As also stated by other commenters, none of these are hypothetical.
Sure you can deal with it, but it is not an easy life if those things happen regularly.

BTW. I am very happy with what I have accomplished.

And then a question you answered in more detail is marked down because you included content not covered in class, or a question requires the exact quote from the lecture instead of the facts, or your teacher is just wrong about the facts and criticizes you for disagreeing, or you answer all the questions on a test and the rest of the class is given D's because the test is on the curve.

Clean water from hundreds of miles away is contaminated and them it flows into salty ground (see Australia for an example of this.) Some of it evaporates and descends as snow or rain far away from you. A small amount is retained deeper in the ground which would be great for some plants, but not so good for tomatoes or grass.

Water is not destroyed, but you have to pay for more for the next irrigation cycle.

It might as well be destroyed. If this were not true there would not be such a debate on the volume water extraction from rivers and aquifers.

The pressure inside equals the pressure outside (which is true for us also). They are not hollow glass spheres.

The pressure does change chemistry as reactions are affected by temperature and pressure.

I agree with rational wiki and others:

"While Spencer has become an ID PRATT machine, he hasn't contributed any new cards to the creationists' deck. He mostly just parrots the greatest hits like "no transitional fossils" and "microevolution not macroevolution." He also flogs the "secular religion" trope even harder when it comes to evolution than he does for global warming."

Evolution denier is even looper than doubting isotope dating. Yep, religious agenda. From his comments on "The Evolution Crisis":

"To examine the relationship between science and the Bible, a good place to start is with the origin of the universe. Science presents us with the laws of thermodynamics, the first of which states that the total amount of matter and energy in existence is constant. If this were the only natural law to be satisfied, it would be possible to believe that the universe has existed forever. Indeed, that was the prevailing view back in Darwin's day. However, the second law of thermodynamics states the overall amount of useable energy is constantly decreasing – it is being degraded into a less useful form. In other words, the universe is dying. If the universe were eternal it would by now have experienced what astronomers call a 'heat death' – a state of total equilibrium in which entropy would be infinite. This, among other factors, has led a majority of astronomers to agree that the universe had a beginning. Several thousand years of scientific endeavour has brought the majority of scientists in line with the first verse of the Bible which states, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Well, the first three words of the verse anyway! If there is no God, who or what caused the universe to begin? There really are only two basic options – it created itself out of nothing or it was created by something greater than itself! If everything that begins to exist has a cause, and the universe began to exist, the universe must have had a cause."

"A second issue is the origin of life. There is a vast gulf between the most complex non-living compound such as a crystal and the simplest form of life such as a bacterium. The gap is much larger than the gap between a bacterium and a human being. Science, despite expending enormous amounts of time, is actually further away from an explanation as to how non-living chemicals can accidentally and spontaneously come alive than it has ever been. All the evidence on hand, both in nature and in the laboratory, points to the fact that life only ever comes from life. The Bible credits the origin of life to the power and design of a 'living' creator God."

Because he has some sort of agenda (probably a religious one)

The roots of drone are the male bee, then to unproductive parasite (not making honey), then to the sound that these bees made.

there are two paths to the modern usage: drone as parasite, and the drone sound of a plane.

A target drone would be a mix of the two being non-productive as a war ship and sounding like a plane.

As the drone targets were at least partially on auto pilot, the drones that were "productive" as war ships kept the same name.

The French system is good in this regard that everyone can go to university for one year with almost no restrictions. They have to pass to continue. The costs increase after the first year, but probably less than US schools.

In the UK at least there are charges to attend university (IIRC around £6000 per year) plus living costs. Some of the university cost can be covered by taxes or (rarely) direct grants, but most people now take out student loans to cover both the tuition and living costs.

Leaving aside the meme that anything besides typing cryptic alphabetic strings into a command line interface is dumbing down, the world needs multiple perspectives.

Some of the things that non-nerds would like (at the version several years ago) were short movies showing the history, huts with photos or recreations of what was happening then, the Polish story (forgotten by most), or the shop with interesting toys. Not everyone cares about a shift register/accumulator made of ferrite cores.

The bigger issue here does not seem to be dumbing down however, it seems to be a power grab to displace the magnificient volunteers who really care about computing (and were only mildly chiding when we went into a closed section to look at some computers of our youth, was it so long ago I worked on a Univac or a 1401?). Bletchley was as much as anything a story about computing.

While I think it takes some commercial thinking, the trust has gone too far. It does not look like a reasonable comprimise is likely:

Tony Carroll, an elderly volunteer at Bletchley Park was fired after daring to show a tour group round the National Museum of Computing, which is based in the famous Block H which housed six Colossus computers during World War II. ...
Carroll said: "They are ruining this place. We are all very upset about not being able to tell the story we want to."

The Trust is planning for a bright future which does not include the National Museum of Computing. Visitors to Bletchley Park will no longer be allowed to visit the Colossus machine in Block H and fences may soon be erected to stop them visitors wandering between the two attractions.

In a statement, The National Museum of Computing said that visitor numbers have been dropping since the Trust began its war of attrition.

"Today most Bletchley Park Trust visitors miss the key experience of seeing the Colossus Rebuild and the Tunny machine in action and thereby miss out on key working exhibits representing the outstanding pinnacle of the World War II code-breaking story," a spokesman wrote.

"Negotiations with the Bletchley Park Trust to achieve a fair and equitable financial arrangement to give all Bletchley Park fee-paying visitors access to Colossus and Tunny have proved exceedingly difficult."

The BBC's footage showed Iain Standen, CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust, discussing getting rid of the volunteers.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

I went there with two other nerds and we spend hours looking at the engines, parts, huts, and the computer museum also on the site. I liked the simple nature of the displays (technically complex of course, but simply presented). Something had to be done for the huts of course because wood.

I went again with my wife later (English teacher) and she was very impatient. "Why are you spending 15 minutes looking at a electronic part?" (custom rotor for the bombe.

You have to have the place be self sustaining and provide something for everyone.

Tricky balance.

Your main point was that most Americans never leave the country. Based on local newspapers and TV stations, most never hear much about the rest of the world.

For Europeans, and most of the world, people deal with other who have a different first language. Learning any other language gives a lot of insight about learning languages and about your own language. Three years of French might be too much, but some language study widens the mind.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. H L Mencken

Goon show what time is it
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-...

Or self inflicted hereditary disease or self inflicted chronic injury from a car accident or self inflicted random disease that can hit anyone.

Most state ER rooms will only stabilize a patient, they will not do long term treatments. Even if there is a drug that will treat their condition, it is not given freely.

The only people who can benefit from Medicaid (intended for poor people without insurance) are people who have nothing that can be reposses by the bankrupcy court.

All anyone need to know about public care in America is the large numbers of volunteer doctors (often from outside the US) who set up free clinics in different areas for a week and have people sleeping in the street to be inline for treatment.