here's the problem I see with that...these things are initially going to be expensive. ideas like this only pay off when used widely. Sure I might be able to invest in making a driveway from these things and I might get a small return on my electric bill, but it just won't be very productive initially. standard catch 22.

but the bottom line is that we've got to invest in infrastructure...it's a necessity that we invest in technologies that show promise such as this. they won't get cheap until pretty much after we've invested in them.

but if they hold up, then it should work out. I figure that's probably going to be the biggest thing...how long are these individual hexes going to hold out? replacing a few here and there won't be a big deal, but replacing entire sheets of them for miles just won't work out long term.

I've been here 30 years and in the good ole days, it would snow maybe every year and a half. Lately, it has snowed every year, sometimes twice or three times. What is scary is -- the MOUNTAINS still aren't getting much snow.

It isn't much snow, but I have a very steep driveway that is in the shade of 20 foot tall laurel hedges. If I don't shovel it off, I won't be able to drive out of my garage for a week or so. So the thinnest sheet is shovel worthy at my house.

We're in trouble, this world. I think our species will survive, because we are very adaptable. But it is going to be ugly ugly ugly.

We as a civilization always looked to Nero, fiddling as Rome burned, as the ultimate in self-absorption and mental illness. Now we have a planet full of Neros.

It is bad. And getting worse.

It is snowing right now here in Pacific NW. Our first real snowfall.

Time to shovel the driveway. When the sun comes up.

All that snow? That precipitation? It is the other side of the California drought -- climate crisis indeed.

We're in trouble, my friend.

Psst.... narration.

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It is flat out fact that colds are caused by virus.

Being cold IE not wearing a jacket out in winter might knock your immune system down two power points but the cause of cold and flu are virus and bacteria not because you got some chilly goosey bumps on your hair follicle.

I love the fact this baby is embracing an atmosphere I once participated in, this is wonderful. The baby has no harm of getting sick.

Unless the water is laced with that drug/substance they are saying was in the non burning snow ! !

FUn fact 245: When I was around that age, I "swam" in our newly built houses gravel driveway, the ruts were a fair size and I was a wee size. Many front and back and splishy splash strokes where made, No sniffles were consequential. A mommies Txt proves it so.

Yay! Pretty! Sound is beautifully muffled! Folks cross country skiing to work! (At least here in my small town....)

We are in trouble here on the Olympic Peninsula. Our water in the summer comes from melting snowpack. Mountaintops that are usually blanketed in snow are bare to the rock.

We are going to have big water troubles next summer.

On the plus side, I haven't had to shovel my driveway yet. Also, I am so scared about the water situation that if it does snow eventually? I am going to HAPPILY shovel my long, wide and steep driveway.

"I'm with copwatch" and I'm selling realistic looking guns on my driveway and you guys got an anonymous tip saying they were real oh look here's our video camera now we can put this on YouTube. Right......

I'm no lawyer, but I think the citizens in this case didn't properly understand the law. Normally, they are right--the 4th amendment states that the police need a warrant to search a private residence. However, there are several exceptions to that rule including two that are applicable here--the plain view exception and the emergencies exception (see this link).

The plain view exception states that if the police have a clear view of what they believe to be illegal activity, they may enter a private premise without a warrant. And those airsoft guns, which from a distance do indeed look like real firearms, are in plain view from the street.

The emergency exception states that police may search a premises without a warrant if the evidence can be easily destroyed or moved before a warrant can be issued. In this case they had an anonymous tip that illegal activity was taking place at the location? If the citizens were actually selling guns, by the time the cops could secure a search warrant the sellers could have packed up all their stuff and left town.

I think in this case the fact that the guns were on sale in the driveway in plain view coupled with the anonymous tip gives police all the probable cause they need to search the premises without a warrant. I think if these people decided to be assholes and file a lawsuit claiming their civil rights had been violated or something, they'd be up shit creek without a paddle.

Your video, Police Harass Homeowner Over Washing Car in Driveway, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Your own driveway is not a "public place."

I remember when I was really young, I was ridding down the back yard neighbor's driveway to my grandmother's house, I hit a railroad tie and the bike flipped, and in a panic I dropped while it was upside down only to see the bike land on its wheels and continue on for a short bit... had I stuck with it and it did the same thing it would have been epic, but odds are it would have changed the kinetics and just resulted in more pain.

Soooo.....why make a tiny forge for a table-top when you could go the short distance further and build a more efficient and safer example?
I trust home-project enthusiasts with this how-to video like I trust an Alabama neighbor with deep-frying a turkey in the driveway next door.

I don't know about that. I'm sure the guy in the Lambo has eyes and could have you know... slowed down when he saw someone turning. That is a residential neighbourhood... people do tend to pull into their driveways. From how it looks, the Lambo's going quite a lot faster than the other car too.

This isn't as bad as a PSA I've seen that basically says "check the driveway for your kids first, so you don't run them over when you back up."

At my grandmother's pub, we used an old door to roll them down off the truck. Stopping a keg of 100+kg takes a toll on your legs though. Still, hauling it down a 13th century stair into the cellar was even worse. Gives me fucking nightmares even though I only fell down it once with a crate of plums.

Nowadays it's just 50 litres a pop or even 20. You can pick those off the truck and fling them straight down the driveway with ease.

Yep, porksandwich wins the repaving bid for my driveway as well...