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If you have to sleep outdoors, better to do so in a semi- tropical country. I suppose that's why such a large proportion of the group aren't actually homeless.
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While gifs didn't go away, the outcry did establish PNG as a widely supported web image format. Unfortunately, PNGs don't do animations. The patents on GIFs expired before an alternative could be established... much like MP3s. These days, HTML5 video is starting to obsolete the gif for those little animations, because videos can be much smaller.
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It's a question of internal damage, which just happens to be far less common than external damage (i.e. punctures, cracked sidewalls, etc). The driver might have hit a curb pretty hard, or failed to add air (driving on it while letting the pressure get very low). Other options are mishandling by the tire seller/installer, or just a rare manufacturing defect. Also a slim chance that a nail puncture was incorrectly patched, or a hundred other uncommon possibilities.
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All the study really says is that greenies are self satisfied egomaniacs. Cargo culting those actions on others won't give you the same results.

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Fatbergs only seem like a huge problem, because they're new. After a while, strategies and equipment for dealing with them will be developed, and they'll be just another minor maintenance task.
How about a steady trickle of Draino to dissolve blockages before they grow large? How about a pressure washer to make short work of breaking them up once they've gotten out of control? Long-term, designing sewer systems with obstacles that will help to break up any obstructions before they grow large, may eliminate the maintenance issue entirely.
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DirecTV dishes were designed and constructed by experts, to exacting tolerances based on proper radio frequency engineering principals. Just picking a random sized dish, and mounting the receiver any old distance from it, is not going to give you good results.
In this case, the dish is far too small for the frequencies being used, and WiFi should really have a 1-meter C- band dish for good signal gain. And there too, precisely mounting your antenna is critical.
This strainer is probably only behaving as a simple reflector. And piece of metal behind your antenna will about double your signal. Something like chicken wire behind an AP would likely do just as well.
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Peltier devices are terribly inefficient air conditioners, so they generate even more heat for the little cold they put out. Being wearable, that heat is going to be released very close to your body. If the wind blows the wrong way, all that heat will come back into your face. And they really need a fan to function, so it won't be silent at all.You know what would work a whole lot better for any given amount of battery power in 99% of situations??? Fans just blowing ambient air over your skin. A much better cooling design would be one of those blue ice pack things, in an insulated box, with a temperature controlled damper and fan blowing the cold air on you. You have to throw it in your freezer to recharge, but it would actually be able to do a decent job, unlike this concept.If you really seriously needed active cooling, you'd go with either the common chemical ice packs as needed, or cans of highly compressed gas with temperature regulators. Liquid nitrogen would of course be an excellent choice, but even simple computer blowers or hairspray cans demonstrate the same cooling effect when they are discharged.
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Peltier devices are terribly inefficient air conditioners, so they generate even more heat for the little cold they put out. Being wearable, that heat is going to be released very close to your body. If the wind blows the wrong way, all that heat will come back into your face. And they really need a fan to function, so it won't be silent at all.You know what would work a whole lot better for any given amount of battery power in 99% of situations??? Fans just blowing ambient air over your skin. A much better cooling design would be one of those blue ice pack things, in an insulated box, with a temperature controlled damper and fan blowing the cold air on you. You have to throw it in your freezer to recharge, but it would actually be able to do a decent job, unlike this concept.If you really seriously needed active cooling, you'd go with either the common chemical ice packs as needed, or cans of highly compressed gas with temperature regulators. Liquid nitrogen would of course be an excellent choice, but even simple computer blowers or hairspray cans demonstrate the same cooling effect when they are discharged.
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Neatorama.com has been broken for 49 days now. Now that SSL is required, the improperly installed SSL certificate is causing problems. See, only the neatorama.com certificate was installed into the server, while two other (Root and Intermediate) certificates which are required, were not properly installed in the chain.

Most people won't notice this, because their browsers have picked up those intermediate certificates on other, properly configured sites, and will quitely use those in the background.

You can verify this problem by running "firefox --ProfileManager," to create a new (blank) profile, and going straight to neatorama.com before any other sites. You'll get a certificate error. You can also run "wget" or "curl" on https://www.neatorama.com which return certificate error messages.

Here are a couple sites that identify the problem with the missing intermediate certificate chain:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=neatorama.com&latest

https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=neatorama.com
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I've surprised bobcats on several occasions, and can confidently say they act nothing like that. They hide as much as possible, then quietly dash off in a flash when the opportunity arises. A lot tougher than domestic cats, a little ball of muscle and teeth and claws, but still firmly in the hide and run school of self defense.
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"the average American gets 45% of their daily calories from cooking oil"

Whoa there!!! That's a crazy number... We'd have to be hauling gallons of cooking oil from the grocery store.

Their source (pew research) claims we consume 400 calories of cooking oil daily, or 16% of the average American's daily calorie intake (2,500 calories). The 45% number is for ALL "REFINED oils", which is certainly not just cooking oil, but includes a vast swath of our foods
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