You know, this is awfully weird... All the comments I hear about replanting. I live in WI and I don't know a single farmer in my vacinity that replants their crops from the year before. That usually requires a lot of time and effort compared to simply dumping a bag of seed in a planter.

If you're talking about actual farming that's quite a bit different then a hipster with a greenhouse that chooses to reuse their seeds from the year before to save a little bit of money. Even taking into account greenhouses everyone I know simply buys seeds, that includes NON-GMO seeds.

Maybe they would have time to then stop, think, and figure it out...?

I know I'm going to get rated down for this, but what if people are experiencing symptoms, but have no idea what is generating them. A lot of people are claiming confirmation bias here, but the term itself 'confirmation bias' can be used AS a confirmation bias. Asserting that what someone feels has no real merit because it's all made up in their head. It's a convenient way to shoot down someone elses opinion that's based on subjective observation. I'm starting to see it used this way more and more.

Getting back on topic though. People are claiming they're being irrational and uninformed, but really if they became aware of issues they were having that wouldn't be uninformed at all. Rather it would be people are making informed opinions on it.

I'm not using this as rational, but it's entirely possible to drive someone insane by constantly bombarding them with a certain stimuli. Absolutely positive. Some people may find the white noise generated by wind turbines soothing, but for others that can drive them nuts... In ways they never even knew were possible or were able to associate with anything.

People don't mow their lawn 24/7... AC isn't on 24/7.

Something to consider here is 105db at what frequency? Some frequencies travel a LOT further then others...

White noise isn't something that everyone tolerates the same or well...

I've often wondered similar things. While science is still being done and many people are arguing that, the level of accomplishments haven't yielded nearly the same results for the average individual compared to what happened in the last century or further. I blame this on society and mainly on capitalism, which only looks to fuel profitable endeavors and people are only looking for the cheapest means to stay alive, or how to make the most money in life.

Space, deep sea, nuclear... general exploration and development as a country has ground to a halt. Instead we're focusing on wars in countries we have no reason of fighting for and patents... then exploiting them. Our country may not be dying, but it's march forward has definitely slowed down. Everyone is out to make as much money as possible. Exploration and being adventurous is no longer part of American lifestyle. It's all about being safe and living as long as humanely possible.

No one takes big risks anymore, it's all about small calculated decisions (mainly decided by a machine), which we bet on which will show income. Even the space industry has somehow ended up in the hands of the private sector, which may seem great, but wont work in our favor down the line when everyone depends on them for their services and the government can't take over because that would be unAmerican.

Our country is totally mismanaged. Our society is bombarded constantly by capitalist propaganda (buy this and you'll be happy, take this and you'll be healthy) and shows designed to placate the mind. Our education system is starting to break down as the less intelligent take over and see fit to destroy something because it doesn't provide instant, easily quantifiable results.

Capitalism may have founded this country, but we've gotten to a point where we've outgrown it. Perhaps not completely... but we have to a point where it's started to hinder development outside of how to shake the most pennies out of the average citizen. This is a time when we actually need a leader to step up and push big businesses out of the picture and actually plot a direction for the country. Sadly, we haven't seen a president like that in many years... or a country that's willing to accept him.

I think some people have been playing too many games. The other poster was correct in asserting infantry have relatively little chance of defeating a modern tank without some serious anti-tank gear. You can still hide from them, which is hard with thermal sights (sheets wouldn't block a thermal sight), but generally it's hard to defeat one. It's not as simple as shooting one with a AT rifle or a RPG, none of those things are effective against tanks anymore. Even land mines (which are illegal even for military use as they maim individuals), generally aren't powerful enough to even disable one.

A M1A2 or T-90 is not the same as a Sherman from WW2, which seems to be what a lot of people think modern tanks are. There is a gross difference in firepower, armor, utility, and versatility and it's almost sick to make people think they can defeat one with a improvised explosive.

Even if you block a city street, tanks always have the option of driving THROUGH a building or simply plowing through the roadblock.

Based on how much you use your phone it's possible to simply have a working cellphone for around $7 a month taking into account how long the phone remains active for and the cheapest plan.

Basically pay-as-you-go using the Sprint network. Requires a CDMA phone, but you get 5c a minute, 2c a text, 10c a megabyte. They frequently run deals and they have monthly plans too.

The paygo plan has no contract, there is no conversion from money to minutes, and you can use your own phone (if it's unlocked). It's the cheapest pay-as-you-go option I've seen and from using them, I haven't had any problems with their service.

http://www.platinumtel.com/

(Apparently they changed things this year, they now also offer plans for SIM cards using the T-Mobile network)

I'm honestly unsure why they haven't caught on, I've already converted most of my family that doesn't use a cellphone a lot. Other paygo plans are really expensive, have crappy networks, don't allow data without a addon, or you have to use their special phones.

