HAM bands in the VHF range will be opening up! I am going to rig for 10m and 15 and see what happens.

I might a QSO from Europe with a little luck.

My aim is much better when I have a script saying I will hit something/someone.

They build the victor's economy if they loot everything that is nailed down...

somehow we have forgotten that lesson: Pillage, THEN burn.

Dude,

use nipple clamps.

I cover the motorcycle horn with my thumb. If I don't think of pushing it, a sudden move by a car will make me grip the handlebars tighter, triggering the horn.

The High beam is also a finger trigger on this bike, sometimes I cover that too, which means I flash the driver as well; think of someone inching forward to make a right turn on a light, I tense a little and the high beam comes on.

Seeing how I don't subscribe to loud pipes save lives, most people cut me slack if I hit the horn.

Really? They have it already: the immobilizer.

Short distance, dongle needs to be just a few inches from the receiver to enable the ignition. Just do it in reverse, if a cell phone is within 2-3 feet of the steering column, the driver door, it shuts off.
 

Horse and buggy for DUIs sounds great!

At least the horse has a sense of self preservation when the drunk driver tells it to do something stupid.

Meh, make them drive a Yugo or Trebant, or stick them on 50cc scooters for life.

Cruel and unusual, but effective.

It is funny, you said the same thing, but I got modded down... go figure.

Of course no learned person believed it, but on the other hand over a hundred years in 1633 later Galileo gets tried for supporting the Heliocentric model.

What someone believed, vrs what one would say publicly, was very different at the time. After all, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

To be fair, they did not have a way to test those ideas, and once they did, they fell out of favor.

While the common sailors may have feared falling off the edge of the earth, the debate with Columbus and others was just how big around the earth was.

You are phrasing it backwards.

The mother fetus null test would have been stated as:

No substances not native to the mother can pass from the mother to fetus.

Then the test would prove that statement wrong.

"Clouds are an optical illusion"

and fly drones into it disproves it.

See how this works?

You must be from Washington DC, where logic has been outlawed and argument for argument's sake is a local pastime.

There is only one possible logical reference to slavery here: ownership of another human being.

Looks like you solved how to keep the manual labor busy....

"I'm not sure it's really appropriate to refer to everyone in the bottom 50% as "the poor", that seems overly broad, but the rest of your point has some merit."

Not what I said, nor does it violate the logic:
Not everyone making less than $50000 is poor.
All the poor make less than $50000

Nor did I say they lower 50% did not pay their fair share, that was your assertion, and does not match with my stated Republican leanings that want to reduce taxes.

I go back to my original post that we want to lower taxes, but are accused of only reducing taxes on the rich.

To which I say that is technically true, as they are the only ones paying significant taxes, therefore any tax reduction that passes will impact the rich the most by definition.

You are kitchen sinking and mixing taxes.

The discussion on Federal Income tax (federal tax burden in my OP) is not based on wealth but on income.
State taxes tend to be less progressive, even here in California.

AS for the calculation, you are not taking into account benefits such as SSI, Food Stamps, etc, that the poor receive as part of the redistribution of taxes.