His point only stands up if the utterance indeed had the sarcastic intonation. Intonation being absent in written word, his point fails completely.

Yes it's *possible* to say that sarcastically, but no I have never heard anyone actually do it. They are just dropping a word from a cliche that has been worn so slick by the passage of time their tongues cannot adhere.

You got modded down but it's basically true.

There are two sides to it - some laws and agreements that are truly senseless - but a large part of it really is a complaint from rent-seekers about subsidies they feel entitled to.

The fact is solar PV is at present NOT very that cost effective, even in the markets where it works best.

Removing illogical obstacles to PV installation would be a good thing, but 'generous subsidies' paid for predominantly by the working poor, to help rich landowners install PV and cut their bills going forward, is not.

I would also suggest that Floridians worried about their sunlight going to waste investigate solar-thermal (hot water) rather than PV (photovoltaic) panels. Quite a bit less expensive and you dont need to generate electricity to displace some demand.

What you are getting is the ability to use similar hotspots as you move around. The actual utility of that seems questionable - most are going to be in someones home where you cannot use them anyway.

If you own your own modem and it works I would advise you to keep it no matter what they offer. The wireless gateways are absolute junk.

Indeed. Every router-and-modem-in-one-box I have seen yet is a POS. The very best case is if they will accept bridge mode and imitate a modem properly. Very often they actually will not (though they may appear to agree at first, and only cause problems later. I would actually go one better and refuse to take their modem as well, since they will only have old beat-up returned modems in stock. Buy a decent modem and tell them to provision it then leave it alone.

I cant see any compelling reason you should not be able to agree to a non-disparagement clause, assuming it's clearly presented ahead of time and you knowingly agreed to it in return for compensation. Devils advocate, of course, is to point out that it's not really clear that this was the case - the 'policy' may not have been clearly presented ahead of time and knowingly agreed to by guests and I saw no mention of compensation. So if it ever went to court there would be room for invalidation.

Regardless, it looks like the market is taking care of it fine, without even needing a court to review the 'contract' - the very fact that this business tried to impose such a policy is set to cost them a pretty good slice of profits, and the public nature of the reaction is helping to discourage any other businesses that might try the same thing.

You were saying?

You're telling me why businesses need free software. That's not in question. The question is who needs these big corpos? If they prefer not to adapt then they can die, and why should I mourn them?

The unspoken assumption behind your comment (and much else on the page) is that it's important for 'open source' to be accepted by big business.

Why?

Simply letting him get away would be horrible, because of the prevention aspect. If that were standard practice on the part of the cops, then the rate of car theft would certainly go way up.

But there is another possibility besides letting him go and flying off in a risky high speed chase. There's this old-school police technique called a 'tail' where you follow at a distance and let the target think he's getting away (while of course using your radio to get ahead of him.) Much less chance of injury or death that way. Too old-school for US cops these days, but in some backwards jurisdictions it might still be used.

"There was a lot more oxygen in the air back then. It wasn't just hotter. With the lower oxygen levels the huge dinos wouldn't do so well because they didn't have muscles for breathing like we do."

I think you are rather badly mistaken. There was actually much less oxygen in the atmosphere then.

Warning, link is not really a webpage, js required :( but you can search yourself for a better source.

"TSE costs $45. And if you are ok with that huge flaw, then by all means..."

Huh?

Being windows only (WINE works but I dont want to have to rely on it,) and closed source are drawbacks I care about, and why I am not using it. The $45 is nothing for a quality tool. I bet you've paid more than that for games that you did not even play through once.

This link puts a little meat on the bones, though the story is still sketchy. Seems the law was aimed at 5 or 6 specific bloggers, though probably upwards of 500 could wind up being covered. ISPs not happy with it. Law purports to regulate Russian-language blogging, not limited by geography or physical placement. So a foreigner could theoretically run afoul of it if they publish in Russian (and become popular doing so) while a Russian could write anything they want without worry as long as they do it in another language?

"Emacs is a great operating system, if only it had a decent text editor!"

Nice dig but quite out of date. Check out EVIL.

Absolutely. For simple text file editing, it really cant be beat. No wasted time, you type what you want and it does it, end of story. You can even use it in scripts! The ideal tool for many, many jobs.

Notepad++ is windows-only. And if you are ok with that huge flaw, you should really try TSE. By far the best windows editor.

"That's one of the reason I stopped using Google anything. Until they do the right thing and give us back our YouTube accounts, they can go fuck themselves."

Hear hear!

That was really an act of astonishing rudeness and arrogance. A formal apology and the firing of the person responsible would not be uncalled for.