Side effect from the LNG hit. Clever method, I knew Nat Gas had helium in it and I guess they cool it a bit more to get helium separated out during the cooling of the nat gas to go liquid. US still in the LNG biz, so I imagine they are also doing a helium extraction. As slashbotagent says, prices about to sky rocket. Great, another memory price increase incoming.

Thanks for mentioning that. Here is a reference explaining it. https://www.afpm.org/newsroom/...

Citation? I'm not seeing that number. https://lowcarbonpower.org/reg... says 25% Nat Gas and https://www.energy.ca.gov/data... says 34% Nat Gas. Figures are a bit tricky for Cal, it imports around 19% of total usage.

I'm sure they will immediately send her payment. /sarcasm

I hope she opts to sue the pants off of them. Unfortunately, likely not, as the lawyer would cost more than the settlement even if she prevails.

GFiber has done the trenching in my neighborhood but not the actual buildout. I've heard usually 6 months. ATT has been steadily raising prices to the point I was going to dump them when GFiber was available. Now what? I was hoping to get the base GFiber speed which I thought had not changed price for quite some time and google sort of pinky swear'ed they'd hold the price. I am one of those rare people who have had a T-Mo cell plan that really has stayed price locked for 20 years. It was guaranteed at the time I signed up and true to their word, they have not changed it. They've tried to get me to switch to other plans, but as one guy in one of their stores said, never switch, and I've no intention to.

Can't say I'm that surprised about google dumping it. Google likes high margin stuff and I doubt being an ISP qualifies. I was surprised they even got in the biz. I guess snooping packets wasn't as valuable as they thought it was going to be.

That could end up being a problem for Apple. If the neo has high sales, to a largely illiterate audience, that then swamps the stores for help. Its a problem. Low margin is not going to pay for the support and will show up as either Apple support has gotten worse (bad for Apple's image) or profits because Apple had to hire more support staff without supporting profit from the neo sales.

This sounds like a non-trivial case with some big bucks. I'd bet his lawyers told him repeatedly, discuss this with no one. Anyone outside of the lawyer is NOT attorney/client privileged. And so what does the fool do? Talks to a chatbot that everyone knows shares. Right there in the ToS. I've had a few peanuts cases compared to this and even I was told speak to no one.

Loose lips sink ships or in this case, his case.

Insurance like that is usually only liability. Collision/comprehensive will be more.

Cost saving from what I understand. Looking a bit stupid in retrospect. A friend of a friend raced a nice sailboat in the 80's that had a system. A roommate in college had a plane with lots of cool radios/navigation stuff. GPS has probably obsoleted many of those systems too, like I think it was called VOR's.

is going to be high I expect. A repair is going to be insanely expensive.

He certainly won't get what he deserves, but the R's may grow a spine after the Nov elections if it is a landslide and actually convict him in the senate this go round for fear of whoever is left will get the can in 2028. Remember only 1/3 of the senate goes up every 2 years for election.

But as you say, it will be the rest of us to pick up the pieces from this madman. It will take decades if ever for the US to claim back what was lost by this loon. My expectation is never again will the world trust us as before, never.

I'm thinking the orange one may have finally bit off more than he can chew with Iran though. I expect dramatic rise in gas prices which will push up all transportation and manufacturing costs causing a pretty big inflation spike in the run up to the election. And yes, I believe Iran is going to be a problem for months/years. How can we forget how long Iraq/Afghanistan took? And Iran has a much bigger military than either of those had. And then we have the Russia thing where Ukraine was going down in a week? Seems like I've heard trump mutter the same about Iran. And well we are at the end of week one. Anyone believe it is over? And now the madman has started about invading Cuba. He is mad with power, absolutely insane.

Nah, solution is really simple. Judge (I know I am dreaming here) puts order out that refunds are to start on Monday, and must process a minimum of 5B of refunds per biz day until all refunds processed. Failure to meet refund speed results in Donnie being sent to Reikers until they catch up on the refunds. I imagine they'd finish all the refunds ahead of schedule if it were possible to jail the clown over it.

Might be weird, but only explanation is some sort of shielding effect from the shingles. Problem was only present when the bundle was transported. The car is a wagon, and bundle was near the left rear tire area.

I think I have multiple antennas. I put a bundle of shingles in the back of mine and suddenly the left back tire came up not reading. At first a bit of panic as the car assumes it is flat. It was fine. Get home, take shingles out, car sees left back again. Who knew shingles were a good rf signal blocker. Another reason I think I have multiple is the first set of tpms laster 12 years and were still good. So they were picking up a pretty weak signal by that point. I figured I'd replace with the latest tire set since I'd not want to pull the tires just to replace tpms.