So, how much for heated seats?

Let them come. The socialists have been heralding the post scarcity society. The Star Trek economy is approaching and the left is terrified. Seems someone just told them that the hammer and sickle symbolize labor.

Oblig joke: Computer scientists were putting the finishing touches on their first fully intelligent machine. Once booted up, they decided to test it with deeply philosophical question: "Is there a God?"

"There is now."

Are you certain that there's no one to the left of zero? I'd beg to differ.

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... AI and robots, this is how you get AI and robots.

Do you think that might be due, in part to the style of comedy presentation? The Sam Kinisons and Bobcat Godthwaits screaming at the audience might trigger the overly sensitive. Compare them to comedians like Bob Newhart or Steven Wright. Not "over the edge" types.

I think written humor falls into the second category. You read as much slapstick, physicality and emotion into the text as you want. A lot of British humor seems to be based on "misreading" of cues or interpretation. The infamous, "Does your dog bite?" "That is not my dog."

To what are you alluding?

Raspberry Pis often can be had as board only. And if one is building some sort of data acquisition system or device controller, the board is easily built into the same box as the device.

And why shouldn't they be "resistant"?

They go out and spend the money to increase capacity and this whole AI fad falls in a heap long before they recoup the investment, the techbros aren't going to pick up the tab. Hell, they were planning to screw them on price from the very beginning.

Humor works.

Unless your subject is autistic. Then they just don't get it and they mod you down .....

Nice. But how much of that is paying for the case and power supply?

Somewhat the same as in the USA. Power wheeling charges were inconsistent and often negotiated bilateraly between neighboring utilities. Energy flow was handled within vertically integrated utilities. From their generators through their transmission grid to their customers.

This is all changing. But the side effect will be that all the solar farms way off in the desert will have to pay a bill to get their energy to customers. And another bill to have an intermediating utility store it for them. The days of the newly deregulated markets like California and Enron are gone. Where someone can just hook generation to "the grid" and make bundles of money. Profits will be eaten up by distance and capital costs.

I'd love to. But I can't get the neighbor to cut down his trees. Not that they're all bad. They provide good shade in the summer and reduce AC demand.

Basically everyone who lives in the area or studies the climate or hydrology would tell you that you're insane.

More like a once-in-a-millennium event. Though I suspect it's going to be considerably more common going forward.

Deserts have some amount of normal precipitation, too. And when you get a lot less than normal, that's called a drought. Yes, even in a desert.