Righto. I'm sure that the Coast Guard and BP had thousands of helpful hints from people like you and the astrologer next door. Ideas so intelligent that they blew past the several thousand highly experienced deep oil engineers from every single oil company and support company on the Gulf Coast that set to work on the problem.

No submarines? WTF is a submarine going to do - torpedo the thing?

"Simply place a clamp" on a pipe 5000 feet deep pushing out over 400 cubic meters of oil per hour. Simply. I don't think that word means what you think it means.

And read up on the concept of paragraphs and the become comfortable single periods.

And as to the rest of your rant -- take your meds.

This comes up all of the time. Here is a thought - you have a number of countries - like the entire rest of the world - where 'profit' isn't the driving force for medical care. There are dozens of governments who would love to have inexpensive cures. And these countries have lots of smart people, have lots of high end research facilities, have had lots of time. If there was some sort of simple 'cure' for any one of a number of chronic, expensive diseases it would have been studied six ways from Sunday.

It's not some evil collusion of rich, nasty old men. It's just that biology is fucking hard.

Splitters and Lumpers. A very old argument.

Nature cares not a fig for our 'definitions'. It just is.

They must have Comcast. I just hope to hell they don't need tech support.

While hardly an Adobe apologist, you have a client that is running an OS that the OS vendor barely supports and you want an application vendor to tailor it's policies to your edge case? For software that there are other alternatives for?

Be reasonable. And, if your client is a 'real' business, suggesting that they torrent something is pretty dodgy. It could well end up costing them much more than an upgrade to a newer OS.

I'm sure IBM is worried.

All Hail Marx and Lennon!

That's because of the clouds. Nice and fluffy white. Seattle has lots of them.

Wait. That can't be right. White males ain't got no soul.

I don't get it. What is the problem again?

Not such a bad idea. We can call it the 'underclass'.

Rear facing seats make more sense in a crash situation (most crashes that are survivable happen in a nose-is-forward configuration). The entire seat supports the body in the rapid deceleration of a crash instead of just the seat belt. IIRC, some military transports are rigged that way. So you trade off a bit more discomfort on the very common scenario of the plane taking off with the possibility of better surviving a very rare crash situation.

Decisions, decisions.

They jump out quickly because the Army is pointing a bunch of 70 mm truck mounted guns at them. That always gets you to speed things up.

Welcome to Israel. Duck!

Except that the vast majority of plane accidents happen at takeoff and landing where you would need not only explosive bolts but a cluster of SuperDraco engines mounted around the fuselage to boost you out of harm's way. Now, I grant you, that would be one cool video, but I don't think you are going to convince the Boeing designers that the tradeoffs are worth it.

And engineering is always about the tradeoffs.

OTOH, a cabin full of Nitrous Oxide - now that's an idea.....