Of course it's not going to happen. Even if you were the Pope, France isn't that Catholic anymore.

Offshoring... ;-p But your large companies can always hire some H1Bs, of course.

TIL that the adult female artist/designer of that shirt is actually a 12 year old boy.

Maybe there's no ambiguity, but not all people prefer sex with dogs.

BTW, what does the JWST have to do with Obama? JWST went horribly wrong years before Obama got into office. Are you saying Obama is a time traveller? And what does JWST have to do with "studying global warming" anyway?

That's exactly what happened, and look how it ended up.

How do you call it if you get less money than you say you will need? How do you call it if this happens every year? For that matter, how do you call it if they give you more money for something else than you actually requested, and you're mandated to use the extra money for that purpose but you don't actually know how because all the milestones to be completed are already funded by the money you requested?

Everyone. Except for the Space Shuttle. And the Soyuz. ;) In fact, one would argue that it was might have been invented specifically for SpaceX, sort of, since they were the only ones seriously working on a new vehicle at that point.

They actually did it every year, if I'm not mistaken. The requested level of funding has never been granted.

Hardly the primary cause, but sometimes it feels as if someone in power was trying very hard to balance all the good US deeds with evil ones. Probably to maintain some kind of cosmic balance or some other bullshit like that.

Delta IV can't even survive an engine loss. Falcon 9 could survive up to two engine losses, and presumably the reusable version will be able to survive even more if the control system has an option to ditch the stage and use the landing fuel reserve to compensate for higher gravity losses and to complete the ascent instead.

Furthermore, the Merlin 1C engine that failed was already being phased out at that point. If I recall the events correctly, it was the manufacturing process (electroplating) that isn't being used anymore that exhibited a slight anomaly during the manufacturing that specific unit. Since the 1D units are different, this mode of failure was eliminated. The Merlin engines actually ought to be more reliable than the RS-68s, since they need a less extreme turbopump assembly (they don't have to pump the voluminous liquid hydrogen (with 70kg/m^3) at high pressures). Simplicity and less extreme operating conditions ought to directly translate into reliability. The high pressure hydrogen pump was the most problematic failure-prone component of the RS-25, and I don't think that the RS-68 is any different in this respect.

I'm not making an argument that dress codes in themselves are immoral, I'm making an argument that rationalizing dress codes based on equating dress choices with sexual immorality is nonsensical.

Many fewer than Russia, I'm quite sure.

It's a descriptive dictionary. It reflects how people use the word, based on copious surveys of usage. Thus, it reflects the highest probability estimate of how he used the word in question. BTW, I wasn't looking up either "describe" or "prescribe". I looked up the word in question. If the quotations are to be believed, it's overwhelmingly loaded in the direction I hinted at.

Me? "PC"? You'd be surprised. :-p In the region where I live, we don't have these things in an amount that is anywhere close to what is common in the US.

America is a nation of prudes. That's why they have such words as "slutty" in the first place. Then they blame people for dressing in a certain way instead of leaving them alone, as any normal person would. It's almost halfway to Saudi Arabia.