With "International Building Codes," there is nothing local about it any more.

Here in the USA, ...

You do know the "International Building Code" (and the International Code Council, which created it) is almost entirely a US thing, don't you? The "International" in the name is purely because a few tiny near-USA countries have adopted bits of it.

Nobody else takes any notice of it. Hell, not even Canada follows it; they have their own National Building Code...

Me too:

He sees you when you're sleeping,
He knows when you're awake,
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness' sake.

You better watch out ...

Yeah, let's a honor a drug-abusing, out of shape criminal trying to steal from a restaurant

You elected one President...

This.

To be honest, as someone who used Firefox up until their last major fuckup & now exclusively uses Safari, I'm more pissed off about:

(a) the translate extension I used no longer working - except, strangely, on a few sites (e.g. electrotanya) where it detects the page I'm on is already in English. Wtf?;
(b) the fact that Apple's 'Safari Extensions' page is fucking useless, doesn't show all available extensions, and lacks any sort of ability to search beyond 'Cmd-F'; and
(c) a few websites which go "oh look, Safari - let's display in mobile mode".

Adguard works. Right-click extension works. Pihole takes care of the rest of the webBS.

Skin effect does not exist at 60 hertz. You have to get into the microwave range to see the skin effect. "DUMB ASS".

Skin depth @ 60Hz is ~8.4mm in Cu, or ~10.5mm in Al. It's why single conductor high-current AC distribution cables max out @ ~17-25mm thick (depending on material & frequency), and even higher-current cables are either wound bundles or larger diameter & hollow (which allows for oil cooling).

Now, about your "dumb-arse" comment...

Not to mention the Mussolini quote dates from 1928 - a time when the USA didn't have a "rah rah democracy" foreign policy, fascism was considered a valid style of government and not a dirty word, and Coolidge, Hoover, and FDR were supportive of what they saw as a libertarian progressive Italian government that would resist Communism...

Really. What has happened to Slashdot??

Nothing. It always was a cesspool of belligerent ignorance.

Well may we say God Save the Queen (pause) because nothing will save the Governor-General...

Gough got that wrong too - Kerr continued on as G-G for another 2 years...

As for Kerr, despite the foaming-at-the-mouth hatred Labor has carried against him for the last 40-odd years, everything that's come out since points to him doing the only thing feasible at the time - putting the question of government to the people by dismissing the government & causing an election to be called. If he made one mistake, it was not being completely open with Whitlam that he'd already come to an agreement with Fraser (and even that's disputed).

Ask Australia how well compulsory voting works.

Best if you dont. It sounds like you might not like the answer: very well.

Not even that. Ghana uses metric.

(You probably meant Myanmar, aka Burma. And they're in the process of adopting metric.)

And that's without even considering the fact that the US doesn't use "Imperial" measurements anyway. It uses "US Customary", which is mostly based on pre-imperial measurements. Fluid measures particularly are different, which makes the old saying "a pint's a pound the world around" a lie...

South Australia planned to replace this software after something else was available, so they chose to lease a short term solution. Now they changed their mind and wish they had bought a regular software license instead.

As somebody else has since pointed out up above, you've got that almost exactly wrong...

Econ 101 might lead you think those fees should approach the overhead costs and wouldn't be higher than 5% - but out in the real world, shops selling "access to the customers" (i.e. consignment stores) typically charge anywhere between 20%~50%, with better-performing shops tending towards the higher end of that.

... and done well. She's got you all nicely polarised and arguing about an irrelevance in black and white terms.

Now you're all wound up and ready to go forth and argue with your family, friends, and workmates in similarly polarised terms.

The purpose is to shift the window away from rational & considerate discussion to polarised arguing. She's won.

Great. Now where will I buy my workclothes?

I'm not sure the kids will recognise me with just the balloon animals and little tricycle...

What bending the "laws of probability"?

Coin tosses are the stereotypical 'independent events', and the probability of 6 heads in a row is just as likely as any other sequence of 6 : one in 64.

Flip a coin 6 times every day, and you'd expect to get all heads 5 or 6 times each year.

Oh, they've had a few (Secunia's down for me at the moment, but there's a reasonably up-to-date list here), so they're not perfect - but yes, they seem on the whole to have their act together.

Sure, they're not as configurable as a cheap Linksys (although they can be pushed to do anything you'd reasonably* expect a home/SOHO router to do), you can't shoehorn Linux onto them, and the lack of a CLI or web interface (a OSX / Win only config utility) is shitty - but they're solid, robust, & pretty secure devices which are almost perfect for the average home or SOHO user.

Oh, and the AC who said "Cannot configure them via a wired port, only wireless (wtf?)" is either a troll or an idiot...

(* running a server, packet inspection, or doing heavily customised routing is not a reasonable expectation for a home/SOHO router - that sort of thing belongs on a separate machine that doesn't have one testicle dangling out on the WAN...)