Nah. Too much effort to write a note. Just unplug it and let him discover his new trouble in the morning.

If an analysis was done, the assigned value of a person is about $1.4 Million. So if they can reasonably assure (often WAG, sometimes backed by data) that enhanced enforcement will save 2 or more lives, then it becomes worth the (here's a WAG) $1.5 Million spent on the project. There's a fair bit of money flowing to enforcement, prevention and mitigation of texting while driving.

Really? The first car that I had was a '76 El Camino. When I bought it, it had ~80,000 miles on it. By the time that it got to 150,000 miles, I had to replace:
1. the engine;
2. the exhaust;
3. the transmission;
4. two body panels to head off the rust;
5. the power steering pump
6. the starter (twice);
7. the water pump (twice).

This, of course, doesn't count normal maintenance items, nor the air conditioning that the previous owner disconnected. I had to replace plugs frequently when it started burning oil. In truth, it was a piece of shit.

I have a 1997 Chevrolet pickup with 240,000 miles which has needed a fuel pump, water pump and a new fan control switch, aside from normal maintenance. My 1999 Subaru Legacy has 140,000 miles and has needed a power window switch, an oil seal, map light switch, power antenna (-50F is hard on them) and normal maintenance. I have a 1999 Acura that has needed a radiator and a window washer pump. Until 3 years after we married my wife had a 1992 Civic that needed new fuel injectors. (I can provide a better range of examples with the vehicles that my parents had, but this paragraph is already long, and the trend is really clear to me.)

Cars have become less disposable, not more, and I can still find parts from the OEM for all three of the cars that my wife and I have.

As to appliances, I replaced an 8-year old over/under washer dryer with a new stackable pair about 10 years ago, and have saved myself no end of trouble. The only repair that it's needed is a $3 latch. The washer and dryer in the other house are a 10 year old pair. The stoves in the two houses are about 10 years old and seem as though they will last some time to come. The refrigerators in both of the houses are beyond 15 years old

I'm sure that if I checked with my parents, they would confirm that appliances tended to last 10-15 years when I was a child. It seems to me that appliances last about the same as they generally have*, and are becoming more efficient and easier to use. (Come to think about it, did anybody ever get the electro-mechanical timers on older GE stoves to work as you expected?)

*I'm sure that a cast iron wood-fired cooking stove will outlast today's stoves, but it's MUCH harder to use until you have the knack of it.

Yes.

That should be "the third paragraph of the section of the article. . ."

Read the third paragraph of this article. It looks like it's been managed in at least a limited case. The article doesn't mention whether it's gone farther than a limited test case, though.

It works well enough. I would prefer that it has more built-in unit conversion, but beyond that it's fine. I wrote programs to do the most common unit conversions and was happy enough after that.

Why? Is it the PE exam that you're taking?
The HP 33 and 35 are allowed on the exam. The 35 has the enter key in the same place as the enter key on the 48, both are programmable, but apparently the 33 has been discontinued. You can put in your own equations. As to conversions, I made a cheat sheet as I was preparing for the exam, and walked in with bound notes that included my most commonly used equations and unit conversions.

Ignore my post. I confused the two calculators. My backup calculator is the 35s, not the 33s.

I didn't have any problems navigating on the 33s. Admittedly, I only wrote two short programs for it. The advantage to the 33s is that the "enter" key is in the same position, relative to the number keys, as the "enter" key on the HP48.

um, no. It seems likely that Rich0 is taking the PE exam. They took my eraser away from me, because it wasn't on the back of the pencil that they issued. If you walk in with an HP 48, they'll take it until the end of the exam. When I sat for the exam, the proctor was a retired engineer.

This problem is acute, not chronic. It happens during specific weather events. It's probably a little more constant in some areas in the borough, but it's not like we're living next to I-405 in Los Angeles.

The borough was starting some efforts to improve air quality, but unfortunately, an idiot convinced a majority of voters to freeze any attempt by the borough to limit the use of polluting devices. The state has begun some enforcement action, but it's been slow going.

Do the antennae on the deKalbs wiggle?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_(short_story)

I used to wear a nice wide-brimmed fedora. (I left it on a plane and haven't bought another.) It may be time to start wearing one again.

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The parent to your post is good. Your post, however, made me laugh out loud. Thanks.