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by awful 9y ago
A lot of groundwater in Michigan, but in that very place the groundwater meets surface, everywhere. It supplies vast areas of marshland and swamp and huge ecosystem that surrounds it. If you reduce the pressure by pumping aquifer and ground
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by awful 9y ago
I have. Lived exactly there as a kid. Swam, fished, drank it. Had a fort with running water from an artesian well. This water everyone thinks should just be pumped supports vast areas of flora and fauna and wetlands, feeds the great rivers
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by awful 9y ago
In fact water may become scarce there, by relative vs absolute measures. The area depends on water to supply the massive natural streams and rivers and lakes and marshlands. These waters flow all the way to the Great Lakes and help keep tho
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by awful 9y ago
So add another switch before this switch, inside the house maybe, so you can switch it on or off. I read (some) of the FPL rules about this and nowhere did it say you cannot do this, it simply says so that the electrical workers can shut it
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by awful 9y ago
There are historic, sane, reasons people are "forced" to connect to the grid, especially in Florida.
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by awful 9y ago
Florida has/had historically issues with power, especially as populations rose; the utilities were only willing to build generators if they could be guaranteed recovery. All this wasn't just about homes, but the power needs of th
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by awful 9y ago
Prevention costs far less than remediation. But the future business opportunities; can no longer sell you big cars, big homes, large tracts of land, but we can sell you clean air, clean water, and keeping the water out of your domicile. Her
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by awful 9y ago
The government didn't prop up a corrupt company as inevitable, it held up a company because many working-class human lives were tragically intertwined with its veracity. And all that can be corrected, absolutely, for the future. I can
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by awful 9y ago
About 45 years ago from TC, before they redid the lakefront area (? wasn't there a concrete/gravel plant? or was that Charlevoix), I found so many I couldn't carry them home. Is it still that way? Also, back when Consumer&#x2
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by awful 9y ago
Haha. RS customer since the early 1970s, I'm sitting on my recently refurb'ed thrift store Mach One speakers. I'm hoping you are right.
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by awful 9y ago
That is probably true. I hired in for Christmas at RS while at junior college as sales person, around 1980. My experience was, at the time, 6800 machine programming and electronics but not C/S or operating systems. They gave us little
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by awful 10y ago
My experience is: they use cheap, tiny bi-metals in several places in fridge, which fail in no time at all, instead of a real relay/timer. This is a cost reduction of maybe a few dollars - for them this means a lot of money because of
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by awful 10y ago
Your characterizing of the net is disingenuous. The net never had the dollar or technical pressures it has today; television, streaming, large traffic, advertising dollars. Just because you don't see the regulatory problems doesn'
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by awful 10y ago
Im not sure of your context; but yes an electromagnet is a non-starter here from the get go; dealing with all the mass and power issues, bad spacey thermodynamics.
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by awful 10y ago
Research NMR magnets the size of several refrigerators already exceed 8-10T; they are superconducting and could after initial run up likely run for years with no power at all. They drift down over time but it likely not be a show stopper, a
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by awful 10y ago
Still have mine but dead, for now; infamous for ribbon keyboard decay, and the Ferranti chip may have died, also an infamous component. But both the earlier kit and the assembled computer made us start thinking about what to do, what can be
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by awful 10y ago
somewhat related, cant comment on cost yet, but house has code-std lighted stairwell switches; when used with fluor. bulb noticed in dark it flickered continuously. appears that neons in switch leak current through bulb all the time, but no
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by awful 10y ago
Or, maybe our Zyra.
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by awful 10y ago
So, I ask you kindly, where is the tradeoff? 7 hours/day? And what if most decided that that was the norm, and maybe and as competitive forces corrected your wage would rise to match current (or oppositely prices fall to meet less fre
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by awful 10y ago
I like Bill Nye, but I think he misses opportunities, learning moments for his opponents on the topics of climate/evolution/whatever, watching both the Ham debate and the recent visit to Noahs Ark-ville. For example, when Ham aske
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by awful 10y ago
I worked for well over a decade in a US +100y.o. global research company, who famously kept everyone working during the depression. Famously, 8 hour work days with summer work hours reduced to roughly 7.x hours because the founder respected
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by awful 10y ago
No, I have been to many places in Europe and was amazed at the places they did go; schoolkids into the Alps for their skiing lessons, for example. I meant here in the US where bus service is mostly an urban experience, as well as undergroun
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by awful 10y ago
I can't add anything profound, but I will say that 40+ years ago I camped at Disney's Ft. Wilderness campground, with all my many brothers and sisters. The electric trams had a routine schedule that came around and stopped almost
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by awful 10y ago
I mentioned it below, but the Federal Government's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the CFPB, has been very helpful to me in the past with PayPal. http://www.consumerfinance.gov/
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by awful 10y ago
Also, depending on the problem, a complaint to the Federal Government's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the CFPB, can be highly influential. I had an issue with PayPal and got a direct response from the CFO who cleared up the iss
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by awful 10y ago
Government is supposed to be for the people by the people, and protect our common shared interests, as you say, such as resources (public trust, inherited from very old common law). This is the very angle the kids are coming from; and I sug
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by awful 10y ago
The Public Trust Doctrine describes the issue. But it must be recognized that the Government comprises and represents us , otherwise there may be a problem understanding their authority, to act in our name. https://en.wikipedia.
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by awful 10y ago
"Burroughs Machines: Implementation: A series of minicomputers" This is misleading; these were often very well regarded military grade and size, 48/51 bit stack based machines, hundreds of disk spindles and massive I/O,
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by awful 10y ago
Haven't followed CPU arch in a very long time so my memory may fail, but the B7700 (1977) based on B5000 (1961) architecture demonstrated what you say on an industrial scale. The machine read in a long 48 bit string of opcodes, mapping
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by awful 11y ago
I, as well. I decided to go with the Fedora with Cinnamon on a 6-core AMD. I use my unix systems everyday, all day, going back to the Sun, SGIs, E&S, and even Amiga days. Everything from small development, to keeping recipes, video, aud

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