Fuck you. God, slashdot has devolved into fucking idiots who think they know everything when they donâ(TM)t know shit from shinola. All the Scandanavian nations are NOT Anglo-Saxon you pathetic excuse for a pseudo intellectual. Go study history, and till you do keep your maggot-ingested piehole shut. And donâ(TM)t bother commenting on climate change unless youâ(TM)ve gone and gotten a PhD in a physical science and read the source papers, which virtually NONE of you do. And yeah, I have one in fucking physics. Go blow a goat and get herpes.

It's real simple...they sold bonds on the money they expected to get from the tobacco companies based on expected sales of cigarettes. Those sales are down, partially because of e-cigs, so they are not receiving enough money to cover the pay outs on the bonds they sold.

Eh, it's wrong either way. It cites both Centigrade and Fahrenheit. It can't be 4x both at once, with any sorta-reasonable amount of mind-warping.

Also, "four times hotter" is pretty tough to reconcile with any nonabsolute temperature scale. Maybe something funny with biological perception, but that's getting way nutty.

In my experience, Walmart and Target have less selection. There were several toys and tabletop games that I could find at TRU but not at the local Walmart or Target store.

Apparently, it was a difficult concept. Oh, well.

After it rings I wait and see if there is a message and if it someone I know I return the call.

There is absolutely no motivation for the federal government to do anything about this. ANYTHING. Quite the opposite in fact. Robocallers make money for the carriers, and there are VERY industry-friendly people in control right now. To this administration, individual plebian annoyances matters slightly less than global warming. Whatever this is, it's window dressing.

Or, if e-cig makers *REALLY* want to sell in SF, they will apply for FDA certification. I don't see them getting any kind of approval though.

>"If you have to do it from the JTAG, it is as good as bricked."

I agree, but the summary says "To recover, victims must manually reinstall the device's firmware" and then says "Silex works by trashing an IoT device's storage, dropping firewall rules, removing the network configuration, and then halting the device." Which actually says nothing about trashing or corrupting the firmware, just the stored settings. This strongly implies just a reset or firmware reinstallation, not disassembly and using special hardware.

Some devices you can just press and hold "reset" and it will copy back in the default settings. Others can restore the whole firmware from an internal backup copy. Others will just automatically install from a USB drive with the file on it. I was just basing what I said on what they said. Didn't sound like "bricking" at all, just wiping all the settings so that it wouldn't operate normally.

Not really, not on an individual level. Lots of people have been very miserable about their leaders, but the system is so big and they're so small. What we see in successful revolutions is a very big ketchup effect, like trying to start a fire but it's all sparks and fizzles until suddenly it catches fire and you can just pile on the firewood. China has invested a lot in putting out those fires before they become threatening, yes Tiananmen Square but that was 30 years ago. Today they'll cut you off at the knees long before you get that far.

My letter only indicates continued access to domain registration; I think I stopped using the DDNS function through them a few years ago.

You are late to the argument, and completely misunderstanding/misrepresenting the above.
If you think I'm saying something *obviously* wrong, perhaps read again?

You understand the limits on solar without storage - or someone who will buy all your excess and sell back when the sun is low? Storage will come. It is getting cheaper.

Oh, the misnamed "Project Veritas.

Project Vas Stercore is more like it.

You can buy a mix, or you can buy the ingredients separately. Large construction companies mix it themselves to get the grade needed for the job. Concrete also does not dry, it sets. Concrete is a solid precipitant that includes some of the water locked in it as a hydrate.

If your zoning laws are fair and not complex, I'd be delighted to see s sample. They are usually arcane and open to commercial and governmental manipulation, it's a major source of personal revenue for inspectors and government officials in many parts of the world, including much of the USA. That arcanery is part of the behind the scenes deal making, to grant variances and tax or business exceptions, in many parts of the world, especially in urban areas where bureaucracy is often larger and more complex. For complex, I'll point you to the zoning laws of Las Vegas, at https://www.lasvegasnevada.gov... . For unfair, For their frequent unfairness. I'll point out an Atlantic article at https://www.theatlantic.com/bu... .

> As for the tax code, nobody in Congress has a hard time explaining why taxes have to exist. So you can talk about "simple" and "fair" in regards to a tax plan.

I'm afraid that _this_ logic is why I'm compelled to doubt your expertise. There is no difficulty logically claiming that taxes are necessary. But there are so very many parts of the US tax code that are both complex and unfair that that idea that that a law will not be passed simply because it is either complex or unfair or both is demonstrably nonsensical. We _have_ a great deal of nonsensical law in every nation nation. Can you point out a district or nation _without_ nonsensical laws?

No way the copyright mafia is going to do that. More likely they hit spotify with some trumped up complaints and send them a bill.

Actually, the black market had nothing to do with any of those extraction/purification methods... German pharmaceutical makers were the movers and shakers for those. The black market just made use of the techniques.

Odd how a "progressive" (no, I didn't say liberal in ANY form) administration has fallen back to thinking and techniques from the early 20th century.

"Progressives" are just fanatics with a different label. But the kids like to relabel things so it looks like it's something new.

can be said about some person getting ill or about investment in research. Actually I can make this a template: I wasn't involved when %TOPIC% racked up so much debt and as a tax payer I am no about to be their parents and bail them out. I'm sure those %SUBJECTS% would love to be bailed out of their loans. Maybe Bernie can buy everyone a house too? Oh wait, its not Bernie's money he's spending, its taxpayers money. Bernie you want to bail out %SUBJECTS% go right ahead ON YOUR DIME not mine. here is an example for SPACE EXPLORATION and NASA: I wasn't involved when SPACE EXPLORATION racked up so much debt and as a tax payer I am no about to be their parents and bail them out. I'm sure those NASA would love to be bailed out of their loans. Maybe Bernie can buy everyone a house too? Oh wait, its not Bernie's money he's spending, its taxpayers money. Bernie you want to bail out NASA go right ahead ON YOUR DIME not mine. Can you see that you don't have a point besides "I disagree"

I believe it's all digital now. They have a person with a smartphone app that just registers all the identifications. The parking enforcement vehicle has a camera that reads the id's off the plane. Once cars are autonomous, the parking enforcement officer will have to work as a flight systems engineer.

I have never before seen Washington described as an "ex-president".

If you have to do it from the JTAG, it is as good as bricked.

Harm reduction to vulnerable people. Smokers aren't protected by the far left's values, so they may be freely oppressed. Enforcing laws with the homeless violates the far left's value of harm reduction above all (it is basically their only value, start watching carefully and you'll notice it everywhere) and thus is not done. Hope you learned something.

Except consumer fraud is an issue for the FTC, not the FCC. That's why it's difficult to think the FCC is at fault.

This is the most ridiculous story on slashdot yet - who cares about an incomplete ban on something legal completely unrelated to tech by a single city in the US? News for nerds indeed...

Let's change it to: Toronto becomes first city to bargain away 800 acres of waterfront land for development by Google.

Forbes article

Globe and mail article

What exactly is manly about vaping thc?