Absorbing the sound isn’t a solution. There is nowhere for that absorbed energy to go. Now if they developed a system to convert that absorbed energy to electricity or something, then I could see it as a long term solution. Otherwise, it is simply a technology that will break down in a fairly short order.

Huh. What I hear is someone complaining about not being able to find parts, but what I see are plenty of opportunities to learn new fabrication skills.

In other news, Airbnb renters are a lazy lot that can’t be bothered to do pre- or post-rental walkthru’s to find damage caused by their ‘guests’. In still other news, give it 100 years, and that script won’t do a single thing to security cameras on a wired, closed network (ie, an old school camera system).

LOL. When it comes time for maintenance, replacing consumables, or outright repairs, you’ll wish it was just a very nice Civic.

That whole paranoid conspiracy theory regarding Musk thinking the automotive world is out to sink his company goes a long way in explaining the absurd drive to add so many robots. Makes me wonder what other particular robot-loving execs suffer from a similar problem. And what makes this delightfully absurd is the way…

Gwinnett County, Georgia...  Yep, thought that was familiar. The sheriff could have saved himself a whole lot of trouble by just using that Live PD revenue to make the purchase instead of using an asset forfeiture kickback scheme the Feds have been supposedly cracking down on for several years now.

Sounds very much like their problem in the 1990's, when they suffered a years long rash of “accidental intrusions” involving driving forklift tangs through computer cases, destroying fully assembled computers. It happened so many times in the Philadelphia area that there is NO WAY it was accidental (we’re talking…

IIRC, at one point they were claiming that the transporter technology was used to break all waste down to an elemental level and stored in space in the ship’s hull until required for reconstitution as food, tools, goods or people, and the “you” transported to a site was assembled from local materials in the proper…

Just for reference, Logan to LAX cost $700 one way on the back end of the 1990's (last time I flew was a few months before 9/11), $1200 for a round trip. And that was basic cattle class, with one TV dinner and a soda for amenities.

Please say you’re a fan of the original, because the new one that came out months ago seriously sucked.

The original version, Detective Conan, is somewhat better than the Hollywood butchery, Case Closed.

Ummm... 9/97 - 3/98 is when it originally aired. The span you gave is barely enough time for a 13 episode weekly series (and Bebop ran 26 episodes, which requires a 6 month time block). And it didn’t air in the US until 2001, so you can’t claim the shortened time frame was the result of being aired nightly on Adult…

I can see why any store manager would think the coupon was questionable. Exactly how many coupons have any of us seen where the brand or vendor is a freaking fill-in-the-blank line? And the coupon was issued by someone other than CVS. And the tale behind it was rather far-fetched. Why would this woman in Chicago end…

Huh. Considering the quality of the cutting my ride on Snapper does... I knew it had some pep, but I had no clue I was exceeding 125 MPH. Not like there is a speedometer on the blasted thing. And it still takes almost 2 hours to mow my back yard...

So silly. Summer isn’t just for grilling and barbecue. It is also for cooking outdoors with electrical kitchen appliances. At least several times a month the crockpot, electric pressure cooker or electric griddle head outside for cooking in the back yard. Matter of fact, I do my meatloaf in the pressure cooker rather…

All I can say is... Having played games in Night City since the setting first hit the game books in 1988, I just want freaking game books. I don’t need this video game silliness, especially since it won’t go very far what with the video game company registering a trademark in Europe based heavily on a book series logo…

I see an important need point something out here. Well, point a lot of stuff out, actually, which all related to not so illegal public corruption. There is a town near me where an important roadway is an utter mess. This is a relatively minor roadway, but important to me because I live in a section of my township that…

ALS can be a truly sinister disease. Get a form of it young as Stephen Hawking did (afflicted in 1963 at age 21) and you very well can live another 50+ years with it. Hawking died at age 76. But suffer the onset in your 40's or later, and you’ll be lucky if you last two more years before the disease kills you.

LOL. Yeah, we have three or four dealership strips between Trenton and Cape May under investigation for various consumer protection violations and outright fraud. I think one in the Vineland/Millville area actually closed its doors before the investigation concluded. Sadly, the investigations take years to accomplish…

There is already a federal government maintained website where you can enter your VIN and get a full history of recalls affecting your vehicle. My 1994 Honda Accord was recalled three different times for headlamp assembly malfunctions, for example. It had a total of 16 recalls between 1994 and 2002. But hey, you just…