The US is also composed of many nation states as people are bound to forget. Places like California, Illinois, New York, Maryland are collapsing under the weight of government. Places like Texas, North Dakota, and Florida are doing better but the disease of gov't is spreading there as well.

For what particular reasons should we have gone back to rail passenger service decades ago?

Liberty HAD been working very well for Americans, compared to Europe and the rest of the world. There fixed it for you.

Just because Europe and the rest of the world is worse off than in America in many ways does not mean America is doing great.

Not even anarchy, but criminal, war-torn, rape and pillage, tribal Africa, anarchy.

As long as I a single guy with no kids get paternity leave just as often as the breeders I have no problem with it. Or we could just call it "leave" and everyone gets the same amount instead of going down the socialist path which just leads to abuse of the system.

Don't let feminists in?

One of the few things there is no shortage of, irate customers. Have them go work for BT in the UK or any cable company in the US for a week, and they'll learn everything there possibly is to know about dealing with slews of pissed off people.

There is no reason your phone couldn't last a week now. Just need a battery pack the size of a deck of cards attached to it.

That is correct that their are no jobs without a demand, but the customers do not actually create anything. The business is what creates. If you want to see how this works do the island test. You are stuck an island by yourself and you demand a big pile of food, a bottle of rum, and a boat (so you can leave the damn island). Do any of those things spring into existence? How about if their are 2 people on the island demanding those things? No not yet? Ok how about 1 million people on that island demanding those things? And again your statement fails. You can demand anything all day long and it doesn't magically appear. Ok let's try this again on the same island but with a guy who just happens to know how to grow food, make rum, and build boats. He now wants a big pile of food, a bottle of rum, and a boat. So he begins growing the food, builds a still to make the rum, and chops down trees to make the boat. Let's try again with 2 people on the island. Yep food, rum, and boats are being made. How about with 1 million people. Yep food, rum, and boats are being made. Now you could argue that the guy wouldn't have made anything without the demand, so the demand came first, but I would counter with that the business came first because the guy knew how to build those things first. People dream all the time about things they want, but until someone actually figures out how to do it no jobs will ever be created to deliver such things

Average voltage on an AC line is 0 volts. RMS is probably what you intended. But yes, Watt-hours are all basically the same for a given RMS voltage/frequency. We will ignore power factor, that would take a lot longer to discuss...

Just to be pedantic:
The electrons going through your appliances are almost entirely the ones that were in the wire of the appliance to start with. Some electrons may actually drift enough to have come from your house's wires. But for any significant number of electrons to physically be the same ones that were in the power plant is very low probability.

This may not seem obvious at first, but the reason is that the drift velocity of electrons is actually very slow relative to the currents typically used. In other words, a piece of wire has so many damn electrons that you don't really need to move a very large portion of them to get a large current. If we were all using DC mains, then eventually you would see electrons making a round trip. But with AC, as mentioned above, the average voltage is 0, so the electrons move back and forth, but not typically getting very far in either direction.

Also, a more direct thing to consider is that most electrical systems use isolated transformers. So literally, the electrons are not passing from the utility across that barrier (unless auto-transformers are used.) It is an energy conversion to/from a magnetic field.

There is a clever and very practical solution I've heard of in Germany that utilities are using to dump excess renewable electrical energy: hydrolyze to H2 and inject into the natural gas system. Infrastructure already exists, technology already exists, very low cost to implement. So you aren't exactly storing for the purpose of the electrical grid, but overall energy management is pretty good.

Similar things can be done with stored thermal systems in northern climates (you can heat water when energy is in excess and draw from it later.)

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I was just being paranoid. There are just a lot more low res copies so it made it harder to refind this one.

Right around 19 seconds you can see the wires tangled up in the officers hands, which means the taser was fired.

There is more going on than what this video shows.
Scott was puled over in a traffic stop. How far did he run from that? What did he do while fleeing? Why would he flee from the car, then again when the officer caught up with him, and then still keep going again after being Taser'd?

Watch the video again on 1080p. He picks up the Taser and drops it next to him because he fired it and hit him with it, which is probably why he was running away so weirdly. You can see the wires a few seconds before he starts shooting his handgun.

Now the part I find strange is now all the youtube videos of the incident are now all 720p which makes it a lot harder to see the wires. Yesterday there were plenty of versions that were 1080p.

Imagine that feedback you'd get when flying and not turning off your phone like you should.

"Sorry Mr. Anderson, but our records show you going over 300 mph for nearly 4 hours. We are going to have to cancel your policy."

Girls like to do girl things, but mine also likes a lot of the things I do as well. I've spent more on her for fishing, SCUBA, and trips to the gun range than spa days, dinner, and jewelry. She does demand flowers, so I murder a bunch for her every week.