"Raising horses is a hobby, not an economic venture."

Might want to check up on your information. I know of few to NONE of the breeders out there that just do it because they can. There's a *lot* of money tied up in horse racing. Hence all the hubbub.

Yup, or replace your phone due to water, my S5 with Qi charging is waterproof.

It's almost certainly the electrolytic cap causing the issue, and it's where people that claim LED's have a longer life than CFL's are wrong unless they're talking about a DC environment because the weak link in both LED and CFL construction is the enclosed electrolytic capacitors. If you tear down either type of bulb and look at the spec sheet for the cap and compare the rated life at the actual operating temperature you'll see that almost every manufacturer is lying about expected lifetime (often by a factor of 10 or more).

Google "bite me."

I was about to pay the exact same thing, only Newfoundland and a few Caribbean islands are UTC -3. It was those canuckistani's I tell you.

There are external TB2 enclosures for desktop graphic cards, but due to complexity and niche use they run in the $500+ range and that doesn't include the cost of the video card.

AptX Lossless works fine, it will do losless compression until it runs into a something that it can't compress for the available bandwidth (most likely due to interference causing the real bandwidth to be lower than 721Kbps) and then it switches to a high quality lossy mode comparable to AAC-HD or similar.

He did read it but he missed the part where it was supposed to be a cautionary tale and not an instruction manual.

This is an utterly asinine statement. Being tracked constantly and often surreptitiously is a current social AND rights issue. What you're saying is just rolling over and asking to be kicked in the nuts by anyone with the desire to simply do harm. No thank you.

Even near perfect mirroring makes damn near zero difference to a cutting laser so I doubt this attack laser would be any different.

$159,279,888 in 1973 or ~$837M is 2015 dollars for the A-10. The GAU-8A develop cost was $49.7M in 1974 or $235M in 2015 dollars for a total system development cost of just over $1B.

Personally I'd go with the CX3000, it does POTS, SIP, and USB connectivity and you can use the expansion microphones which is huge if you have more than a few people on the call.

How did cutting telecommuting across the board and thus forcing many talented engineers to go elsewhere stop the brain drain?

Local loop unbundling isn't a panacea, working through a clec who has to lease lines from the ilec is often painful when something goes wrong.

As far as the ACA goes, this is what I've seen :

Republicans put in the individual mandate as a handout to the insurance companies. (C'mon, you're going to seriously try to convince me that MANDATING that folks have healthcare, in effect giving insurance companies TONS of new customers isn't a handout?)
Republicans then campaigned against the mandate, because....reasons.
Republicans drag their feet, Republican states refuse to implement the plan, Republican states refuse to expand Medicaid.

Granted, Democrats have had their share of bullshit doings as well, but seriously... The Republican bullshit-fest, hand wringing, wailing and FUD are at *epic* levels. Never in my life have I seen so many ill-educated people argue against getting fucked over by corporations before. It's a demonstration of the power of advertising....especially FALSE advertising.