The raccoon caused one power outage affecting 2500 customers.

He can't keep getting away with this!

We caught a guy who was setting fires over here. In large part due to video surveillance.

More Flock cameras is the answer.

It's all about perception. Higher price means product has more value. Gotta have one now!

Calculated with Excel.

Yes. But a large part of that is the difficulty in retrofitting it to their older buildings. In the USA, we have a large installed base of forced air heating. Which can be upgraded to a heat pump. Also, we (USA) have more stand alone single family dwellings. So remodeling or even piping in split systems is easier. And with a heat pump, you not only get more efficient heat, but A/C as well.

Completely different applications. Refrigerators/freezers are self contained and much smaller than an entire house. And they prevent food spoilage. A much more serious problem than hot weather.

So sad. Particularly since this can be easily prevented with birth control.Safe, legal and rare.

It was Clinton that said abortion should be "Safe, legal and rare."

But do they really? They have greater mass. But the Schwarzschild radius is (sort of) defined by that distance from an object's center where the escape velocity is equal to the speed of light. And that is what we think about when we say "gravity". So this value should be the same at the "surface" of every black hole.

If this is the case, then the effects occuring near this surface would be the same for all black holes, given an identical height above it. And given that, we would have trouble picking apart a redshift due to extreme distance (Hubble) from that caused by events close to that surface (gravitational red shift).

So if we can't really tell how far away it is, we can't reliably estimate its energy level.

Stop developing apps for the Apple platform.

Obligatory Dilbert

They just copied the ending scene from "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly."

This.

Unless there us some characteristic of accretion disk radiation that is particularly hostile to life.

This is Slashdot.

Have the punishment fit the crime. Require that all subsequent filings be prepared using vi.

On second thought, that would be cruel and unusual.

I'm getting too old to till up the garden plot every spring. But keep posting that while the cops are monitoring this board and they come out every year and dig it up for me.