Especially on that post.

I agree with your premise but will say this regarding human alterations to the environment:

-- Slow changes allow the local flora and fauna to adapt, aka the oyster shell accumulation occured likely over many decades if not centuries allowing different plants to make their way in and establish themselves resulting in an environment that animals can then inhabit.

-- Fast changes are more likely to cause local flora and fauna to disappear, aka plowing up the prairie in North America in the space of a few decades resulted in the loss of many native plants and animals without the opportunity for replacement or adaption, unless you consider corn and wheat a suitable replacement for the prairie plants.

Man altering the environment slowly results in a more stable adaption versus quick alteration.

But do you have the boot floppy that goes with that Windows 95 CD and do you have the floppy drive for that boot floppy? If not do I have a deal for you.

Can't wait until some enterprising Divorce lawyer uses this data to prove the husband is having an affair or a Criminal lawyer uses it to alibi his defendant.

All this data should be available for discovery if the Police have access to it an yes I realize that Divorce is civil.

Yep, had old CP/M based Cromeco systems that had the 8" floppies. For a long time I had a copy of DBase II on 8" floppies to run on that Cromeco system. Lost it in an Air Force move.

Well, the UK nuked sections of Australia (Maralinga anyone) but that was with the permission of the Australian government so I guess that doesn't really count.

Hey Navy pukes can drive fast cars just as will as the rest of the public.

If you are over a couple of hundred feet away from the explosion there will be a difference that you can perceive. You know that sound and light travel at different speeds, right?

If you want a fun demonstration of this get a day on an EOD range, you see the explosion, then hear the explosion, then feel the blast wave, then feel the ground rumble all with different time lag from the actual explosion. Really cool.

A US Citizens gets put on this list. The US Citizen cannot fly from Denver to Chicago, Nothing to do with a foreigner.

Travel within and between the states is not a privilege it is a right. Not all rights are explicitly spelled out in the constitution. Look at the ninth and tenth amendments.

The SCOTUS needs to remember the existence of the ninth and tenth amendments sometimes. In my opinion they should be the most important amendments and I am not a states rights kind of guy.

Until you need to get a resume by HR.

12 years as a successful network consultant and getting a resume by HR sucks because I don't have a master's degree and my certifications are old and outdated. I get the job because someone tells HR to stick it and goes around the system.

Would that be Gary GANOOOOOOOOOU Linux?

1) Why is your large family farm not incorporated like so many of the Wisconsin Family Dairy Farms are? This is partly to avoid estate taxes.
2) $20M - 5M exemption equals 15M taxed at 45% so a 7M dollar bill, already wrong by 2M dollars.
3) Family Farms have and additional deduction of $1M from value saving another $450,000
4) Get an estate lawyer specializing in family farms and do some financial planning instead of whining about taxes you probably don't owe.

Please define modern for me, the estate tax is one of the few that was implemented by the founding fathers.

Wrong, with the 5M+ exemption the $1M dollar Mcdonalds pays nothing in estate taxes to the federal government. Now many businesses are worth more the and $5M but with a bit of estate planning the ability to avoid a large portion of estate taxes is available.

I have not waived my right against unreasonable search and seizure, even with my clearance the US Government has the same warrant requirements to come into my home as they have for the general public. The intrusiveness that I have agreed to is the following: periodic re-investigations where they may or may not interview my associates and family members as to my trustworthiness, the possibility of submitting to a non-lifestyle polygraph because of clearance type, having to report contact with foreign nationals (depending on the type of contact), and informing the security manager if I plan on traveling out of the country.

Not unreasonable search and seizure and a fairly well defined set of requirements for reporting.