I just hope you call before you dig... The biggest single cause of pipeline releases is 3rd party excavation damage:
http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/co...

You're right, pipelines built in the 1930s do fail from time to time. Mainly because it's so hard to build new ones that pipeline companies try to run old pipelines at as high pressure as they can get away with. You should see the difference in how pipelines used to be constructed vs how they are built now. A new pipeline is an amazing feat of engineering. Old pipelines were just whatever pipe they could find laid in the ground.

To make an obligatory Slashdot car analogy: I am suggesting we make new planes so people will be able to travel safer than driving a car. You come back with "yeah, we've obviously never had major plane crashes".

You know, a PIPELINE would be a lot safer way of transporting crude oil around the country... Stopping the construction of pipelines results in more of these rail car accidents you know.

Let's celebrate with 8-16 characters that must include at least one capital, one number, and one symbol but not repeat any character more than twice. Ahh screw it, why don't we celebrate World Write Down Your Password On A Post-It Note Day?

Freedom of speech. Data is just speech between a server and a client. Why should ISPs limit or censor speech between two parties based on their content?

He already tried turning Star Trek into Star Wars, now they are giving him that franchise to ruin too... Star Wars, now with 5000% more lens flare!

It's nice when you want to look at two things on two different screens to have two open windows (I'm looking at you fucking Microsoft Excel and Project). However, I find tabs to be the better organized on a single screen. I hate it when a new window opens up on top of something I was doing and in a random and unpredictable spot.

Gasses expand to fill entire volumes. Siphons transfer from one reservoir to another. You can't really have a gas reservoir. I guess if you had extremes of densities where you had two gasses that would stratify like maybe Sodium Hexafluoride in a Helium environment it might sort of work, but eventually the gas would expand out of both containers and fill the environment to equilibrium regardless of any sort of conduit in the environment connecting them.

In any case... I have no idea really. Googling "siphon with gasses" returns a whole bunch of stupid things about siphoning gasoline. I guess that's one more argument in favor of British English.

Logic fail if people with $1,000,000 dollar net worth are in the middle class that does not exclude you from the middle class if you have less than $1,000,000 net worth. Also, middle class has nothing to do with net worth, it's based on standard of living. People can have a negative net worth and still be considered in the middle class and someone whose stocks are worth tens of millions can be living in the middle class as well. I would bet that greater than 50% (i.e. the majority) of retirement aged people who have a middle class lifestyle have a greater than $1,000,000 net worth.

The way things are going, I fully expect to need $5,000,000 to retire with a middle class lifestyle. The government is printing money pretty darn fast. It can be hard to keep up.

Mod Anon Informative... Siphoning works with all liquids within their vapor pressure limits regardless of surface tension or cohesion properties.

Right, basically a siphon can only work if the pressure at the high point is above the vapor pressure of the liquid. If you pump a vacuum, then your water will vaporize which will kill your siphon. Gravity has nothing to do with it aside from being the driving force behind atmospheric pressure in the first place. As long as you have an unbroken liquid in your siphon, atmospheric pressure is what drives it. If "tension" between water bonds were what drove it, it would behave like a chain fountain and you wouldn't need a closed pipe to continue the siphon.

Where they hell are you getting 5%API right now in a retirement disbursing account? At retirement you are looking at money markets for most of your assets and you'll be lucky to get 2%. A million isn't enough to retire on for most people anymore. Millionaires aren't the 1%, they are the majority of the middle class.

Sadly it doesn't stop with death too. Many more billions are wasted in the funeral racket. In my family my grandmother is a very simple and humble woman, but her darn kids keep insisting on fancy expensive gravestones and caskets in her end of life planning. It's like, you realize we are just going to throw dirt on this right? And she won't be "comfortable" regardless of how many pillows are in there.

It also wouldn't come with the necessary cables to actually hook it up to anything.

Really? My Brother printer is a pain in the ass. When it works over the network it still has stupid moments like no printing in greyscale because the yellow ink is "empty". I have yet to find a non-enterprise printer that I didn't hate.