The use of "denier" in this context sounds no different than a religious zealot blindly assuming that whatever is "denied" is in fact true. When it comes to arguing global warming, there appear to be more parallels with religion than with actual science.

Terms like "denier" or "believer" have no place in this debate. Both imply an unwillingness to consider what is known and what isn't.

I always wonder what triggers the questioning. Last year I went on a trip to China and on entry back into the US I got nothing from the customs agent other than a stamp on my passport. Same for when I returned from Sweden. About a year before that, on entry, I was asked only about the purpose of my trip before being allowed through. Then, about five years ago, I drove into Canada for a day trip to Vancouver and on the way back into the US was hounded by a customs agent with questions about where I lived, how I got to Washington state since I lived on the east coast -- did I drive there?, and a demand to search the rear seats and the trunk. They did the whole mirrors under the car routine and everything before letting me through. I remember the Canadian border agents didn't care at all that I was going there for the day. Maybe I was dressed more casually when I was in the car, I don't know.

I recall several car TV commercials where the manufacturer used the high resale value as a major selling point. In this case, the manufacturer is using first sale doctrine to attract customers.

Also, car manufacturers and dealers have found a way around the first sale doctrine. It's called a lease.

Virginia Technical University? I've never heard of that one and I've lived in Virginia for my entire life. I guess they mean Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, more commonly known as Virginia Tech. If the editors missed that error, they probably missed a lot more.

To be fair, with airplanes, hours the engine has run and takeoff/landing cycles are more important than age. Of course, being an aircraft owner, you probably already know this.

This happens more than you know. Chinese workers emigrated to the US en masse to build the first transcontinental railroad, albeit the construction was overseen by US railroad companies. Today, plenty of infrastructure and construction projects in the US are awarded to non-US firms -- Skanska comes readily to mind. The huge gantry cranes you see in every US port are manufactured in China and then shipped here, but I don't know if I'd call those infrastructure.

However, it isn't clear from the link you posted or from searching the internet whether the final assembly for the bridges you mention is performed by Chinese workers. Most of the controversy seems to be about prefab components manufactured overseas and then shipped here. Maybe the final assembly is still performed by Americans. There was also a big fuss about this when Boeing started doing this for the 787, offshoring the fabrication of large pieces of the airframe and then flying them to Everett for final assembly.

+1 if I had mod points. This sounds like a lot of the studies that have been/are performed with respect to living at altitude. For example, I remember hearing that endurance athletes can get a significant benefit in V02 max and red blood cell count by living at altitude but training at sea level.

It protects the innocent by disincentivizing the collection of evidence through illegal means.

Throwing out illegally obtained evidence protects the innocent from being violated by the police when the police only have a hunch that someone is a criminal. Otherwise, there will always be a cop or prosecutor willing to break the law and receive punishment on the hopes that their illegally obtained evidence will put away a criminal mastermind. If their alleged mastermind turns out to be innocent, what then? Throwing away evidence is premised on the whole presumed innocent until proven guilty idea.

Sorry, my mistake, it was Bush who gave the apology, not Clinton.

There are at least two cases where this has happened. The Soviets shot down a U2 in 1960 and held the pilot hostage for over a year until he was traded for another prisoner. Also, in 2001, the Chinese forced a P-3 to land on Chinese soil and held the crew hostage for 10 days before they were released. In both cases, I'm sure the Soviets and the Chinese pored over whatever sensitive stuff was left intact and wasn't destroyed by the crash in the case of the U2 or the US aircrew in the case of the P3.

I wasn't born in the 1960s so I couldn't tell you what the public sentiment was at the time, but in the 2001 incident, I don't remember anyone caring all that much about the hostage crew, all the way up to President Clinton. If I remember, the Chinese forced Clinton to give some kind of apology before they released the crew.

I travel to give the occasional presentation and I think I've only seen one or two projectors in the past 5 years that had something other than a VGA input. This is probably why many business laptops still have VGA outputs at the expense of providing others like DisplayPort, DVI, or HDMI.

The other problem is that monitors and projectors long outlive their PC contemporaries. I've got a 20" Dell LCD that I purchased in 2003 that's still going strong today. It has VGA and DVI inputs, since only in the past few years have HDMI and DisplayPort become standard on monitors.

I'm rather partial to DisplayPort and Thunderbolt since the connectors are smaller and don't have pins that are easily bent, but these outputs aren't too common in laptops, unless you have a Mac.

I looked at getting a business account from Cox as well. Except they wanted me to sign a 3 year contract with early termination fees when I only planned on staying where I lived for 2 years. Plus, it was $20 more per month for slower speeds. Instead, I just went with a $5/month hosting plan with unlimited bandwidth and I can still SSH into my home network if I need to.

Part of the process for some of these checks, especially for security clearances, is to find and weed out the candidates who are likely to disclose confidential information. It probably wasn't too rigorous in this case since security clearances and the extensive background checks that go with them are reserved only for US citizens. Getting a clearance, however, can be quite extensive, with investigators running down and questioning everyone you've lived and worked with for the past decade, administering polygraphs, and analyzing your behavior and personality to see if you are likely to keep quiet or blab to the first foreign agent you see. Of course, some still fall through the cracks.