I have updates turned off. Every time I open Fx after a shut down, it harasses me. Then, about a minute later, it does it again. Throughout the day it harasses me.

If I tell it never to install updates unless I choose to, don't harass me.

It used to be like that until a year or so ago. Check the box, never be harassed. Now it's incessant.

Have they removed the incessent harassment notifying you there is an update?

There used to be a time when you checked a box, you were never harassed. Clear, simple, and useful.

I guess that's no longer possible.

Are they now?

I missed Woodstock by about a decade. But when I made it into the school music program (high school and college), we were all looking back and mourning the demise of our creative heros. Either due to actual deaths or the inevitable menal decline that turned their creative output into garbage.

And no, we are not going to pass legislation to make weed smokers a protected class, like the ADA. You show up for work stoned and you're fired.

There are 535 of them.

Go ahead. Show me the ads. But when I set tracking protection to strict, don't lie to me and tell me that I can't visit your page because I'm blocking your ads.I'm not. I can still see them. Just like I can see the billboards I drive by every day.

The ObamaPhone was started by Bush.

160 characters should be enough for anyone.

Yeah. Pot market back then: illegal. Booze market: legal but regulated. Much more for businesses to lose in the latter case.

One good argument for legalizing skunk.

Well, school has been sucking the life out of reading for over a century nowadays.

It doesn't help that right-wingers have been forcing schools to ban books such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Frankenstein's Monster, anything dealing with slavery or how Native Americans were treated by Europeans, and yes, 1984.

CNN had an article about parents in Tennessee complaining their kids shouldn't have to read about slavery and how slaves were treated because it makes them feel uncomfortable.

In other words, the people who cry the loudest about participation trophies are crying about little Johnny having to read about how horrible white people can be to others. None of this helps the ongoing issue of Johnny not able to read.

My slide rule gets this right every time.

And I see nothing about configuration capabilities being left for the vehicle owner once this is pushed out. In fact, I see nothing about benefits to owners at all in TFA.

Utility demand response is a contractual thing. Once you sign up, you are obliged to load shed at the utilities request. Or face penalties. V2G just goes a step further than unidirectional (V1G) flow control in that GM can just take power back. Note that it is GM on the other side of the deal. Not your local, regulated and answerable to state utilities commisioners, utilities.

... jump into my EV Monday morning, will I find the batteries dead because the local data centers have requisitioned all that energy to support the rendering of lollies?

This is why you do all of your R&D overseas. And then license it and import it as needed for US operations.

Why? It's going to be made in China.

Google wakes up. After allowing GMail users to spam the world with scams for years. They finally figured out that maybe this could damage their brand (not surprised if this was China's intent).

Now pardon me while I answer this message from Charles Ndungu Thuo.