Intel does not lease much space.

They just recently sold (and leased back) office space in Folsom, CA. That was ~6 months ago.
They own their office space in Santa Clara, CA and San Jose, CA. (I would presume the San Jose campus is considered to be part of the assets of the Altera spinoff, so Intel only half-owns it now.)
I believe all their office space in Oregon and Arizona is owned by them.

If you can't manually keep a harvester lined up with the rows of corn you shouldn't be operating that equipment.

I don't know what kind of "crop damage' you think you're going to get from steering a harvester manually. Even if you're offset by 12"+ from the row the cornstalks are still going to get cut at basically the same height, and you're not going to see any difference in how many bushels of corn you get per acre. You can't really damage the crop since you're *HARVESTING* the crop at that point.

Way before you get to harvesting, when the farmers are doing cultivating and/or spraying - those operations are likely to result in more crop damage when being done manually as compared to a system that can follow what was recorded when planting with 1" accuracy (or even 9" accuracy). If you had said that, I'd agree with you - but you used steering a *harvester* as your example.

"armored"???

That sheet metal isn't going to stop a .22. And usually larger calibers than that are used on signs.

Those railcars *do* protect the vehicles from a graffiti "artist" putting their tag on the side of a vehicle. And provide protection against hail storms - or the unlikely case of a tree branch that is long enough to reach the tracks.

But I suspect the main reason for their design is it's a cheap way to make a car transport - sheet metal gives a lot of strength edge-on, so it's probably cheaper to make it out of mostly sheet metal with a few cross beams than to make it all out of beams. I would guess the potential benefit of less height for some loads (like they do with semis) is less than the extra cost of being able to adjust the heights when it comes to a train (as opposed to a semi, where the air resistance is I think more of a factor)

No - if this goes as the state wants, the state is taking that money away from Cupertino - and giving it to other cities.
It looks like the state is saying the sales tax should be calculated as where the customer was, while Apple said the sale should be where they (as the seller) were. Since there are appeals to be made here, it looks like this isn't something that has a definitive legal answer.

Possibly Apple will also wind up paying more in sales tax that will go to certain locations - for example if a sale is deemed as having taken place in San Jose (borders Cupertino to the south-east), it would be 9.375% sales tax rate, as opposed to the 9.125% sales tax rate Cupertino has. OTOH, for sales that are deemed as having taken place in Sacramento, the sales tax rate is only 8.75%.

The 34k jobs is for the "semiconductor manufacturing industry"
Which includes many employers other than Wolfspeed.
ex: Global Foundries, STMicroelectronics, Applied Materials, ON Semiconductor, IBM.

What I read in articles about this is that this was a railway bridge - and "bridge was closed to rail traffic in 1993"
So I would expect there's no impact to traffic other than people coming to see the big cranes, big ship passing through, etc.

"tempest in a teapot" is the equivalent american idiom.
I think "tempest in a teapot" is an old idiom though - not something you'd commonly hear, but not so rare that it's unheard of.

Untrue.

My understanding is that only 75 arrests were made that day (which I think is a problem). And of those, I think there were 2 with firearm charges.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-d...
shows 3 people facing firearm charges related to the insurrection/riot/whatever-you-want-to-call-it.

It's ironic that you ask if Slashdot is "fakenew" for using the term insurrection when you're spreading misinformation.

Dungeonds and Dragons started in Wisconsin

The relevant code (in the US) for this is the NEC.
NEC 230.70(A)(1) says: "The service disconnecting means shall be installed at a readily accessible location either outside of a building or structure or inside nearest the point of entrance or the service conductors."

In places with mild climates it's cheap/easy to use a "Combination Service Entrance Device" which has the meter, main disconnect and the breakers all in one box that's mounted outside.
In places where you get a lot of snow I believe it's fairly common to have the service conductors come down to a meter and from there go through the wall and into where the main breaker panel is (usually in the basement). Where I grew up this was the typical method and I am guessing it's because people don't want to go outside to flip a breaker when it's snowing.

Both methods are legal.

At the time I looked at it and decided that $7500 buys me a lot of tools - and access to them in my garage is a lot more convenient.
And I didn't have any projects planned for the next year that I'd be able to transport to there.

I am sad to see them go.
Just as I was sad when I heard that the Sawdust Shop had gone out of business.
(Not I lost/wasted $7500 sad - but still sad)

I know you're joking.

But I'll answer anyway.

It was $7500 for "lifetime" membership.
or $5k for 5-year pre-paid membership
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Another article said something about them losing $30k/month in Pittsburgh.
I don't think my $7.5k would have helped much.

I am *so* glad I didn't buy a membership a year ago when they were trying to raise funds for moving the San Jose shop.

You only need $56,200 of taxable income (MFJ) to have $7500 in tax liability.
That's middle income by most definitions. (slightly above $46k median of all US households, slightly below $67k median of dual-earner households)

A Pacifica Hybrid costs $44k (plus tax, registration, etc).
Take out $7k of that, and you're at $37k for a nice minivan.
$37k is a reasonable price for a minivan.

I have seen 'middle income' defined as being the middle three quintiles of income.
I've also seen it as currently people in US are 29% lower, 51% middle, 20% upper. (not sure how they determined that)
By either definition I am definitely middle income - and I have been planning to buy a Pacifica Hybrid and use the $7.5k tax credit.
And I know I'm not the only family that's right in that middle-income category and looking at buying one.

Well where I live it does indeed work better.
My city owns the "power company" that provides electric power to the people/businesses that are here.
And it's significantly cheaper (and from anecdotes, better service) than the investor-owned utility that operates in the cities surrounding mine.
The IOU in the cities next door is Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E). For a similar house in PG&E area vs. in my city - the house using PG&E will spend more than 2x for electricity because they charge more.

And I haven't seen any evidence that my city subsidizes the electric rates or electric infrastructure via property tax (or other tax) proceeds.