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As someone who grew up without Super Soakers, and saw them hit the market, yes, it was a very novel product. Fundamentally, individual elements existed in other products already, but the actual product was most definitely a leap in squirt gun tech (e.g. pneumatic water/air rockets).

The biggest innovation I recall in squirt guns was using a battery-powered pump to create a fairly pathetic, but "automatic" stream. And how long were squirt guns around before then?

I know nothing about this site, but I went on a cruise with some friends several years back. The cruise itself was, by far, the least expensive part of the entire trip. Flying to Miami was probably the greatest expense.

If you do the cruise the way the cruise company wants you to, you'll be blowing money in the casino and (especially) on alcohol. The group I was with was composed of particularly ingenious tightwads, so we found out exactly how much water you're allowed to bring (2L per person, or something similar), bought appropriate water bottles, filled them with vodka from Costco, and each took our allowed bottle of wine.

In general, I found the whole thing to be fairly dull, since I don't care for gambling or hanging out at the pool, but it was relaxing, and a great way to get a quick view of several areas in a short time. In my case, we hit Key West, somewhere else I forget, and Cozumel.

The movie had some satirical elements, but regardless, it was mostly just crap. This is just revisionist hipsterism, just like the script writer of Far Cry 3 claiming it was all satire of "tropes" after it caught some flak.

And take steroids.

> The real failure here is that you shouldn't be able to move the drive links out of the drive folder, since semantically that does not actually move the files.

Or stop trying to force a connection between Google Drive's file view and Google Docs.

Move the links out of GDrive all you want, it should have no effect whatsoever on the hosted GDocs. They're just links, after all. Since when does moving or deleting a link delete actual data?

Someone at Google tried to force a connection that doesn't even make sense, and this is the result. Whoever decided that moving a link out of a folder should delete the hosted document should be fired.

You're a massive douche.

The solution is simple, but initially shocking to most: corporations should not pay income tax.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-poli...

I agree. It's link-bait, battling the other link-bait about how Java is dying and { x, y, z } is the #1 language, will dominate any day now, and anyone not coding in it is inferior.

Unfortunately, as technology has matured, it has become just as politicized and petty as anything mainstream. Countless people make their reputation and/or income writing blog posts and churned articles, living in the tech periphery like leeches, without creating any actual value. I think this is part of why I have so much nostalgia for the 80's and 90's.

Code in whatever makes your life least painful, and learn whatever's in demand for your desired career path.

>....with the aim of compensating for an understaffed police department...

When I left Oakland in 2009, I was throwing away one of the free, local papers when something caught my eye. It was a short article stating that the Oakland PD truancy rate was, I believe, 37%. So, a significant portion of Oakland PD don't show up for their shifts. Perhaps there is a legitimate reason for this. Unfortunately, every time I try to dig up this statistic, I just get results regarding student truancy efforts by Oakland PD.

Also, in 2008, Oakland PD blew $15,000 on, I believe, Screamin' Eagle exhausts for their police Harleys. After complaints of hearing loss, they took the pipes back off, then spent $1,200 on a 'study' to test whether they increased safety (they didn't), caused hearing damage (they do), and complied with noise standards (they blatantly violate Federal noise laws, and OPD doesn't care). The article I'm looking at is unclear as to whether or not the $15k was in addition to the initial cost of $500 per bike, from before the hearing complaints, removal, study, and re-installation.

I miss a lot of things about Oakland, but Oakland PD's antics are not among them. I don't blame people one bit for wanting private security.

Use 500mcg pills. It only takes around 300mcg to get the full effects of melatonin. Once you reach around 1mg, your body will quickly adapt and it will lose effectiveness.

I used 300mcg for months and months, slept better, had vivid dreams, and the effect didn't change. I switched to 500mcg pills from Trader Joe's only because the 300mcg pills stopped being carried locally.

Source: an in-depth article I read years ago that I can never seem to find.