NJ had red light cameras, lots of red light cameras. But most of them have done the way of the do-do, mostly for the same reason - towns were caught again and again cutting the yellow light down timing below the state-mandated 4 second minimum in order to boost the number of offenses and thus revenues. They were even…

Depends on the sort of growth between you and the train, really. I have tracks running about a half mile away, too, with plenty of woods between my home and the tracks. But I know when the trains go through between 1 AM and 1:30 AM four days a week. This area is heavy on maples and little in the way of shrubbery or…

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…

Don’t these idiots in Hollywood actually read any source material anymore? Alita’s shtick isn’t giant googly anime eyes, it is “Octopus Lips”.

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.

If Walmart went cashierless, I expect they’d still only keep a handful of registers open throughout the store to save money...

So.... Basically someone said “Isn’t it about time for a Green Arrow styled version of Robin Hood?” and wrote the script.

Article is BS. Why? The problem has long been a result of the printing process. Ink costs money. Printing 100K units uses A LOT of ink. Printing a million+ units every week (as many of the Shonen “phone book” comics did through the 80's and 90's) costs an absurd amount of money, so costs are cut wherever possible. It…

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…

Nope, I see one screw up already. There be a Dalek on the poster, which is a highly advanced piloted life support system for a de/evolved alien species in Dr. Who. And I see the head of Mazinger/Tranzor Z - a piloted machine, so technically not a robot. Same for the various Gundam units in the poster. There are…

Could have written this article with far fewer sentences: