Just remember - you can design a MacBook on Windows, but you can't design a MacBook on OSX!

The RoHS Directive came into force in early 2003 and was required since 2006 and on. Apple had a good 4+ years to work with lead-free solder (well, not Apple but Foxconn) and apparently did so with great results for half a decade before the computers being affected. It's probably NOT a manufacturing defect, but a design defect - given that the manufacturing process has been solid for quite a while prior to this issue creeping up.

Better get there before the subsidies expire - and suddenly those cars are $7500 more expensive to the consumer. Which will probably happen in the next 2-3 years.

Until Mr. Musk - or the stockholders/board of Tesla - decide it's time to start making a profit and not giving away tens of thousands of dollars on each car in order to gain customers... Then the price of the car will necessarily increase well beyond the "break even" cost versus an ICE powered vehicle.

Does that involve reversing the polarity at some point?

There goes my investment in Cheerios!

So, salaries have kept pace with inflation whilst spending per student has skyrocketed. And this means we need to increase spending further? Really?

The key is the amount spent per classroom. Out of $277,000 spent on the classroom, typically $56,000 makes it to the teacher. Why is just 20% getting to the teacher? And what assurance do we have that additional dollars wouldn't walk away from the teacher - like the vast majority are now? Doesn't it frustrate you that 1 out of every 5 dollars spent on education ends up in the hands of a teacher?

Why? How much is enough? The average class size right now is about 22 students (average of elementary and secondary), and about $12,600 per student. So that's $277,000 per classroom of funding. Of that, the teacher "cost" is about $6800 per student. Meaning about half the income goes to the teacher (or $149,600 - for a class of 22) and the other half goes for everything else.

IF this was, in fact, what was happening - as is claimed by the links I provided - then teachers would be exceedingly well-paid - better than 94% of all taxpayers in the US. But this isn't happening. Why? Maybe money (and VAST amounts of it) are being siphoned off for other things. Lots of vice-principals, lots of extra counselors and specialty cafeterias, lots of buying of fads of technology, lots of half-million-dollar-a-year union bosses, etc.

We already massively outspend the rest of the OECD on a per-student basis. And we pay well in the middle of the pack for the OECD. If we cannot educate children AND pay highly desirable salaries with over a quarter of a million per classroom - something is SERIOUSLY fucked up. All the other OECD countries seem to do a lot better in compensating their teachers whilst spending considerably less per student. The LAST thing we should do is simply throw more money at the problem. Because too much money is already wasted...

I like the Office 365 subscription. It's $10/month (versus $400 for Office Pro), I get regular updates, and I can install it on 5 machines and 5 phones. I currently have it installed on 4 laptops and two phones. To do those installs via hard media would be $1600. It'll take over 13 years of subscription to meet the price of buying the equivalent suites for my installs. And with Microsoft rolling significant updates every couple years, this is a vastly cheaper way for me to keep up with the releases. Not sure how the leads to being "snookered"...

Hmmm. So if the airport is 4 meters above sea level, how many mm will it have to rise before it starts to cover the airport? Intrusion is immaterial in this case, it's height that matters.

So what you're saying is that the airport is the higher than the city around it... Good! We can worry about the airport flooding a few decades after the city is hopelessly lost...

SFO is at 4 meters; YVR is at 4.3 meters. Maximum tides at both locations are about 2.1 meters. Meaning in the next 30 years we'd need to see about 2 meters of sea-level rise. That would be about 6.6 meters per century. Given we're looking at about 3.3mm per year, it would take about 2000 years to put those airports below high tide levels. I think the 30 year estimate isn't quite there...

The longer lives of the eunuchs wasn't from lower T - it was from not having 50 years of nagging wives...

Our ability to learn of crime has vastly outgrown the actual crime rate. Crimes are going down, but reporting/knowledge of the events is growing exponentially.