Been keeping an eye on oceanic acidity? Noted the dissolving starfish? The ocean may well continue to absorb the CO2, but it's not a good thing.

Because you're a liar, because that is not what happened. One last time, then I'm done with you forever. He agreed to send the stuff back, he did not agree to pay for it. When he contacted them for shipping instructions, they failed to provide them. He did not add any conditions. They failed to live up to their end of the transaction. You are lying. Stop lying. It only makes you a liar.

At least one of your facts (the 70% boycott) was completely wrong at best, or an outright lie. Now you want to follow that up with insults as if they were relevant. Put up or fuck off.

The federal policies allow for that. If states shit on their citizens, that's not the federal government's fault.

See? Your citation shows that it's the states, not the federal government, which are actually causing this problem. You included the antidote to your bullshit in your own citation! Slashdotfail.

Whipping cream is propelled by Nitrous Oxide. Comment invalidated.

Cowardice, reliable predictor of stupidity.

It doesn't matter if the system will eventually reach equilibrium if it takes a gigantic shit on us before it equalizes.

You then go on to suggest the use of a power storage mechanism that depends on the grid, which is completely irrelevant to the current discussion, and which also has even greater losses than using batteries. What?

Doing it on a classic UNIMOG would make sense, because it has 88hp and it's a fuel sipper. Also, the engine is designed to take lots of idling hours. It's already got a PTO. Doing it on your truck doesn't make sense. There isn't room to attach a generator that really makes use of the whole engine, and your engine isn't designed for long idling periods. You'll have to add a PTO, which is expensive all by itself.

It makes more sense to just buy a generator.

You're forgetting the lucrative lipstick lesbian market.

Seriously though, as long as boobs sell stuff, we'll have boobs everywhere.

Yes, and right now the problem is that there's lots of people in the USA with no broadband internet access at all, and even more who can't get anything worth using. That's a bigger problem than that some people can't get super-fast broadband.

The last mile in the boonies is where cellphones don't work well, so people haven't abandoned their land line service. It's also where you can't get decent internet access. I have access from a regional WISP, which charges me $45/mo for 1Mbps bursting to 3 (but mostly 1) and am about to move to another one which will give me a bit more for a bit less.

Sadly more and more people refuse to check any bags, leading to flights over boarding first, massive problems in the overhead bins, high stress, and delayed flights.

It's the airlines' fault for hidden charges for checked bags, and so it's only right that they reap the fallout.

Personally, I wish airlines would do away with their checked baggage fees. Besides the obvious, I'd also like to be able to take more than 10oz of hair gel, deodorant, toothpaste, mouthwash, etc., when I travel. Not to mention a pocket knife, nail clippers, etc, which TSA won't allow in the cabin but are fine if checked.

Southwest has gotten a lot of mileage out of their "bags fly free" advertising campaign, making fools of the other airlines. And so when I need to fly, I check their routes and rates first.

Just like if the GNOME developers were seriously interested in improving GUIs for Linux, they would work on KDE, or vice versa?

You are engaging in logical fallacy, and it saddens but does not surprise me to see your comment at the top of the discussion.

It makes sense because the batteries are already sitting there, in this hypothetical scenario in which the average business has that many EVs sitting around in front of it all day which is actually highly likely. And perhaps the company could simply offer those vehicles to employees on some sort of basis, such as under a lease or as a reward for performance, and write the cost of their ownership off entirely and be able to reap the benefits of having the power storage on hand.

Is the sky brown on the planet of the assholes? You would never, ever pay return shipping on something you didn't order in exchange for something you did. Never. That is always the retailer's fault. They always have to provide return shipping. Unless you explicitly state otherwise, that is the default mode of operation. Further, this is ordinarily handled by including the return shipping slip in the top of box with the correct merchandise, so that the buyer can simply open the box, slap a self-adhesive label on the old shipping box, and send it away with the delivery agent.

What we're talking about here is an etailer acting incompetently and sending product which will not fulfill the original order's purpose, then continuing to act incompetently by not providing return shipping instructions or labels to the extent that they made it clear that they were not interested in receiving the original goods. Eventually they will have likely written this off as some form of theft not worth attempting to recover, which will have been fraudulent as it was entirely due to their failure to do business in the standard fashion.

That doesn't make anyone in this scenario anything but incompetent, except for you. Because you're calling someone a jerk for expecting business to be done as usual, you're an asshole.