I just wish it was possible to set it to that always instead of having to do it all the damn time. There probably is I just don't like using smartphones enough to figure it out.

Not proportional but yes they do pay substantially more. Also it isn't from the same sources as fuel tax isn't the only source of revenue.

When it comes to how roads are paid for I am fairly ambivalent as part of me says that user fees like vehicle registration and fuel taxes should pay for them, at the same time everyone benefits from goods and services being delivered by good roads even if they do not own a vehicle so I don't really have a problem with paying for them out of general government funds either. Personally I would prefer an all or nothing approach, either all road stuff is paid for by special usage fees and taxes, or it is all paid for out of general fund money as it as least honest.

Loose Unsoldered Connections And Splices?

No that is civilian tech only. For the military version they need to talk to 3M.

My friends and I use to load them in the clay pigeon launcher.

My thoughts exactly, buy why even stop at the $5.95 box? I use to ship things to my cousin with the largest flat rate USPS box (~$14 or ~12 to APO/FPO address) all the time when he was serving in Iraq. The box was something like 3/4 of a cubic foot and what ever you managed to stuff in it would ship. Every box I sent was always packed full and most weighed 20lbs or more. I imagine a box full of CDs and floppy disks would weigh less than the ones I sent that were full of mostly books and magazines with the remaining voids filled with smaller things guys in his unit requested.

Child's play.

Just kidding, but learning how to figure something out takes a long time and a lot of people lack that ability as it seems to fall in the same category of learning things on their own. Starting young does make it easier to get them able to figure stuff out on their own and even at a young age they can do a lot with some guidance. For example I got a free 2 stage snow blower that had some carburetor issues (you really need to drain the fuel and run it dry before putting it away for the season) but otherwise was in working order. It now runs great but needs some work to ensure many more years of trouble free use. So my oldest child and I are in the process of disassembling, cleaning, and servicing everything in it, and he is 6. When everything is all said and done I will likely have about $100 invested in the thing and it will look and run like new, so not bad amount to have a 24" 8hp snow blower. At the same time I get to teach my 6 year old about how things work, how to work with tools, and how to look at something and figure it out.

No but now I want to try it, especially with the one at work that seems to need service every week anyway.

Just because you don't own one, doesn't mean others don't. Personally I like having siege engines in my backyard, although the ballista is my personal favorite.

I love the few conference rooms that have basically whiteboard wall paper in them in the building where I work. Others that work well are the conference rooms with windows which we do write on. I have done the take a picture thing as my company only thought it would be a good idea to have one of those white boards that can print and send a PDF.

I would prefer it didn't exist as well but it does so you can either attempt to mitigate by getting your real world friends to quit tagging you in shit and mentioning you in posts (not likely) or try to leave a mess in your wake. I don't tag anyone correctly and will often go out of my way to post complete bull shit. The most recent was the saga of moving to Havana now that US relations have thawed. I mean why not, it is just slightly less real than everyone's Facebook lives where they push stupid pictures and mind vomit around.

We have a couple of whiteboards that will spit out a printed copy of what is on them or send off a PDF of what is on them. Seems to work great.

Now if only companies would realize that meeting rooms need mroe whiteboards instead of fewer ones, especially if a team is going to use one on an ongoing basis. On one project we had taken all of the mobile white boards from other rooms on the floor and taken to writing on the windows with whiteboard markers. Yes it did progress to something almost out of "A Beautiful Mind".

Just like things that you really don't care about at all. For a long while Facebook thought I was a gay Jew who was looking for a Jamaican lover, yes there are ads targeting this demographic. Also in photos I post if there are people in them I will put names but never correct names, but more of a generic description. I especially like it when the facial recognition fucks up and things there is a face in a cloud, bushes, the grass, etc. and there I will do stuff like tag myself or someone I know as being the fake face. Add in that I like uploading pictures of art and I tag away at those faces, if it is a statue of Zeus I tag it as myself. I tag locations of pictures incorrectly as well as listing my job, and home location incorrectly, and changing them every so often. Then just toss in some random posts about very random things (I have posted some Base64 encoded /dev/urandom output), as well as typing up a post but not actually posting it (there was an article about facebook using info from unposted posts a while back) and it becomes easy to poison their well. Also given that the US government sucks up a lot of public data from places like facebook I get to poison their wells also.

It is because of the fact the Facebook knew who I was that I got an account. At least now I can poison the well.