Yes, you would. You'd be programmed to be happy. (and to not notice the patent number).

I live in the "snow belt" and have driven through Michigan and several other northern states. High priority areas get prepped/cleared first, then other areas in order of descending priority. As such, there are many areas where the road conditions were even worse while waiting for the crews to get to them.

It just isn't affordable to have the kind of coverage you seem to think those states should have.

On the other hand, those of us in the snow belt should not be making fun of those who don't, so are prepared.

Also, Amanda Tapping's character, Helen Magnus on Sanctuary. (I would also counter her role as Samantha Carter on Stargate: SG1 as both a co-lead* and a STEM job.) If you insist on "mainstream" TV shows, I would count Pauley Perrette's role as Abby Sciuto on NCIS as both a co-lead* and a STEM job.

*These are shows with an ensemble cast, so there are multiple co-leads. Also, in both shows, there were episodes where Abby or Samantha were the central protagonsit (as was other episodes where other members of the ensemble were central).

Many company have internal applications that require IE. Fro example, my employer and a lot of other companies I know of rely on a web-based "project time and resource reporting" system that only supports IE (ver 6 or newer) and uses several methods to get around user agent header spoofing. It is the only reason I still use IE.

Probably very few people are visiting W3Schools from their corporate PCs, so their statistics won't include those installations. On the other hand, if people who use EI at work are using other browsers on their own time, that might show a real preference for not using IE. (Of course, there are people like my parents who are completely oblivious to the fact they are using Windows/IE at work and Linux/FF at home. (I set up their home PCs for them. Unfortunately, they keep telling their friends who great I am at keeping their home PCs running smoothly.)

$10k * 100,000 engineers = $1B additional wage cost.

Seems reasonable to me. Of course, I am an engineer (thought not one of those engineers).

Water lines, in areas subject to freezing weather, need to be underground to protect against freezing. Elsewhere, water lines tend to be underground because elevating them is usually impractical in an urban environment. Putting those lines underground actually is very expensive.

Power lines underground are expensive enough that very few neighborhoods are willing to pay the power companies to bury them. Adding lines to existing poles would result in the new lines being too low, so either the poles have to be replaced with taller ones, or parallel sets of poles placed. Either way, is actually very expensive.

The crapware subsidizes the cost of the PC. PC manufacturers get paid to put that stuff on their PCs. The crapware vendors pay for this in the hope that enough customers will like something enough to actually buy the full version. Apparently this happens enough for the practice to be profitable.

I read somewhere that cyanide gas was used. I suspect that if nitrogen was ever considered, the peopled involved assumed it would result in painful suffocation.

Or just closing the room vents. Putting a mask on the convict would likely make him panic.

If you mean simply death-by-vivisection, even the US considers that far too barbaric. If you mean harvesting organs, doctors competent to do that won't do that unless the donor is brain dead. But there's a catch. The US Supreme Court has ruled that the mentally incompetent cannot be executed. If the convict is brain dead, then he is no longer mentally competent, so must then be kept alive until he does of natural causes. Therefore, execution must take the form of stopping the heart, first. But the chemicals used to do that make also make the other organs useless. While it would be possible to anesthetize the convict then use a defib machine to stop the heart, it requires a qualified doctor (an anesthetist) to do that correctly, so again, not going to happen.

No doubt there are unethical doctors who would be willing to do this, but using them would open yet another legal/political minefield. I think Ohio politicians who allowed this execution are going to have far more than enough trouble walking the one they just created.

Even if Texas seceded from the US, they will still drag the US down their "rabbit hole" due to lack of an organized counter balance on the influence their money has on text books.

Sadly, the open text book project won't be of much help. As great the potential of this project for increasing rational thought, ultimately, someone has to put in money to make the texts available, whether electronically or in print. The conservatives who are running text book selection in Texas aren't going to let federal tax money pay for it. And if they'd even touch it at all, more likely they would take the material, re-edit it, then make profits from the distribution (and maybe printing) charges.

The organizations still doing actual science are either under the control of similar conservatives or barely have enough money to do science, let alone donate enough to the open text book project to make a real difference.

And if a grass roots organization tried, how much money would it be allowed to raise before it gets either co-opted or shutdown?

Also note that the people channeling public money in to these schools are also the ones who claim public education is a waste of taxpayer money.

I know some women of the "Father Knows Best" variety, who are on state assistance. 2 of them are windows of soldiers killed in the Iraq war. The others were abandoned by their husbands. Because they were raised to be dependent on their husbands - just like their mothers - they weren't prepared to be "single" mothers. The only jobs they are qualified for are waiting on tables at restaurants, non-cashier work at McDonalds or stocking shelves in stores. They are not able to earn enough to support themselves and their children. and their father-knows-best fathers lost their manufacturing jobs so are not able to help. These women are trying to find new husbands, but seems there are not enough available men who are both able and willing to become "instant fathers".

Most other single mothers I know are able to get better jobs, so don't need state assistance. They were raised to be able to be independent. They do not view themselves as "feminist", merely "capable of carrying their own". Also, some of them are dating men because they like dating men.

I do know a few non-father-knows-best, single mothers who are on state assistance. Their husbands/boyfriends abandoned them. Then they either were forced to accept deep pay cuts, were laid off due to off-shoring or were disabled due to injury or illness. They do not view the state as a surrogate husband. Nor do they view themselves as "feminist". The one I mentioned this to responded, "Then I want a divorce! And a real job!"

Seems to me that the problem isn't "feminism".

Sounds like you work in a generally unpleasant place.

I have rarely experienced hostility or nastiness, let alone sexism. I have witnessed most of my female coworkers be subjected to such on a semi regular basis. Most often, some variation of a male finding excuses for devaluing a female's contribution in spite of clear evidence of equal or superior quality and quantity of contribution. Sometimes there was actual hostility/nastiness directed at women that was never directed at other men.

As for school-age treatment of females vs males, from pre-school all the way up, the school discouraged my female classmates from science and engineering, and for those girls set on science and/or engineering, the school cast them as future teachers (or nurses for those interested in medical science), discouraging them from pursuing careers in industry. My girlfriend, who is an engineer, experienced this bias in school, so did our daughter, who is now an engineering student at a highly rated university.

My colleagues in other companies report similar experiences and observations.