Humans, reportedly, taste just like bacon. So you're in luck.

Nope, I'm not confusing them. DoE provided necessary data on sulfur emissions and monitored the power plants. EPA was the one enforcing regulations, based on DoE data.

For not having to breathe sulfuric acid (acid rain)? Or not having your river catch a fire? Yeah, all those damn progressives ruin everything.

Yeah, let's see how the natural experiment with tax-cutting goes in Kansas compared to tax-crazy California.

California surplus: http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/... , median income: https://bber.unm.edu/econ/us-p... , California industry: http://www.business.ca.gov/Why...

So yes, the tale of broke over-regulated union-overrun California is a bit dated. It was true when Republicans were in power in California.

You underestimate the cost of relocation. It's an order of magnitude bigger than the cleanup cost. And we can prevent future catastrophes by building a good sea wall.

New York is also at risk of hurricanes, should we move it somewhere else?

So would you fit a bill for relocation of nearly two million residents in NO and its neighborhoods? Where would you put them? What are they going to do?

New Orleans area is pretty large - not all of it was flooded. Relocating the city would have required to build a completely new infrastructure somewhere close by, probably getting a lot of land under the eminent domain from existing landowners. So no, it's not a good solution.

Protecting New Orleans against floods is a much better idea. We can do this, almost all of the Netherlands is under the sea level, for example. And it's NOT uber-expensive.

And what should have been done? Relocation is not really an option.

SS is _reliable_. You can certainly make more profitable investments than the SS Trust Fund, but you can't make them reliable enough to work for the entire country.

And about natural disasters - pretty much all heavily-populated areas in the US are at risk. California has earthquakes, Eastern coast has hurricanes, then there are tornadoes, heat waves, wildfires and so on. Where do you think most of the US population can relocate?

Yeah, and of course you'll deny all that nice SS checks in case of disability. Or government help if your house is smashed by a tornado.

Nope. California's budget is very solidly in black, average salary is way higher than in Texas and industry is _growing_. It turns out, that being a nice place to live attracts business.

Really. Author is an idiot. He should actually read something that is not a documentation volume for his beloved IBM mainframe.

Linux has cgroups support which allows to partition a machine into multiple hierarchic containers. Memory and CPU partitioning works well, so it's easy to give only a certain percentage of CPU, RAM and/or swap to a specific set of tasks. Direct disk IO is getting in shape.

Lots of people are cgroups in production on very large scales. There are still some gaps and inconsistencies around the edges (for example, buffered IO bandwidth can't be metered) but kernel developers are working on fixing them.

If it was good enough for Gagarin, it's good enough for everyone.

An easy fix, just set your locale in browser to Russian. Voila, no more video ads on YouTube.