$81K might just be a poverty wage in the SF metro area.

This is a crisis the schools create on their own. There is a limit the school board determines is safe for kids to walk/ride on their own. Let's call that distance "x". Above a certain distance from the school, buses MUST be provided. Let's call that distance "y". If y!=x, then the school district should be held liable for child endangerment. Cutting bus service and making parents drop off their kids is unacceptable. And I can't rule it out... I'm sure there's some district somewhere right now that's getting away with it because people are lazy and selfish, and you can't expect government to police itself. But anecdotally, 100% of the people I know who "have to" drop off their kids really just "want" to do it because they're afraid.

Exactly. If the laptops freeze is a minor inconvenience. If the main computers of the ISS freeze the humans inside will freeze too.

No "alternately" is wrong usage in the USA as well.

OK, you get free food at work. You have a comfortable lounge.
  You are also within walking distance. I could see a lot of people actually enjoying working in the office with those two perks.

Imagine all the poor bastards who have to either pack their lunch or waste a chunk of their paycheck on take-out food, burn 30-60 minutes and a few gallons of gas in traffic, only to go to a cube farm with bad coffee and no place to relax.

So it is notable that you STILL prefer working from home!

Stop trying to inconvenience the rest of the world just because you have a problem. And stop trying to project it onto other people. No, I haven't seen streams of men turning on their heels like Abe Simpson seeing Bart working the door of a brothel, just because a guy is already at one of the urinals.

Urinals use less floor space and less water. You can use the stall.

(assault, indecent exposure, loitering in a restroom with intent to commit lewd acts, peeping tom laws, etc.).

Obtaining evidence for those would require the "monitoring bathrooms" that PopeRatzo up there alleged was a motivation of "Republicans".

It's OK when it's the left doing it. Yay corporations! /s

And I'm a guy who thinks this Texas law is stupid.

And soot. So much soot.

Can we use MNP 5 on a 300 bps connection?

Now, what was my Compuserve ID again?

I see. But have we proven that solar and wind power work without huge government subsidies? Because that actually hasn't been tried yet.

I have Jack Welch's book right here to say you're wrong.

But so far, the success rate of female CEOs in large companies is near 0%. For men, it's quite far from 0.

Hey, it worked really well for Yahoo.

Is there any way we can put competent females in charge of these companies? These buffoons are giving fuel to the misogynists.

No, you can't operate it any way you want, any more than you can swing a baseball bat any way you want, throw rocks any way you want, or set fires anywhere you want. We don't need to have a license to have a rock, a baseball bat, or fire starters (at least, not today), but we have plenty of laws in place to dissuade people from harming people or destroying property. Asking legislators to compensate for the failings of law enforcement or actions of jackholes is harmful to the liberty of the peaceful citizen.