Bet there are a few audiophools drooling over those old VTVMs and large Tek scopes for all of the old RCA/GE/Sylvania 12A_7 tubes inside.

I’ve got one of those Simpson 260s on my bench, paid $1 at a local junk shop. 

There are only so many actual OEMs for things like batteries.

This happens because of a politically charged interpretation of the Anti-Deficiancy act, that was originally intended to prevent departments from spending their entire budget in 3-4 months and holding the Congress hostage by the said departments threatening to shut themselves down until additional appropriations were…

Electrical Engineering. I'd actually study this time too.

Amen. Millennials need to calm down...a lot. I get worked up over some things, but it just amazes me how much this current generation takes everything to level 10 right off the bat.

I am NOT shocked about Memphis. For its size, this metropolitan area has some of the worst public infrastructure I’ve ever seen. I live about 6-7 miles south of the city in N Mississippi, and if you go just a couple of miles south of where I live, your only broadband options are DSL (No plans of expansion at all, so…

You do understand that a large reason why broadband sucks so badly in rural areas is because of the government, right? It is no accident that so little competition exists in some markets, these companies lobbied hard to keep municipal broadband, electric companies, etc., from providing a “telecom”service in an area…

Unfortunately I do most of my viewing through their respective Android and iOS apps. What workarounds or 3rd party apps to get rid of the ads are kind of a kludge. 

Personally, I wish they’d offer smaller monthly fee just to ditch the commercials in regular YouTube videos. I’d pay $2 a month just to not have to watch all the damn political ads (literally every single ad I saw the past two days was one!) this time of year. 

You have to understand that the sane part of the world is getting tired of this push to blatantly include LGBT, minorities, etc., where it does absolutely nothing to advance the story. There are a lot of shows and movies that start out fine, then rapidly take a dump because they veer off onto some tagent about how so…

I think the people just voted with their wallet.

Hate to burst your bubble, but it will be because these sources of energy are finally becoming economically feasible, and not because of governments trying to force them down our throats. Markets and technology are converging to a point where the ROI on solar and wind start to make sense to a typical consumer.…

That’s when you just tell someone that they’ll have the chicken.

Doesn’t matter to me. Government needs to get out of the business of propping up business, ie., choosing winners and losers.

At the same time, the government needs to get rid of a lot of the red tape that drives up the cost of energy in this country that is the reasoning behind many of the subsidies in the first…

It doesn’t matter who is in power, the government is broke, and if these technologies can’t support themselves without government subsidy, then they’re just not viable. 

I sincerely wish Youtube would just offer a lesser cost method of removing ads without some of the other “features” of Red, like being able to play videos with the app closed (I guess meant to cater to those listening to lectures or music) and their original content. I’d pay for that in a heartbeat, as I watch a ton…

Typical class action nonsense. Lawyers are the only ones who make out on these suits, they’re designed to press the company/companies involved into a settlement that gives the lawyers a big payday and maybe the original party that brought the suit.

Make it a stoning. Throw the ransomware crowd in with them.

This seems to be a growing trend across the government in general.

I think that’s part of the same front that came through the mid-South Wednesday night. Turbulence was so bad (several reports of severe turbulence) that even FedEx and UPS were complaining about it and a Cathay 747 reported problems holding altitude at one point. If the cargo guys want to get out of it as fast as they…