There are two towers, a center channel, and a sub. All of them I'd let go for a couple of hundred bucks, they are about seven years old, and cost about $6500 new.

I'm getting to the point where I need to find them another home. If you're in the SF Bay Area, we can make a deal. If not, I doubt you'd want the shipping costs.

When I buy electronics, I expect them to last three years. Any more than that is bonus time. Churn is part of the market.

I'm an Apple house, we have it all, but I've had Sonos Play 5 for a couple of years.

We got the HomePod and I did a side-by-side comparison by playing 'Such Great Heights' from the Sonos and from the HomePod. This song has been a good test for me because there are well-defined trebles and bass notes with a tenor/alto vocal that sounds clean. Both units were tuned to the room using their tuning algorithms.

To be completely honest, based on my hearing (and I'm older than 45, younger than 50), the Sonos has a little bit more depth in the mid-range and bass. But it's close. The HomePod does well with hearing 'Hey Siri' even when the music is on, and so far it seems like Siri works better than it has in the past (we don't push it though). Sonos is also a little louder.

Both have high quality sound, I haven't plugged my Vienna Acoustic Grand Beethoven's into my receiver for three years because they have been good enough for my needs.

Nice for someone to post a reference instead of an opinion.

In a cemetery where they died after they lived their life.

That is funny, but as I've spent the last four years working with my daughters on their common core math homework, I have to state that the methods they are teaching are far better than the methods I learned as a kid, and unlearned as an engineering graduate student studying number theory on the side.

The common core curriculum focuses on spatial relationships, grouping, arrays, and other number theory topics that will greatly help the math talents of the next generation. I find that most people who are against common core don't understand what it really is.

I have two broken bones, one torn ACL, and a torn labrum from football (played from 4th grade to 9th grade). Luckily I wasn't a running back or receiver, so most of the headshots I took didn't lead to concussions. I stopped playing in high school because I got tired of visiting the doctor.

Here's the problem, we are better informed, but we are far from informed completely and there were deliberate efforts to suppress that knowledge. In addition, kids under 18 don't know the consequences, and many of the parents pushing them into football are living vicariously through their kids and the kids never know the risks until it's too late.

Let adults play if they wish, and even high school kids if they get appropriate unbiased information. However, having kids under 14 play tackle football, in retrospect, should not have been allowed..

I saw a Real Sports story about the concussion dangers of soccer, and the concussions don't come from heads hitting the balls, they come from heads hitting other heads and the poles of the goal. Same game event, different cause.

Watch "The King of Kong" if you want to get a flavor for what the competitive video game community is like. The people who make up the players and judges are, oh, how to say it politely, different.

For comparison, if you attend a performance of "Hamilton", you'll be told at the door that phones must not be used during the show, and if caught, you'll be escorted out of the venue by the usher.

As long as the rules of the show are stated when you buy the ticket, I don't think anyone has the right to complain.

My understanding is tax law is written such that electronics are expected to be replaced every three years. If a battery can last that long (my iPhone 6s did), I'm not sure how this could be enforced.

If you want a phone with a replaceable battery, then buy one. The non-replaceable battery of iPhone is a well-known design decision. My opinion is the government should stay out of this.

The CO2 added by volcanoes is negligible, but it's the energy that the volcano adds to the ocean that affects the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. One kilogram of magma will heat up about 500 kg of water 1 degree Celsius. That adds up to a lot of energy very quickly when talking about a pumice flotilla of 400 km^2.

But that is the strength of America, there is a 'platform' in place where people with talent can acquire resources to develop widgets and allow the investors/inventors the opportunity to sell them and make money. To my knowledge, not many other countries have less interference than America for creating something new, and allowing the stakeholders to profit from it.

Maybe because all the heat of the magma raised the temperature of the ocean water and therefore lowered the pH. The ocean is alkaline because there are stronger bases (sodium, magnesium, calcium) than acids in the water, and that balance controls the carbonate content in the ocean and what is in the atmosphere.