"Dollar coin never took off because they kept making bills. Other countries that have dollar coins stopped making the bills,"

El Salvador uses the US Dollar as their currency, and dollar coins are in use all over the place.

There must be more to it than just keeping the bills in circulation.

Not only will the US agree to defend your mineral extraction with a publicly funded military (by recognizing your extraction rights), they will disclaim any right to tax you on your gains (by not trying to claim sovereignty).

Privatize the profits, nationalize the risks!

The sequel involves stopping the revolt with cavalry lead by an undead George Patton.

RPI

Looking at the current course catalog, they seem to has moved this later in the curriculum and pulled data structures, algorithms, and some computability topics in before coming back around to the subject of languages. It looks like they put in some compiler design too.

My recommendation for an initial language has long been Pascal. Technically, it has nearly all of the big concepts that you'd want to demonstrate in a computing language. Practically, it is sufficiently annoying that the student will be receptive to the idea that the language of a program is a design choice rather than getting stuck on the first thing they learned.

In your non-Python language of choice, how do you tell the difference between an error in indentation and an error in marking the beginning and ending of blocks?

Where I went to college, the second semester CS course was designed to run through as many different types of languages as they could get through and still enable the students to write something useful. "This is language A, an example of category X. It has features D, E, F and problems R, S, T. It is often used for problem types K, L, M. Write a solution for one of those problem types as your assignment. Next is language B, an example of category Y..."

"you'll only maim a few people directly"

The proximate objective of the terrorist is not maiming or killing, it is terror.

"their bodies will form a shield of sorts protecting others"

Toss your device up, trigger with a pull string. Think of a bounding mine deployed at very close range.

"But Joe, he could've taken it into a bathroom and put it together, couldn't he?"

Not on any plane I've ever been on ;-)

"Are they going to be rescreened before boarding the flight from B to A?"

FYI, there is no concept of "transit" in US airports. Everyone gets re-screened to get on a connecting flight.

"the psychological impact"

Consider the psychological impact of targeting the security apparatus itself: the thing that is claimed to keep people safe turns out to be what enabled them to be killed.

"There was a shoe bomb."

Clearly, we should be required to turn on our shoes.

1) It is a patent application, not a patent
2) Only claim 2 mentions the total lack of windows whatsoever. This is just to cover any ratio of virtual vs actual windows to be sure so that someone else cannot apply for another patent with an explicit ratio and claim that it is different.

The you will have time to read the actual patent application and can constrain your comments on that basis.

Because clearly the US has no population concentrations anywhere.