The problem is the FISA courts are not oversight. Since they have been around they have rejected only ~5 requests, compared to the thousands they have approved. That is a rubber stamp, not oversight.

Like when I delete an extra space and it changes my font?

Since we do not know what the original words of the bible were, I believe that anyone who believes the Bible is the literal word of God and should be read literally is a fool and should be treated as such.

I also wonder if this is the airports getting upset by the loss of revenue, as most airports charge the taxi's $2-5 per pickup, a fee that gets passed directly to the traveller.

But again, you are thinking like a homeowner that plans to stay in the home for some time. Politicians think very short term, so instead of "If we fix that bridge it will bring more people to the town, and eventually lead to more tax revenue", its "I dont think we we should fix the bridge since it will be expensive now, it will last a few more years". Short term politicians have no incentives to do what is best for the country/state/city in the long term.

While airbags were a bit off the mark to start, the goal and intent were correct and eventually got us where we are today. Airbags have saved many many more lives than they have taken, so I'm willing to take the growing pains as a society to get to where we are today.

As for best practices, how many cities are willingly putting up more street lights? Or repainting roads to make the markings clear? Most of these things the cities/states are required to do. If we got rid of all regulations, we would be fucked. What incentive would a city or state have to fix anything? Why wouldn't a business just dump waste into streams and lakes that feed your drinking water? Its faster/cheaper/easier so it would happen over night.

I hate red tape just as much as the next guy, and I spend a good chunk of my time at work filling out "TPS" reports, but these systems are in place to keep douchebags (people/corporations) from doing what comes naturally to them, screwing us all over. As far as the story goes, I like the idea of rideshare, and can see how taxis are getting pissed, but is that the best thing our police departments can be doing, investigating and ticketing normal people over stepping on a taxi drivers toes?

Not always true. I've seen many incompetent people continue to get promoted in industry. The government ones just get more press.

The problem with Argon is that is it is a direct replacement for Oxygen in the brain. Your brain thinks it is Oxygen, but it is not. You feel fine, and never realize you are having problems. It will eventually move out of your brain, but it takes time. As for the printer, ours is from a different company, SLM. EOS is the biggest, but we prefered the powder handling of the SLM. Concept Laser also makes a nice product.

The metal DMLS printers are designed to constantly "leak" some Argon, as they are always purging a bit, and adding in new argon to the system. And yes Argon is dangerous, but as long as your room is ventilated you are fine. My office is in the same room as a DMLS printer that I run daily. Keep the doors open, and be cautious, and you are fine. Be warned about the metal ones, they fail as often or more often than the plastic ones. I have been running mine for 6+ months, and I still struggle with printing "thick" (1/2" or so) pieces. The distortion in the metal printers is generally worse than ABS, have to strongly fixture the part to the base plate with supports. What kind of metal printer are you getting? We have an SLM-280. As for the Stratasys ones, another department here purchased one and just now realized you have to buy their ABS, it will not work otherwise, which is exactly like 2d printers.

Half of the fun of 3D printers is getting angry at them. If you want one to "Just Work" you are out of luck. Some are better than others, but they all are basically hot glue guns with some servo motors, there is no feedback, no control. You can however, print some really cool stuff. Sure I would not let my parents buy one, but I have loved mine personally.

Are you actually terrified of them? Have you ever skipped a trip, or stayed home out of fear? We were outraged as a country after 9/11, not scared. We were sad and angry, but went back to work the next day anyway.

I don't know about you, but I've never seen a pine tree explode.

It was never about them hating our freedom, Osama himself said it was because of our support of the House of Saud, keeping them in power in Saudi Arabia, and our support of the state of Israel. To those goals, Osama failed, we still have the same power structures in place in those two countries. Now Egypt and other places are changing, so it was a success in other places.

With my wife's and mine crazy diet (shes veggie, I'm lactose/gluten intolerant), and we are generally unfit to kill anything (animal/people lovers) having a stock pile would not do us much good. If society collapses, I imagine I'll collapse with it and be glad for the good times I had. Sure I have some necessities and could survive probably a week without power, but beyond that I'm not concerned. Just remember, you can't eat bullets or drink guns, and no one likes to shoot their neighbors to protect their last bits of food.

I second this notion. I pay $60/m for 40mb/2mb, and it is really shitty during peak hours. I can barely get 1-2mb down during the evening Netflix rush. And God help my latency if the wife decides to watch Netflix while I'm trying to game, goes to absolute shit. 500+ ms ping, seriously? We need more competition, it is completely ridiculous what we put up with as internet here in the states.