Since it sounds like you're a real owner, what about eye/neck fatigue, + it getting warm? How long can you realistically wear it? Can you go 6-8 hours (with some breaks) at a time?

Correct; the metrics I have seen suggest only about 10% of plastic that is specifically put into the recycling stream ends up recycled. This of course has a lot to do with the simple fact that most plastics are either impossible or economically prohibitive to recyclable in the first place.

I personally think this will change in the near future as we get better at engineering enzymes, but this also means I that I think all efforts to do large-scale plastic recycling today are essentially just feel-good money sinks.

> To me it's a pity, because the 10 cent bags are good if you use and re-use them, and they are good enough to re-use.

Great news! You can buy 10 cent bags and reuse them all you want, you legend you.

> 9 out of 10 shoppers walking into a store with their own bags

I just wanted to reiterate that I mean every shopper, every store, every time. Not just the people who post on Slashdot and shop at Whole Foods. Put that nerd brain to some critical thinking tasks.

> Oddly enough, the Connecticut ban on non-reusable plastic bags has been somewhat successful.

You literally go on to describe the exact thing that is happening in CA and still think it's working? The extra few people bagging their groceries in old potato sacks has nothing on the fact that the rest of the people are still tossing plastic bags that now use 5x as much plastic as the old bags. By that metric, any "ban" must reduce bag usage by 80% before it can even be break-even with the prior situation. Unless you are seeing 9 out of 10 shoppers walking into a store with their own bags, the bag ban is not working in the slightest.

And this says nothing of the accumulation of "real bags" this causes -- I have so many of these fucking cheap "woven" poly bags that they are coming out my ears. I use them as packing material; planting ballast, dust covers, but mainly I just throw away heaps of them because they are literally designed to be garbage. They are made out of the exact same stuff as the old bags, so they degrade, but unlike the old bags that stood a chance of falling to bits in the landfill, the new bags just fall apart on the shelf after they've been sitting around a couple of years.

"A human" can't review them all in-depth. However, the most profitable company in the country can afford to hire multiple humans, who could review all of them.

Patent trolls have actually been losing some ground in ETX as of late, so they are coming over to WTX as apparently favorable. I can only see their scattering-roach behavior as a positive development, and living in WTX and having been summoned for service a number of times in this district court myself, I say keep em coming; we will keep tearing them new assholes. Despite having the appearance of a politically motivated court, I think that patent trolls will not be able to enjoy the same success as they have historically achieved in ETX. Slow steps in the right direction, I hope....

Nope, it's a bootstrapping system. You hook in the useful idiots with the obvious bullshit (QAnon, etc) and now you have 1-2% of the electorate sure...SURE..they are on the inside. There's no one more zealous than a recent convert. Now you come in with the deep fakes, the semi-plausible, grade A crypto-bullshit and if all the sudden hundreds of thousands of people are posting about it everywhere you see...well, its gotta be true, right? That many people can't be wrong!

more like legislators and their constituents are getting stupider. there is no need to pass additional laws for something that is plainly within the scope of the existing laws. It's counterproductive and can erode the scope of the original laws. It also limits potential future applications where AR/XR technologies could be used to reduce driver distraction and improve awareness, ya know, just like is already being done in things like race cars and fighter planes.

No, actually it's not necessary to specify this; the existing laws already have enough breadth to cover the case. When you start applying specific scope-limiting definitions on top of broadly applicable laws they cease being broadly applicable.

So, the real situation is actually the completely opposite of your intuition, and if the fine gentleman from Massachusetts passed his stupid notion by anyone even remotely experienced with law he would have been immediately rebuked. This is a waste of time, and also how I know he is an unqualified idiot. Good job, MA; glad I don't live there.

But the G is an A? MAAAN, ANAMA, MANAA. All these could be one. Also these last two sentences were for the caps filter, its like YELLING.

Typical /. comment - you spent a lot of time talking about your HW setup, optical drives, etc. but negated to even mention the time machine you use to visit the video store. What I want to know is what happens if you screw up and return the video before you rented it?

When you have a coffee shop (traditionally, this is a shop that makes a handful of drinks from milk and coffee) but all of your customers want to buy drinks made with stuff other than coffee and milk, this is what you get.

Milk foams up because it has loads of fats and proteins in it. If you want to make homogenized oat mash foam up the same way so you can sell it as a $6 cappuccino, youre gonna have to put fats and proteins back in it. IMO olive oil is a pretty good choice for Starbucks demographic.

If eating half a teaspoon of olive oil gives you the shits, I gotta say that's on you. You can always go back to having the traditional ingredients. By "traditional" let's be clear that I mean the coffee and the milk recipies that have been developed and endured worldwide for hundreds and hundreds of years.

No mod points, but ding ding ding, this is exactly it!

Yes, exactly. If there is an attack vector available between the freaking ink cartridge and the network that is on HP.

It's not really surprising to see a system fall apart when it has no reason to exist in the first place.