Yeah but with oil price per barrel hovering around $50 right now that might not be the case. However as many have warned, there's only so much oil in the ground. The smart money is on renewables.

The frackers aren't going to stop - the technology is at the point where it actually makes sense to extract horizontally.

That said I've often maintained if we want to cripple the jihadist strains of Islam we need to dump money into R&D for advanced electric storage and charging infrastructure and tell the middle east to go get fucked.

Deny them revenue and all of a sudden they don't have the money to do anything, look at Russia for example.

You have my condolences. I left the Windows world when they dropped support of XP. Went with Ubuntu instead - don't get me wrong Ubuntu has it's warts but nowhere near the level of say WIndows 7 or Windows 8.

My work machine is in fact a Windows 7 box - this is for a major defense contractor and in speaking with their I.T. folks we pretty much all pan Windows 8.

The whole thing about fraud against a corporate entity makes me a little bit angry. Who the fuck do those corporations think they are anyhow?

I've had the exact same thought. Only the way I thought of it - find the safest driver you know and just plug the device into their car. A low tech solution for a high tech problem.

Well - my Android phone came standard with a call block app that says only allow calls and texts from contacts. So that solves that problem.

Yeah by the time I was 12 I had a ten speed bike - I'd take that thing all over creation sans helmet. Nobody said a fucking thing.

Between the Stranger Danger and NIMBY and Snoops in the neighborhood a kid can't develop outside infantilism.

Which explains society today. Me - I was a latch key kid. Both parents worked so daily I'd do a sixth of a mile trek to and from school. Or school to my grandparents house which was also a sixth of a mile from the school. By age 7 I had my own key to the house.

They tried getting into amateur radio too with the HTX-202 and the 70cm version. But for the money - you were better off buying a Kenwood or Yaesu.

Yeah - amazon has pretty much demolished Radio Shack. It's a shame - they once were on top of the game and slid so far down in the past decade or two it's pitiful.

And I can't honestly say last time I was in a Radio Shack store. I patronize a more local electronics place whose prices aren't astronomical, whose components are pretty damned good and they're a business who when they accidentally overcharged me called me up and told me they reversed part of the charge on my card. Nice!

But even that business is suffering the Amazon effect too. And I'll be honest - I can get a bag of say LM386's for $1.75 or so on Amazon that would cost the same per chip at Radio Shack or even the local place.

And since I'm an amateur radio licensee I'm always interested in kits like the Pixie QRP CW 40M one I just got off ebay for $7 - it's a 40M morse code transceiver kit. Putting it together this weekend.

Yes in fact you should limit it to I.T. professionals. After all they would be a jury of peers.

No kidding it's long overdue. I've always said if we separated the last mile of coax from the incumbent provider and forced them to interconnect we'd be better off.

Was when I worked for the RI Secretary of State's office. The Archives divisions prepared all sorts of data retention schedules and we used them.

Yeah - come to think of it there is one radio station I stream - it's KBCS out of the Seattle area. No commercials at all.

Yeah that's pretty much what killed radio. The incessant repetition is awful to the point I'd rather drive in silence a lot of the times.