Also, the eye only saw Frodo because he was in the Seat of Seeing in Amon Hen, which is enchanted to act as a sort of observatory. While long abandoned, the enchantment was still active. It allowed Frodo to see far into the distance, possibly enhanced by the ring, it also allowed Sauron to see him back, similar to the Palantir.
I kinda get it, there was a pretty big difference between the lunch and dinner menu. The lunch was typical Chinese buffet, dinner had shrimp and crab legs and such. We just told him we'll stay away from the crab legs if we paid for lunch.
We used to go to the buffet after practice. My teammates and I would be so hungry we could do three or four plates. We'd usually get there around 4, and while we were there they'd transition from lunch to dinner, which had different food and was more expensive, but we'd paid for lunch.
It was technically allowed, but because we were doing it consistently, and just eating so much, the manager came up to our table to have a talk with us about it. Didn't tell us to stop, but just tried to shame us. He said "I know what you're doing". We weren't doing it on purpose, we just came in hungry when practice ended.
I had a paycheck bounce once. Bank of America retroactively applied a $30 fee to every transaction I had made in the three days since depositing it. My balance went from like $800 to -$2000 instantly.
They're super conservative. I rode just once in one. There was a parked ambulance down a side street about 30 feet with it's lights one while paramedics helped someone. The car wouldn't drive forward through the intersection. It just detected the lights and froze. I had to get out and walk. If we all drove that conservatively we'd also have less accidents and congest the city to undrivability.
You're forgetting about transmission. That's one of the biggest hurdles towards a solar future. Putting the generation right next to where the power is used is much more efficient both in transmission, infrastructure and maintenance.
I had these and had the same battery problem. I ordered some replacement batteries and replaced the one that was having issues. They were great again for a while. Then the other one started having issues. Then I accidentally damaged the ribbon cable while taking that one apart. Now they're junk. I'm still pissed about it. It would have been so easy for them to make replacing the batteries easy.
That's why I moved out into the forest to raise my boy.