Pretty sure you'd need to take them off outdoors to avoid getting the outdoor stuff into the house...

Interplanetary dust? Citation needed, I think.

Even if you're confining yourself to household dust (obviously not the topic of my comment), you're still way off base. For starters, two-thirds of it is typically stuff tracked in from outdoors.

But I suppose if you say that "supernova poop" "has been part of a structure at some point", then you're technically correct...

All OUR structures were once dust, too, and will one day be dust again.

But most dust has never been part of a structure, and probably never will be.

Spoken like a true corporation.

Say, shouldn't you be out fighting a fire, or repairing a road, or arresting an armed robber, or doing one of those other things that taxation is apparently an immoral way to fund?

You meant, of course, the Civil War.

Thanks for this link -- fascinating reading!

At this point I can count on Wunderground to be broken more than 50% of the time. Differently on different days, at different times of day, and on different clients, but broken most of the time. (Trying to change a display preference? Scroll through times in the 10-day forecast view? Select conditions from a controlled (airport) station instead of a random PWS sitting in someone's backyard next to their dryer vent? "We'll be rolling out an update in a couple of months.")

But not to worry. They're maintaining a steady pace of innovation, and soon they'll be broken 100% of the time on all clients.

Wow. Just wow.

Not very big on bathing, then, are we?

Tell us what else leans to the left from your perspective. The horizon, maybe?

I'm not sure there's a correlation between bureaucracy and "leftists", but I'm willing to concede that putting one dictator in charge is an effective way to get rid of bureaucracy. We'll probably differ on whether that's a good thing.

Trucks are more expensive than suicide bombers. In fact, I'll wager that hijacking autonomous vehicles to deliver bombs will remain more difficult and expensive than brainwashing "martyrs" into doing the job.

Yes, astrophysics and cosmology are very simple when you don't bother with numbers.

I'd be happy to see your personal theory peer-reviewed, but I'm afraid the reviewers will probably want to see some numbers. For bonus points, make some falsifiable quantitative predictions. ("Future scientists will laugh at today's dark-matter theories" doesn't count.)

I would love to see a few studies comparing the effects of age-related cognitive decline to the effects of incessant, compulsive TwitSnapGramBook activity. Not that I'd want to make any unflattering generalizations about younger workers, of course.

Is that a branch of the Federal Oligarchy Enforcement Service?

I see that you don't work in Perl.

Well, that would be a considerable improvement from the number of tears induced by existing plans.

VR can "fail", and will, because people don't stick with games where the main challenge is "keep from barfing".

To clarify: today's VR will fail, as did VR from the 1990s and 2000s. We might get there in the 2020s, with tracking cameras operating at kilohertz frame rates, displays refreshing at 300Hz or better, and a graphics pipeline that doesn't introduce more than a frame or two of latency -- IF game designers put some serious thought into maintaining consistent motion perception among all modes (visual-field, inner-ear, proprioceptive).