I live in a city. I can walk to almost everywhere I need to go, except work. I live about 10 miles from work. It takes me about 15 minutes to get work. If traffic is bad, it takes me 30. If I took the bus, it would take me at least 2 hours. I would love to ride a bicycle to work, but I live on an island and the only bridge I can legally ride a bicycle on is about 5 miles north of both my home and office - adding an extra 10 miles onto a bicycle ride. It's also incredibly busy during commute and has no bicycle lanes. There really is no viable option for me, either.

Yep. I try to avoid running errands until I absolutely have to. When I finally go, I always map out my trip in my mind based on avoiding left turns. Only if things have to be done in a specific order do I prioritize a stop that increases the number of left turns./P.

These islands are very strategically important to the naval control of the Pacific Ocean. There is a reason that the US has military bases there. There is also a reason that the Japanese took these islands by force during WWII. There are reasons to knock out communication on these islands, but they all involve conventional warfare with the hope that disruption to normal communication and air traffic would prevent the US from being able to prevent a change in the status quo in the Western Pacific. Obviously, this is not a likely scenario at this point in time.

Enron didn't just steal money from investors. It stole $40B from the State of California, who was paying exorbitant fees to buy electricity to prevent rolling blackouts. All of this was due to the deregulation of electricity generation and transmission.

Yep. I can type in my password all I want and you can't see anything but asterisks. So I can hunter2 all I hunter2 want and you can't hunter2 it

The folks from Enron (who aren't presently in jail) have a bridge to sell you! There are plenty of times where a regulated industry is ideal. Public transportation happens to be one that I highly agree with. I want the government mandating safety rules for airplanes, trains, and livery services. If you don't want that, try living somewhere in Latin America or Africa with all those freelance taxis. Where airplanes get so overloaded that passengers don't have room to sit. And if you survive all of that, let me know what you think when you get back.

I do wish that airlines would stick to their guns about passenger size. I'm a big guy, and have a hard time fitting comfortably in a coach seat. My hips go from arm rest to arm rest and I have to tuck my arms against my body to keep from having them stick out into my neighbor's seat. I used to travel all the time for work and have had even bigger guys push me into the window or the aisle because they were about 1.5 times as wide as me./P.

Very few people in the US own automatic rifles. Only the wealthy can afford to buy one that is obtainable by a person (and not a FFA business). They also have to have approval from their local governments, as well as pay for a stamp to own that weapon.

Just make sure you never forget to send your neighbor a Christmas card, and I am sure it will continue to point the other way! ;)

I've been to quite a few major cities on three different continents. While the underground in London is indeed dirty compared to somewhere like Munich, I would not consider the greater London area to be very dirty at all. Paris is, on the other hand, one of the dirtiest cities I have ever been to. There are major cities in Latin America that are far cleaner than Paris. NYC is pretty dirty also.

I've mentioned this on here before but: When 2.11 kernel came out, somebody put in a sleep with a spinlock in an obscure part of the USB HID driver. I submitted a patch, which was just to revert that one section back to how it was in the previous kernel (which was just without the sleep) and it was rejected multiple times. It was obviously incorrect, but it was not until the 2.17 kernel that one of the mainstream developers submitted the exact same diff that it got fixed. I've never tried to make a contribution to the kernel since. Even when you're reverting a change that is obviously wrong, they won't accept your diff.

Well I agree that they know where he is and allegedly he is not preventing them from conducting a phone interview. In fact, he probably is more than happen to conduct a phone interview or Sweden would be plastering that information all over the news. I would say that a reasonable judge should be able to determine whether or not his statute of limitations is running or not. The question is, do they have reasonable judges or even a process by which to make this determination?

I do not know how the law works in the UK or Sweden, but in the US, you cannot elude capture in order to run out the statute of limitations on your crimes. Once the police file a subpoena to compel you to be interviewed, the clock stops running on the statute. I think this makes sense, in general, though of course could be abused like anything else.

This is an anecdote and I don't have any evidence to back it up but I know that copper theft is very common here (as it is in most of the US). A phone company guy once told me that they've started labeling the fiber to indicate that there is no copper so that copper thieves don't rip out a half a mile of the stuff only to realize it's useless to them.

Oh I know a project manager who types exactly like that. He's in his 50's and I believe he does it to try and look like he is young and hip. To me he looks like he is trying to be a teenage girl. It drives me insane. Use complete words and proper spellings please.