My wife uses our dish washer to store dirty dishes when company is over but not much else. She complains it costs money to use and produces worse results than washign by hand.

Like most everything its about using it when appropriate. Why do 0-60 in 4 seconds on an empty freeway entrance? Likewise why enter a packed freeway where all the cars are running 60 MPH at 35 MPH, you'll just have to stop.

I also don't get people who get pissed off when I let off the gas early coming up to a red light. Why blow by me when I am now 5 MPH under the speed limit approaching a light that just turned red, and then slam on the brakes at the stop light while I roll up beside you anyway. Just not driving aggressively would save a lot of net gas mileage.

Depends on what you are trying to conserve, from what I find his car is worth about $5k US and yours is worth about $20k US. I think I can use that $15k difference towards a lot better approaches to cut my energy use, such as solar panels or more efficient appliances. I mostly focus more on not driving a lot (~7500 miles a year) rather than using less gas and driving like crazy.

I can't see eliminating cash as also eliminating precious metals. Non government forms of trade good are hard to eliminate.

I've seen model based development try to replace coders. SCADE is becoming more widely used but still needs software developers to work with it. Seems to be more about the mindset of a developer being able to turn an input into an output without forgetting any possible conditions (which even developers often fail at).

Well the sports industry seems to be more than happy to support those in denial about their abilities. While those in denial about their abilities can often squeak by in the software industry, those truly in denial often get soundly squashed.

Say what? I learned to program really good in C and as a result can pick up any C like language pretty quickly and write good code in it. I don't relearn programming, I just pick up the minor (and sometimes major) syntax differences but the higher level concepts are all the same.

Around here the big money is going to people who can program Ada and understand DO-178b processes. Something not taught in any school I've been to.

Then why do I keep getting (very good paying) work to fix things that were outsourced? And typically a dozen of us high payed workers cost less to completely rework the unusable results of outsourcing...

Because it left the ground, these days anything operated outside of the military that is off the ground is bad... or so it seems.

Most of the commercial fireworks displays around me didn't start until around 10PM.

I spent an hour lighting off fireworks with a relative. On the drive home I went past a crash that killed a motorcycle rider. The crash scared me far more than the fireworks...

Or maybe http://www.foxnews.com/ would be a better example. I'm blaming them on the international community from now on.

So http://www.cnn.com/ is international news because it is read outside the US?

In the same category as Obesity?