which they more than compensate for via ownership of a major political party.

There's always choices. People can be relocated to areas where they don't need heating oil, using far less energy than a winter's heating oil contains.

We've dug a pretty deep hole with the food from oil thing, but that was a hole of our own digging, and will be reversed one way or another before the oil runs out - why not start today?

Ya know, long pipelines (100s of miles) leak, all of them, all the time. Installing and maintaining a pipeline is a huge expense, even compared to a railroad.

That being said, they have their places.

If this kind of system were to include actual failed password attempts on the system. It would be fair to take the 3rd standard deviation above the mean, but on a system that never gets its passwords tested, it is unreasonable to assume that all passwords are under a maximal attack all the time.

Also, what's wrong with "pacing" password attempts - exponential increase of time delay between failed attempts up to maybe 30 minutes. It will take a very long time to guess test1234%^ at 30 minutes per guess.

120 proof in pure powdered form, if you mix it 1:1 by weight into water, you'll have something slightly less potent than Vodka or Rum, with 20% sugar in the mixture (from the powder coating.)

When legal basis is secret, everything is legal... or illegal, as the keepers of the secrets deem fit.

Australia has been doing drones "legally" for a whole lot longer than the U.S.

Here, it was just forbidden for commercial use, period (well, sure, you can do it with some special paperwork and exemption certificates and hearings and....). Interesting development if it is freely legal now.

Sounds good, but only if you have a 2nd driver (for the drone) onboard. Otherwise, regardless of how self-piloting the drone is, you should be parked, stationary and out of the way of any traffic, before giving attention over to a flying vehicle with 3 degrees of freedom and a crappy blurry jumpy video feed.

Doesn't have to be... along with the 15 inch holes, I was thinking we could trade the ball and clubs in for ballistic missiles...

And, before FTP, there was Kermit...

Looks like the head on a Budweiser, after it has been spilled in the mud.

Didn't you know? There's not enough grain by product going into our landfills - we must not allow a grain landfill gap!

Extrasolar planet hunting is... spotty at best.

If we actually sent a spaceship into a Jupiter sized orbit of another star, it would still take awhile to spot all the inner planets.

Not only did computers get better, look at basic transportation over the last 500 years... oceangoing sailing ships to jets and spacecraft.

500 more years and we just might be travelling near light speed on the way there.

But, everyone aspired to be that cigar smoking boss, so everyone getting "comfy" chairs was progress, right?