It is about 10cm or 4 inches spread over the entire state.

There are 264 gallons per cubic meter. So 11 trillion gallons is 4.16e10 m^3. California has an area of 424,000 km^2, or 4.24e11 m^2. So divide the volume by the area, and you get the depth = 4.16e10/4.24e11 = 0.098 m or 9.8 cm or about 4 inches.

I live in San Jose, and we have gotten more than 4 inches of rain in the last week, and it is still raining. There are areas of California (the Mojave Desert) that get a lot less, but also areas (the North Coast) that get a lot more.

This is not unique to tech. Ask any public school teacher about the educational methodology fads they have to deal with.

This is complete nonsense. Bilingual education is deeply unpopular among Latinos, who overwhelmingly prefer English immersion for their kids. Latinos are transitioning to English just as quickly as other waves of immigrants in the past, such as Italians, Germans, etc. You should read some history books on the Italian speaking tenements in Brooklyn a century ago. People then were spouting the same xenophobic nonsense that you are today.

Maybe the idiom database for Japanese is weak. When I try it for Chinese (which is very rich in idioms) to English, and back, it gets nearly all of them right.

That is a ridiculous analogy. You could use the same argument to say that every state, city, and neighborhood should build a wall to control who comes and goes. And "knowing who they are" is not the same as tearing apart families that have been here for a decade or more, working hard, and being (otherwise) law abiding.

And since you asked, yes, I do let "random" people stay in my house. I have sponsored two Naxi girls that came to America as students, and are now permanent residents. I will be sponsoring another immigrant next year.

We are no where close to "full". Most immigrants settle in cities, and the population of most cities has actually fallen in recent decades. Detroit has lost 60% of its population since 1950. A half million hard working Mexicans would be a huge boost to that city.

A long, long way from where we are now.

Because there are many of us that believe that America should be a free country, and welcome anyone who wants to come here and build a better life for themselves and their families. So we are willing to throw any monkey wrench we can into the machinery of deportation.

So failing to tear apart families by deporting the parents of young children is "totalitarianism"? It is our immigration laws that are totalitarian, not the effort to make them more humane.

That seems like a silly thing for a city to be doing. It may be because Microsoft is headquartered there, and they are trying to promote a local company. Anyway, their municipal policies shouldn't affect anyone who doesn't live there.

There are many unsolved problems in machine translation, but neither idioms nor technical terms are among them. For idioms, you just use a lookup table. Even Google Translate gets almost all of them right, and will translate idioms directly into a corresponding idiom in the target language. Technical terms are also easy. Most of them originated in English, and many languages just adopt the English term.

Changing the behavior of hundreds of millions of people is not "easy".

Umm ... no. It is a jpeg image, not HTML. So scrolling in just makes it big and blurry instead of small and blurry. I even trying shouting "enhance! enhance!"

And let me be the first to say that the map would be a lot more interesting if it was actually legible.
Write in letters four pixels high, and you may have a hard time getting your message out.

No. For online and mail order transactions, the sale is not complete until the product has shipped. There are laws that cover mismarked merchandise, and the vendor has no legal obligation to honor the price.

Yes, they do have that option. Which is reasonable and fair. Laws should punish dishonesty, not mistakes.

Nothing on your list is an example of too many participants causing zero participants. Rigged markets may benefit politically favored vendors, but they never favor consumers.