Actually, there is already a significant state and federal gas tax as well as transportation taxes. It is amazing that people like you aren't aware of this.

While you may hate my idea, out of miss-informed reasons, it is interesting to see how much discussion it has generated. I'm quite serious.

What we need is a $7/gallon fuel tax. That would fully fund the highway departments and vastly encourage fuel efficiency and conservation. Part of that could go to promoting research and installation of wind, hydro and solar.

We also need a mileage tax and it needs to apply not just to all cars using the roads (electric, gas, diesel, etc) but also to airplane travel on a per ticket basis with the goal of discouraging so much wasteful air travel.

The photos are bad enough. Video will be even worse. Hopefully he's wrong.

"All it takes is a pair of siblings to prove that there's no such thing as "provably fair," non-mathematically."

Obviously you did it wrong, you raised your kids wrong. They should be cooperating because they are fundamentally pack, team members and because they are mathematicians. You are illogical.

Scientists have developed vaccine against Ebola that is 100% effective in trials.
They did this by genetically engineering in the genes from the common cold.

The common cold, one of the most infectious and easily spread diseases.

Ebola, one of the most lethal and devestating diseases known to mankind.

What could possibly go wrong?

Real Reason Dark Matter Can't Be Seen: The reason scientist can't find Dark Matter is that they're not looking in the right place. As soon as they look at it then it is not dark matter but normal matter. This is because the Universe is very much like a game simulation in the computer where it only displays what you are looking at, not the things you're not looking at. This selective display saves computational resources allowing a higher, more realistic frame rate. Although the objects aren't displayed they still have to be accounted for in terms of gravitational and other force calculations because they are there. In the real Universe there are many people all looking in many directions, much like a multiuser game, so many more different places are being displayed. Yet, still not all of the Universe has observers at the same time because there just aren't enough people looking or, as the case often is, they're looking at the same think like the Kardashians or a soccer game rather than the dark matter they meant to be looking at. The result is that even with the trillions of trillions of trillions of observers in the Universe not all parts of the Universe are being observed at any given moment. These unobserved portions are simply not displayed. That's where the Dark Matter is. If you look really quickly you might... oops, you looked and it got displayed so now it's no longer Dark Matter... And that is why the scientists can't see Dark Matter.

News blast! Most people are average. Smart is not what really matters. We want intelligence plus smart. If you don't know the difference then figure it out.

Virgin Galactic's 55 successful flights is damn good.
Well, 54... Still those are good odds.
Better than most people play in the lotto.

Very good, Children. You have made the next step towards understanding our instantaneous communications and teleportation device methods for traveling from the stars to visit you. Soon we will welcome you to the Galactic Community.

Your next step is to quell your war like tendencies so we can let you out of your playpen.

Police 'offers' should probably be 'officers' instead.

The bigger problem is that Apple (and others) abandon software and make their OS incompatible with legacy software so that we can't continue using our old tools. If the software followed the API rules in the past it should continue working with the new operating system and the OS vendor should not abandon it. If they want to get rid of old APIs they should provide cross-recompilers for older software or emulation. There is a tremendous legacy of software that is lost because Apple and other companies change their OSs on a whim.

Snob.

Are you really serious.

Perhaps you're writing satire. Poor quality. Poor taste.

The Real Reason Dark Matter Can't Be Seen

The reason scientist can't find dark matter is that they're not looking in the right place. As soon as they look it is not dark matter but normal matter. This is because the Universe is very much like a game simulation in the computer where it only displays what you are looking at, not the things you're not looking at. This selective display saves computational resources allowing a higher, more realistic frame rate. Although the objects aren't displayed they still have to be accounted for in terms of gravitational and other force calculations because they are there, right? Now in the real Universe there are many people all looking in many directions, much like a multiuser game, so many different places are being displayed. Yet, still not all of the Universe has observers at the same time because there just aren't enough people looking or, as the case often is, they're looking at the same think like the Kashardians or a soccer game. The result is that even with the trillions of trillions of trillions of observers in the Universe not all parts of the Universe are being observed at any given moment. These unobserved portions are simply not displayed. That's where the Dark Matter is. If you look really quickly, oops, you looked and it got displayed so now it's no longer Dark Matter...

This, and most things like this, assume that all of us react the same way. But we don't. We're not ants in a colony. Even ants don't all react exactly the same.

Many people have reacted and have taken steps to not only lower their carbon foot print, resource usage and survivability but to make it so that their descendants will also have a better chance of surviving. In some cases these positive reactions are localized and even regionalized.

A "Collapse" is not going to be something that hits all areas equally. Rather there will be some places that are devastated, most likely urban areas who were living high on the energy hog. But there will be many rural areas where the effects will be minimal and life will go on, with some adjustments.

More recent research shows that over 50% of 'peer reviewed' articles are never peer reviewed, that most studies can't be replicated and that 25% of studies are outright fraud.