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@rforno - You're right about 'big forest fire' but I don't know how anyone can really know what areas might be at risk anymore. I certainly wouldn't have thought that an area like the Texas panhandle, mostly sage and semi-desert, would be in danger …
To be honest, with the unpredictable climate induced weather changes, I'd be very nervous about any utility which has power lines capable of starting a fire. California, Oregon, Hawaii, Texas...
"Hearing aids help, but nothing I know of can counteract background noise (whether a crowd or a rowdy table in a restaurant)."
• Exactly
"There is only so much that hearing aids, really high-tech amplifiers, can accomplish."
• Exactly
"understandi…
This incident is more likely than not to be a United Airlines maintenance issue- the 777 has been around a long time and as a general rule the wheels have tended to remain fixed to the aircraft.
What is very peculiar it that the flight departed SFO…
And also edited excerpts from this report from NPR:
WASHINGTON — More than two months after a door plug panel blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet in midair, the top federal safety investigator says Boeing still has not provided key information that cou…
Come on, @Crash- how on earth can we elect a national president if each state can decide who can run there? That's just ridiculous. Texas and it's sycophant follower states would "disqualify" Biden in ten seconds.
And what would logically follow? I…
Quite some time ago one of our MFO stalwarts suggested that "Technology and Unemployment", a paper by Robert M. Solow, might be insightful. I downloaded the paper in pdf format, but the text was so cramped and the format so uninviting that I left it…
Supreme Court to hear arguments in Trump immunity case in April
Following are edited excerpts from a current NPR report:
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments the week of April 22 in a high-stakes dispute over whether former President Do…
I'll bet they're swearing, all right. How on earth do you "underestimate" the size of a software collection? That info is surely available down to the nearest gigabyte, someplace. "Underestimate" = "Oh hell... I guess, maybe..."
Not a great beginni…
@Crash - You see, here on MFO, the community opinion on many aspects of financial houses. Have you noticed a whole lot of complaints about the Schwab site? If not, perhaps your opinion may be suspect.
When you log in, go directly to your account su…
No, Berkshire has no control over PG&E rates, and I surely wasn't implying that they did. I'm simply pointing out that Berkshire's complaints about the "regulatory climate" as being responsible for the financial disaster that is now PG&E are…
SF Chronicle: Pacific Gas and Electric Co. residential electricity rates rose by another 20% on Jan. 1. The rate increase added about $34.50 to monthly bills for typical households. That’s about $414 more per household for all of 2024 compared to la…
"But the regulatory climate in a few states has raised the specter of zero profitability or even bankruptcy (an actual outcome at California’s largest utility and a current threat in Hawaii). In such jurisdictions, it is difficult to project both ea…
With respect to PG&E, the facts are a bit more complex than the shotgun evaluation from Berkshire. For many years PG&E grew safely and profitably, with a reasonable return mandated by the regulatory environment. As the Berkshire report itsel…
@sma3 - One possibility is that SA is keeping count of contacts from your present browser, or something is in the memory (cache) of the one that you are now using.
You might try using a different browser on the same computer... sometimes that work…
