Not freak weather, that is tropospheric ducting. It actually happens a lot more often than you think.

Check target. my local one has them $80 on the clearance table in the electronics section.

They started to backpedal on promises before the end of the crowdfunding, it is overpriced for what it was, and they had severe quality issues. 4 controllers with very little use in 1 year... Xbox controllers abused to hell work fine 4 years later. Yeah, it's dead, nobody cares, they cant even sell them in the clearance bin at Target.

I send signals around the globe with 5 watts. 100 watts is for the guys that have crap antennas.

RaDAR - Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio.

we make a game out of it by having impromptu events where a large group goes out and tries to get to a hard to reach location without power or anything else, erects antennas and then tries to contact as many other members on that event. It's great fun.

That game Saves peoples arses during emergencies.

Ham radio fills in the gaps for ALL natural disasters. Katrina it was a huge aspect of communications.

This is not new, this is what ham radio does.

Pay for real IT security staff. $250,000 a year each is a starting wage for Good ones. Until you do so you will have problems.

WE need to stop with this bullshit of trying to get security without paying for it. Tell these morons, DUH! you refuse to pay for it. until they understand.

You are 100% incorrect. Buddy of mine spent 6 years in Afghanistan with a M60 issued to him and never had any of that happen to him.

"Good luck getting one of those for yourself unless its an antique."

Not a problem at all In fact they are rather easy to get.

Step 1 join army.
Step 2 Pass basic
Step 3 Get M60 issued to you.
Step 4 PROFIT!

Honestly, people have the right to be drooling morons and have a degree.

Expecting people to have an IQ or education is not normal today. Let them be dumb, and accept it. They have a god given right to be dumb.

And many do. Cake for example started as a bar band, and never really changed their lifestyle much.

No bathing in pools full of CrySTAL or snorting coke of the backs of $2000 a night hookers.

They even already have a documentary about it out.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03...

Handling of the HYDROFLUOROSILICIC ACID is difficult. It eats through everything, even glass eventually. Tanks need replacement regularly, you have to wear hazmat suits when working around it... Go ahead get a little bit on you... it burns like hell and cant be neutralized.

This is the primary reason coupled with the fact that most kids have easy access to fluoride rinses and toothpaste. No reason to go with a preventative dones and scale back to a maintenance dosage.

Plus the crap is getting expensive to buy and truck. When I worked at a water filtration plant a semi truck load delivery was an expensive event, and that was 15 years ago. Today it's worse with the OMG WE ALL GONNA DIE OSHA standards for safety.

Here in the USA Dental health is looked at as a luxury. Dentists fight like hell to keep costs high and insurance crappy.

It's a crime that most americans have almost no dental care they can afford. Yes most. you have to count the 90% that make less than $65,000 a year.

Because a lot of us out here still use that port. a LOT of advanced hardware is still RS232.

I just wish that Dell and Lenovo still offered it on their top of the line laptops that us pros use. Yes I will pay an extra $150 for a native rs232 port on my laptop.