Comment Re:"Simulated real-world tasks" (Score 2) 78
You must know my father. I even did the math for him once, showing that it cost more for him to drive for the cheaper gasoline, but it didn't change his thinking.
Comment Re:This s "news for nerds" .. The lesson is ... (Score 1) 222
Camel case for the win!
Comment Re:This ladies and gentlemen (Score 1) 222
I would say that this underscores the need to abolish the death penalty for these kinds of cases.
I see what you did there--you're guilty of ASCII comedy!
Comment Re: "proud maga" (Score 1) 226
I know he's dumb, but he's not dumb enough to think he could involve many people in a fake assassination attempt and expect everyone involved to keep quiet, especially after innocents are killed.
Comment Re: "proud maga" (Score 1) 226
Didn't a guy in the audience die?
Comment Re:He was a BBS friend... (Score 1) 61
May he RIP, your BFF on the EMS BBS until Y2K.
Comment Humorism (Score 1) 114
Laughter is the best medicine.
Comment Super Cruise et. al. (Score 1) 159
I'm surprised in this era that we have accepted that people are going to die in order to be more lazy. It shouldn't surprise me though, especially since we've laid down our very souls at the altar of technology with the unwavering belief that if tech is useful somewhere, it should be used everywhere. Of course, on this website, I'm casting seeds onto the rocks.
Comment Re:I'm keeping my current wheels (Score 1) 159
Frequent undercoating helps.
Comment Re:Same answers as before: (Score 1) 138
Maybe Sony took them back.
Comment Re:Don can do insider trading on (Score 1) 215
That's the problem with believing posts on the Internet: All gun owners I've known had weapons for self-protection against thieves and crazies. Shoot one, and your life goes on. But shoot a bad president and your life is over (versus just waiting 4 years).
Comment Re:But you don't understand! (Score 1) 226
The total cost for uninsured patients in the US, including what they spend out-of-pocket, is about 500 billion a year, i.e. about the same amount the Trump administration wants to *increase* the DoD budget (and that was before he started a forever war in Iran).
Don't assume I'm pro-Trump, I'm not. I would look forward to his leaving 3 years from now, but I know it'll be just the other side's version of crazy.
The number of uninsured citizens is almost double the number of undocumented immigrants in the US, which strongly suggests that there's a lot of unknowns about who is showing up in that stat.
But I thought health insurance was now mandated upon the people. No enforcement, no mandate, I guess.
Comment Re:But you don't understand! (Score 1) 226
Well, anonymous coward, I can't prove that statement, only back it up with the fact that I've worked with this decent, older man for 24 years. I assume his wife is of similar cloth. I know the city where she works and have seen it slide toward lower incomes in the previous decades.
For what it's worth, a chat bot said this issue is at ~ 50% across the US. Still not good...
For what it's worth, a chat bot said this issue is at ~ 50% across the US. Still not good...
Comment Re:I invented the ice box (Score 1) 226
If you look in the user manual (when the manufacturers still deign to include one) it'll suggest that for fridges and places to look for dry ice for your freezers as well as amounts per unit time for each.
No kidding...I've not seen that.
An inverter and lawn equipment batteries can run a fridge longer than you'd expect, too.
We actually manufacture such inverters; of course, ice would be cheaper and something that anyone can navigate.
Comment I invented the ice box (Score 1) 226
In case this helps someone: We had a 7(?)-day outage after a large tree took down a power pole and its transformer. I tried filling the refrigerator with pots and pans full of locally bought ice. It worked and we didn't lose any food. I realized that I had re-invented the ice box.
