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Okay, I don't intend this to be for debate on the merits. No politics please, that's why I didn't post it there. I'm just interested in how much everyone else thinks they will be affected by the seemingly inevitable plunge. I get paid monthly. Between the expiration of the payroll tax and the...

I originally posted this elsewhere, but figured it might get more attention here. Speaking of relays - here is a question for power experts. As you may or may not know, I am about as far from a relay expert as it gets. Is there some rule for where you should set the minimum pickup on a type 51...

Yeah, I suspect this will somehow take a prurient turn at some time, but anyway, I'm going to start off in with something mundane. I recently bought a web cam for my computer and was amazed at how cheap and good it was. But the thing that amazed me most was how easy it was to install and...

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I’m teaching my kid to drive and it’s terrifying. He’s 18, a little older than the normal age kids get their license. He had a habit of, shall we say, opting out of class occasionally and I figured it would just be worse with a car. So I wanted to get him through high school at least. I got...

I haven't read the book he's talking about, but this is pretty entertaining - http://www.slate.com/id/2273611/ Not sure Jagger actually wrote it, but it's fun to read.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/reporte...gzPuJzWh1Ug6suK First of all let me just say that from this angle, Wow. Second- the owner they sent to talk to her was "Woody Johnson"? You can't make this stuff up.

This chart shows the daily wind generation fed into the systenm operator in California. We're supposed to have around 2,000 MW of capciity bu tI've got to guess that assumes optimal wind conditions because we sure aren't generating anywhere near that much today, and we could use it...

I used to love fruit pies, but I always got Scooter Pies. Those things were like hockey pucks. Are those too ancient for other people to remember? I also remember loving my Bonanza lunchbox, until I got teased mercilessly about it and started bringing a bag which was apparently cool. I know...

Anyone ever tried this thing? It's sort of cool - a data mining game or something. You think of a person or character, real or imaginary, and it guesses it. http://us.akinator.com/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_on_..._sex_allegation The planet has a fever. FWIW, sounds like BS to me, but I'm surprised this is the first I heard of it.

I'm surprised nobody around here has talked much about the oil spill. Anybody know anybody involved in the spill or the clean up? Anybody looking at some fatty money from a lawsuit? Or did I just miss another thread?

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-1...t-update1-.html Fatty money, without a PE.

http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/201...-on-power-line/ Some people claim this can't happen. They claim urine isn't a continuous stream. But what about the telltale marks? Maybe an arc flash?

Ran across this little snippet in a Cal Energy publication, and it reminded me of some of the old wind power discussions on EB - "More Wind Means More Expensive Peakers, Study Finds As intermittent energy such as wind spreads, the grid will need to rely on more-expensive thermal generation...

I don't know if there are any PC gamers out there. I'm not, but my kid is. I want to upgrade our video card for Empire Total War. Between the NVIDIA 9800 GT and GTS240 - will they both play the game reasonably well?

Who's got their tree? We're getting ours next week, a real one. Do you go all out? My wife is a Christmas nut. We have about 1/5 of our lights up and I'm already sweating the electric bill. I'm sure my carbon footprint will triple this month. Actually, it's funny. There is a power plant...

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/c...?nclick_check=1 "The board also will consider for the first time the possibility of charging more for undergraduate business and engineering students, much as it does for graduate students in those fields. Undergraduates in those departments would...

What do you think about the purported relationship between chess skills and math skills? I think it is overblown myself. I think they are both things that require logic, strategy, and concentration, but I don't think there is a big correlation. I used to play a lot in high school but was...

This is pretty bad - they are going to close all admissions to Cal State Schools - http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/71673.html A lot of kids count on these schools and more will if they also cut admissions to UC schools. I work for the state, and they currently have three furlough...