I am not certain if this is how they do it in Australia, but in the US, companies that could cause large incidents requiring outside resources are required to have reserved funds to pay off things quikcly in the event they have a disaster that requires outside assistance.

The chemical plant I worked at would at times have issues that required quite a few Emergency Agencies to respond and be on site to help out Emergency responsers. The Municipalities would send the bill for their time and equipment and we would be required to pay it immediatly. If we had a heart attack or a slip and fall, it was normal response and covered by normal taxes and the like paid to the municiaplity, but if we had a checmical spill requriing outside help or anything else that was "above and beyond" normal responses, they would bill the company.

There is also a law of responsibility that is referred to as Cradle to Grave in chemical manufacturing that states the company is responsible for the chemical from the time it is made until the time it is destroyed/consumed.

It may not be exactly the same in Australia, but I would be liability is the same and the Cheif Executive said what he did because he knew they were legally required to anyway so better to just say, we will pay as opposed to get the bad PR.

You missed the obvious 9 movie series with other possible spin offs and streamed tv shows

The Phantom Roomba
Attack of the Roomba
Revenge of the Roomba
A New Roomba
The Roomba Strikes Back
Return of the Roomba
The Roomba Awakens
The Last Roomba
Rise of the Roomba

We can't forget:

Roomba 1
Attack of the Roomba, the mini series
Dustlo: A Roomba Story
ObiRombnobi
The Rombalorian (with the infamous baby Roomba)
Roomba Fett
Roomba Rebels
Roomba Resistance
The bad batch of Roombas (they blow instead of sucking)

And we can't forget about the most famous and popular:

The Roomba Christmas Special!

Is there data that says that on either side of this there is an increased in accidents before or after the light change?

Is there data that shows that there is an increase in accidents before or after lite up areas like this in rural areas?

You make some good points about driving in dark area and then hitting lite up and it killing your night vision that could lead to incidents. If there is an increase in incidents, there would be data that would bear that out.

There are several industries that are inversely proportional to the economy. My FIL worked for a company that makes candy and their industry is inversely proportional to the economy as you stated. Times are going good, people spend money on big things to get their happy fix, but when it goes bad, they can get a quick cheap happiness fix from a milky way or mars bar and they are cheap compared to a vacation, new wardrobe, car, etc.

Generic products are the same way. I am short on cash and I like the expensive salon shampoo, but the generic will do pretty much the same so I will switch to the generics. I worked in an industry that made active ingredients in cleaners and you would see the economy drop, and the makers of the generic brands demand goes up so their order to us would go up while the name brands would suffer.

Gaming, especially during Covid, economic happiness fix that you can do without leaving the house, which is good as you were all on lockdown anyway!

Aren't supposed to!! Stupid typo! Whole statement doesn't work with that typo!

By posing the questions, it shows you don't understand how Slashdot works.

You are supposed to read the article, fill in the gaps about the subject from your imagination and then argue about the article in the comments section!

How dare you assume that people with lower limbs all have legs! What about all of those people who have lower limbs in addition to legs or lower limbs and no legs at all? What about all of the lower limb legs that identify as arms? You have just dehumanized all of those people and limbs with your backward non-inclusive thinking!

I will now be gathering all of the PC police and we will crusade for the lower limbed non-leg humanoids and animals to be included in our language and we will cancel you into the next millennium!

Loved your anecdote, I wish more people would do the same! Reminded me of a story

A previous boss of mine retired from the Air born rangers as a Captain and has a lot of cool stories, one about meetings.

There was a meeting he was playing host for between a general and a lot of other people. He set up the meeting rooms, got it all scheduled, got power points from ever presenter into a single slide deck, etc. It was a day long event.

He said the general arrived and told him, these people all like to hear themselves talk and this will take forever, so here are the rules. You are running the power point, if I nod at you, you go the the next slide. I don't care if they are talking, they have been told to keep it brief.

He said, yes sir. People start arriving and people were kept in the next room until it was their turn and they would be shown in. he said the first guy on like the 3rd slide, the general nodded to him and he went to the next slide and then present looked at him and said, I didn't ask for the next slide and he just looked at the general. Generals said something to the affect of, I did, you are taking to long and were supposed to be brief. The presenter started to protest and the general looked at him and said, next slide and he advanced the slide deck again! The guy started going really fast!

He said by the 4th presenter there were no issues because they were talking as they left the room and passing info to the next presenters waiting and what had happened to the first few people who tried to be overly verbose had spread through everyone!!

Khhhhaaaaaaannnnnnnnn!!!!!!

Khhhhaaaaaaannnnnnnnn!!!!!!

(would not let me put it in all caps because it was like yelling....that is SUPPOSED to be yelled!!!)

EOM.

There are laws against the thing you suggest.

