'lol flavors=kids' That is exactly the purpose of the ban. Nevermind the fact that flavored alcohol exists and flavored condoms exist, but nobody is saying those items are being marketed to children.

Too bad Disney sold the rights to Miramax. It would have been nice to have Miramax films included in this.

I work in IT for a large manufacturing company that has nearly 100 manufacturing and retail locations across the US. Most of the locations are remote (surrounded by cornfields). The company has been in aggressive growth/acquisition mode since I hired in a few years ago. I have been in charge of IT infrastructure for the new sites we turn-up. We utilize an outsourced contracted company for network cabling. That company employs contract workers. The reason for this is twofold: my company does not want to deal with 1099 forms for every contract worker, and my company wants a single vendor for all sites. In addition to this, my company has an outsourced (in-shore) helpdesk, which I also manage. The reason for this is that my company does not want the helpdesk people to be regular employees with benefits, that burden is shifted to to the outsourced company. As a direct employee for the company, I get the company benefits and perks, so it works for me.

There is more to the story than the 74% cable/satellite TV price hikes. People in the US are seeing price hikes on everything else, especially so in the following categories: health care costs, housing costs, and student loan costs. Also, people are increasingly seeing that there are other options that are free or cheap: rabbit ear TV, Netflix, Hulu, etc.

This happened on my 2016 Ford Fusion. I had bumper to bumper warranty, but the dealership said rodent damage wasn't covered under warranty. I had to replace the wiring harness and it wasn't cheap. The mechanic at the dealership said peanut oil was one of the materials used in the wire plastic coating.

This reminds me of a quote from the movie Trading Places. Randolph Duke: "The good part, William, is that, no matter whether our clients make money or lose money, Duke & Duke get the commissions."

You must have missed this article: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2017%2F10...

I purchased the American Paper Optics glasses that seem to be recommended on nasa.com and space.com articles. They were $16 for a 10 pack.

Link to the collection: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/c...

In the US, it costs $1 billion for a 17 mile road project where they are completely redoing the highway and adding a lane each way. (http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2016/08/15/i-75-rebuild-starts-monday/88638126/). With the added lane, that makes for 4 lanes each way for 17 miles. This makes 138 miles of one lane. 1 billion / 138 = $7.25 million per mile of regular road per lane. For this solar project, it is 5 million Euro for 1 km. The picture only showed this as one lane on one side of the road. 5 million Euro equals $5.22 million USD per mile. To go from km to miles, we get $8.4 million USD per mile of solar road per lane. Further breaking this down, it is about 16% more expensive to construct a mile of solar road than it is for regular road. Not bad.

With human generated atmospheric radiation and pollution, I think the max age number will be on a downward trend in the near future (100 years).

Smokers and obese people tend to have lower overall healthcare costs during the course of a lifetime. Specifically because they die sooner.

The problem with torrents is that you are never only ONLY downloading, you are also uploading. I have not seen one real solution to stop bittorrent uploads other than limiting the bandwidth. You get sued for uploads, not downloads.

This is not as "genuinely frightening" as the number of people that die of liver failure due to overdose or overuse of acetaminophen. The only difference between this "new" drug and the ones currently on the market is that this one does not contain acetaminophen. Old drug = hydrocodone + acetaminophen. This drug = hydrocodone only.

"I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by."