and the ocean (much like the oil from the BP spill) is taking care of itself.

Yeah, right? And how do we know that millions of gallons of crude oil and millions of tons of plastic aren't good for the ocean?

Bam! Got you there, right? You don't hear that from your so-called "scientists", amirite? Probably, carbon dioxide plus plastic and crude oil are combining with gamma rays from space to make us healthier! And smarter! At least some of us, that is. But not Al Gore, who is fat.

The operating system will look and work differently based on hardware type.

God, I should hope so.

Remember, sending up this satellite might just help us learn that AGW is not a problem, proving that you were right all along.

Don't be mad at Science. Someday, your incomplete in freshman physics will not matter any more.

If my feet are cold, that means I can't possibly have a fever. Fact.

It's "reign" because everybody's watching Game of Thrones.

why is it so evil to just use them as the primary mode of transportation?

"Evil"? You're arguing with a ghost now. There's nothing evil about roads or about cars or about mass transit. They are all modes of transport that are built or subsidized by the commons in order to serve people.

Any human institution can only be measured by how well it serves people. You seem angry at mass transit for some reason. Maybe because it doesn't serve you. But that's not the yardstick for decisions made by societies. Not how well it serves you but how well it serves us.

forced to use expensive, limiting, and impersonal transportation methods.

Mass transit, at least in my city, costs less (including "subsidies") per mile traveled than cars. And "impersonal"? Is that the problem here, that you can't hang your fuzzy dice and truck nuts on your friendly neighborhood transit car? Is this about you being behind the wheel of your own personal 3000 lb turbo-charged locomotive, the way God intended?

The good news is that nobody cares what you drive. But communities have to work. And more people in the US now live in cities than in rural areas. This is not because of the gummint, but because that's the way business likes it. Lots of consumers and lots of workers in one place.

But I'm still trying to wrap my head around "impersonal". I can't imagine anything more "impersonal" than the millions of Toyota Camry lookalikes and mommy SUV's clogging up the nation's roadways, each with one person behind the wheel. Each better than a ton of refined oil-burning, hydrocarbon-belching steel and plastic, just so that one person can get the average 6.2 miles that they queue up to crawl each day. I'll have to remember "impersonal". At least my bike has multicolored streamers coming out of the handlebars, and an officially licensed Chicago White Sox banner flying above so one of the Camry clones doesn't run me over because the driver is too busy texting to notice the fool passing them by on the recumbent bike.

In most of the world the cars and the fuel is taxed enough to not only cover their own costs (roads etc.) but also feed into other parts of the big government sinkhole.

Not even close. Does fuel tax cover the costs of the health problems from pollution? They haven't even touched the costs to society from the decades where gasoline had lead in it and the crime and social problems that caused.

At best, fuel taxes cover the costs of resurfacing a few roads. It doesn't touch new construction of infrastructure.

On the other hand, if you take my town as an example, the mass transit system has allowed many corporations to bring their facilities here because we have an educated workforce who can get to work without having to drive. Not in every location, but in major cities, the subsidies of mass transit pays for themselves many times over.

Cars actually generate revenue. They're taxed very heavily and generate more revenue from those taxes then is spent on cars. A large portion of the gas tax for example is diverted for buses, bicycle roads, etc.

The revenue generated by cars does not make a dent in the external costs of automobile travel.

Everywhere in the US, in every county of every state, automobile travel is subsidized by governments from the town all the way up to the federal gov't.

mass transit is already hugely subsidized...

As is automobile travel and air travel and train travel.

I don't know how much a bicycle is subsidized, but it probably is to a certain extent.

I would be that a lot more money comes out of the public coffers to subsidized automobile travel than mass transit.

This is what's known as "BS".

That's what Common Core should be first and foremost. Teaching people who think Common Core history books don't mention the Civil War to be able to discern truth from the bullshit that they would read on right wing nut job websites or left wing nut job websites. Or conspiracy websites. Or anywhere, Slashdot included. But of course, if you try to teach critical thinking, it sends the right wing nut jobs into a tizzy, because they want to use the Bible as a science text.

The first article, on the "patriot update" site, claims that Common Core stops teachers from teaching the civil war, because there are instructions to teachers when teaching the Gettysburg Address to not give any specific historical background. What they fail to mention is that the textbook and materials involved are not from a history class, but from an English unit on rhetoric and speech. They're trying to get the students to focus entirely on the text itself without relying on historical reference. It also leaves out that it's an English textbook for juniors and seniors. If you check the history textbooks that Common Core uses from the same company. You will find that they make an extensive study of the Civil War in both freshman and sophomore level texts. Forcing students to analyze texts in this way is a common tool for promoting critical understanding of language. Should those students make it to college, they will find this skill immensely valuable.

Oh, and the "genfringe" article, on the website geared toward "conservative millennials" is made up out of whole cloth. Follow the links to see for yourself.

There is a lot to not like about the Common Core curriculum that was implemented during the Bush Administration as part of No Child Left Behind and how it continues to be used today. But not because of any perceived anti-American or anti-Christian bias.

And you are willing to pay triple or quadruple in the store right?

I always see this kind of comment where people seem to think that cost won't be passed down to their wallet but the reality is you don't want the increased cost any more than the growers do. So why don't you put your money where your mouth is the next time prices jump and remember your comments above.

Let's correct a few things for you here...

We ignore the law

Correction... Businesses ignore the law when they hire the illegals. The state of Georgia implemented the strictest sanctions on employers of illegal immigrants and the end result was was a huge failure! ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/re... ). And where were the so called "American workers" to take up the slack? Well, let's just quote that article:

Despite high unemployment in the state, most Georgians don't want such back-breaking jobs, nor do they have the necessary skills. According to Dick Minor, president of the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Grower's Association, immigrants "are pretty much professional harvesters" with many specializing in particular crops.

To even further disillusion you:

Georgia's experience is consistent with economic research on immigration. Although many Americans believe immigrants "steal" our jobs and push down our wages, economists find little evidence of that.

Immigration policy is designed to control the entry of immigrants, it's time we started treating that way.

They are trying to do that with modifications to a law that really, really needs fixing. The example of Georgia shows that isolation such as you are proposing doesn't work and in fact leads to economic harm. So exactly what would you propose? Would you work in the fields to enforce your vision when the immigrants all leave?

If I was to invent a career in order to brag on Slashdot, PhD in English would not be my first choice.

APK, you have to chill, son. It's too easy to simply read comments at +1 and then you disappear for almost everyone except other Anonymous Cowards.

All it takes is for me to check this little drop down menu and then click this... ... ...

It's not possible to downmod a comment in a thread in which you have posted. You didn't know that?

The answer is, "Yes, this is English class for APK".