Plenty of mosquitoes do exactly that

And this is why till the late 80's German cars didn't have cup holders.

I have friends who have done time in the Conservation Camps. I also have had friends who have worked for CalFire. The difference in conditions between the two is pay, and alcohol. Both jobs are dangerous. Both jobs involve sitting at a remote location preparing and waiting to run in to an active fire. The friends who were in the conservation camps ALL say they are glad the spent time there.

Wrong sand though. The sand they need comes from North Carolina. For that matter where are they gonna get the labor? I don't see many Saudis working in factories.

Because they are civilized society and civilized societies have rules.

I can't wait to see the charging cable. It will have all the same conductors as the CHAdeMO, Tesla and CCS but a different connector. They will claim it has the fastest charging of any car, but really, it will be the same or slightly slower than Tesla. An adapter will be available to connect to other charging systems but it will cost $1000. In Europe they will include the adapter at no charge, but the car will cost about €1000 more than other markets.

Then, after 2 years they will change the connector. It will be nearly identical, and offer no new features. They will of course offer an adapters for sale. A few years after that they will change back to the old connector, and now offer adapters that go the other way.

So exactly the same as BART?

Hmm... let me email my 19 year, old broke ass, Top Ramen eating self in the year 2000 and ask him what he used .... He said he use SMS and it cost $0.50 each time and he just made sure each one was important (FYI at the time Top Ramen was $0.10 each), other wise he used email. He also mentioned when he had to talk internationally, or long distance, he use some thing called Skype and had like 10 messaging apps installed with silly names like ICQ and AIM, so he could talk to friends who used different ones. Also he said shit broke all the time, and when it did they just went out to a cafe and talked shit in person.

The comments here are a perfect example of the vocal minority. Not every one works in a cube farm, not every wants to stay home and work. Not every one sits in front of a computer all day. The Dutch invented the office a couple hundred years ago for a reason. Separation of work and home life. If I had to work from home I would kill my neighbors and house mate with in 6 months. I like to go to the job site and see my colleagues. Problem solving and brain storming in person can't be replaced by a video call for me. Sh*t, I like my commute some times.
I would guess the demographics of Slashdot represent less than 10% of the US population. Just because a solution works for you, realize what every you do, 90% of the people out there probably do some thing very different.

As some one who often has to set up the computer some where like that broadcast both, that machine was imaged that morning and wiped that night and contained nothing. If he had smashed it we would have just handed him new unit out of a stack of spares. And if for some stupid reason it had a password, it would have been some thing like "booth.3" or "password" and we would have written it on a post-it note or label tape and stuck it right on the screen. In a room with half a million dollars worth of broadcast equipment, that computer is considered an expendable like a piece of gaff tape or an ethernet cable.

Not gonna happen for one simple reason. There is not enough zinc. It is one of those elements we use in everything, have almost no recovery and heavily depleted reserves.

I work in film, and know people who do exactly the same jobs in both game dev and film, some times for the same parent company. I've often wondered why people in game dev put up with crap that was addressed with in the film industry in the the 1920s. Long hours? Constantly changing targets? No time for meals? Tight deadlines? We already addresses that in the contract. Usually by just billing extra when management can't figure out to plan ahead. As a bonus when a company comes up with a innovative "new" way to do some thing stupid, we've probably seen it already and written something in to the contact to mitigate the stupid.

I've heard it said a union contract is just documentation of the abuses of an employer.