Way back in the 80’s a neighbor of ours was house manager for a theater, and I’d occasionally work as an usher there with her son. Rodney Dangerfield came through town for a few shows and I was lucky enough to work them. To make a long story short, the first performance was awesome, and he had snappy comebacks when he was heckled. But at the second performance it was clear somebody was feeding him lines, because he was heckled the same way at the same time in his act. From the back of the theater we actually spotted the guy who was doing it since he was slowly walking around the back.

Also, that second night a real heckler yelled out something at Rodney as well. Rodney paused briefly then continued on with his routine like nothing had happened.

Already behind the times on that: arstechnica.com/…/firefighting-drones-head-to-asp…

Clearly it’s just a big-ass gun that shoots 5000 caliber rounds. So it’s protected by the 2nd Amendment.

World War Z, the book, proved this wrong.

Clearly this CEO only wants to deal with “yes” men etc. If you don’t agree with him then he’ll find somebody else who will.

That’s more-or-less how it was done prior to 9/11. Back then each airport contracted with their own security companies, and that would have been paid from fees the airports collect from the airlines.

That certainly would be awesome but I’m definitely not holding by breath for it to happen…

The article says the batteries are in 10 shipping containers, so one charging option is to simply swap uncharged for charged, like a ginormous flashlight.

We have about 40kwh panels and 40kwh battery. We use roughly 1mwh per month, with our biggest consumption between our EV, kitchen appliances, and clothes dryer.

Our solar panels cut our roughly $500/month electric bill to zero when you average it out over an entire year. So that’s $6000 a year. During peak summer our batteries that get charged by the panels send excess electricity back to to the grid that the utility pays a premium for, and last year we got $2500 for that. Our state also pays us for the total amount of renewable energy we generate, and we got about $500 last year for that. So in one year our panels saved us roughly $9000. After we’ve paid off our loan in a couple more years then this will continue generating free money for us.