I've personally met a former judge who resigned his seat on the bench over his disgust with the police. This was Nashville, TN back in the '80's. I personally saw them rip cars apart by the highway, looking for drugs. Their suspicion? The driver had long hair. File a complaint? Go ahead, there would be absolutely no…

I work for an electronics remanufacturer (expensive agricultural devices), and we actually have a wash station using de-ionized water. As long as the power is off, your gear should be fine.

When we needed some outdoor storage, we went to a moving company that had a lot of old plywood boxes for shipping household goods. They were 4'x7'x7' I think, and made of marine grade plywood. They lasted several years outside, and would have lasted longer if we had bothered to paint them. The company was getting rid…

Don't have a picture, but my wife baked a bacon-wrapped turkey. It was stuffed with awesome!

"Far too simple"? It is simple, just not easy. Most people don't know what they want, or only think they know what they want. The cheesy puff and soda swilling overweight couch potato THINKS he wants to be healthy and buff, but does he change his diet and start going to the gym? Probably not.

My, my. Troll much? Or is your income linked to fooling people into installing crapware? We don't need stinking explorer bars. All the browsers seem to have a universal entry box anymore. Type in your search terms OR url, and get whichever is indicated. Time to update your business model...

Dang. I moved off Ubuntu after 12.04. I just couldn't stand the "tablet" interface (my tablet is actually more of a desktop!) I've been using Win 7 Ultimate for school, and just stayed with it instead of hassling with Ubuntu. I'm graduating soon, and think I'll try Debian. The webapp integration sounds good. The ads…

Sadly, a friend took a small transmitter kit I made, and bugged the department managers office. It didn't take long before he got a transfer to another department. And a raise.

Yes. Wonderful, isn't it!

There are "skins" that you can get for your laptop that are basically the same thing. I've seen some that are really b*tchin', even after a couple of months.

A safe, humane, deterrent is to fill a small spray bottle with watered down ammonia cleanser. Just put a couple squirts around your patio and they will NOT want to come back for quite a while, as their sense of smell is so much greater than ours. You may not be able to smell it after a short while, but the cats/dogs…

I'm kind of surprised at the vehemence of the "FLAC vs lossy" arguments. Reminds me quite a bit of the audiophile BS.

I think that these are better than nothing, which is what I see a lot of people actually use. NOTHING! Some eye protection that isn't OSHA approved will still keep a sliver of steel out of your eye, whereas I've used approved safety glasses that still let "stuff" get into my eyes.

My parents have had a small raised bed garden for years, mostly strawberries and flowers, but my brother has started working with them to build one new bed each year.

Something else that has worked in my experience is a metal bucket of sand with some oil (vegetable or mineral, not motor). Stabbing your tools in the sand scrubs them clean, and the oil prevents any rusting.

They probably use it in a dark room, where you can't see the labels for the buttons. I used dots of superglue to put braille lettering on a keyboard, for a similar reason. I'm not blind, but I was working in a dark room.

I've been on the receiving end of this behavior, even in a right to work state. My supervisor told me to "improve my productivity" without any suggestions, metrics, or a "heads up". Then he fired me on a Friday evening, after everyone else had left for the weekend, and had his two friends from the Navy show up Monday…

I've known about thermos cooking for years, but I know a lot of people have never heard of it. As far as public speaking goes, I had to do it all the time as a kid, at church events, and in school plays. I took speech (public speaking) in college which helped a lot, with technical critiques and tips. I know a lot of…

I've tried alpha code OS's before, and they crashed hard enough to wipe out my partition tables. I'll gladly spend 30 minutes to create a VM, but having to spend days rebuilding my system and recovering my data? No, thanks.

So this is the equivalent of making our house like an ice chest, and putting a warm brick or cool icepack in it. I have lived in a house much like that, and yes, it was very comfortable to live in year round, even with 4000 square feet of living space.