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The comparison between tethers and an aircraft carrier catch cable seems particularly apt. Thanks you. And yes, most times, you can initiate a go around if you fail a carrier landing. Not really an option with an orbital tether. Some sort of cable pair with a targeted coupler would probably work, each side with a heat emitter an heat seeker RCS system. Obviously, there would need to be slack in the system, (nearly local) winches a ways up-cable in the system, may be an answer.

One would hope so. Considering the timing relative to the IA's potentially very expensive legal battle, I full expect this to be the case. Still, considering CF's anti-privacy/anti-TOR stance this is a deal with the devil. Guess I should give money directly to the IA. Considering how much value they provide, I'll do this immediately after updating this post.

Please clarify. I thought all those captcha puzzles were coming from Cloudflare. Are you saying they are only enabled if the destination page has JS?

> One of the madder things I've seen this year

There are still three and a half months to go in 2020. Things could get strange.

Maybe the trickling in of mail-in ballots will soften the blow.

> Stallman.

Not sure what to make of this. Is this a reference to his tarnished sainthood or that the modern web has largely ignored his sage advice? Or something else?

Or like a funnel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet

> ...if someone cares to do even the bare minimum of research...

Aye, there's the rub.

Or the current president might place them as the head of Health and Human Services.

Sure, there are good applications of opiates. However, from my understanding, the $10.8B number is the amount that the court has ordered, i.e. the "blood money" and punitive amount, not the total profit.

Solar thermal has a larger footprint, considering turbines and such, but would tend to be more easily recyclable out of the waste stream.

ASCII is eternal

Suckling pig, also Cornish game hen, which is not a game bird and is equally likely to be a cockerel as a pullet. Technically, a female chicken is not known as a hen until it begins laying eggs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_game_hen

An important part of any backup strategy is testing your backups on a regular basis. Perhaps it could even be automated...

Offline backups have been a thing for decades. Why is this not standard practice? Especially for a technology company like Garmin. It can't be about cost savings, businesses still pay for insurance and security systems. For that matter, offsite backups should also be saved in case of fires, floods, tornadoes, theft, etc...

The Tenth Amendment would seem to agree with you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

From the article: "I have sprayed PVA before in college, but I didn’t have much success then either."

I have had good success with PVA, there is a trick to it. The initial sprayed coat should be applied very light and thin, such that the PVA is very nearly dry when it reaches the surface. Allow this coat to dry completely, then apply heavier second coat to fully wet out the surface. The thin, dry tack coat anchors the PVA and helps it to wet the surface, rather than beading up on your polished and waxed mold surface.

Brush application is very difficult. A sponge brush is a good choice for PVA application, dab rather than using a sweeping motion. You'll want to do this in a single coat, any attempt to brush or dab a second coat will cause the first coat to wrinkle, roll and/or rope.

Edit for clarification.

Certainly in perception. In the Unix philosophy, interoperability is central to the function of the program. It seems to me that apps only have this added as a secondary function, if at all. You can't easily fork an email stream so that part of your incoming mail goes to Outlook and part to Gmail, say based on subject or sender.

This article misses a big part of the Unix philosophy. Modularity and extensibility are just as important as do only one thing and do it well. Unix works because a lot of small programs can be chained (piped) together to interoperate. Apps often don't do this very well or at all.

Likely more misattributed quotes go to Mark Twain than any other person to ever exist.

Examples: https://newengland.com/today/living/humor/mark-twain-didnt-s...

Do you have any actual numbers to back these claims up?

> Because you can't choose when the sun shines and when the wind blows.

This is a terrible argument. There is always some place on the grid where the wind is blowing and (during the day) the sun is shining.

You should see what the QRSS guys are doing down in the noise floor.

Several years ago, Sam Adams had a TV ad about their high sided cardboard six pack boxes, and how they protected the beer from light. I expect the all-around labelling would work even better.

> Theres literally no where to put you money now.

Philanthropy always has room.

Very likely, yes. However, it is much less debilitating to get a shot every three months.

> Let me know when you figure out a better way to put a price on the risk of loaning money.

Collateral.

It's primarily the ultraviolet in sunlight that is damaging. Stores use flourescent lighting in this part of the world, which still emits a fair amount of UV, damaging the product sitting on a shelf. This is why beer in green bottles often picks up a "skunky" flavor; green glass doesn't block UV as well as brown and the UV reacts with the hop flavinoid molecules, changing the flavor.

It seems the problem isn't the tracking, but the secrecy.

> I cannot build something cheaper, or make it more effective than a commercially available product.

Not sure what you are looking to do, but there are plenty of inexpensive radio designs. Consider the Pixie or the SMT version, the Knight SMiTe, either can be built very cheaply.

Onr could also put an amplifier on inexpensive IMS chips for really inexpensive radio projects.

A Raspberry Pi Zero can be bitbanged into a transciever using PWM and SDR and can operate pretty much any mode. It's a very noisy, low power output signal and will need filtering and amplification. Still better than a spark gap transmitter, the ultimate low cost radio.

For cheap recievers, look into foxhole radio designs.