America would have done the same a long time ago if it weren't for the zinc lobby. ðY'

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Wut? Cricket is just AT&T rebranded and AT&T gives all your data to the spooks, so WTF would you use them?

The video also shows a number of bags with the bicycle so she may have been walking with it. Also, some of the bags are black trash bags, which may have contributed to the failure of the sensors (and human) to observe in time.

Yes, they do.
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Link the product registration of the new MacBook Pros so that each one can be associated with one iPhone/iPad (that uses Lightning)/iPad Pro serial number, and/or one MacBook Pro model serial number that has an SD Card slot. If you register your new MacBook Pro with a linked Lightning-using iDevice, you get the USB-C to Lightning dongle at no charge. If you register your new MacBook Pro with an older MacBook with an SD Card slot's serial number, you get a USB-C to SD Card dongle at no charge. Demonstrates Apple listens, and Apple cares about loyal customers who bought into its ecosystem.

The difference is though, Muslim nations allowed freedom of religion long before Western nations even knew what that meant.

If you are speaking of the Caliphate, the largest and most influential Islamic power during that period, then it wasn't freedom of religion in any sense as we know it today. It was freedom of religion as long as you accepted literal, formal, socioeconomic second-class citizen status. This was still better than say, being burned at the stake, and it was certainly enlightened by the standards of that time period, but I want readers to fully understand the context.

Gmail has never been free, it is paid for by advertising.

Inverters are typically warranted for 10-15 years, with the majority of the market's volume in the 10-12 year range. Enphase has a very controversial 25 year limited warranty on some of their inverters; user reports are all over the map on these units and the warranty claims service, so I wouldn't take them as any indication of what to expect on inverter life expectancies. Get rid of or mitigate the load handled by inverters in your solar power system design, and your inverter component cost goes down, but that is offset by the lack of selection in DC-based devices and for larger setups, the complexity of a safer DC power distribution design; there is no free lunch here going to straight DC, unfortunately. Definitely do not make your inverter installation permanent or even semi-permanent; it must be easily serviceable and removable.

I remember as a very young kid in the 70's hearing about the Lunar Laser Ranging experiment and wondering how they managed to aim and point the laser correctly and get it to return properly and all that. It still blows my mind today when I understand much more than I did back then, when I delve into even a cursory overview of the techniques the ongoing experiment uses to aim, point, and collect the photons to generate the experimental results.

If Tilak Mandadi (LinkedIn profile not updated yet to reflect his Disney CIO/Parks position) did not actually orchestrate the restructuring himself (perhaps he was instructed from further up the executive chain), then he certainly did himself no favors by how he executed it (at least the announcement if not the actual restructuring logistics itself), oversaw the execution of it, and responded to it. If he's being muzzled by Disney from getting out in front of this story now with some spin control, then it is possible Disney has done so to keep him in their back pocket to throw under the bus if the legal and/or financial blow back from the story gets too hot.

So even if you see a "direct the termination of the executive responsible", it is entirely possible that the real architect(s) of the in-all-but-name layoff remain untouched, and you are only seeing the sacking of a scapegoat, even if they have a "CIO" in their title (he's CIO of a large division, but not over all of Disney). If instead something happened along the lines of Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and HCL America (the contractors identified in the story) get their H1-B allotments catastrophically cut back (like 75-80%) with a maximum absolute cap set to the cut back level based on the 2014 allotment, for 7 years, then you would see very extreme avoidance of these kinds of restructurings in the future. Even if the H1-B program continues to exist, and even if American companies solicit for this kind of restructuring, there isn't a sales manager in the world who would allow that kind of deal through. Also effective would be to change the H1-B legislation so allotments become a granted privilege served at the pleasure of politics, not a protected right enjoying contractual legal protection, to nullify legal challenges to allotment changes, and let the executive (agency or President) or legislative branches alter the allotments by company. This would give the contracting companies a much greater incentive to solicit for more creatively value-added business, rather than extractive displacement-heavy business, as the political optics for any displacements (real or perceived) are just too much of a headache to deal with.

What I haven't seen commented upon is the combined form factor and upgradeable, maximum RAM capacity.

There isn't another laptop I'm aware of on the current market with similar physical dimensions and is upgradeable to 32 GB RAM. For those who run VMs on the road and want to cram as much as possible into a small footprint, the Librem is a unique solution in more ways than the free software/hardware aspects. It could be more free with respect to the BIOS, but incremental baby steps will get us there; we first need to convince manufacturers a viable market for freedom-oriented products exists.

The numbers work out for habitat-stealing if interstellar travel involved some quirk of technology that made dropping back into a gravity well somehow attractive at the end of the trip.

From what we can extrapolate given our current rudimentary state of technology, we think that if you can work out interstellar travel, then Iain Banks' popularized Culture series take on the matter is probably correct: that is, interstellar travel necessarily solves space habitat issues as a precondition. And once you have an interstellar-travel-grade space habitat, it is only the eccentrics who want to drop back down a gravity well.

The school could have stepped in and said they have informally allowed it (thus graciously letting this guy off the hook), but now that it has become a big deal, they'll print up $30 per year tags to hang on the rear view mirror that gives parents the right to charge during school operating hours. Win for the school: they get to tap a small revenue source (but every little bit helps), and get to look progressive with parents that have the disposable income to choose EV's. Win for the parents: they get to top off during school events that they attend.

Are you talking about something like a bench top supply, or just a high quality AC wall wart adapter replacement? If the former, sure they'll supply clean power for the price, but if the latter, please post some brands that you have had good experience with over the years. These days if I'm lazy I'll just order one from adafruit, or just grab the first switching wall wart adapter that meets my specs from mouser or digikey; are there specific brands that are known for high quality, reliability, and durability?

I really care. As a heterodox opinion, backed by some color commentary that feels familiar to me, I'd like to see more details, please.