While the capex on an EV battery is currently significant, it certainly isn't because of the diesel to dig it out. A big operation would probably have a rock truck like a 793F that easily holds 250 tons in a single load despite 500,000 pounds looking like a huge number. I think we can assume it doesn't take all 1300 gallons of fuel in a 793F's tanks to drive a few miles round trip. Maybe a few gallons? A 740 truck would do that in 6 trips probably in under an hour and that burns about 5 gallons/hr, but the bigger trucks are more efficient. So worst case maybe $25 in diesel and another $25 for the excavator?

Would Putin's stooge Lukashenko showing a literal map of their attack plan that doesn't stop with Ukraine be enough evidence? Or his threats against basically all his neighbors? Other countries being concerned enough to be trying to fast track their own EU and NATO memberships?

I'm not sure if you are misinformed or trying to make a very minor distinction, but Texas for all intents and purposes does/can not buy/sell electricity across state lines, look it up.

Same. They are clearly not afraid of anything and at least think they have huge razor sharp teeth although they seem to do minimal damage compared to a barracuda or shark.

Right, or make Moderna sell Pfizer their presumably generic trick to make any mRNA more stable.

There is a simple solution to this. Make *paying* the ransom for ransomware (or any kind of IT access ransoms) illegal at the federal level with only some exception for the FBI to pay in life or death situations. This could probably be done by executive order since it is already mostly illegal as the payment likely violates sanctions or assists/funds the associated criminal group. Overnight, local governments and any reasonable-sized or publicly traded businesses (the preferred customers of ransomware people) will never again pay ransoms and ransomware itself will become essentially unprofitable "deleteware." Problem solved, or rather criminals will increase the social engineering type schemes (but at least stop locking organizations out of their data).

This is in a warehouse

Ethics aside, you would think they would fix actual horrible inefficiencies first. For example, the pickers for their online orders are only shown 1 item at a time, and the items are *randomly* ordered, so even though the customer orders 2 different pairs of socks that are next to each other, the employees aren't shown (and can't see even if they tried to) this info to be able to speed up their job and end up doing tons of extra walking.

Yeah somebody didn't think this article through all the way...

1. Post credit card numbers a website's forum, etc...google would then de-list them for you
2. ???
3. Profit

Not just 4111 1111 1111 1111 which is easy to ignore, but there is an endless supply http://www.getcreditcardnumbers.com/ (or just randomly guess, a decent percent of 16 digit numbers are valid).

Once there was an actual criminal going around a large office park at a place where I previously worked that would walk in wearing a VERY fancy suit and kindof wander around stealing laptops, electronics, etc. and then walk out. Nobody could ever identify him except that he was in a fancy suit, and nobody dared question what he was doing so as not to get in trouble for offending somebody important. Not saying any of these places were supposed to be highly secure, but was quite a problem for a while and he always got out before anyone noticed or realized what was going on.

Then he walked into our office which was a startup, and he was obviously not familiar with the "atmosphere". As soon as he got in by following behind somebody, several people said "What the **** are you wearing a suit for and what the **** are you doing here?", took a picture of him, and escorted him out.

No way 20 per DVD is right... just the physical cost of disks is higher than that... even $20/disk... lets say it is rented once a week for a year before its obsolete... that's 40 cents per rental... plus shipping both ways has gotta he another 40 cents minimum

Even worse, a huge chunk of the market for "occasional" or "light" users of netflix has now been destroyed.

The people who've left for price reasons are those who (like me) were happy paying $8/month for the ability to always have a DVD to watch in case you wanted to, and always have instant movies to watch. On average I got about 3 physical DVDs per month, sometimes less, and 1-2 instant old movies or random shows. From what I've heard, netflix's cost is $1 per physical DVD, and not a lot for the instant "junk." So, they lost a highly profitable customer they're making $5/month on. But, they get to keep the customers who pay $8/month and get probably about 4-6 DVDs a month (otherwise redbox is probably better) making them barely profitable. And, they get the customers who pay $16-20 a month for mail+instant and get again at least 4, but likely more, DVDs a month plus now will demand better instant selection which must be costing them a good chunk. All these customers have lower profit margins... good job netflix.

Right now, something like 1% of all flu in the US that is attempted to be subtyped is NOT H1N1. See http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/ So basically, if the person has the flu, it is almost definitely H1N1.