Python: The tool to use when you want to get things done fast.

Well, sometimes they do jail and even execute the people responsible for negligent or faudulent testing in building construction that falls and kills people when no earthquake occurs. Using cheapened concrete and falsifying strength tests has lead to convictions.

Were recognized safety standards followed in the release of this software? Were the tests results falsified? Or was the prerelease testing not done or reported falsely?

Nah! You can buy those Lithium Sulfurr batteries today thru several sources. See for example, https://www.alibaba.com/showro...

Your calculations are off by over a factor of 4 because just as the Tesla batteries don't use their full capacity to maintain their 10 year life (they are really 20 KWh batteries used fractionally to produce 14 Kh) lead acid batteries only last if you use less than 50% of their capacity each day, and then they may last 5 years.

So you will need to buy at least 28KWh of lead acid X 2 to equal 1 Tesla Power wall for a total lead acid cost of $5600 plus the cost of battery chargers, and monthly maintenance (topping off the water, etc.) to equal one $5000 leased, maintenance free Powerwall, and have a ventilated place in your house to keep the 28 monster batteries and associated power management boxes and cables.

... so the argument that preventing selfies prevents vote buying doesn't really make sense.

When I tried to go to the illustrated panel, it looked totally different on my Windows 7 PC. Does it look the same on your PC? What version of Windows does that illustration apply to?

I recently tried to use LO 5.1 professionally editing MS Office docs. Unfortunately, these documents had many imported diagrams.

ANY document that contained MS Office drawings failed importing miserably. I ended up needed to export each editable drawing in the Word document and convert it to a PNG image and import it. It was the only way I found to keep from screwing up the diagrams in the Word documents.

So unless LO 5.2 fixed working with Office drawings, forget compatibility.

Still have a Hi-8 Betamax camera that we use as a player and about a few dozen cassettes of videos, mostly of our baby, plus a shelf of VHS cassettes and a VHS recorder. That baby is almost 20 now.
We plug the camera into our top rated (in 1995) 32" Sony Trinitron TV, which still works great. We will get one of those new-fangled HD flat screens one of these days, I suppose. :)

By the way, can anyone recommend a Hi-8 digitizing service?

Heard of Photoshop plugins? Normal mortals can and do write GPL plugins for Photoshop, including many plugins for importing and exporting different file formats. See for example, http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/ .

Why all the GPL hate speech? Any ol' proprietary program can use this free FLIF code by keeping their proprietary code as a separate executable that communicates to the FLIF codec through an open interface. Note that many applications today consist of multiple processes that communicate with each other.

No, that is not about it. Yes, the fundraising is news. So is his idea about running as a single issue, anti-corruption candidate, sworn to resign when the Citizen Equality Act of 2017 has passed. No one has ever run promising to resign when his fundamental cause has been achieved.

Well, you could use the microwaves to warm everybody up nicely. :-)

Thanks for the pointers to a lower cost way to get battery backed power.
You make good points for the most part, except concerning the auto-transfer switch. I don't know where you live, but here in NJ, auto-transfer switches are required by law if you want to hook up any power source to your house wiring.