How about: depression, leading symptom of early death. Depression as auto-immune symptom. Depression as inflammation of nervous symptom.

We know that spirochetes, like Borrellia, can infect the nervous symptom and cause depression and other symptoms up to hallucinations. They aren't the only things that can do this.

Let's see the research that says forcing yourself to be optimistic changes much of anything.

You really think it will be easy to drop some of these services?

Sorry, but the folks running marketing/sales for cable companies will be hired to set up the new services and cancelling service will eventually become next to impossible.

There are rules of the road. He followed them, she did not. You can be careless whether biking or driving or walking. She was the careless one.

you can get knocked out falling off a bike at moderate speeds, 10-15 mph. You can get knocked out hitting the pavement after just tripping over your own feet.

The rules of the road are there for a reason. It allows cars and bikers and pedestrians to share the same space, while moving at different speeds.

Sports betting is already parimutuel. This is only about increasing the house take.

Not having internal SLAs means you are wise to avoid internal services. You either buy outside, or roll your own. Such smokestack applications are quite duplicative & costly, but it beats getting screwed because some other department decides that your project doesn't get what was promised.

That firehouse light is also direct current, so no fluctuating magnetic fields in the filament causing vibration causing eventual failure.

For a while, you could buy rectifier inserts for standard light bulb sockets. But there was no repeat business, so the original product went away. But there is now a similar product sold as PowerDisc.

The rectified power might not be totally smooth, but is smooth enough to extend life of the bulb by 100x, according to product claims.

You don't own enough tin foil.

The bigger question is whether or not there will be a kill switch in the RFID software. That makes the gun reliably safe for the guy with the kill switch, but not so safe for the owner.

Really, if there are laws pending for kill switches on smartphones, how soon before someone demands a kill switch for a smartgun?

I love cars, but I still expect to get paid if some fool drives his car into my house.

Governor? How about adjusting the contact points which you'd find in the distributor?

Nope, we do not need to respect everyone's opinion equally, but certainly Richard Lindzen's opinion way more than most.

Science isn't a matter of democracy.

Folks have always been careful what kids are taught and always will be. This is just a tussle between schools and parents over what is important, and what will be taught. I'm rooting for the parents. Nobody is preventing you from making your kid read the books.

Highways? How fresh do you want your tomatoes? How long are you willing to wait for that UPS or FedEx delivery to get to your door? Just because the highway goes through a lot of countryside between Chicago and New York doesn't mean that the road is there just for the purpose of the rural countryside it goes thorugh.

Housing tax deduction? I wasn't aware that this was only allowed for rural housing?

In any case, what authority are you quoting about what is and is not part of a successful society?

Ok, I do agree that phone subsidies for Ted Turner's ranch and the old small airport are silly. And some year, it might be fixed. But remember that Congress just got around to removing a luxury tax on phones that was created during the Spanish-American war. So don't hold your breath.

Because the piston fighters can't stop your jet powered ground attack craft.

That sort of depends on what rockets and radar they carry. Certainly, the slow but numerous drones aren't going to get into a cannon fire dog fight, but if they can detect the manned fighters, a flood of missles might difficult for the fighter pilot to evade. I wonder how much our opponents are spending on swarm intelligence for such a plan.

Quantity has a quality all it's own.

fully functioning health care system

for some definition of 'fully functioning'. I don't consider any variation on the UK NHS to be 'fully functioning'.

Solar Powered roofs
Wind power
NEED I SAY MORE

Yup, A lot more. When those high winds blow down your windmills by the thousands, how long will it take to fix? When those high winds break up your solar panels with tree limbs and bricks from the neighbors now busted chimney, how long will it take to replace half the solar panels in the neighborhood?

Maybe you'll be the lucky one and your power will be OK, but there will still be millions without power for weeks if they all rely on solar and wind. Now maybe if they all had a natural gas or propane driven generator, they'd all be OK too.