Quit wasting my fucking tax money on your hair-brained ideas.

Harebrained.

Brains don't have hairs, but hares have brains....

Wasn't that Senator Obama?!?!?!

Not in JAN 2014 it wasn't. Or did you think he was elected President late last year?

If they paid more taxes I would pay less

No, if they paid more taxes, the government would increase its spending to match the increased revenues.

So there's coastal cities and there's "flat as a pancake cities that are 1 meter above sea level"

And then there's New Orleans. Average height above Sea Level is MINUS 0.5 meters. Range is 6m above to 2m below.

I want Gigabit symmetrical with 1 TB of transfer for $50/mo.. This is absolutely 100% possible with current technology.

Then why don't you start a company that offers that service?

If you can do it profitably, you'll have investors falling all over themselves to give you money, since pretty much everyone will want your service....

No you don't. Your watch rotates on an 18 hour cycle, but the boats 'day' (and overall schedule) remains on the standard 24 hour cycle. On top of that, you make the swap from Lima (local time) to Zulu (GMT) once when you leave port and again when you enter port (days, weeks, or months apart)

Irrelevant. You roll out of your rack, go to your watchstation for six hours. Then you do PMS/training/whatever for six hours. Then you sleep for six hours. Repeat till you get back in port.

In other words, you live on an 18-hour day for the period of your patrol.

As I recall, it took two to five days to adjust at each end of the patrol.

Just curous - how did you do your first post? I don't have a "post" button, and can only "reply to this".

Though I suppose that could be intentional. Maybe you have to meet certain preconditions to be allowed to get "post" privileges.

What he means to say is what most of have known in our darkest heart of hearts since the first help ticket: The vast majority of users are technically illiterate idiots, and you can't fix stupid.

Note that there is a difference between "stupid" and "ignorant".

Note that being "technically illiterate" puts you into the "ignorant" category, but that claiming that "technically illiterate" is the same as "idiot" puts you well into the "stupid" category.

Now, arguably you can claim that the vast majority of users really don't care very much about the subject at hand, which might very well move them into the "stupid" group. But being technically illiterate, in and of itself, is not a sign of "stupid"....

SO, they're only investigating the funding sources of people who disagree with their position.

Well, that couldn't be biased at all, now could it?

This sounds like the LRF from Heinlein's Time for the Stars.

They were required to spend their money researching things whose payback was so far in the future that no-one else would touch it.

And they kept making embarrassing amounts of money as a result of the products of their research. wonder if this lot will do the same?

Says the anonymous coward while an Ebola pandemic ravages Africa.

Pandemic???

Africa has 1.1 billion people. With an average life expectancy of 71 years. Which means about 15 million deaths per year.

Ebola has killed about 8000 people in the last 15 months.

Which means that ebola has accounted for ~0.04% of African deaths since the end of 2013.

Sorry, 0.04% of your deathrate does not a pandemic make....

Note, by the by, that there were more traffic deaths in each of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and the United Republic of Tanzania then there were ebola deaths in all of Africa over the last 15 months.

So, if Betelgeuse is going to explode in about 100,000 years, won't its distance to Sol have changed by then?

Yes.

But not by much. It's nearly 200 parsecs away now, and it's moving at about 30 parsecs per million years. So it'll be less than 2% farther away when it booms. Much less, since its relative motion is such that most of those three parsecs will be lateral motion instead of motion away from us.

nope. The constitution doesn't apply to citizens of other countries.

This is incorrect. More properly, the Constitution doesn't apply to people IN other countries.

That is to say, if a German comes to the USA, the Constitutional protections apply to him while he is here. But they don't apply while he's in Germany.