I harken back to a simpler time in a class with a respected teacher. I recall when a valued tutorial correction occurred just like this, and I was forever grateful to that esteemed educator for the lifelong lesson.

On that selfsame scale, I find myself nanoseconds in your debt.

Damming a large (or small) river runs the same gauntlet with greenthink groups as most non-petroleum energy sources: It is a bit of an eyesore and it alters the flow of a majestic natural resource. Ironically, environmentalists most interested in alternatives are the pickiest sort.

I think it is clear that alternative sources of energy not only exist, but will be brought to bear once the easy-peasy carbons are depleted or no longer cost-effective.

What everyone needs to come to grips with is that there is no energy source that meets our current demands without some negative environmental impact.

You would think so.

Sure, but if in this example, you are Arkansas, it would be to your advantage to fill as many of the coding jobs with Arkansans as humanly possible.

The propensity to describe the number of students affected as negligible is in direct proportion to previously held belief sets.

+1 Informeresting.

Although, since this comes from a house with no mods, that and five euros gets you a fancy cup of coffee at the Fivebucks.

You have to start somewhere, and doing something proactive is statistically better than doing nothing.

While this opportunity will not much effect the future of most Arkansan students, there will be some individual talents discovered that would've otherwise been overlooked.

This will be a neat advertising stunt until someone gets killed by a deliveryman hurrying through traffic...

and then, go the way of the "Domino's 30 minutes or It's Free" campaign.

In the old days, a fellow on the run could get by with a fake paper trail.

Now the retinal transplant seems like a plausible future scenario.

Yup.

In order that one might achieve proficiency in his chosen profession someday, a step that cannot be omitted involves failing, occasionally spectacularly, in every imaginable way.

It is positively Palinesque that he can tell from there.

Six hours is 25% of a single day, thus for the year, they were out of pocket six one hundredths of a percent of the time.

I have been described as risk-averse, and I could work within those tolerances.

Even for the often flawed human drivers, this rings true. It seems one of the more common single vehicle highway accidents is the slight drift off the road followed by the panicked, aggressive over-correction... experience teaches us to gradually bring the vehicle back in line by fighting the gut-reaction to hurry.

As with all things security, the human element is the weakest link.

Whether we're talking about handling level 4 agents, following protocol in a nuclear reactor, or paying attention working on a 14,400 volt transmission line, we always get complacent and stupidly comfortable.

After doing a dangerous thing enough times, humans lose that life-preserving fear reflex. That's one reason robots will be needed for space travel.

Absolutely. It's just that being right without the ability to convince people of it seldom leads to earthshaking revolution... you run the risk of losing out to someone who is clearly wrong, yet charismatic and convincing.

This is often the World we live in today, suffering because the person who thought up the head tax couldn't debate as proficiently as the proponent of the metered gas mask.

It only seems like the solar system is upset with us, right? Who could blame them...

Although to be fair, I stand in awe of the fact that the earth herself hadn't done more to cull the human population explosion.