This may be the case (I'm nobody's prophet), but I do hope that a conventionofstates.com/ occurs before a split.

Interesting. You accuse me of shifting the topic (for all I narrowed in on it), accuse me of ignorance, and, for the trifecta. . .attempt to shift the topic to sports.
You, sir, are more Gruber than Jonathan Gruber.

And by "encouraged" he meant that the residents would pressure their governors. Sweet river of lies.

You DO understand that, your cheesy protestations aside, We All Know that the ObamaCare River of Lies dumps into the Gulf of Single Prayer?
This is not a "conspiracy theory". This is the conspiracy facts that have been unfolding since Princess Pelosi squeezed out that loaf in '09.

No, I'm not even trying to hint that. APK is whom, exactly?

Gas lines need nonconductive sections to protect from becoming long ground loops.

It sounds like this transformer had its center tap grounded and was the path to ground on one side of a ground loop as the geomagnetic field moved under pressure from a CME, inducing a common-mode current in the long-distance power line. A gas pipeline in an area of poor ground conductivity in Russia was also destroyed, it is said, resulting in 500 deaths.

One can protect against this phenomenon by use of common-mode breakers and perhaps even overheat breakers. The system will not stay up but nor will it be destroyed. This is a high-current rather than high-voltage phenomenon and thus the various methods used to dissipate lightning currents might not be effective.

You're still coloring within the idiotic lines that the health care is some sort of natural right or entitlement, and that a leap of idiocy like the ACA, or Single Prayer, is somehow worthwhile, or even existentially attainable in at a non-disastrous level.
Until we grasp that, at the federal level, we really only want to pursue multi-state and international issues, we are assured of staggering from disaster to disaster until SMOD take us.

What part of the Declaration of Independence and 1787 Constitution are you not grasping? In truth, I think it's the part where the individual, not the state, is the starting point for analysis.

Because our education system is so spot-on.

What we need is more competition and communication of just how abusive companies are.
If people have alternatives, then there is no reward for shenanigans.

Alternately, I understand them all too well. I'm not a tremendous scholar of Islam, either, having only read about half the Qur'an, but I understand the dynamics of how a subset of adherents have used it for nefarious purposes. What I encourage in both cases is careful thought, so that people understand that socialism, like a baby bottle given a child long past the time to graduate to sold food, helps lock people into dependencies that stunt their human growth. But, perhaps coincidentally, empower the 1% that get to manage the bureaucracy.

I'd suggest that they all tend toward the same outcome, but where the U.S. Constitution was a rounder wheel was its careful structure of feedback loops.
I think the feedback loops supported getting rid of chattel slavery in the 19th century, and may help us to get beyond the 20th century entitlement slavery besetting us.

Let us be non-partisan and agree that the books will show him to have been the most systematically deceptive President in history, and a discredit to the ideals (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness) that inform our Constitution.

This bill actually does very little. The DMCA is written very broadly, and has been commonly interpreted as to prohibit cell phone unlocking. Because Congress, in the 90s, when they enacted the stupid thing, was aware that the DMCA could go too far, but didn't want to be cautious or have to keep reexamining the law itself, they gave authority to the Library of Congress to add exceptions to it in specific cases. The process for these exceptions is that every three years, anyone who wants an exception has to plead their case. If found worthy, they get an exception. But the exception only lasts until the next rule making session, three years hence. Then it has to be reargued from scratch or lost.

Two rule making sessions ago, the Library of Congress found that cellphone unlocking was worthy of an exception. But in the most recent rule making session, they did not find it worthy, and the exception was lost; it went back to its default state of being illegal.

This law could have amended the DMCA to permanently allow cellphone unlocking. Or it could've directed the Library of Congress to always find that cellphone unlocking is allowed. But it does neither of these.

Instead it only reinstates the rule from two sessions ago for the remainder of the current session. Next year it will have to be argued again, from scratch, to the Library of Congress, or lost, again. And even if argued, it can be rejected, again.

This is less than useless. It's only a temporary patch, it doesn't even have an iota of long term effect (the rules don't take precedent into account, and this doesn't change it), and we've wasted all this effort getting it instead of something worthwhile.