BLOCKQUOTE>but I think we need to argue what he said and not how he said it.

We should argue about both.

How he said it affects whether people even finish reading what he said.

I think he was trying to make complex points.

You can make complex points using paragraphs, rather than just stringing ideas together with commas till your readers can no longer follow your points.

In my case, I hit that sentence I quoted, and by the time I figured out what he was saying, I was no longer interested in continuing to read his comment.

So, even if his ideas were enough to revolutionize several sciences, they're not presented clearly enough that people will work their way through even the three paragraph summary.

Second, I am not adding to a fund that Congress can "borrow from" whenever they want.

Actually, they've always borrowed against it. The "Social Security Trust Fund" consists of a bunch of intra-governmental (zero interest) T-Bills (essentially IOU's) because any income surplus to actual needs is automatically lent to the General Fund.

There are massive differences in biochemistry, physiology and neurology in almost every area between racial groups, including brain size, skeletal structure, biochemistry, genetics, eye color, skin color, and so on, for instance Caucasians are the only racial group where most adults can digest Lactose, and this is clearly due to tens of thousands of years of divergent evolution that caused some races in cold climates to develop higher IQ and larger brain capacity.

So, are run-on sentences a racially based thing, or is that just you?

IOW, try to avoid big blocks of text - shorter sentences and paragraph structures make things easier to read, and more likely to be read.

Be even more interesting to find out how many people don't bother fertilizing their lawns.

Me for instance.

I can think of one of my neighbors who fertilize their flower beds (not their whole lawns), but the rest of us might toss in some weedkiller every few years (or not), and otherwise let it grow...

Its still not gonna be terribly accurate with a smoothbore barrel.

Does the phrase "M1A1 Abrams" have any meaning for you?

Hint: the Abrams gun is a 120mm smoothbore. It's probably the most accurate tank gun in current use.

To go further down that road: All assets are immediately turned over to the government and used to fund cleanup and mitigation. The government becomes the most preferred creditor.

So, the shareholders, eh? People whose 401k's include some of that stock, that sort of thing?

furthermore, WHAT THE FUCKING KIND OF RULE IS THAT!?!? shouldn't the organizer of the event -any event- get to choose if it can be broadcast or not, since aren't they in control of the copyright of the recording????

Ummm...for NFL games, the NFL is the organizer of the event, and get to choose whether it can be broadcast or not.

So, what exactly is your problem with the rule?

A large amount of radioactive material was released into the ocean where it will remain in the food chain for decades.

Hmm, 1.3 billion cubic km of ocean, at 3 ppb uranium naturally...

So, the ocean has, as a matter of course, ~4 billion tons of uranium, of which 0.72% is U-235. So 28,000,000 tons of U-235 in the ocean naturally.

So, if the reactor in question had a MILLION TONS of fuel (trust me, it didn't), it increased the natural radioactivity on the oceans by less than 4%.

A more realistic number would be 0.001% for the increase.

And even that number is a generous overestimate.

Now find me people who:

a. will agree with me

"The true test of another man's intelligence is how much he agrees with you"

I agree the country is going to hell in a hand basket

Note that this has been a common belief for the last 50 years or so.

Arguably, it's been a common belief for the last century....

intended to be tonge-in-chic?

Tongue in cheek.

Again, try to avoid writing things you've never seen written. It frequently makes you look like you're illiterate.

Just so.

Assume 300 new jobs, paying an average of $50K per annum each. Sales tax + income tax on that will be somewhere north of $1M per year (guesstimating sales tax and income tax based on LA's tax rates - too lazy to look up TX's numbers this AM).

And that's ignoring other taxes that might apply, tourism dollars (hell, *I* might go there once it's operational), etc.