It seems like a futile effort to sterilize them after already having 5 kids.

I'd assume there may be some ID theft criminals out there. With what people post on social media knowing it's a public forum just think of what data they could get from a laptop. There's also the always logged in websites possibly that they can get into, and depending on if the laptop is in sleep/hibernation the website might not even boot them to the log in screen.

Can't wait to put this on my car and scooter. Hopefully it takes care of those speed/red light cameras.

They subsidize when you sign a contract, in mid contract you don't get a subsidy with your new phone.

I'm not sure where you think Vermont is, but the last I checked from Quebec to Vermont there are no seas, maybe a lake or two, but certainly no bodies of water large enough to constitute calling it a sea.

In your link it states that you would have to lead people to believe that you have the authority of a TSA officer, satire and parody should still be protected as long as it is known you are not an actual TSA officer.

Blizzard seems to be good at removing DRM with patches when they begin to stop support for it. Looking at Diablo 2 which used to required the CD to be loaded had that removed some time ago. I would like to believe that if the day comes that they stop supporting Diablo 3 that they may release a set of patches that would remove the DRM and allow for offline single player (and hopefully LAN multiplayer).

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It's just a wild guess, but I think he may have been referring to the Army's budget vs NASA's budget.

Sometimes companies allow their profit margin to eat away for a while possibly hoping for costs to come down. At some point, when costs do not come down, we see a sudden spike in pricing. I recently saw a 25% spike in the price of cola products here, they could have raised the price slowly, a couple cents a year, but because of some psychological analysis companies prefer to use certain price points, usually ending in 5 or 9, to sell their products. This can lead to larger than usual spikes; they may also be anticipating not having to raise their prices for a good while afterwards and can therefore justify the slightly higher pricing.
Would it have been different if they only raised it to $14.98? Quite possibly, although that is still nearly a 50% spike in prices.

Currently the record is a person averaging under 7s at the official competitions. I attended one once and saw a guy who averaged around 9s, most people competing (really competing) were around 10-15s, then there was me around 30s (just thought it'd be fun to try). The only girl who showed up to compete got around 2mins.

I can solve a Rubik's cube in less than 30 seconds. How long does it take to pull off the stickers and put them back on?

Nah, I'd just set up a shop inside the city with books like, 1000 Recipes for Dog, or There's More Than One Way to Skin a Cat, Gold Fish Sandwiches and Other Fine Cuisine, etc. I'll also have a corner set aside with different utensils that can be used for these purposes and maybe have weekly workshops to show people the proper way to break the neck on an iguana before preparing the meat for iguana sausage.

Nothings changed, nobody appreciated an actual geek to begin with.

It might be interesting if a cloud floats over the car :-D

There's an article here that talks about it a little bit.
You both say it's not because of lack of demand and the grid can't handle the excess power. Excess power would be power not in demand right? The problem is too much snow melting, meaning too much water, meaning the dam's turbines are spinning too much and creating too much electricity.

This would be lack of demand. Whether it comes from surges due to snow melt off or people using less electricity it is still excess and not in demand.
The article also states that BPA refuses to pay negative prices to have California generators shut down and purchase the excess energy.