You probably do. Check on http://www.3dhubs.com/ for someone near you who is willing to print for you.

The conditions species live in aren't constant. Advantages of A and/or B fluctuate over time. If an animal has A, and the environment suddenly favors B, those closer to B win. For a while some animals will have both.

However, every feature comes at an energy cost, so animals quickly let what they don't need atrophy. If in the current environment B beats out A+B minus extra energy to generate both, then they will settle at B only.

At any rate, every organism is a mixture of thousands of features, from A0 to Z99999, many of which get added and deleted all the time, so your whole argument is bogus to begin with.

Look at today's flying squirrels. It's not hard to figure out how you get from walking mammals to this species, nor from flying squirrels to fully winged creatures. Why would it be any harder for insects to follow the same path?

Traffic calming measures have been common for quite a few years now. But I think that Sherman Oaks could take this one step further.

Traffic furniture rearranging.

Every day, get the road crews out there to move some barriers around randomly: dead ends in the middle of some block, random one way signs, maybe just drop a wrecked car in the intersection where the off-ramp exits the freeway. Reprogram traffic lights to introduce 10 minute delays. Make Waze's advice to be worse-than-worthless to the average driver, and just maybe they'll give up on your city.

That depends entirely on the jurisdiction. In some US states, the price marked is the price that must be honored, or the shopkeeper can go to jail. The merchant doesn't get to claim "computer glitch", because there were so many glitches people could no longer tell them from bait-and-switch tactics. So the laws were passed in favor of the consumer, and if the merchant's computer systems aren't up to the task, it's not the problem of the general public.

Doesn't matter if you think it's fair or unfair, it's the law in those places. I think Massachusetts, Michigan, and California all have some flavor of this, with Massachusetts being the most stringent.

It's not random. The ability for adult insects to fly evolved gradually. That has nothing to do with the fact that insects go through metamorphosis, which most likely evolved independently and prior to the capability of flight

Your argument makes as much sense as saying: "I don't believe evolution because people can talk using air even though they spend 9 months sealed up in a bag of water."

It's almost as if France, instead of capitulating to whichever corporation throws the most money at them, instead listens to ordinary people who exercise their democratic voice.

Because Flash still works on many old browsers. YouTube wants to serve as many people as they can, and want to avoid as many technical issues as they can. They know there are many people who got something working five or more years ago that haven't upgraded their browsers to anything that can display HTML5.

I had both a first generation Rio (or was it diomond?), and a disk Man I'd used in my car via aux in back then.

If anything was released commercially, I swapped disks. The mp3 player was used purely for bootlegs and b sides I couldn't easily get on disk.

The 64 megs held less than a CD at high bitrate, and transferring music over serial was slllllooooowwwwww.

I was middle class, disposable income teen (hs senior), I was the only person I knew with an mp3 player until the iPod, and not the first gen, the one with the touch wheel and clicker

Yet I did know audio nerds, I'm very skeptical that mp3 players were used by many at all at that time.

That's not how I remember 1999. Mp3s that's weren't garbage were hard to come by, syncing large collections was super slow, even disk space was somewhat relevant back then.

The flash based long life players had essentially no storage.

Also (I know, going for the jugular a bit here) do you want me to talk about Comcast? Cos I can talk about Comcast.

Yes, France's public transport system, for example is an example of the sort of failure that we, for instance in the UK, shudder at.

Cheap fares, efficient operation, a boon to the country and its people.

Ours in the UK, meanwhile engages in double-dipping (making shareholder profits while receiving public subsidy), has terrible roling stock and fucking high ticket prices that rise regardless of the economics of the country, all along with local monopolies(!!!!)

Those bloody French socialists and their incompetence!

I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on that point. The virus has no "motive", it has only the genetic predisposition to achieve successful reproduction. The humans, on the other hand, have the motive of protecting society, and the responsibility to do so safely. We may be less than perfect on our implementation, but "do no harm" is at the top of the list. The virus does not have any such interest, and death of the host is a perfectly acceptable outcome for a virus.

Do I mistrust the humans doing the vaccinations? Generally not in this country today, but in pre-AIDS Africa, forced vaccinations there were a terrifying prospect. Army units traveled the rivers by boat, and they would stop you to see your vaccination papers. If you weren't vaccinated, they jabbed the needle in your arm on the spot. They'd ask the next person for papers, and would jam the exact same needle in the next guy's arm!

If our programs were that badly run, I'd not only agree with you, I'd take up arms myself. But they're not.

Here, vaccination programs are stellar successes. Polio? Smallpox? Gone, thanks to strong vaccination programs. And most vaccinations are administered by private clinics, who can be sued into oblivion for making any mistakes. They take care with each patient. I trust them.