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That would be a heck of a fun thing to build. Seems to require a heat gun though, which puts it out of my reach for now.

It's good to go into radio with an idea of what you want to do with it, then find a community of hams who enjoy doing that. People chase distant contacts, they practice emergency communications, they run low-power stations from remote locations, and many more kinds of activities.

Mike - KE8ATC

> Aerodynamic stalls are something you learn in your first ten hours of training as a private pilot...

In fact the CFI who taught my introductory flight demonstrated a stall and recovery.

No container is perfect and a slow leak of evaporated gasoline into the enclosed space of your trunk is a fire waiting to happen.

> Perfectly fixable items are going in the trash

Which results in the refrigerant being released anyway once the item deteriorates enough.

Why do you value that over your individuality?

> Police officials say she had arrived at the complex after working a full shift and was still in full uniform when she entered the victim's apartment, thinking it was her home.

> "It was, like, police talk: 'Open up! Open up!'" 20-year-old Caitlin Simpson said.

Something doesn't add up here.

It isn't illegal to be hated, at least not yet. You seem awfully eager to coerce your neighbors into behaving in a way consistent with your personal values.

It's altogether worse than that because at the very least most city dwellers are being taxed to support these transit services. They can't exactly opt out of supporting it.

They still had a person in the car who was supposed to be operating, in effect, as an emergency braking system.

The devil is in the details, so they say, but what you describe is not negligence. They didn't disable a safety feature and do nothing, they replaced a safety feature with something else. You'd need to make the case that this something else was somehow deficient in some material way and management shipped this feature knowing it was materially deficient for this to be negligence.

Why don't we instead start with the individual who was supposed to be monitoring the road and the vehicle's systems? It's well known at this point that they in fact were negligent in their duty.

> it can’t possibly cost anywhere near $10k per subscriber to build out fiber normally, even in small cities, can it?

I don't know, because I don't possess any expertise in the matter. What I do have is a history of watching public works projects budgets balloon completely out of control. It seems far more likely, given history, that this estimate is low.

> A much simpler (and more plausible) solution to chapium's problem is simply getting rid of the electoral college.

Which would then require that a candidate only pander to an even smaller number of densely populated cities.

It would be far better to revoke much of the power of the central government rather than to try and debug our way through to a mythical process by which all individual interests are considered. Because, in the end, minority interests will always be cast aside once the election is over anyway.

Which makes for a pretty compelling reason as to why Charter hasn't done it themselves.

> In 5-10 years we may have a 300 person 1 hr transport from sydney to New York by way of the BFR.

Is your average human's health and safety really compatible with the acceleration required for ballistic travel?