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Maybe it's sunspots 
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It could be universe telling you, "thou shalt not do anything important on Friday."
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant. I'm having a similar experience.
Last October I activated a PV system with 840 kW generation, backed by a battery with 2.145 MWh storage capacity feeding a 20.8 kV microgrid. Thursday night an obscure widget called a "zig-zag transformer" burned up, and the entire site is off.  We're back to diesel generation with an annual fuel bill of about $1 million. Lead time for a new transformer? It's 47 weeks, and the manufacturer will not expedite the order at any price. Anybody want to buy a slightly used $5 million PV site? Buyer must pick up.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Crap. Shoulda ordered a spare I guess? damn.
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There actually is not a single spare transformer anywhere on the campus, and I can't get anyone to let me order some. This resort is the cash cow for the entire reservation, and the party's over if one blows. Lead times are running 60 - 120 weeks for replacements.
Will Rogers never met me.
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they would automatically crash into cars that weren't apple. with apple cars on the road they behave perfectly.
you'd have to buy a new one every time they repainted the lines on the road.
they're so shiny they'd blind other drivers
you can only fit in them if you're exactly 180cm tall, and if you complain to apple they tell you to be a different height.
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... they'd still be lemons.
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After a certain time you would be forced to upgrade to latest version.
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Additionally, you can only use their proprietary iGas, fill the tires with iAir, and you are required to purchase iNsurance.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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honey the codewitch wrote: you'd have to buy a new one every time they repainted the lines on the road.
They would also own the roads.
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iRoads 
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Why do you think the I-95 is named as such...
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I have no idea
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And don't forget the contortion you'd have to make to get the radio to work...
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Yes. Instead of a real knob, there would be a picture of a knob on a touch screen that behaves nothing like a real knob!
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Which you would slide back and forth.
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There is an amusing science fiction short story from many years ago that describes a world where cars are limited by design to the roads built by the car company.
So many problems like buying a car that will work on the roads between your house and job. And cross company agreements that allow more expensive cars to travel down other companies roads. I think there was a discussion of after market addons to allow cross road travel as well.
I think the story was told from the perspective of a car dealer and how he was trying to show how his car was the best to a reluctant customer.
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Someone could easily adapt that story to try to convince people that it's a good idea to have bicycles sharing the same streets that were initially designed for car use.
Oh wait. There's already such a group of people.
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The pedestrians were there first.
In some areas here, signs say that bicycle can use the whole lane.
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The pedestrians got their own sidewalks, on both sides of almost every street.
Signs can say whatever they want, the laws of physics reign supreme.
I used to work with a guy whose neighbor is now a quadriplegic, because some woman in a minivan "got blinded by the sun" and drifted into a dedicated bike lane and plowed into a group of them - that was at low speed. Cringe. Every summer I hear such stories, and it makes me downright angry. Awareness campaigns and increased fines are just a temporary feel-good measure.
As I said in another thread elsewhere, I was about 7 years old when I understood that bicycles on roads already used by cars is just a (possibly fatal) accident waiting to happen, helmets be damned. I don't know why a grown-ass adult thinks he should take a chance.
Nope.
Nope, nope. Nope.
Never. Not for me.
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The streets pre-existed the cars. The cars are interlopers on our streets.
I also haven't ridden my bicycle on a street for a long while. I've known two grown-assed men who were killed while doing so.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: The streets pre-existed the cars.
...and I wrote:
The pedestrians got their own sidewalks
Pretty much all streets got retrofitted to have sidewalks. Drivers are generally careful enough not to climb onto sidewalks with their cars.
But when I see an existing street suddenly get bike lanes just by repainting lines on them...that just means the street just got narrower for everybody, which simply exacerbates the problem.
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dandy72 wrote: helmets be damned.
Helmets do make it a bit easier to find the detached head of motorcycle riders after they crash though.
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True.
And if it's dark, you won't mistake a clump of hair/scalp for a chunk of top-soil with grass growing out of it.
(as reported by a tow-truck driving acquaintance of mine...he still has nightmares)
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