Even if the earth was in the middle of an ice age, the Western Antarctic Ice Shelf would be collapsing, and melting away.

Using that as proof of global warming, is akin to using Westboro Baptist Church as proof that God is enamoured of out-of-wedlock same-sex intimate sexual relationships, and that everybody must participate in one, at least once a week.

Amber

>If Americans adopt metric

I hope you realize that the United States was one of the first, if not very first country to both endorse the metric system, and make it a legal unit of measurement.

What Congress forgot to do, was mandate that all government agencies use the metric system.

Probably the major reasons for the failure of metrification in the seventies and eighties are:
A} Speed limits. Instead of changing 5 mph to 10 kph, it was changed to 8 kph. Nobody's speedometer has checks at 8 km/h, 16 km/h and similar multiples of 8.
B} Instead of moving the sign that says "exit 1/2 mile ahead" to "exit 1 km ahead", they changed it to read "exit 804.3 meters" ahead.
C} Instead of using cm to measure the height of a person, they used meters.
D) Instead of measuring bust size in cm, they used meters.
(One meter sounds small. 100 cm sounds big. Furthermore, nobody wants to be called a 1. 100, yes. 1, no.)

amber

We are sorry, but the term " assclown " has been restricted to refer only to the individual who are/were part of Prenda Law, Inc.
Please do not use it for other purposes, or Prenda Law will be forced to file another frivolous lawsuit against you, for infringing upon their intellectual property rights.

In the short term, nuclear energy is cheap.

In the long term, nuclear energy is the most expensive option that is available.
Hint: After factoring in all of the costs, it currently cost one trillion dollars to produce one watt of electricity from nuclear power. That figure climbs at around two percent per month, and will continue to do so, for then dozen millennia.

I take it that you are not aware of the desalination plants that are solar powered, and distill the water.

Southern California can either use the Salton Sea as a dumping ground for the brine, or build a canal from the Salton Sea to the Pacific Ocean, reflood the Salton Sea, and build desalination plants on the Salton Sea, dumping the brine right back into the Salton Sea.

Counter-intuitively, dumping brine into the Salton Sea will reduce the amount of salt in it.

Building a canal from the Salton Sea to the Pacific Ocean, could be enough to trigger a jump in real production of goods in California. (Part of it is from demolishing existing structures, including the flood plain, and part of it is from building replacement structures.) Worst case scenario is that it promotes local jobs, in a fashion that few other government programs are capable of doing.

I really wish I remember the legal citation for the case where the perp read the password on a Post-It note on the monitor.
Perp went to jail for breaking and entering.
Was not guily of unauthorized access to the computer system.

There are several other court cases where the rule is that if the password is known, then the access is authorized, regardless of how the perp came to know the password.

>Many drug dealers don't give a shit about being arrested and doing a little time

I've known drug dealers deliberately get a little time in county lockup, to retain their street cred.

>You're going to automatically side against the LEO because the camera was disabled?

Yes.

If the LEO was properly trained, they could walk into the rest room naked, and if there was an incident, walk out, with the other person under arrest, and neither party being injured.

>." Do you have to worry about getting shot at your job? Probably not

Law Enforcement does not even rank in the top ten list of occupations where being killed on the job is an occupational hazard. Nor do they come in the top ten, where getting injured by a gun is an occupational hazard.

It would be even cheaper to get a competitor to go with them. Roy Brizo Hot Rods LLC, for example.

>How about when the potential employer makes a few phone calls to their previous work history?

a) Once upon a time, Amazon outsourced that to another company. I don't know if they still do that;

b) Most employment verification is computer to computer. Whilst Amazon may have records that firm # 1 contacted them to verify employment, they won't necessarilly know why employment verification was needed;

There is no such thing as unbaised, in the world of search. What happens is that there are results that are more likely, and less likely to be what the person doing the search wanted. But even that is iffy.

The major, if not only virtue Google currently has over other search engines, is that it has indexed more content. However, that doesn't mean that the user seeking that indexed content will find it on Google.

A company willing to commit around US$100,000 up front for hardware, and then around US$10,000 a quarter for hardware, can have their own in-house search engine. A search engine that keeps track of the parts of the Internet that the organization is most focused upon.

Money buys technology and food.
People buys time.

When push comes to shove, only two things matter:
* How well the hardware works;
* How well trained the operator is, in using the hardware;

An army that use 3D printed guns won't last as long as an army that uses guns machined from metal blocks.

Twenty people with guns, but don't know how to pull the trigger on the guns, will die, when somebody who knows how to use a sword, puts it to work on them.

Nuance leads the pack, becuase their business model is to buy out the competition, or eliminate them through excessively high royalites for the non-patents that the USPTo grants to organizations that engage in ongoing racketering and extortion.