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If this is void of telemetry, dial-home and other fascistic crap then I would seriously consider it. It's in a similar price range of street legal UTV's but with more room assuming it stays…
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I fed about 110 deer during this last winter. I wanted to put something reflective on them and the senior game warden said no. There is very little I am permitted to do for them. I am not even perm…
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Brake checking a semi seems like a classic FAFO situation. It absolutely is. There are many dash-cam videos truckers have uploaded to Youtube of people finding out .
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Are all the driverless kinks worked out? How well do these handle ice, snow squalls, loose gravel and dirt on the roads? Have people tested brake checking them in these conditions? Truckers have to…
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A flash board is interesting. How many browsers still support shockwave by default? Somewhere I still have an archive of SWF's from the early 00's. Most in my collection are probably too …
23 pts
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In the spirit of kicking the dead horse that is ground to dust at this point... the optimal solution is to require websites that either have adult content or user-generated content to add an RTA hea…
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I agree with the sentiment but it's tricky. Logically and technically it totally makes sense but it's expensive and companies look at cost, maintenance, accessibility. Above ground is easi…
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Jack in the Box announced plans Tuesday to close 150-200 underperforming stores as part of an aggressive financial plan called “JACK on Track.”
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What type of business is this for? While I am not a fan of it, I found most developers liked Slack. The general consensus I received when trying to switch to an internal chat system was "You ca…
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Is Linux under the control of the USA gov? Probably not? I could think of ways to hide the controls but the most likely targets would be Linux forks and firmware that run in cell phones, cars, appl…