It's a capacitor. The journalist has suggested what you've written as a use for it, but it's really a capacitor and has multiple uses, like the ones you are dismissing.
To be frank it would be a lot harder for to replace the batteries than the capacitors in circuits but I suspect the journalist wanted to put things in terms that looked simpler - most people know about batteries.

Do I need to remind you that Goddard did not build a Saturn five rocket in his backyard on the first try but had to settle for something a bit less impressive?

Fair enough, I didn't spot it as a "thin edge of the wedge" argument.

Quoting the proposed version of legislature is meaningless. The bits you quote as "proof" for your anti-gun stance were stricken from those laws before they were adopted. Quoting the losing side of a 200-year-old debate to prove your point is disingenuous at best.

I went to an Adobe Flex party in Boston shortly after the Macromedia acquisition. The visuals were really good, the development model looked nice, I was pretty stoked. Then I found out that the SDK was proprietary and difficult to extend, that the licensing was deployment-based, and that the front-end was also proprietary and limited regarding devices it would run on.

That was enough to not look at it again. I just am reading now that they gave up on that, tried to give it away, and eventually dumped it on Apache.

Still today, look for an environment that is open, extensible, runs its output on standards-based devices, and also one that has a vibrant community and a good contribution model. Avoid monolithic solutions, but rather parts that do their jobs well and play nice with others.

There was a Mac game called A10-Attack which had multiple views. We'd put three NuBus cards in a Mac IIci and have front and side window views. It was pretty fun, and we didn't even think about being cooked by being inside the CRT zone. The screens *were* supposed to be windows, so the illusion didn't need to worry about the gap between screens.

Goodness, that was eighteen years ago.

Maybe we should have an AI in charge of the nukes?

Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message
"Something's out there"
/
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here
From somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky

if(false)

Signed-off-by: me

until such a time as you are instructed to commit the greatest mass slaughter in human history

To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war

Any questions?

"So you pay for college?"

Let's give Mr and Mrs Norris a bit of privacy for that one.

Law enforcement logic.

"These guys have it coming".

To even be in law enforcement, you have to drink vigorously from the cup of ends-justify-the-means.

what exactly is the difference?

When people ask me why I'm a theological noncognitivist, I ask them if their God needs to be omniscient and omnipotent in every universe in an infinite multiverse or if it'd be OK if thier God is a pimply-faced youth in another.

Typically, they have no idea what I'm talking about, and probably just assume I'm nuts.

The aliens had to make us believe in gods so we'd eventually figure out how time works. "It was worth the price." - Darth Albright

Some low end B&W photocopier/scanner/printers seem to last for years without hassles. Getting it second hand is an option since some places are ditching them for colour. Most brands, apart from those run by idiots that leave to go into politics, will take postscript or even PDF so you can print to them with anything from an Atari ST up without having to care about drivers.

At home. I'm using a Ricoh Aficio CL2000 with network module and duplex unit. It wasn't cheap back in the day, but back in the day cheap lasers didn't exist. I'm still happy with it. Doesn't do scanning, etc... I'm sure they have models that can. The rule of thumb for Linux compatibility is PostScript. If it has PostScript it will work.

At work, we nog have a Xerox WorkCentre 6605DN. Scanning (with feeder), duplex, network, PostScript and Fax. It was a mere 650€. which is damned fine. From what I hear the consumables aren't that expensive (but not dirt cheap)... at least, I didn't get any complaints from accounting.

If you all got off your arses and voted instead of leaving it all to those who love playing political games then you probably would get that representation. They would be room for minor parties instead of the two fairly similar ones you have now (Nixon would be a far left Democrat today).