The person you're arguing with doesn't seem to be able to grasp the difference between what the law is and what they think the law should be, and I doubt you're going to change their rather closed mind.

My understanding is that speedos are obviously bathing suits and not suitable for anything else, so they won't get worn anywhere but the pool. Board shorts look more or less like regular shorts and might get worn (at least incidentally) to do other things, like run errands on the way to the pool, and get dirty.

Since most of them are doing it intentionally, yeah, a camera reliably issuing citations probably would stop it.

I take 1/2 a mile of a one way road on my commute. At least weekly I run into someone going the wrong way.

Nobody gives a shit about traffic rules anymore.

while at the time they had surprisingly accurate estimations of the earth's circumference dating back hundreds of years.

Thousands of years. Eratosthenes, in 240BCE, calculated that the Earth's circumference was somewhere between 24,270 and 25,050 miles (252,000 stadia) , depending on the definition used for a stadion.

Columbus was bad at math and assumed that all of the "miles" referenced in various maps and works were the mile he was familiar with, when in reality most were much larger. Had they not got incredibly lucky and run into a landmass nobody (in southern Europe) knew existed, they would have all died in the middle of the ocean like everyone said they would have.

One weekend a year? Out by me people shoot off fireworks on random days pretty much all year long.

One asshole shot one off at fucking 11:58pm last Tuesday.

7:00pm is the start of dinner service at many restaurants in France. So I can see why they'd be upset if you're taking up a table just getting drinks and desserts.

I can see how WeatherTech or any of the other sponsors that are on every other car might not want their brand displayed next to a porn website.

Having just come back from Southern France, it's amazing how well preserved the arenas at Nimes and Arles are compared to this.

I swear when my 18 month old goes into a new room she looks around, thinks "What's the most dangerous thing here?" and then runs straight for that.

It probably depends greatly on the type of screw, but the literature probably doesn't differentiate.

I would expect comparable sizes of a machine screw and a self-tapping or wood screw to have very different risk levels.

This series is a workaround to the ACO not allowing iRacing to run a 24 Hours of Le Mans special event. The other weeks will have some participation, but really the whole series exists for Week 5.

We have captchas on our contact forms. They do a decent, though definitely not perfect, job of stopping bots. Though if you're looking to contact us about becoming a customer you don't have a whole lot of choice in the matter.

I disagree that the leader even needs to leave a gap here. #7 was never alongside and contact was made nose to tail without #7 lifting. Leading car was entirely predictable and drove in a more or less straight line from track out to the inside.

He can squeeze you, buy still has to leave room,

The following car was never alongside, contact was made front bumper to rear bumper, and the leading car drove in a more or less straight line across the track. Leading car did nothing wrong here really. Was the squeeze necessary? No. But he doesn't need to leave space for a car that's still behind him.

To an extent. It's also possible to have too much power available on the grid which causes actual problems. In areas with high solar penetration, for example southern California, spot prices for electricity often go negative during the day. Without an effective way to store that energy, it's wasted.

Also, prices definitely can make something not cost effective. The typical cost of a solar panel itself (not installation) is about $1/W, so 1kW of panels would cost approximately $1,000. At $0.01/kWh, it would take 100,000 hours just to recoup the initial cost of the panel itself. 100,000 hours is 11.4 years. But solar panels don't produce electricity 24/7/365.

Let's assume an average of 12 hours/day at 100% rated output (which is also not the case, but it's closer than 24/day and makes the math easy), so now you have 23 years of service just to recoup your initial investment in the panel itself. Not the installation, not maintenance, just the purchase price of the panel.

That's a terrible investment and no rational person would take it.

No, macular degeneration is a disorder where the macula physically breaks down. The macula is the part of the retina at the back of your eye that is responsible for for the central part of your vision that provides high resolution color vision. It's the part of your eye that is responsible for the vision that you use to read, watch TV, or look at someone's face.

Because the part of the eye that actually receives light is damaged, there isn't any correction that you can do.

Depending on what is causing the breakdown, there are some medicines and supplements that may help slow progression.

Here's  an example of what someone with significant macular degeneration might see.

To track who is clicking on the links for two reasons:

1. To know who clicked on a link in case the link actually is malicious and the device/account needs to be remediated.
2. To track whether or not the user has a habit of clicking unsafe links to determine which users need training.

I don't think this was an intentional dive by the GTP. I think he just missed his braking point and went for the only gap he could see.

I may have done pretty much the same thing in the Daytona 24 this year. Missed my mark and absolutely sent it on some poor GT3. Thankfully he was watching his mirrors, saw it coming, and gave me the space I needed to not wreck us both.

Leaving a half car there made this a side-to-side with the GTP instead of a full on punt though.

And if one parent can't be physically present, there is a special form that can be filled out and notarized.

You're omitting the part where they're doing Mach 0.9 in a 65 degree climb while already at 38,000ft and gaining another ~800ft every second.

I wouldn't imagine that kind of maneuver is very common for fighters either.

Are you comparing apples to apples though?

What's the cost for a support subscription to UI where you can call TAC when the switch has some weird bug where it drops UDP frames created on the 4th second of every 7th hour, which someone manages to break everything.

We had a handful of UI stuff in our environment in addition to a fully UI WiFi setup. WiFi has been replaced with Mist now and the last of the UI devices will be replaced next year. Mostly due to support and the fact that they just don't work that well.

I'm confused. Vendor choices and hardware specifics aside, you seem to be mostly complaining about cost. But then:

We're having the conversation internally of ripping and replacing their entire network and replacing it with mostly, if not all, UniFi. I'm just not seeing the value in, say, those $5k Ruckus switches versus a $1k UI 48 Pro PoE switch. And then they'll pay very little or zero ongoing cost for just licensing a switch or firewall or what have you.

The existing infra is "relatively new" but too expensive and so you want to replace it with new UI stuff. Is the existing stuff not working correctly?

As you say, "I'm seriously not getting it."

Take a lock off? How about just look at the luggage tag?

All of our luggage has uniquely colored tags on it so we can identify it on the carousel without even having to read the tag, but our info is on it too just in case.