Dare I say this is why people use Windows and not Nix? I'm sure you could recompile the mess to your liking though... Just get g'ma to do that.

I really don't get where some of these remarks are coming from. There are 4k videos on Youtube right now you can watch from home... If you can stream 4k content from Youtube through the interwebs it can be done.

Youtube 4k resolution and a few videos pop up. Make sure you select 'original' as resolution when you watch them. They'll suck the life out of slower computers though.

Who says everyone needs to contribute back? If someone wants to live off absolutely no money in a hole somewhere, why not let them? The idea is there will be a percent that will give back hand over fist more then those that want to live in a hole. It doesn't need to be a 1:1 ratio, it doesn't even need to be a 10:1 ratio. Some people simply do and are worth a hell of a lot more to society then that one guy who wants to live in a hole.

And if society shifts enough, it may actually start to make those people living in that hole feel bad, and they too will eventually crawl out and try to better society. There are a LOT of different ways of benefiting society, not just earning minimum wage working at Tbell. That is something that can't be quantified in economics. Empowering people and making people feel like they can make a difference without being punished for simply trying is extremely important. Our society IS way too dependent on the whole idea that you have to get ahead over everyone else, so you have the bloody battle of capitalism in which everyone tries to claw, scratch, and fight their way to the top... All so they can buy $250 plates at an expensive restaurant somewhere.

I'm actually in a slightly different category. I think a stipend for the average citizen is a great idea. I also think a income cap is also a very good idea. This most definitely will get a lot of hate, but income has huge diminishing returns for people. Perhaps not for a company as it can continue to grow, but once you meet a certain income to cover basic necessities as an individual it makes less and less of a difference. So if you have a income cap at like 100x the yearly income of a minimum wage worker, like $7.5 x 40hours/week x 52 = $15,600 you'd end up capped at a yearly income of $1,560,000, which is more then enough to live off of comfortably for like 95% of the population and that 5% that spend in extreme excess would simply have to trim back their ridiculous lifestyles.

If the person earns more then that amount they either have a choice of paying it in taxes (which then gets put into public services and bettering the country as a whole) or reinvesting it in wherever it came from, such as a company. And if that company has an excess income it'll look to either reinvest it, which helps society as a whole, or they'll simply sit on it, just like the person in the hole. But eventually, someday, they too will realize that just sitting on money doesn't do anyone any good and there is no reason to actually acquire money just to have money.

Obviously there are a lot of ways to cheat the system (such as having your company pay for everything as a business expense), but we have branches of the government to deal with that and I'm sure they'll get better at doing it once they have more practice.

...what happens when you aren't home or around to manually flip your breaker? That sounds like a hazard at someone else's expense.

Not everyone is an electrical engineer so keep that in mind when talking to everyone with skillsets in other areas.

They'd be better off hijacking some old shermans then driving that thing around. All I could do is look at it and laugh. One RPG and that thing is toast. They'd be better off with no armor all together or simply buying a humvee and putting a 7.62 on top. Heck some WW2 armored cars were better off then this thing. I'm surprised they don't simply buy some russian surplus... I'm sure there are plenty of t-80s for sale.

So I understand Valve is going to make a killing off of this, but why would I as a PC gamer want to buy a console that pretends to be a PC? This isn't a PC, although Valve is going to market the shit out of it as that. This isn't increasing customer awareness by telling them what their computer can or can't run. This wont have adaptive and ever increasing hardware. There is really NO benefit to buying one of these except to fit the trend.

If it can run on a steambox, it can run in windows. With big mode you can have the same experience simply by buying a Xbox PC controller and hooking your PC up to your living room TV. I am personally ashamed and devestated by the direction Valve is taking with this. PCs were the last bastion for gamers wanting more then the watered down console experience and now Valve is going in to fuck that up too. There will no longer be a better version for the PC, there will be a better version for the PC (aka Steambox), which will be nothing more then another watered down PC wannabe in a year or two... let alone when it's going on seven. The PC moniker is going to mean nothing more then the Steambox in the future.

Fuck this, fuck Valve for killing the one last arena for PC gamers. Hardware baselines are killing the gaming industry and encourage nothing more then regurgitations of CoD23. I thoroughly hope developers don't develop for this and it dies before it gets off the ground (I doubt it though).

It's just a wood mockup. They get a A for effort, but when nothing works (some of the controls are cardboard?!?) and it just looks like it's made out of what they found in the trash it loses a lot of it's luster. I did the same thing when I was like five with leftover washing machine boxes and a sharpie. This is getting a huge amount of publicity for what it is too. Some of the models don't even look like they're the right scale either (like the back of the cockpit).