There were "Occupy" activists that were pepper sprayed, and some were jailed. It was because they were involved in rioting, trespass, resisting arrest, or some other crime or disturbance, not because of the particular political reforms they were championing... when they could manage coherence on the question.

Could you expand on the nature of this "tight grip" over the free world, and the impact it has had? How do you think your freedom has been limited?

And all of this is completely irrelevant to the point I originally made, which is that the regulations you cite don't make a damned bit of difference if Congress didn't give regulatory agencies the authority to make them. That was the whole issue here. It wasn't about what the regulations say. It was about whether FAA (and others, if applicable) have any authority to make them at all about anything other than person-carrying vehicles in the navigable airways. (That was the way the judge put it, more or less.)

Just for the sake of OTHER PEOPLE who may read this, I will clarify my comment above:

I have certainly claimed that some people who call themselves climate scientists have been telling bullshit lies. (Like the "97%" fabrication by Cook, et al.)

There have been a few other times when, in my opinion, other climate scientists were telling bullshit lies. As opposed to mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes. You know the difference, and so do I.

I have no idea -- zero -- whether any of those people are "colleagues" of the guy who calls himself Khayman80. It's pretty hard to either affirm or deny something you just plain don't know.

I have also accused Khayman80 of telling lies, like the lie that I myself am a "pathological liar". (He has substituted other names at various times, but he has definitely aimed that one at me, Jane Q. Public, more than once.) He made the claim many times, yet he wasn't able to show even one instance in which I actually told a lie. Which means he has no reason to either say or believe that I am a "pathological liar", or even a liar at all. So his statements are false, and he knows them to be.

As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

Sigh.

For about the sixth time, in only about two weeks, I am prompted to remind people of this:

Just recently -- only a couple of months ago -- a Federal judge ruled that the FAA has no authority over small low-altitude drones or models, regardless of whether they are being used commercially.

The ruling has been stayed pending appeal, but the judge ruled on the basis that it was never Congress' intent to give FAA authority to do this, and his argument was very strong.

In the meantime, the FAA has seemed to be intent on regulating everything in sight, before the appeals court slaps them down... which it is extremely likely that it will do, since it is pretty clear that it wasn't, in fact, Congress' intent to give the FAA such authority.

In that way, they have been acting just like the EPA, apparently trying to usurp every possible authority they can before the 2014 elections. I have no other explanation for their sudden, intense attempts to pass further regulations.

So NOW, after weeks of insults, ad-hominem and attempted character assassination, you want to try to present an actual scientific argument? Under a heading like that?

What the hell is wrong with you?

It seems pretty clear that something is.

Used to be in Israel you could get them directly from Israel Railways Company(state owned) right from the rail yard, that was 13+ years ago doubt you still can. But they could probably point you in the right direction. Here in the Americas, either your local building company or right from a rail company themselves. I used to buy them here in Ontario from the local CN dispatch office where the guys who did repairs worked. If you wanted more than half a dozen ties, they'd order them in for you. They were about half the cost of buying them anywhere else.

As you well know, I have many times denied both of those.

And I have no reason to continue denying them on demand. Shove it up your ass.

I did not use the words efficiency or efficiency. You might want to work on your reading ability. It's not able, and you're not reading.

Have I read every paper associated with the Assessment Report? No. But then neither have you.

Have I read the summaries? Yes.

What, you think the summaries are dishonest? Yes or no?

So what are these rights of your that you think America is violating as you sit in your bedroom listening to cracked DVDs on your computer? Do you think the US will invade because of it?

WW2 and the Iraq war weren't fought over DVD pirating.

I fully understand how an MCU saves time over using discrete logic. That is a trivial issue. But I sort of fail to see how dealing with complex software on top of complex hardware beats using simple (not trivial!) software on top of simple hardware, perhaps with the exception of this being The Only Way for a lot of solution vendors ("What, you don't want to program in C++ with our 3GB environment? But that's how we do things!").

FedEx used to do these things in Forth. Given how featureful Forth software can be even in tiny amounts, I just still don't see a reason for embedded XP. But then again, what do I know, I'm a brain-damaged Wirthian/Mooreian.

Sure, if your only goal is efficiency. But if it is, you're boring.