I agree. Although I wouldn't classify it as "unwise building techniques". The damage done directly by wind was probably a very very small fraction of what wind damage does in Florida and NC. A lot of buildings are brick, steel, and concrete. I was in one of them...it was like nothing was happening. There were a couple things at were vastly different than most storms:

1. The significant damage, and it wasn't even close, was flooding. The storm surge coinciding with a super high tide basically dump the ocean into several low lying areas.

2. The wind tunnel effect of tall buildings in proximity turned a category 1 hurricane into category 3/4 winds between buildings.

3. The hurricane collided with a nor'easter. Batshit crazy stuff. How many hurricanes are followed by 6 in of snow within a week?

But to the point, it is OK to build in a 100 yr or 500 yr flood zone. Just don't ask for help from anyone but the flood insurance company. You don't even need to look at stones. For instance, the Delaware River has a park on either side where General Washington crossed the river. Either side also has an old ferry house. It is beneficial to have a ferry house as close to the water as possible. These ferry houses are a solid 100 ft from the river. There is a reason why they built them that far away. These people weren't stupid. So then when the Delaware continuously floods, despite the help of a dam upstream, people act shocked. If people 300 years ago were smart enough, why aren't we today?

However: build there. Just don't ask anyone else for help.

This summary is like saying "half of all people who watch Honey Boo Boo are stupider for it". While it may be true, how much stupider are they? How much did "climate change" affect the weather? Did it make the 200 mph win 201 mph?

You can't assume that a conviction on yes/no, true/false, black/white, did it or didn't do it type crimes will have the same false conviction rate trend as other not-so-clear-cut crimes.

In the case of death sentences, they are usually due to some type of murder. You were either involved in the death of another or you were not. It is easy to classify a false conviction.

In the case of sexual abuse, DUI, etc... there are lines to cross. Who's to say 0.07 BAC crash is fine but 0.08 BAC crash is grounds for 10 years in prison? If the "false conviction" is that they actually had a 0.07 BAC, is it really a "false conviction" on the level of someone who didn't actually kill someone? What about a sexual abuse case where the "victim" lied? It is pretty hard for a murder victim to lie about being killed. It is pretty cut and dry that a crime occurred, the only question is who did it. But in sexual abuse, you need to figure out of a crime even occurred, let alone determine the assailant.

Maybe it stands for "MOO Cow". It is actually a Gateway computer in disguise!

I can confirm as the 2002 test was C++. The test required the test-takers to be educated on test-specific classes. I think we used some class called "apstring". Of course you needed to know the ins-outs of that class, but most of the test assumed it was part of the C++ core language. Then you try to do something on your own...

Is there really enough sun? Is the TCO of those, including cost of subsidies, really outweighing how much electricity could have been produced by power plant? I am going wager "not even close", considering much sunnier non-American non-oil countries aren't actively pursuing solar panels. Including Italy to the south.

Don't forget that the sworn person indexes the copy to make it searchable.

Yes. And Credit Cards too. Because you are using cards, not cash. It just so happens that you deal with the credit card bank with cash, but the credit card bank deals with the merchant in card swiping.

It is bad to assume that gold doesn't have intrinsic value in jewelry and decoration. And that value makes up most of the value of gold. If people are still buying gold jewelry in large amounts, than it must be market price.

Actually, that is racist. The simple statement that someone of another race has different insights is racist. It could be 100% and not derogatory, but it still fits the definition.

Didn't every candidate in the history of candidates do the same thing?

Outlawing prostitution leads to rape and abuse of women and minors.

Who streams the Super Bowl? It is broadcast. This is a problem during regular season 1pm/4pm games, because you can only get your local team then. Those aren't national.

What is worse for the environment? A cow that farts and breathes out CO2 but poops good fertilizer. The electricity required to run a lab that produces the same amount of meat, milk, leather, and fertilizer produced by that cow.

I don't understand how any of those networks are "public". That is why they always needed a warrant for listen to telephone calls and why they should for Internet communications. If someone replies with some kind of "everyone uses it, so it is public" bullshit, then well, you don't know what public means in this context. Was the Civil Rights Act the first time this quasi public-private crap came up in America? What makes McDonald's any more/less public/private than Augusta National?