Well there sure seems to be a large number of them graduating now. And every one of them believes that they are gods gift to management. Add in the ones who have a 4 year management degree and I think we have several generations worth of supply on hand currently.

I might worry about this shortly before I start to worry about the heat death of the universe. If we look at one of the largest lakes on earth which contains about 3,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water and extracted water out of it for the purposes of using the hydrogen in it for fusion reactors at the average rate we have been extracting oil out of the ground for the last 100 years it would take about 5000 years to drain the thing assuming no new water entered it. Now add in that this is one lake representing about 10% of the available fresh water and that most of the water on earth by a very substantial margin is sea water and we should be good for at least the next half a million years or so. This also assumes that we would extract the water at the rate we do for oil even though fusion would be providing orders of magnitude more power for the same volume of fuel. So that pushes it off for at least a few 10s of millions of years. If in that time we haven't managed to get off this rock, I say fuck it we all deserve to die.

With excess energy lots of things become worthwhile to make. We already know how to convert CO2 into hydrocarbons it is just really energy intensive. With excess energy this becomes a non issue if the excess energy is cheap enough. Also given the dimensions of the reactor it could probably be used on jets thus eliminating their fossil fuel use.

Depending on what you saw it might be a rather large one by comparison.

Not very adventurous then, even if it is all contained within your own house.

You obviously don't know some of the people I know. One of my friends from high school got married when it became legal here and is very much the bull dyke (she is also a great lifting partner and is built like an eastern block power lifter), she ended up marrying the lipstick lesbian. Trust me the gender roles exist in that relationship even if the male role is filled by a female. I realize that this is probably outside of the norm for non hetero relationships but what ever works for you.

On a side note was when I was "informed" that my friend was a lesbian. I gave her a call and wanted to know if she was up for going out for some beers (probably once a month we do this) and was asked "if it would be ok to bring her (long pause) partner along?". So we go out and I meet her future wife to be and am informed that she is gay. I responded that it was pretty obvious even going back 15 year when if first met her in middle school on the shot put team and this wasn't a surprise. The next question I had was have you tried a Pyramid Hefe-Wissen.

Sadly that doesn't sound too out of place in my family, but replace block party with party at the farm or local VFW.

Why yes my family is a bunch of rednecks but hey we have a good time.

While bodies are a good measure and I still think there would be more dead than just strapping on a suicide vest the real point would be to strike terror into the general population. And even one or 2 mystery cases would do this. Just look at the money, resources, and freedoms people are willing to sacrifice because of 19 people with box cutters, a dumb ass who tried to set his shoes on fire, and an idiot who set his underpants on fire.

If someone wanted to deliberately spread the disease they should be pissing, coughing, and spitting on just about everything. Do this to people's car door handles, door knobs, trash cans, doors in restaurants, the floor in public places, railings on escalators, the conveyor belt in a grocery store, etc. and watch it spread like wild fire.

I mean if terrorists can recruit people to become suicide bombers why not get someone to infect themselves with Ebola, board a plane when showing no signs and fly to some first world country. Then when you start to show symptoms have at coating as many things a possible in an area with your fluids. Then before you die go rent a car and drive somewhere else very remote (ex. the north woods of Minnesota) and die. This way people who catch it from you aren't on the lookout for Ebola and hopefully can spread it some more before it gets identified.

And that is how you could deliberately create a mass panic in a first world country with Ebola as well as probably getting better results than a simple suicide bomb.

I thought you were in the US so now I understand why so many people are spending so much on a vehicle. Still that seems like a lot of money (percentage of annual income) to be spending on a car. Also I think the prices are similar for those vehicles pretty much everywhere. For SUV prices those looks similar to those in Israel with an entry level jeep commanding about $150k.

Don't spoil the fun. Don't you know mindless spending of money is needed to keep the economy going. /sarcasm

BTW those are some nice numbers and seem to match reality fairly well, although I might chop a bit more off for taxes since SSI is 6.2%, and then there is the Medicaid, Federal, and also likely state income taxes so I would push total the post tax value a little closer to $75k

Wow that is a lot to spend on a car, I guess need to be driving nicer vehicles than I do. I spent about 1/15th of my annual household pre-tax income on my current car (I'm not rich but fairly well off as in I am close to the average near you) a little more than a year ago. I plan on driving this car for at least another 5 years but hoping to make to well over 10. The next most recent vehicle I purchased I spent less than 1% of my annual household income on and that was for a beater to go hunting in. And while my jeep is a beat up rusty pile of junk my daily driver is nice but just not new. Then again I don't play the keeping up with the neighbors game and even in my neighborhood that wouldn't be hard if I cared. Although I wouldn't mind getting a custom ordered brand new M3 but I know I would get into trouble with that car.

Yes Lego was very bad with that during the later parts of the 90's and 2000's and they lost a lot of customers because of it. That said they learned and have gotten a lot better about the special pieces of late. While some of the detail pieces they now have are very detailed and special purpose (looking at you lego frogs and your ilk) there are other pieces that have been been added that are very generic, especially in the studs not on top category. Lego has done a good job in recent years of making more generic parts but using them in interesting ways. Also they have been more willing to use pieces from other themes in other ones so there is a lot more Technic parts in sets that would have never seen them previously.

A great example of this is the recently released Lego Ghostbusters Ecto-1 there are only a few pieces that didn't exist when I was younger (the wheels, slanted grates, some studs not not top ones, and a few others I can't remember) but even at that most of it is made from very generic pieces. It is mostly the reuse of things like pneumatic hose, whips, light saber handles, roof tiles, etc in interesting ways that makes the set. If you would prefer there is this little guy which is also similar in that it has some pieces that didn't exist when I was little but is made from very generic pieces that probably should have been out when I was younger. It does however seem that the style of building has changed a lot from when I was a kid. Now when building vehicles there are a lot fewer bricks used and instead lots of plates and tiles which were fairly rare when I was younger. Or are you implying that if it isn't composed of bricks that are entirely made with right angles it isn't a proper lego set?

Maybe it designed Beta