I would gladly refuse all Federal Dollars in my State, as soon as they turn over title of all the land in the State they own to the State Government.

Feds own 60% of the land inside my State borders. Much of that Federal "welfare" is just money the Feds are spending maintaining and operating on THEIR land.

Consider the money the Feds pay my State as Rent for operating Wilderness Areas, National Forests, National Research Laboratories and Military Bases for them.

It was a smoke grenade. It might have started a fire, but it wouldn't have brought down the plane.

Part of the reason for the US bias against diesel is the fuel taxes.

The US Government, and the States, have huge fuel taxes on diesel because "those big trucks do more damage to the roads". That could very well be true. But in my region, because of those taxes, diesel has been more expensive than gasoline for a long long time.

Most of our refineries have been modified to produce more gasoline than diesel now. If we were to switch the buying habits, they would have be be changed back.

We don't machine tungsten carbide in our shop, but we do make some pure tungsten parts

We buy it in 2' long rods from China. We have to buy a years worth at a time, lead time is so bad it is the only feasible way we have found to get any kind of price discount.

Cheaper titanium would be useful for us too.

According to the US Supreme Court, an alert from a drug dog is "probable cause" and "reasonable suspicion" exists to pull her over for exceeding the speed limit by any amount

I looked at buying a boat one time. The rule of thumb I was taught was about 10% of the boats value in annual maintenance and fees.

The Federal Government claims sovereign authority over everything over 500 ft. The Feds will continue to regulate this airspace, and if someone has a Federal license to operate a drone, it will override local regulations anyway.

Only thing this will do is bust people using unregulated space. We will probably hear about it being applied to kids strapping cameras to their RC airplanes.

"Work at Will" and "Right to Work" are two different things. What you are describing is a Work at Will, not Right to Work. Michigan has been a Work at Will state for a long long time. But they do recognize the Public Policy and Implied Contract exceptions. If your firing would be in violation of an Official Public Policy, or break an Implied Contract with your employer, they can't fire you.

But you are correct, 43 of the 50 States are "Work at Will" States, and the employer has a lot of leeway to fire you for anything, if there isn't a contract in place. Right to Work makes it more likely that you won't have a contract to protect you.

My company doesn't do a lot of DOD work, but enough of what we do has a NOFORN or higher classification that we have banned all cell phones with integrated cameras from the building.

Even the company president and the sales manager leave their iPhones in their car.

We haven't tried the "destroy the camera" exception.

Our letter had the same patent numbers included in the Bluewave case. So I just assumed after getting their Asses handed to them once, they changed their name to try and fog up the landscape on how to beat them.

Our company got one of these about 6 weeks ago. We kept it, but after some research, we decided to ignore it, for now.

Project Paperless was losing a really big case, that might have got their patent rejected, when they filed to dismiss their lawsuit against someone last year. The defendent got one of the major Copier companies included as another defendent. Project Paperless dismissed the case and ran away and hid. Now they are back.

Our plans to do the same thing if they continue to come after us. Have HP and Microsoft included as defendents, because we are using the software and equipment as designed by both companies.

When I worked for a previous employer, I came up with an idea that was eventually patented. My name is on the inventory, the company was assigned the rights of use.

All patents are like that. The company is never the inventor.

I watched this week as Kodak sold their patent portfolio to a known patent troll. I wondered how we could stop this. Maybe a simple change in US Law.....

Rights could still be assigned to employers, but employers would not have the right to resell those assigned rights. If the company went bankrupt, all those assigned rights would roll back to the original inventor. Anyone else who wanted those rights would have to negotiate with the original inventor. If a Company was purchased by another Company, those assigned rights wouldn't transfer, The new company would have to renegotiate with the original inventory.

This would make it much more difficult/expensive to accumulate portfolios of patents, if they were not the company employing the true inventors.

Sometimes Grid Tie systems are designed that way for the protection of the utility workers, and emergency responders.

If you have a fire in your home/building, firefighters can be at risk for electrocution if they can't easily isolate the solar panels. Grid-tie was designed to automatically isolate the panels when the utility power was cut for this reason.

The other problem with the Disabled Treaty is it is modeled on the American's with Disabilities Act.

While the ADA has done a lot of good for disabled people in our country, I don't see any value to signing a Treaty which would essentially duplicate it. It would unnecessarily complicate the discussion about accessibility and what is required and what isn't.

We had a problem with this in Idaho in the 2008 time fraim

They discovered that the digital gas pumps were crooked. The inspectors used to check them at 5 gallons and 10 gallons and they were always right on.

Someone noticed that the gallons didn't always appear to be measuring at a consistent speed. So they started doing additional testing. The pumps were rigged so that if you bought any amount that wasn't exactly 5 or 10 gallons, you were going to be overcharged. The change was variable, the closer you got to those exact numbers, the closer to exact you total was going to be, but if you dispensed somewhere in the middle, you would pay extra. If you dispensed 7.5 gallons, the pump would charge you for 8 gallons. And over 10 gallons was always going to read high.

Most of the pumps in the State were accurate and honest, but there were several stations rigged like this. The Bureau of Weights and Measures had to switch to a system where the check the pumps over a range of values for accuracy not just specific targets.