Huh? Washington DC was not designed to be inhabited? Where were all the people who worked in DC supposed to live? The Metro didn't exist in the 1700's buddy. There were no suburbs back then. Wow, you are really clueless. As a homeowner in DC I can say this is one of the best cities to live in, in the US.

Very true. I know the company I work for loves these programs, there is no risk since it is guaranteed money if you win the contracts. It also diverts engineering resources into supporting these programs.

Um fashion is based on "imaginary property". Copyrights, patents, they have it too. Just try to go copy that Gucci and see how far you get selling it.

If the primary value is gold is that it is "visually pleasing to most people and very useful in many different processes and industries" then why did the value of gold rise over 700% in the last 10 years? Based on your statement it either has become 700% more visually pleasing or 700% more useful for industry. Gold isn't valuable at all, except people choose to invest in it. If there was no gold, some other metal would be used in the industrial processes. Obviously the primary value of gold is for speculation and hedging against uncertainty.

Sure I will. I'm going to fire these people. Oh wait, I can't. And the people who can, won't, because of the Teachers Union. Please explain why we are paying 450k to lawyers who "win" these cases.

Why? Why is it MY job to pay attention to this? I don't have kids in public school. I don't have time or the inclination to do this. Did you notice that they last "winner" got about $150k as a "reward" and the lawyer feed were $450k? This is a lawyer money grab nothing more. And you and I are paying for it.

The School District==The Taxpayer==Me. Great. Another check for me to write and I had nothing to do with it.

I thought the point of the classic experiment was that you couldn't tell which slit they went through, but they were obviously particles because of the impressions they made on the photo-sensitive paper, but they also obviously traveled in waves because of the interference pattern they made at the end of the experiment.

This may be flamebait but its the truth. Unless the platform is truly open you have no control. Security it out the window because it cannot be independently audited.

Um I have a EE degree so I know how power works. I also know that NY is 3880km from California. You cannot transmit power from NY to California efficiently.

What news program were you watching that said "most of the workers died the next day"? You are saying you were watching a news program where they said "most" of them died the next day. You also said that "5000 - 10000" workers were used PER DAY. Based on that and assuming "most" is around 80% that means that 4,000-8,000 died PER DAY or 28,000-48,000 PER WEEK, which is different than 6k-10k per week you just said above.

You see, numbers are funny things, and math is even funnier.

"Most of then died the next days" Where do you get this information? What school did you go to? The WHO thinks that the final toll will be 4,000. Where are you seeing 250,000 to 1,000,000? Are you reading crackpot Russian webblogs or something?

No, no grid in the world can effectively deliver power from a plant 3000 miles away. Wires don't work that way.

50,000-250,000 people died from Chernobyl in 1986????? I must have been asleep. I've never heard this one before.

The grid (any power grid) doesn't work that way. You cannot have plants from California powering homes in New York. If you are going to invest in energy related stocks you need to have a modicum of knowledge of the subject. A degree in EE would help as well.