The problem wasn't the communism. The problem was the "show me your papers." We just learned how to import the second part without the first, it seems.

So in all seriousness I actually apologize. Slashdot removed my attempt at a joke because I forgot about how they deal with things that look like HTML tags.

Between my first and second paragraphs should be a </pedantic dickweedery> tag. Apologies all around.

Production of the car, maintenance of the car, production of the windmill and maintenance of the windmill all produce pollution of various forms including hydrocarbon combustion emissions. Also, you'll never get away from pollution completely because heat pollution will occur -- second law and all that.

That said, good on you, assuming you're getting it at a competitive price.

Or would it be more like God-Emperor by the time anyone else sets foot there?

From what I recall vaguely, Mars has some sort of GPS system set up. Searching it they use GPS towers that give GPS to a small area.

So you're saying the solution is to get /all/ of the US into shooting regularly so as to dilute the tactic of detecting explosives residue into uselessness? Got it.

Worked great for Deepwater Horizon.

Croatia?

I'd settle for five days of public comment before signing bills. This was a simple proposal that costs almost nothing to implement and would give some value, if only in name, to public comment.

With all that money that you were forced by law to pay into Social Security?

Wat?

Ah, I see, you're assuming that market forces are totally rational instead. I wish market forces were totally rational.

Let me spell it out for you -- you think that a 5-25% price difference in salary will make or break a business instead of such things as being first to market, getting lucky on a government contract, or buying the right or wrong start-up. Companies don't win solely because they have the right talent, there are a number of things that have to go right for a company to make it big beyond just talent.

Then again, you're also assuming that women are given the same opportunities to get up to the same skill level as male counterparts whereas this study found that the women were less likely to be considered for mentoring possibilities. Students don't cost mentors anything and there are far more students than mentors, so if there's a systematic bias against equivalent female students receiving equivalent mentoring opportunities then it would make sense that until that bias removed women may never receive the same opportunities in the paid workforce.

Okay, now that we all came we should probably get to trying to figure out whys and hows and such.

Honestly? Whenever the topic comes up and I defend innocence until proven guilty or that convicted sex offenders should be allowed to live a life where they are not constantly persecuted I /do/ worry that others will see me as defending the pedos and vilify me for it.

And since it was the South it was probably its date to prom, too.

You assume managers are totally rational. I wish managers were totally rational.