

Nobody except moronic, hyper-partisan fuckwads (on "both[1]" "sides[2]") ever argued that the First and Second Amendments were mutually-exclusive, you know!

([1] in actual reality (as opposed to the Bizarro-world perpetuated by the propagandists we call "mainstream media") there are more than two points-of-view on any given issue, and they are not all equally valid.)

([2] the only way to be on a "side" is to blindly worship the totality of a party's platform instead of forming your own ideology. If that describes you, go tear up your voter registration card and then kill yourself, for the good of humanity.)

Oh, sorry -- I didn't mean to bash Nintendo specifically; I mean to bash consoles in general (especially when used to play multi-platform games).

Maybe you didn't target your game properly.

Many Nintendo games run in 1080p and 60 frames/second on the Wii U which is much less powerful...because Nintendo makes that their target when deciding how much AI and graphics detail to put on the screen at once.

In other words, "cripple your game so it'll run on proprietary pieces of shit instead of letting it be as good as it possibly could be on a real computer."

Disregarding the fact that i kan reed pulled his number from the "national institute of rectal studies," in principle, it's possible that both numbers could be true. Maybe there are 'about 40,000' people currently imprisoned for marijuana, but there are millions of people who were jailed marijuana at some point in their lives. (Or maybe there have been millions of instances of people being sentenced to jail for marijuana, which is a different statistic again.)

I usually do put my comment in the message body, but in this case I was replying specifically to the parent post's subject line.

Next time that happens, I'll write something like "[see subject]" instead so that nobody gets confused.

Thanks.

Incidentally, at the time I posted complaining about the offtopic mod, I noticed that several other pro-totalitarianism posts were modded up an other pro-civil-rights posts were modded offtopic. It wasn't just my post that I thought TLAs (or their shills) were spending their modpoints on.

Offtopic? Wow, the three-letter-agencies have modpoints tonight.

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