It's way too heavy. An RTG needs a lot of metal to work, encapsulation of the plutonium, radiators, and it needs size - there has to be a temperature differential for it to work, and for that you need a certain amount of distance to dissipate the heat across.

And it's way too inefficient. The RTG used on the Voyager Probes produced about 2400 Watts of thermal power, which was enough for 157W of electricity. The total weight of the device was 37.7 kg. This Parrot drone consumes 14.5 W when hovering, so even if RTGs scaled in a linear manner (which is optimistic), a large enough unit would be larger than the payload capacity.

The hydrogen tank in the structural members carries 120g of fuel. You could extend the longevity of the thing enormously by fitting a secondary fuel tank as part of that 1kg payload you're allowed.

No, but if most of your customers are getting paid more, they can buy more.

If you pay restaurant staff enough so that they too can afford to eat in restaurants, is this bad for the restaurant industry?

Yeah, I put my frozen veggies in a mug and rest the dinner plates on top. 4 mins later and hot plates and veggies.

Yeah, but you can get machines that grind beans from a hopper and make coffee - I see them all the time in hotels. Just as convenient. But without the lock-in and plastic waste.

I like my Aeropress and Porlex. They fit into less space and make coffee that's good. OK, they require more effort, but no DRM....

> British honeybees produce best output in 5 years

After the EU banned the use of neonictinoids. Yes, we had the same problem. We did something about it.

Already have a new woman! The mother in law quite likes her, I think. My daughter is already very fond of her.

No recriminations, no adverse effects.

I guess it helps that my ex-wife is a nice person. There was a reason I married her, after all.

On the flip side, my divorce has been relatively painless. Initiated by my wife, we agreed the only financial responsibilities we share are the house and my daughter. I pay maintenance for my daughter and we're splitting the house. She earns about what I do, so why fuss?

I imagine the ferocity of your wife's attack lawyer varies depending on the grounds for divorce. In my case, we were just neglecting each other emotionally. I imagine in cases where there has been adultery, things get much worse.

They don't treat the guys they meet well either - ever played a MOBA game? You'll get constant accusations of being a noob, and have various curses thrown at you until your standard of play is what they demand. Of course, I've seldom seen actual advice on how to play better, which would be far more productive.

Yeah, the thing that finally provoked an upgrade was buying a game I really wanted to play that refused to install on Win2k because of the DRM.

I upgraded to the newest Windows available at the time... which was Vista. Oops.

Or the inverse, where the manager is a computer and the workers are all just "robot arms" for it.. already happening in fulfilment warehouses.

I liked my analysis of this in the recent "Peter Principle / PHB" story.

Aside from all the communications considerations, what you get with the Indian culture is a lot of deference and obedience. Which is precisely what you don't want, because they do exactly what managers tell them to do, and managers are by definition, people who are not competent to do their job.

It's a GIGO problem...

Doesn't work. Windows 2000 was really good as well. It whistles along on modern hardware. As far as I can tell, the main change in it is that XP contains more cryptographic components for implementing DRM.

Maybe it makes iced tea by brewing it hot, then chilling it rapidly.

Actually special ink that fluoresces a particular way in infrared light.

But yes, you can mod the machine by sticking the rim of a v2 K-cup inside it in the right place.