There's this thing called "guilty by association".

If you work for the Mafia, even if you're just driving the boss around and never do anything illegal yourself, you are still a member of the organized crime. And you are doing your part in supporting it and keeping it running, even if all you do is drive a car. You are a cog in a machine, no matter if you work at the NSA or at Google. But you can't claim "I'm just a cog" as an excuse if you know the machine is evil.

Because he's smart and staying in the public spotlight. It is probably exactly because he worked at the NSA that he knows that if he had leaked anonymously, they would've found and silenced him long ago.

If they kill him now, heck if he has a perfectly normal car accident, everyone will know the NSA did it and public opinion would come crushing down on them like a ton of bricks.

Deer whistles don't work. If anything, it means the deer stops in the middle of the road to wonder what the hell that stupid whistling noise is.

What does work is not outdriving your vision.

The other thing that works is driving a lifted pickup with a big bumper. If I were to hit an elk, I would probably lose my radiator, but I wouldn't hurt my truck. My biggest problem would be wondering how to get the elk into the back of my truck.

HAWTs are lame. VAWTs don't have this problem. You build the generator into the outer ring of the VAWT and you get speed by virtue of size.

The Nexus 7 is a peach. And Android is pretty good about leading you by the hand the first time you use an app. I would suggest to anyone looking for a 7" tablet that they get one, the 2013 model specifically. The screen is astounding.

I got a 32GB one used for $200, but I've seen them even cheaper refurb'd on occasion.

Wrong. Hosted storage predates cloud computing. Cloud computing is that plus paying per-instance.

How about some updates? These are old-ass systems developed incrementally. It's time to spend some money modernising and unifying them.

Nothing. Wal-Mart is one of the non-energy businesses with the most installed solar. But they'd install more if the power companies had to pay a fair price for the power when it's sold back to the grid. In states where this is the case, there's a lot more solar installs. The power companies have a state-granted monopoly for good reason, but part of the tradeoff is being forced to actually serve the interests of the people. Well, it's supposed to be, and more to the point, it is fairly so.

Who told you that? There's tons of alcohols with all kinds of adulterants. Besides the 60 or so assorted additives used in winemaking, people put pretty much any spices you might imagine into craft beers, and there's all kinds of herbal and herbal-infused alcohols. Jaegermeister is the best-known, but a pretty fair cocktail of herbs is used to make Bombay Sapphire Gin, and an even broader palette is used to create Hendrick's.

Wines from California are also winning awards competing against French wines. And now wine country is moving North; as aquifers are tapped out here in California, and as global warming enables production to move to formerly-colder climes, it's heading towards Oregon.

There are over sixty additives commonly added to wines at various stages of the fermentation process today, none of which are required to be denoted on the label in any way. Now, in light of some knowledge, ask that question again.

As an aside, wine also requires fungus only spread by wasps to reach its full potential. It's complex stuff.

I learned to fight by being bullied by cowards like you.

Now, years on, I still have a spine, and you're still a coward.

Better headline: IDC expects current trend to continue, extrapolates linearily despite thousands of years of evidence that few things scale in a linear fashion.

Like all trends in tech, this hype will hit a saturation somewhere and then something else is hot. We've seen this a dozen times before, why do we always look at the newest trend as if we're newborns seing the sun for the first time?

To get rid of the cat? I think this size should work:

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Don't let the chub fool you. I will knock you the fuck down and sit on you in a hot second.