This is theft. You took money from someone else, and now don't want to pay it back. Just remember there is someone on the other side that is not being returned the money taken from them. And yes there is a problem with the system. Democrats decided it was free money for all who wanted it with no regard to whether they deserved it or whether they were going to be able to repay it. When i was in college things weren't as lenient as they were over the last 10 years, but even then all the silly kids treated their extra student loan money as free party money. Infuriating as someone who worked throughout college, took loans, made wise financial decisions to pay them off ahead of schedule all without a break. Something tells me i'm about to be on the hook to pay off their loans now too.

The pharma companies peddling the name brand drugs would test them and LOUDLY TELL EVERYONE (INCLUDING THE FDA) - SEE IT'S NOT THE SAME! But they don't. Would be trivial for them to test.

LOL that's hilarious. Ladder logic unfortunately makes it easy for a borderline qualified person to make a program that 'works', most of the time. This of course comes at the expense of many things. Ladder logic code is generally fully of logical gaps, quirky program flow, funky workarounds and way too many timers because the code author didn't understand the root cause of their logic problems. I've made a career out of rewriting unreliable ladder logic into text languages. No end in sight. GTFO.

I am all for GMO, round-up, pesticides, whatever, but the taste of meat these days is f'in terrible. I started buying a particular brand of $7/lb chicken breasts because they are the only ones that are reliably not "woody" and actually have taste. Beef is going the same way. No amount of salt can actually give it flavor. Please bring back meat flavored meat!! Also, farmed indian/indonesia shrimp suck, farmed atlantic salmon isn't as good as it used to be, farmed tilapia sucks, most pork sucks because its so heavily pre-brined, etc.

Using my MX518 from 2005 right now. That and a gaming mousepad i bought at the same time. Both have been through hell and still work great. Almost every day i roll up the mouse mat and coil up the MX518 and throw it in my backup. Can't risk WFH w/o it. I was hoping to see they made this a wireless version because that is one thing i would have hoped in 13 years they could fix the performance of. The cord is a hassle. All my coworkers fine it odd too that i have a wired mouse. No one does anymore but they also don't realize what an amazing piece of equipment this has been.

it's 100% a texture thing. melty saucy goodness. lots of cheeses have more flavor but for pure moist saucy satisfaction you need the processed stuff in this application.

Nothing beats gooey melty AMERICAN cheese on a burger. No other cheese turns into such a perfect melty sauce like the processed stuff.

oops please ignore. misread the summary. OOPS.

this is an argument i have with my wife and 2-year old on a regular basis....

Repeat after me: Cement is not Concrete. Concrete is Not Cement

Concrete = Cement + Aggregate

Cement is the glue that holds it all together to make Concrete.

Pretty ignorant statement. RO water is actually pretty corrosive to distribution systems (flint, MI anyone?). Better to put it just where it's needed - for drinking water.

Given the nature of how water treatment works everyone should be using a reverse osmosis (RO) system for their *drinking* water. It filters out all large molecules and most ions, plus viruses and bacteria. That means all those nice pharmaceuticals people flushed down the drain, or hydrocabons, or fire retardants, pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers that were run off into the water supply are removed. The average person only consumes about a gallon of water a day so it's efficient and cheap from that perspective. A sufficiently effective system can be had for around $100 and will last for a couple years (usage dependant) with minimal maintenance before the filters and membrane need to be replaced. The membrane actually works better the more its used so really the only maintenance could be filters if its used a lot. As far as the rest of the water, as long as its safe from a microbiological perspective, it's good enough to use for things like showering, washing dishes, washing your hands, etc.

Of course coffee tastes better when you add sugar and cream to it. Just about everything tastes better when you add sugar and fat. I choose to drink my coffee black for health reasons, not because i prefer it that way. I don't want to prematurely rot my teeth or add what would amount to a candy bar worth of sugar to my diet every day just to consume caffeine. I drink tea without sugar for the same reason. I challenge the readers of this post to observe their coworkers. Is their a correlation because being overweight and how you drink your coffee? The results will not be shocking. Even more so when you look at the people who consume the Starbucks coffee milkshakes regularly.

you're thinking in the right direction, but nope.

There are some clever ways (i've seen with my own eyes) to make the compression and expansion isothermic and adiabatic. A traditional air compressor does neither. Don't think of these systems as simply giant air compressors. They are much more clever and involve various subsystems and perhaps even additives to the air.

Yah they did have a solution. I know a little more than i'm going to post ,but NDA yadda yaddda. The info below could be determined from public press releases they made. Don't think of it as a traditional air compressor. Think of it more along the lines of they mixed air, along with a secret ingredient, and compressed that. The secret ingredient(s) changed the thermodynamics of the process to where the temperature of the resulting compressed gas was no more than the temperature going in. In other words, they converted the energy to potential energy in terms of just increased pressure, not pressure and heat. Their expansion process also involved the expansion of that secret ingredient along with the compressed air to not change the *temperature* of the air. Expanding that amount of air requires heat input from the environment. That's why they labeled their process as adiabatic and isothermic.