Running up to final tension on one joint before moving to another joint is a sure recipe for stress cracking. But, it is so much faster than going to an intermediate spec, removing hydraulic tensioners and moving to the next, and taking each point up incrementally. If you don't get it, check "torque pattern" for the lugs on your car tires for the basic concept.

They kinda went extinct because they were so tasty and easy to catch.

Non ionizing (read radio waves) can generate magnetic eddy currents in an electrolyte solution such as a living organism when the flux (power of transmitter and distance from transmitter are the factor). The magnetic eddy currents can manifest as nerve conduction issues at extreme power. The reason that hand held radio devices built to be held close to the head are limited to 300 milliWatts transmitter power is that such a power level is about a thousand times lower than any somatic biological effect can be measured. The 5 watt maximum power level for cellular phones overall is based on interference possibility with other types of transmission. This stuff has been studied to death since the introduction of microwave ovens in the 1950s. No study has ever shown a clear reproducible effect at reasonable power levels or even several times reasonable power levels. When someone is selling you Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.... follow the money. Often it is a crackpot campaigning for grant money somewhere in the brew.

Or is it just a move in the vein of "F*** the Flyover States"

Just the bottom line of California being cancer.

I have mainly bought CDs for years because I didn't trust online sources not to delete my media if all I have is a digital copy. Yep, iTunes has done that. You get to download only once and if you change players, so sorry you don't have the songs you paid for any more. Amazon seems more reliable but for music I want to keep, I get a physical copy.

Combine fiat money with removing regulations on credit contracts and you get the bubble of the 1920s followed by the crash and depression of 1929. When inflation is killing savings, it makes buying on credit look very very good. But, once the market is saturated the dominoes fall.... falling sales, layoffs, failure to pay revolving credit accounts, economy crashes and burns. Then you have a SEC making sure more money is not loaned than the loaning institution can cover. (broad strokes on the Great Depression) For over 100 years we have the Republican Party trying to give everyone the opportunity to get rich just like they did ignoring that concentrated wealth concentrates power to leverage deals to make sure they and they alone get to keep the wealth. Meanwhile the Democratic Party works hard to make everyone as poor and their neighbor while the old money elite running the party gets to keep all their old families have accumulated to leverage power. Is it really Demos vs Repubs or is it Aristocrats vs Plutocrats?

Taxes... depends on jurisdiction. Are the road use fees built into the vehicle taxes or are they built into the annual license fees (car tags). Or like Virginia tried back in the 80s, implement a higher tax rate based on age of vehicle and miles driven per year. That really socks it to lower middle class and working poor.

Business hours and school hours are not some divine edict handed down on stone tablets from burning bushes. Before the silliness of "Daylight Savings Time", like the 1960s, businesses that needed to work by the sun had Summer Hours and Winter Hours. Want your kids to have more after school recreational time? Why not get your elected local school board to change the school hours to start earlier and let out earlier? Do we really still need a practice geared to allow agrarian small farm owners to also work a factory job? (One of the excuses used to foist off the clock shift in the 1960s.) I've never been able to see an actual advantage to Daylight Savings Time.

When you move inside the beltway; the gestalt stupidity field installed by our alien overlords automatically lowers 50 IQ points.

Although I'm being snarky; I fully expect this meme to become featured on 4chan soon.

And you want to turn over responsibility for your medical care to an organization that can't even update a database of criminal convictions in a timely manner? Nope, an organization that the courts have ruled has no obligation to protect the individual taking the means for the individual to protect themselves is going to have a very hard sell.

What many don't realize is that two companies have not only taken over or driven out of business the majority of Internet Service Provider Companies (ISPs) but have quietly purchased control of the companies that maintain the internet backbone.

The trend is a bit disturbing and it would be easy to start looking for a plot for world domination akin to a comic book plot. But, there is no need for an evil plot when greed, avarice, and apathy can achieve the same results.

Net neutrality predates Obama by almost a decade. During the aegis of the Obama administration just saw the 2015 tightening of the definition of net neutrality as a result of court actions by AT&T, Comcast, and others to destroy the concept in law. Neutral traffic routing except in case of war was one of the fundamental properties of the network from its first iterations as ARPAnet. Calling net neutrality an Obama Administration thing is a calumny trying to piggy back on the disgust with a destructive administration.

Large corporations now have the control and legal permission to edit all of what you watch and read.

Hmmm, a plot comes to mind. Combination of Skynet and Fahrenheit 451. Population control by hacking and nuking any computer containing unauthorized ideas. Might be too close to reality to sell well.

Why bother with a flame war? For decades Apple has been a regressive proprietary purveyor of overpriced locked down and crippled technology. But, that works for those like Great Aunt Clueless that doesn't reply to emails because she can't figure out how to apply the stamp.

It seems that if you did the free upgrade; your key is invalidated in Microsoft's database.

A decade ago B&N marketed an eReader that was ahead of anything else on the market. Amazon was a year away from anything close to competitive to the inexpensive almost tablet that was the Nook Color. But what did B&N management do; they locked it into only doing business with the "Nook Store" and prevented installing standard Android Apps. Sorry bubba, walled gardens get neglected and turn into weed lots. I did a lot of business with B&N until they became the more expensive with less service store.