Opting out of something in a class requires documentation from medical professionals and 529 or IEP plans. If you opt out with those, there are privacy laws. If you opt out without those, the documentation is a 0 on the assignment and your grade suffers.

And the statement 2 above about this being a mental illness issue is a straw man poll. This isn't about mental illness or developmental delays, those people in school if diagnoses have 529 plans or IEPs. This is about normal kids suffering normal anxiety associated with public speaking. Most people suffer anxiety when public speaking. I used to be one that was horrible and would skip school to get out of it. I confronted it, faced it and today and really good at it. Occasionally still have issues, but generally I am perfectly fine. It was part of my education that got me here.

My older brother was at college and came home for a weekend and brought Diablo.

It had a Spawn copy feature. You could install a copy and it would let you play until you hit level 10, i think it was.

I hit level 10 and went to the game store and bought it. Like you, I bought several other Diablo games as well.

My personal best is 46 minutes on the windows dude. I was doing some mind numbing work that I could still do the copy and pasting I needed to do while talking so I wasted very little of my time and a ton of his.

I started with, hold on, computers are on the other side of the house, put the phone down for 5 minutes.

He is still there, I ask which computer, I have 8? He says could be any so I say, let me turn them all on. This will take a while, some are really old and take a while to boot....put the phone down for 5 minutes.

Guy was still there and this is when the fun began!

Ok, it is booted up, what do you need.

Every step the guy tells me, do this or do that, I "screw up". This actually took a little attention as I didn't have the error messages memorized. You want me to type in assoc to the command prompt (didn't say command prompt, I was appearing stupid) and I would misspell it and get not recognized error.

Guy asked what I did, I said asoc, he tries to help, I misspell it over and over. He says, alpha, sam, sam, omega, charlie, and I type out the whole alpha, sam, etc and then talk about how he is doing the military stuff and how I see that in movies and why do they do that, there goes another 10 minutes while he is getting both excited that I am an idiot because I have no computer knowledge and frustrated because I can't type in a simple command!

Finally I had to go to the bathroom and was doing stuff by memory and he asked me to do something and I could not remember what it would display so I told the guy I was messing with him and not even in front of his computer! I miss a golden opportunity there! I should have asked him to hold on as I had to use the bathroom and then played farting noises into the phone for 5 minutes and killed more of his time!

It ended in him telling me he had hijacked all my files and I laughed and told him he didn't. He said don't estimate the power of the common man and I told him, you are nothing but a common criminal. That lead to a string of profanities and he finally hung up!

Sarcasm?

Because if you are serious, you need to think about the coupling that you are going to create between the laptop dock and the laptop and how you are going to secure those connections.

Connecting and disconnecting creates wear. When you have a docking station, or even a USB plug or a ethernet jack, they can take wear and tear and become loose and sloppy after a certain number of connects and disconnects. Not to big a deal as you need a small metal to metal connection to allow electricity to flow. If drop from 100% of origional contact surface are to 50% or even smaller of the designed surface area in contact, it still works.

When your connection is water, if it wears and you go from 100% to 95% connection, you end up with leaks that are spraying all over the place on your docking station or to the inside of you laptop.

I would think the only way this could work would be you keep the water cooling loop solely in the docking station and then the laptop has to has a large metal plate that rests on a large metal plate of the docking station. To do as you suggested is a way to short your hardware and get water all over your desk.

Unfortunately it can and it does.

If you don't want to read the link, George Lucas said, I want to build a Start Wars Museum in Chicago! I will pay for it out of my personal money. Everyone loved the idea (many didn't like the design) except a group Friends of the Park, that wants to maintain the lake shore property as mostly green space.

They complained, they sued, and appealed and Lucas said, forget it, I am out.

Not the same as a data center, but similar.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

I had almost the exact same thought. Battery cycles kill batteries. The more they cycle, the faster they die.

So the power companies instead of investing in and the maintenance of batteries they need for the renewable grid, they want people driving electric cars to subsidize their storage needs.

I own the car, I maintain the car, it is for my utilization, not the power companies unless they want to pay me for the service. As you pointed out, it is a small sum that you get. Unless it is enough to off set the increased wear and tear and the risk of not having the vehicle charged for my needs, then no thank you.

You are a power company, pay the money to build your own batteries, store your energy and then maintain and replace the batteries when needed. Pass that cost along to the customer.

You also mentioned longer life batteries and possibly other options. Let the power companies explore those options and build the best batteries to meet their needs. When you design something and then "adapt" it to a different purpose, quite often there can be unforeseen consequences that can range for rapid reduction in life of the equipment to hazardous operation issues. This might not apply, but it has to be considered. Just design a solution specifically for the grid and don't expect people with electric cars to subsidize the power company