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  • Shotguns have a useful range of about 50 meters while these are short range, is that long enough?

  • Nobody today is not coming to my house. However the world has not always changed in ways I like. If the media companies want to make an example of somebody they might randomly pick me. If I have physical media they will not be able to convince the general public I'm a dishonest thief and so even though I might be legally in the wrong for ripping DVDs they will stay away: they are going to look for someone who they can make look like a dishonest thief in the court of public opinion. They are not looking to take me to court and win whatever damaged they are owned from my activity (it will cost them about 100 times as much $$$ in lawyers fees - they would probably win but it isn't worth it), what they would be looking for is to make an example in the news about how much someone loses and if I have physical media they instead look like jerks for enforcing a law on something that the generally public wouldn't even call a crime.

  • I store the discs because while ripping is of questional legallity by having the discs I have the morals right.

  • firefox works great. You don't need an app for everything.

  • Peertube exists. Use it.

    now I will admit that peertube is lacking content, but when you make something put it there. When you want something search there first and check out youtube last. This rewards those who publish there with your eyeballs

  • Many cities try that. However it is very hard to pull that off when you have two way traffic, and busy cross streets make it worth. Two way traffic often means one direction has no cars, but the other does because the distance between lights is not something in control of the traffic engineers. And cross traffic means you need to handle the whole grid at once.

  • An Ambulance is expensive anywhere in the world. The only question is how do you hide the expensive. Most of the cost is having several vehicle with trained personal sitting around doing nothing just waiting for someone in need. If there is ever a time when there is one vehicle not ready to go but doing nothing you don't have enough service for a potential worse disaster. Of course that means there is lots of room to hide the costs if you don't want to tell the truth - which many do not.

  • An ambulance is a truck, and handles like one, they won't be going as fast as a car on a two-lane mountain road - it isn't possible to keep it on the road with perfect driving at speeds a small car can go. (an ambulance could be made smaller, but that is at the expensive of equipment they have inside so not a great compromise.)

  • Road engineers are happy to design streets to encourage higher speeds than is safe as well.

  • I'm strictly reporting facts. How you feel about them is your decision. Though I suspect you didn't read everything I wrote if you come to that conlusion.

  • That was last quarter. You don't have to be very good at economics to look at world crop supplies, the age of the current farming equipment fleet, and other such data and conclude this next year will be tough for ag companies like Deere.

    Of course the above is nothing new - ag is a cyclical business, you see the above ever 5-10 years. Previous to the current CEO the last layoffs of this type of position was the mid 1980s - several other CEOs saw the same signs the current one does and were able to manage it without layoffs.

  • Sure, but they won't spread to the majority of the population in 100 years.

  • It is up to congress to stop that not the courts. He should be impeached if he tries that.

  • Only if rail has to compete with 'free' public roads. Private rail had a long history before cars. They were not always loved, but they worked.

  • Finding the replacement is what worries me.

    Well that and if the bed is going how is the frame

  • The bed is starting to rot off my 1999 truck, I'm not sure how or if I should repair it

  • So would I. Those in the military who are talking give me the impression they have done tests and while the results are classified (thus I don't know what the truth is) they have counter measures (which again are classified so I don't know what they might be)

  • Most of the planet was not accessable. It was there but your local population grew until the land couldn't support more. There wasn't much opportunity to move as the surronding villages had the same problem.

    of course when a famon came you got a few generations of peace here and there

  • For most of history you would be better off if you could kill the next village over. You want to be friends with the people in your village, but if you kill the next one you can expand your farm/hunting/gathering grounds and then leave it to your kids - while otherwise you won't have enough food for all the kids and your DNA is in danger of not getting passed on.

    In our modern world we mostly have plenty of food (and when we don't lack of land is not the issue), but that isn't what our DNA is evolved to "think"