You think this is the first time the deep space network has had upgrades/repairs done in which contact with Voyager 1 and 2 were lost? In 2020 there was a 7 month period that communications with the Voyager probes was not possible because of upgrades. Some of those dishes are very old and need to be replaced. Or they need to go offline for repairs. People in every spectrum of politics complain about how NASA money should be used for the military, feeding the poor, reparations, free education, etc. and so on.

Except you will know when you fill the tank. You are physically pumping gasoline or diesel into the fuel tank, You know how big the tank is and how much you are adding. If things aren't matching up it's pretty damn easy to figure it out.

When it comes to a battery you're adding kilowatts. This isn't a simple volume and people will attribute decreased range to battery wear, temperature, running the heat, or any number of things.. All the information, such as range, how much charge, etc isn't something you can physically measure. It's calculated by the onboard systems in the car and you are mostly stuck with the values they give you.

I thought we were talking EV vs. ICE and degrading the distance over time. Anyone who purchases a car knowing the size of the fuel tank upfront and discovering it isn't matching up with what they're adding to it should be going to the dealership with some serious questions.

Except one would be easy to check because it would require physical alterations. The other would be done in software which could potentially be protected under DRM. Not to mention the cost of figuring it out to begin with.

There's actually two of them, not including the multiple decoy AF1's, and they have been in service for 35 years at this point.

Mass shootings are overwhelmingly gang related. Mental illness is the biggest factor outside of gangs. Domestic disagreements cause a lot of mass shootings too. Politically motivated shootings are a very small percentage in reality.

Has there been a lot of advancement in microwave data transmission? I've worked at hospitals that used this years ago and it was less than reliable. Rain would cause degradation and heavy rain would shut it down. Flocks of birds also caused issues from time to time.

At 90ish miles between PHL and ERW, you'd need multiple relays which are just additional points of failure for an already unreliable system.

I believe ATC already has the radar set up at ERW. The problem is the controllers are in PHL. You need the radar to be at the specific airport. After all, PHL already has it's own radar.

I'd like to know how resistant non-mechanical systems will be with regards to flooding. Flooding has gotten a lot more common since I was in NYC. But it occurred from time to time. During hurricane Sandy a good chunk of the system was flooded with saltwater. Something tells me the older systems would fair better than anything modern.

I didn't say there were none, I said virtually none.

Greece has less than 150 bears, Spain and Italy less than 100 and France less than 20. Not that they are as big a predator for boar as wolves.

Spain and Italy have estimated wolf populations of 3K each. France has 1100, and Germany less than 300.

Wild hogs start breeding before they are a year old and have 2 litters per year. Each litter can be from 4 to a dozen in size.

Germany has around 8 million wild boar and growing. France population of wild boar is estimated between 1.5 million and over 2 million and growing. Spain is similar to France. Portugal has under half a million, but the population is growing there as well. Greece went from 100K three years ago to quadruple that now.

European bears and wolves should spend more time hunting wild pigs than disagreeing with me on /.

Yes, and the boar could speak Greek as well. I mean, they're pretty smart, but I'm pretty sure they don't talk.

Sure as long as they stay livestock. Just look at the wild boar issue in Texas to see how that can become problematic. Pigs can and will eat just about anything, breed quickly, and are fairly smart.

Plus they don't really have a lot of natural predators in many countries. Wolves and mountain lions are 2 of the 3 predators in the US that can take on an adult hog. But their numbers are too few to make a dent. Bears being the other. But boars can live in places bears don't do well. The UK has no predators that can take down an adult hog. There's virtually no predators in the western EU that can take down a wild boar either.

Corvettes were premiered in 1953 and have had fiberglass bodies for every generation. Unless wrecked or physically damaged, delamination has never been an issue. The steel parts have always deteriorated long before the body panels.

You're mixing up plastic with composites. As long as composites are UV shielded they don't become brittle like plastic. Some early carbon fiber cars did have issues with warping and showing visible waves. But those were typically sandwiched with aluminum honeycomb to make it as thin as possible.

Most dialog on movies is recorded on set then re-recorded in a sound booth and remixed. Low volume dialog and loud music over quiet dialog is a choice. A fairly annoying one.

Movies for home release should come with a compressed mix that adjusts for this. I have a decent theater set up and I don't mind playing movies at intended volume in that room. My living room has a less capable 5.1 set up that can still get room shakingly loud. But I usually don't want to watch things at the same volume. Both systems have a night mode that compresses the volume but it's not the same as a mix intended to do so would be.

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I had Adelphia before they fell apart and were bought by Comcast. Anytime I called Adelphia about an outage I got a credit. Once Comcast bought them the reliability got much shittier and I didn't get any credit for downtime. Then the price increases started. After that, they started taking away things like Usenet. Then the ever increasing prices. Oh, and that awesome customer service. I likened their customer service to be about as good as Cambodia under Pol Pot. Did I mention the constant price increases?

My father was stuck with Comcast and it was even worse for him. The area he lived in had really old cable infrastructure. The techs told him how bad the lines were. But they also told him that Comcast refused to replace any of it.

When a local company put fiber in my neighborhood I switched immediately. Apparently everyone else did as every house in my neighborhood had a sign in their front yard that they had switched. My monthly cost was less than half of what Comcast was and for higher speed. There's been one $5 price increase in ten years and two scheduled outages for maintenance in that time. There was more downtime with Comcast every month than that.

The problem with Comcast isn't bad advertising or opaque pricing. It's that and everything else about the company.

Dropping support for a 10 year old computer or phone I guess makes sense. But this is a thermostat. People probably tossed their 35 year old Honeywell round gold thermostat with mercury in the trash to replace it with one of these. Now it will become e-waste for no good reason.