True Story...

I wanted to do this when I was about 30... We have a very prestigious college here so I went there, to the physics lab and sat down with a professor.

He said if I came in with strait A's in math... maybe... otherwise it was an unqualified "No"
He went on to say that if I didn't have strait A's in math to go to the local community college and take math courses that were specifically linked to the University. They have classes that do carry credit at the university. If I could get a 4.0+ in advanced math classes they'd let me in. He said if I was older, I'd qualify as a "Returning adult" and would have lower requirements... 3.0+ I think "returning adult" is in the 35+ age range. But you'd have to contact your local college.

Then I asked if I could at least push the button on the accelerator. That also was a "No" but he at least chuckled.

It might be different at your local school. I wouldn't know.

I believe that he is referring to the Universal Service Fund (correct me if I'm wrong) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
If that's the case, these are fees the Telcos are required to pay to the feds, who then turn around and redistribute to "Target" customers. Generally the poor or Rural customers. For example, Lifeline (which AT&T hilariously advertises as their own charity) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...

So, to call this a "Bailout" or subside is kind of misleading. The telco industry charges more to everyone to pay into this fund, and then the feds award the fund to areas where service would otherwise be too expensive. There have been federal initiatives to fund broadband expansion. Namely Obamas program that basically failed miserably. There are areas of this country that will likely never get wired broadband due to cost. They'll have to wait for wireless services to mature.

Per the study they tested saccharin, sucralose and aspartame.

It's still very popular here. Though, I live in hippy central. I know a lot of people that refuse to eat fake sweeteners and corn sugars. They're switching to these "throwbacks" and, for example, Hunts Ketchup because it has regular sugar. Anecdotaly, none of them have lost weight as a result that I know of. But they certainly have gotten more annoying.

Netflix requires sivlerlight. And, I suspect, 99% of the people out there with silverlight installed, only have it for netflix. I can't think of a single other reason I'd install it. And I specifically banned netflix in my house because of the silverlight requirement.

And you don't need vaccines to be free of the Flu, just a handgun.

You don't need any of that.
Get a LiveCD of any os you want. Burn it, you're done.
You boot to the CD/DVD and its a clean OS every boot. They can't break it because they can't write to it.

To be really safe, tape the DVD drive shut.

Because you're clearly using it in a disparagingly. They're as learned as can be expected given their situation. Medical staff need to take that into account and deal with them appropriately. If my dentist told me to fix tooth he was going to drill a hole in my head, then tried to strap me to a chair forcibly, punching him in the face would not be an over reaction. If I had a medical degree, you could argue, I'd have know that what he said was an appropriate remedy, but that doesn't negate his responsibly as a doctor to communicate with me in an appropriate manner that didn't lead to me reacting violently. It's part of a medical professionals job.

Don't fall for the media frenzy. Keep in mind they are making a lot of money off of all your panicked clicks.

This is certainly a tragedy for Africa. Just like the last 5 Ebola outbreaks were. This one's bigger but that mostly appears to be due to changes in culture and population than any change in the disease. But, by and large, Ebola is hard to transmit. It's prevalent in Africa because of poor sanitation. I've been to Africa (not this region, but others) The sanitation there is awful and even I, being careful, pretty much caught everything under the sun. There is no clean water to wash with. I bought bottled water and washed with that... didn't matter. The food is handled by dozens of people before you get it and there's no way to wash that either. The people that handled it clearly couldn't wash up properly either.

In regards to the medical facilities... they are woefully understaffed, under trained and short on equipment. The biggest difference the United States could make is to send over more of all of these. If the troops were sending are of this nature, it will certainly do a lot of good.

As far as a threat to us in the west though? No... short of it going airborne which, despite the soulless talking heads on TV are saying, is extremely unlikely. And if it were already airborne, we'd all already have it. Luckily, ultra deadly diseases like this burn out very quickly. It's hard to be virulent and deadly at the same time. The dead aren't that great at walking around and infecting people.

When medical workers take your relatives away, lock them into camps where the litteraly die from either the disease or starvation, then refuse to let you burrie your relatives... you might react rather violently when they came for you as well.

Logically we in the west can think about this and say that all of those things were required to control the outbreak. But now think of it from the perspective of a villager that has never set foot in a school and the only news they get is via word of mouth and text message.

Hurricanes. Hurricanes are the problem.

Remember this oil rig?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

And that was without the wave capturing nonsense attached.

Which is why I think attaching something that harnesses that energy to a fragile structure connected to a well capable of ruining a large part of the local ecosystem is a bad idea.

That's hilarious... but it could work if its tethered.

I don't think it'll work with an oil platform. The waves are too strong and the steel is too weak. Platforms get destroyed in storms already... now imagine if it had big wave capturing devices attached to it. Perhaps in an emergency it could cut the wave device loose?

Ships can be taken out of the water.
Propellers are not moving parts. They are fixed, to a shaft that enters the dry part of the boat through a series of bushings. The "Mechanism" is inside the boat.

These wave capture devices are complex folding structures that are entirely under water. Even something as simple as a hing is going to fail in short order under water. Ever had a fish tank? Even freshwater tanks have to have their pumps constantly cleaned and maintained. It's fact. Moving parts in salt water is a terrible idea.

More importantly, the fact that the majority of the value in the car is in a perishable resource. That battery will NOT last forever, and when it needs a new one you'd be better off scrapping the entire car and buying a new one. How good is that for the environment?