Job growth in one year means there are more jobs. Forever.

What an intriguing theory you have.

Note that if self-driving trucks were to become available, truck driver jobs would all disappear...forever. In other words, new technology sometimes makes jobs disappear.

And job growth last year doesn't guarantee the existence of jobs next year. Otherwise, the Great Depression would never have happened.

human beings with worthwhile ideas and commentary are not always absolutely perfect typists or rhetoricians.

So, it's your theory that people who don't know the difference between "their", "there", and "they're" have "worthwhile ideas".

Seems to me that in order to learn enough to develop a worthwhile idea, they'd have been exposed to enough schooling to not make the sort of mistakes one expects of seven-year-olds.

why don't we have kangaroos or elephants in the Americas?

We ate them?

there should be some treaties in place that would only allow space warfare if

Useful hint: first thing that happens when you decide to start a war is that you junk the Treaties.

Or do you really think all it takes to prevent war is a Treaty of Eternal Chumship between all nations on Earth?

What sort of "rebels" would have the training an ability to set up and operate a crew served weapon?

The "military veteran" kind. Off the top of my head, I don't know whether either Russia or Ukraine still has mandatory military service, but even without that, it's extremely unlikely that no civilians in Ukraine know how to use the weapon system.

As to who actually used the weapon, I'll go with the "rebels" who reported shooting down an AN-76 (?) about the right time yesterday, before deciding they hadn't really had the hardware or training to do so.

The USA and Germany were sinking each others civilian boats around the Atlantic during WWII

There were German civilian ships in the Atlantic between 1941 and 1945?

and the actual assassin (who wasn't the intended assassin) had gone off to sulk over the failure, and was walking down the street that the Arch-Duke's procession had chosen to avoid that traffic problem.

The rest, as they say, is history.

"wouldnt of" should be "wouldn't have" or "wouldn't've". Yes, it's a native speaker sort of mistake. What's amazing is that this guy managed to get through elementary and high school still doing this.

As I've said before, never try to type a word or phrase you've only heard spoken.

Two things:

If the law that this law is replacing accomplished the same thing but required annual renewal, then no States will have taxes on internet services.

Unless this is a matter in Interstate Commerce (admittedly, it's probably an easy case to make, but then automobile sales are a matter of Interstate Commerce, and are taxed by the several States), the Federal Government actually has no jurisdiction to tell the States they can't pass their own laws.

This is a law. Like all laws, it is automatically superseded by any later laws passed.

This "permanent" ban is valid only until Congress passes a law allowing (or mandating) a tax on internet access, and is automatically voided by such a law.

In other words, this is a waste of time, and it doesn't matter in the slightest if this dies in the Senate, is vetoed by the President, or just burned in effigy....

How about they actually solve a murder, rape, or kidnapping once in a while? 35% of murders don't get solved .. maybe when they get that number down to like 5% I'll start believing the feds when they say it's gonna rain tomorrow.

In the FBI's defense, it should be noted that they don't investigate murders or rapes, unless they happen on Federal property. Local police handle murders and rapes.

Kidnapping are an FBI thing. Though only since the Lindbergh kidnapping. That was so high profile that J. Edgar thought he could get some great press for the FBI by solving it, so he horned in on what had been just another crime before.

Yeppers.

For me, the biggest attraction of a driverless car is that I could go to work, then send it home. Or send it to pick the kids up from school.

I doubt it's ideal, but I use PasswordSafe and carry it on a USB stick.

And in the end, there are only about three computers I ever access it from.

Hmm, a quick bit of research finds that MOX fuel rods are basically PuO2, which doesn't do the pyrophoric thing - it's stable in dry air, heats up slowly in the presence of water vapor.

Which at least suggests that the panic at the thought of a Pu fire is a bit exaggerated....

Note also that spent fuel rods have rather less Pu in them than you might think, since most of it has been burned in the nuclear reactor before it became "spent".