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This article is a little misleading and makes vague allusions to water getting shipped from the great lakes to places like California but the agreement we have with Canada prohibits sending the water …

US is far to lax when it comes to cars/driving, just take the car and or licence of repeat offenders, make them earn it back. My neighbor was recently complaining to me about how it was unfair th…

The act is not why one becomes a writer, it is the result and the sharing of that result, communication. He complains about one extreme and then swings to the opposite fence and starts talking about n…

They are not difficult to tune and they do tune them but they are used like any other fixed pitch instrument in Indian music, the more easily tuned instruments tune to the more difficult to tune instr…

Anyways is in the OED with its first recorded usage being in 1560, but it does have this use as any ways, we have to wait until 1784 for it to become a the single word anyways. This use is differe…

It is really great and always where you need it. The shutter on these things is amazing and solves all problems with leaf shutters, filth has little effect on it and even if it gets dirty enough to in…

I love rangefinder cameras and have owned and used quite a few over the years including the C44. My favorite will remain the odd little Mercury II [0] with its movie camera style shutter and half fram…

That is a fairly amazing tongue. Had a flicker in the yard the other day but did not get to see that tongue, will have to watch for it in the future.

No, it is just the 5,953 time that same discussion has happened so it was kicked off the front page, keeps the site from going stagnant and devolving into having the same threads over and over.

So where did the creator come from? Why does the creator of our universe have to be bound by our universe? Being creator suggests there is more which materialism does not rule out, just says that the …

Materialism allows for a creator and spirits and ghosts and fairies, it just says that if they exist they are not supernatural, just natural.

I would expect most transport emissions (and costs to the individual) are local, within their city not within their country? Does this actually accomplish much beyond bragging rights and a slight bump…

Because when they do an open house everyone will know who the agent is?

So the agent who lists the property can not attach their identity to the sale? What about independent agents? should they be banned from using their name as their company name? You have yet to demonst…

No. Do you think agents should be race free (what ever that would be) or something? Why would having another language on an ad be racist? that is just increasing the perspective buyers and language is…

I want to like e-readers but they all are lacking for me, at least on my last look. Is there one that will allow me to double space a book and annotate it between the lines and switch the double spaci…

The full version of the essay might be better but this version seems to be exploiting Calvino and relying on a great many short out of context quotes to lend credence to the authors essay. At least fr…

This is the first AI project to actually give me pause and envision a world spiraling out of control. This is asking AI how we should think and if it were to catch on gives a rather terrifying amount …

Academics do not dictate what is and is not a word, usage does and it is generally difficult to find historical usage for recent words. Edit: mistook what you meant by "academically desperate&quo…

tldr: Nothing is changed by the bill but it will make a fine feather to stick in their election day hats.

Those digits are fairly important to EEs. Common switch mode power supplies are not picky about input voltages and generally have a wide range of operating voltages, having the switch on 230 likely ju…

I keep seeing this and reports of decreased sexual drive and I always notice one environmental factor lacking from the studies, population. I go out to more rural areas and can't help but notice …

I agree with him that worrying about it is not going to help but I think the issue is more about the way most wake up, most interrupt their sleep with an alarm. Threw away my alarm clock 20 odd years …

That is an odd layout*, is the schematic online somewhere? Since this is older gear, it is probably a 6.3V transformer, 6.3 and 12.6 volt transformers were some of the most common and cheapest voltage…

I found Never Let Me Go to be rather blunt and somewhat heavy handed, the overall premise was just a bit to black and white and it raised no conflict in me. He does use it well and is quite good on th…

Could also be simple pragmatics or the economy of scale. If your business makes both 5V and 6.2V devices it could be a decent cost saving to make them both use 6.2V adapters, unless production number …

That is probably because I did not make an argument, as I plainly stated, I am conflicted. If you had to pull an argument out of this it would be that in a capitalist system there are times when it is…

I am conflicted on disclosure of such things. I developed a soy allergy back when some soy products did not have to be listed in food or could be listed in various creative ways, result was that I ate…

It could also be that some of the circuit needs a higher voltage, just because some parts are 5V does not mean they all are.