Well, that guy has at least an idea instead of vague nothingness.

A bachelors degree? We don't 'deserve' to get paid more than chemists, but we do. Like everything else, we get paid according to supply and demand. The skillset required to be an artist is tough to develop, but those guys don't get paid much.

Well, you see:

FWIW since the US train system is designed for freight, not passengers, speed isn't really a priority.

Why would they do that

That sounds really hard to exploit

The right place to do this is congress. Really, simple, a single law, and it's done. I don't think this is an issue enough people care about, though. It's something we care about, but we're kind of a minority.

Even if congress didn't keep 'taking money' from it, social security would still run out of money (by 2040 or who knows when), because it is removing more than it puts in. This is an easily fixable problem, at least, there are many ways it could be fixed........however with each year that passes, the fix becomes harder. If we had fixed it in 2000, it would have been easier than now.

It's STILL easier to fix if we do something now, rather than waiting, but it seems destined to remain yet another example of government incompetence.

I think you're getting confused by differences of terms.......in the US, no one is forced to fight. We have to register, but it is something that will not be used until emergencies (of course, the definition of emergency is flexible).

Most countries have some kind of registration, or provision that will allow conscription when it becomes necessary. Some countries, like Russia, South Korea and Switzerland, require actual military service. That is something different, and not what happens in the US.

It's just stupid to blame a lack of policy for somebody doing something illegal. The absence of a policy in no way means the entity endorses an activity.

I suppose you might. Because I don't see how, if something is already illegal, it also needs to be against "policy". Do all company/university policies have to comb through the entire legal code and duplicate it in policy?

I know what's down there

thx

So, you've missed the obvious point, I don't know why but you did. Sure, you can make yourself feel better by looking at the statistics the right way, but that's "using statistics the way a drunk man uses a light posts: for support rather than illumination."

The point is that none of the models predicted the current pause in warming (or whatever you want to call it). Given how much CO2 has been added, we should have seen a lot more warming.

I don't even know how to do this. Would you have a giant load-balancer in front that receives all web requests first, and passes divides it among various servers? What would you do when that load-balancer goes down?