About a decade ago, a one-shot FX series called Dirt came out. It was about the celebrity tabloid journalism industry, I thought it was pretty interesting even though I'm not into that kind of stuff. One of the more interesting parts of it was that there was a schizophrenic photographer, and they did a couple segments from his perspective during periods when he was on and off his meds. I have no idea if their portrayal is how it acutally is, but I thought it matched what we've been described to as the symptoms. When the show was through his perspective, it was hard to tell what was real and what wasn't real sometimes.

Another name for these:

ton(UK) 2240lb = Long Ton
ton(US) 2000lb = Short Ton
Tonne or Metric ton 1000kg (2204.62lb) = Metric Ton

The volume isn't anything to scoff at either. I just did some numbers to get a visual perspective of the plastic mass we're talking about, in terms of container ships. 8 million metric tons at standard container size and weight (1 TEU = one twenty-foot equivalent unit, average loaded weight of 20 metric tons) and with high-capacity containerships averaging 15,000 TEU, thats 27 fully loaded ships. Thats approximately 350 meters long, 50 meters wide, and 15 meters deep of containers stacked 14-high per ship. That's a lot of material.

'Rods from God' becomes much more feasible when you imagine space mining enterprise. In the distant future with captured asteroids in earth orbit, obtaining mass already in space and re-purposing it for orbital weaponry is mostly just a math exercise.

When most people refer to LEGOs, they aren't referencing the company directly but the blocks used to build. Like Q-Tip, LEGO has become the go-to example of building blocks to the point where people call other brands LEGOs. In that sense, the additional S is fine and it explains why so many people reference to them as such.

All road costs are not created equal, and all road values are not created equal. Roads on the coast are more expensive because of required hurricane evacuation routes, and roads in the mountains are insanely expensive for little population, but serve to benefit the people passing through the mountains as much if not more than the people living there. I live in North Carolina, and we have both mountains and ocean, and spending the taxes based on population would make Charlotte and Raleigh great but make the mountains unpassable. The GP's suggestion would cripple a single-geography state like mountainous West Virginia, and in turn cripple Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky.

This is where parents end up having an opposite effect. If you take your experiences and position them as the only possible outcome for your child, you're simply parenting the way you wanted to be parented, not the way the child needs to be parented. You have to look at the entire school and the benefits every other person might have gained from being there, not just a single person's misery, because your child is not you and may take a different path than you did. What can be done, if they experience the same pitfalls, is give them the out that you weren't given as a kid. Avoiding the possibility by removing the opportunities altogether is a dangerous approach.

I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head. Sometimes managing is about managing decline instead of managing product and people. IBM could ignore the signs and implode like a supermassive star on the cusp, or it could shed weight and slowly bleed off in a more safe way, and possibly find a niche in the process. Two companies, one who slowly died and one who resurrected themselves doing a similar downsizing approach, are AOL and Apple.

But what if he's 5 times as fast! That's gotta count for something.

As a matter of fact, I think its *illegal* to open office my job. I work in payroll. We have a divider, a locked door, our own machines, and our own storage. Sticking us in an open area is just asking for an eventual lawsuit.

Your argument amounts to 'because THE LAW.' That is not a valid argument. It has been shown time and time again that it is unsafe to travel 15mph slower than other traffic in most conditions, regardless of speed limits. The law, in this case, is intended to create a safe environment for driving but is failing in those circumstances. The law in some states says that its illegal to do anything but missionary sex, does that mean we should follow it? Hell no. Part of rooting out bad laws is civil disobedience. If people didn't disobey laws and codes that didn't make sense, then there would be no way to find out which laws didn't make sense. Well, unless you want to rely on lawyers, politicians, and lawmakers to make those decisions for us. Sorry, but they move too slow, too inefficiently, and too innacurately.

I have the same problem as you. I don't only use 3 fingers, but I tend to 'hover' above the keys rather than rest them on the keys themselves.

I think I've found the reason I can't type faster on mechanicals, and its precisely the above mentioned hovering. The mechanical keyboards always have higher keycaps, and I tend to have far higher mistake counts on the mechanical. I really think I could enjoy mechanicals if the keys themselves weren't twice the height of the keyboard frame and didnt' have such insane depths.

All that said, I have noticed a quicker reaction time on the mechanical keyboards in games, enough to be noticeable on the MX Browns. This works well for me because I'm not moving my hand very often when gaming on a keyboard. I wish I could get the best of both worlds with a low-keyheight mechanical keyboard, but I haven't been able to find one.

Because in games, you're interacting with the content. Any delay in interaction is extremely jarring. Movies and such don't have this issue.

I work in finance, commonly dealing with payroll systems and data. There's a lot of stuff you can't or discuss in a standard email, and the secure stuff I do send, I only provide the password verbally to the recipient. On top of this, most agencies I need to interact with (state gov'ts/IRS/unions/EBAs) don't have anything available except voice discussion or snailmail.