What are they doing reading an article about DST then?

Obligatory Onion link and XKCD link

If the boss is coming to fire you, then the server is no longer critical information. The boss coming to fire you isn't really critical information either, since having it doesn't give you any options anyway - the decision has already been made.

Surely an atheist can believe that abortion is a murder and desire to have no part in it.

Atheists aren't psychopaths who wouldn't care either way.

You're not really doing anyone any favors by calling people "deniers." I get that you want to refer to people who hold on to skepticism by using a pejorative, but it's only going to have a polarizing effect, preventing those who were on or near the fence from coming over to your side.

Especially when the pejorative in question is a deliberate reference to anti-semetics who pretend that the freaking holocaust never happened, often with the side claim that they would like there to be one now.

Most people don't like to be associated, even in a small way, with a group like that.

Registration and Operation? Individual states. The federal government exerts its influence by bribing the states with their own money (i.e. "federal" highway funds)

I'm not 100% convinced it's the cars that are the problem. Sure, there is extra congestion from more cars and there is obviously a limit as to how many road of given width can support, but there are other users of the roads that I think may be the seeds of traffic: Bulk transport vehicles.

Without their slow acceleration and poor hill performance, the car traffic would be able to move at a fairly constant rate. Instead, whenever one of these vehicles attempts to merge in or climb a hill, its lane becomes obstructed. Drivers naturally attempt to route around the obstruction, spreading velocity differences into the neighboring lanes. Also, the flimsy rag they cover the spoil with is insufficient to prevent a comet tail of paint-scratching debris.

Bulk transport vehicles should not be in high-traffic areas during peak commute times.

I don't think the parent is arguing that taxes shouldn't pay for buses, but rather that the taxes that pay for it shouldn't be the targeted taxes like the gas tax, instead the money to subsidize the buses should come from the general fund, and the subsidy level should be something that people get to have a say in through the election process.

That's something I can get behind, for the simple reason that using the gas tax to subsidize buses is unsustainable: if it's working correctly it encourages drivers to switch to buses, carpool, and use more efficient vehicles (which is, in fact, one of the desired goals - get cars off the streets to reduce traffic and smog), but that means that the burden is now spread over fewer car-miles, so the tax needs to increase, driving more drivers to buses, until everyone is on the buses and where does the money come from again?

I'm not sure that the FAA has the authority to regulate the quadcopter in the first place, but the quadcopter-with-a-gun is certainly a weapon, so why wouldn't it be protected by the second amendment?

side note: To all those who say, "because that sounds super dangerous" the response is to draft a constitutional amendment to allow the government to regulate more things. Simply "interpreting" away the teeth of the second amendment merely encourages contempt of the constitution and all the other things protected by other clauses and amendments are sure to be abridged in the same manner.

Further side note: Perhaps it's me, but I've noticed over the past few years that while both congress and the people are interested in "regulating drones," both parties seem to have very different ideas about what will be regulated. Congress seems to want to regulate the use of drones by private individuals, but the clamor from the public seems to be about the use of drones by the state for surveillance or armed action. The whole thing is shaping up not unlike the calls for "immigration reform" where each party's ideas about what the reform should be are other parties' ideas about what needs to be fixed.

There are? I don't watch that show often, but I usually see them use fruit of the poison tree to get the guy they all know is guilty. I don't see them get slapped down for it that much. After all, the guy is a scumbag, so they were justified.

With? the constitution does not even address what is "necessary part of modern (or otherwise) life." It addresses a short list of things that the government is allowed to do in carrying out its duties, and a list of what those duties are, and list of inalienable rights that we want to be doubly sure the government doesn't even try to do. Many of the items on that list are far from necessary to survive, although violations are burdensome.

If the constitution is in force and respected, we don't need to prove that we need to fly. The government needs to prove that it has a need to restrict flying, and that it has the authority to do so. Please see, for instance, Amendments 9 and 10.

A language that is expressive enough to allow you to write code that is concise and understandable (but no more concise. Cutting out verbosity is only good when it improves legibility) is going to give you enough of a dialect to make some truly twisted and illegible statements that are, nevertheless, still valid code.

I don't think we should blame the language for being powerful enough that an evil programmer can be unfathomably evil, if it also enables a just programmer to be eminently understandable.

Those statements have been conceded on both sides of the issue....

The point of patents isn't to reward them for inventing a new compression algorithm. They can do that by selling their compression software and keeping the algorithm secret (if they can keep it secret)

The point is to reward them for telling the world how it works, so others can, eventually, use the same algorithm in their own inventions, or learn about compression and create a better one (which they may or may not patent and then the rest of us benefit from that as well)

Surely a design like that would (or could, anyway) handle a loss of coolant fine, as without the moderator the reaction would slow down.

It looks like that because both the supply and demand curves are very inelastic, especially over the short term, so a small change in either results in huge swings in price. The investors do make money off of this, but they are making it off the backs of your retirement funds rather than off the back of your transportation budget.