Yea, when the bar across the street from me closes a bunch of presumably drunk harley riders feel the need to go full throttle down the street past my apartment. Real classy, I had a harley with a touch loud mufflers for a while and I barely used the throttle if I was in a residential area after dark. I just have the stock system on my fz1, don't see a need for anything else. I've been pulled over for "loud exhaust" on a bone stock sportbike but no cops ever batted an eye (or ear I guess) at my louder-than-legal-but-not-SUPER-obnoxious harley. Makes perfect sense to me...

I need one of those shirts that says "If loud pipes save lives imagine what learning to ride that thing could do."

More and more motorcyles are adding cats to meet regulations (mine has one, 08 fz1 (05 was first year with a cat for this model)). All of them have mufflers from the factory.

Unless a LOT has changed in the last few expansions, they didn't leak enough. Huge amounts of quests and integral spells did not work on privates last time I tried to play on one (admittedly during vanilla). These were things people definitely wanted to work but couldn't make happen, not your standard mods of xp and gold amounts.

As commonly used, atheism doesn't have a core belief structure. Eugenics certainly isn't a requirement. You seem to have assigned atheism as the worship of evolution, when really it is just the rejection of deities. Evolution is just the current best explanation for differing species, not a goal to be worked toward.

I do sys/net admin at a highschool that has promethian boards. We have quite a few different models due to acquiring them over time. They waste a fair amount of the help desk's time due to getting disconnected constantly and requiring someone to go help the teacher get them reconnected. Blue tooth ones seem to be the worst. It is possible we have a shit setup or exceptionally stupid teachers, I don't really deal directly with either (boards or teachers) so I'm not really sure if there is something we are doing to cause the high amount of disconnects.

I know a fair number of gamers and none have every complained about not having a single player mode in an MMO. Kinda would defeat the entire purpose of the genre don't you think?

Add another vote from me for $15/mo rather than Free2Pay(in smaller chunks).

Not saying they don't exist, but I've yet to meet anyone (that has an income capable of paying their owning gaming costs) that prefers micropayments over subscriptions.

The game would suck ass (even more? haven't played for over a year) if it was single player, so even if that was an option it would be worthless if the servers were shutdown. At risk of sounding like your quote, it seems like you haven't played for very long if you think there is much (fun) to be had solo. On the bright side, if you like being a courier (90% of questing), people will actually pay you to do that IRL.

That is an interesting thing to suspect. I have never had nor seen anyone on any street in my neighborhood have a usps package left on the curb at their mailbox. Mine are always left between the screen door and front door if small enough, or outside the screen door on the top step if not.

Maybe it is up the mail carrier but I have never seen that. When I have gotten packages at apartments they have never left them at the mailboxes either, always inside the building just outside my units door or at the complexes concierge if one exists.

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Go touch your FIOS box and tell me it is in any sort of power saving mode...

Did you bother to read the article at all? It isn't off at all is the entire point. Put your hand on it when it is "off" and when it is on, it is just as hot 24/7 no matter what you are doing. Hell, by default FIOS boxes run a full screen "screen saver" that says push menu to turn on. As far as I can tell, and confirmed by this article, the only difference is the brightness of the power led on the front of the box. The long boot times are referring to time from a cold boot (unplugged state with most/all US cable boxes), not from changing the output from screen saver to tv show.

I just got a FIOS install 3 weeks ago and all the boxes are hot to the touch 24/7. They are newer and smaller than the ones at my parents house (and lack the channel/time display on the front which is an annoying feature to drop imo) which exhibit the exact same hot all the time behavior. Point being that they can't even use that excuse as the new ones are still doing the same thing.

Your anecdote is representative of all school districts in the US... or not.

In the district I work for teachers make significantly more than the average citizen paying their wages, went on strike this year over salary and healthcare costs (which they already pay significantly less than the average citizen). Oh, you know what else they were striking about. The district wanted to add 2 days of training to their year. You know during the time the people paying their salary are still working and they are on a 3 month vacation.

Top that off with them being nasty to tech staff (we are "administration") since they don't have a contract. Yea, you will really gain my support by a) getting paid double what I make to fail at your job while making mine harder, b) pay half what I pay for healthcare, c) work 3/4 of the time I do, d) be nasty to me in the process of crying about your horrible plight that is significantly better than mine. And they wonder why citizens are lining up at board meetings telling the board not to budge on the strike and showing up and the picket lines heckling teachers.

"HONK IF YOU MAKE LESS THAN ME AND ARE ON THE WAY TO WORK WHILE I WHINE ABOUT MY AWESOME SALARY AND BENEFITS"

I'm sure neither of the districts we are talking about are unique, but it will take a lot before I'm crying for the overall collective of teachers.

I seriously doubt this is a real time feed. I didn't get that impression anyway. 1. Buy GPS data. 2. Place speed camera where you already know a huge amount of people regularly speed based on historic GPS data you recently purchased. 3. ??? 4. Profit As if there was anyone left that didn't understand yet that the traffic cops' primary job is revenue collection rather than traffic safety this ought to help pound it through their skull.

If you are using WEP, they won't need to ask for the key. WEP probably makes your situation worse. "Sir, you have a secure wifi network, how could anyone be responsible except for you?"

Well, other than the fact that he did nothing illegal but got raided and harassed by police and probably has his name associated with kiddy porn all for leaving his wifi open. What difference does it make if he left it open due to ignorance or if he was just being nice? That facts are that an IP address is not a person and the police need to stop treating it as such.