The preamble outlines the purposes for which the constitution was established.

Seems to me that, in recent history, the government has been failing to meet those purposes.

For any given value of "it", "it" is not important until the lack of "it" because a problem. Therefore, the money won't be allocated proactively.

Every MBA and lawyer I know is very overworked and expected to do the impossible daily. While the lawyers might be a lesser risk of being outsourced, most of the MBAs tell me they are quite afraid of being outsourced.

My daughter did quite well at keeping a balance on her own. My girlfriend and I certainly had a lot of input to our daughter's schedule, but she was the one driving it, not us. She actively pursued out door and social activities, as well as solo activities. Though she tried various junk foods, her preferred snacks were/are "finger friendly" fruits and vegetables (and, sometimes, premium chocolate). She watched very little TV, though did use a computer a lot (mostly for homework, some programming and a little gaming).

I think the kids who watch a screen all day are the ones whose parents are too afraid to let them do anything else.

Do you mean like sit (mostly) still for 75+ minutes doing problems in "work books"? The public elementary school my nephew attended required that most days for its first through fifth grade students (ages 6 through 10/11). (The school day was typically lecture/demo/group discussions from 8 am to 11:30 am, with a restroom break around 9:45. Then lunch, Then a review from 12:30 pm to 1:20 pm, followed by a restroom break. Finally, quiet study from 1:30 pm to 3 pm.)

(Additional restroom breaks were allowed, but strongly discouraged.)

In the US, the TSA is working to bring this to train and bus stations.

Actually, the major providers also own some of the content producers. Comcast owns NBC/Universal, Time-Warner owns Warner Brothers, etc. As such, the providers want to prioritize their subsidiaries' content.

There have been attempts to do exactly that. But, the big providers devised ways to quash or undermine those efforts. Examples:

A town (in Minnesota, I think) had begged the various providers to provide broad band, but the providers declined. So, the town embarked on a project to build a hub with a fiber cable to each home and business. The town's residents voted to approve a millage to raise the funds needed. Then one of the big providers, in an effort to block the project, sued the town. (The provider also built its own last mile network in the town - despite having previously refused - rendering the project moot.)

The residents of another town, elsewhere, formed a co-op to build a similar hub with a fiber-cable to each member of the co-op - paid for by the members of the co-op, so each member owned his/her cable and a share of the hub. When the co-op invited providers to start signing up customers, the providers demanded that each subscriber sign over ownership of his/her cable to the provider (in exchange for a small monthly credit, for several years, to the original property owner - if the property was sold, the new owner did not receive the remaining credit).

Except that the distributors also produce content (Comcast/Xfinity owns NBC/Universal, Time-Warner owns Warner Brothers, etc). As such the "distributors" want to prioritize their own content.

I don't know about Blackberry or Mozilla, but Google supports XMPP messaging with at least several different messaging apps (and Linux/OSX/Windows programs). But even Google has some features that only work with its messaging app.

This group has flown an "airship" to 95,000 feet (over 28.5 km or over 17.9 miles): http://www.jpaerospace.com/Tan...

Also, what happens if one of these quantum fluctuations happens inside our universe and reaches the threshold of viability?

Employers are not claiming that is their cost, they are reporting what the insurance company claims would be the "retail price" of an equivalent individual policy. Employers also report the actual cost as part of their business expenses. The IRS has a set of formulae for deciding if the employee owes more tax.

Interesting. What's different about the Oculus that makes it less safe than a Viewmaster? (FWIW, it seems that Fisher-Price still markets Viewmaster to young children)

Both my girlfriend and our daughter were told that - repeatedly - by teachers, school counselors and "career advisers". Both replied "BS. I'm going to be an engineer."