I'm driving at speed limit by I might get a little bit over it during maneuvers. Traffic regulations allow for it.

I actually don't mind if there were fewer speed cameras - I don't speed more than 5-7 mph over the speed limit, but I can see that mild speeding on highways rarely cause problems. But red lights? I wish every crossing had them.

Ok, I might be biased because I was hit by a car once (a broken arm but nothing more serious) when crossing a road (on 'walk' sign).

It's similar, but much less fun.

66F (18.8C) is _cold_? It's a nice warm temperature - it might feel a little bit cold if you spend all of your time simply sitting in one place, but even with minimal movements it's just fine.

As a child I lived in a house made of logs and had to wear woolen socks during winters - the floor was too cold otherwise. The air temperatures at night was around 14C - I slept just fine, but I hated to wake up and dress quickly. To this day, I prefer sleeping with the air conditioner set to 16-17C, though I program it to go back to 22C around the time to wake up.

Rehabilitation is a different topic entirely. And DUI is no different in that regard than theft or assault. I think that somebody arrested for a theft should have the same chance to be rehabilitated (eventually, after serving time or doing community work) as a drunk driver who is arrested for a repeated DUI.

And just as with a theft, I think that the first offense should not lead to a felony conviction if it was not linked with injuries or large material damage.

The best idea I've heard is to make use of aerodynamic lift for that, so instead of falling down on a purely ballistic trajectory you make large enough surfaces to actually _fly_.

You won't be able land like airplanes (or Space Shuttles) do on Earth, but you'll be able to use the lift to cause a stall. If you are careful then you can make your vertical speed to be zero at that moment and your horizontal speed will just be subsonic (I remember reading calculations proving that) for a reasonably shaped airfoil. Then you can use retro rockets to bleed away the remaining speed.

It's complicated, but we have some experience with Space Shuttles that we might be able to reuse.

Is it OK if I go and juggle flasks full of nitroglycerin in a kindergarten? No? I guarantee that there is only a fairly small chance that one of them will explode and kill everybody in the room.

1. OpenLDAP + Samba can handle millions of _objects_ just fine. And tree structures are implicit in LDAP. Amazon even offers a hosted version of it!

2. Exchange is overrated crap.

3. Sure, if 'management' is limited to pretty much locking the desktop background. Try to install and configure non-trivial third-party software through GPOs. Hell, even try to install Microsoft's own VisualStudio.

4. BitLocker is indeed nice.

5. RefuseFS is still very experimental. BTFS supports integrity checking on the filesystem level and DM supports it on block level.

6. DHCP - the original RFC states that is was written by Ralph Droms ( droms@bucknell.edu ) in 1993, when Microsoft didn't even have their own IP stack!

8. BTRFS has dedup. NTFS doesn't support dedup, it's done on the block level.

9. Is anybody still even interested in file sharing?

Yes, the USSR tried to populate the Eastern territories by giving incentives to move (in some cases incentives included such things as 'not being shot'). After the USSR collapse people started moving back to more hospitable regions. There is also a large number of mine towns that are now depopulating because the mines are either downsized or not profitable enough to support the infrastructure around them.

I don't know about Canada, but the same processes happened in the US quite often. Just look at abandoned coal mining towns in Virginia as an example.

No, we are not in a stagflation. Stagflation is characterized by high inflation and stagnant economy, it happens when the economy is constrained by the external pressure (like high energy price) and does not have enough real resources to support growth.

Right now the US is slowly crawling from a liquidity trap (and Europe actually crawls in the wrong direction), so we have unusually low inflation and low growth.

That's a fairly insignificant amount for the economic purposes. Yearly exports of military equipment amount to less than 1% of total Russian exports while natural resources amount to about 80%.

Ok, agreed.

Except that I think that smallish inflation (around 2-3%) is actually good for the economy - it motivates people to invest the money rather than hoard it on low-interest deposits. And in a growing economy there ALWAYS will be people working on products that are not competitive - because there are companies constantly improving their products, so at any given time there'll be some outcompeted players. And purely from empiric studies it seems impossible to have robust economic growth with low inflation unless you are a resource exporting country.

There's a reason why Eastern territories of Russia are sparsely populated. The chief reason is that it simply makes no sense to live there. Just look at Canada - it has huge tracts of land, yet almost nobody lives north of Edmonton.

Russia has enough locally produced food to not actually _starve_. There would be problems with fruit and meat, but you can live without them.

It cannot. T-bonds are commodities traded on multiple open markets, so China could easily buy them there. Closing all the loopholes would be theoretically possible, but it would also mean the end of the dollar as a freely convertible currency.