To put those number is perspective:

There are 253,108,389 vehicles registered in 2012 and there were 5,870,000 (~2% of registered vehicles) accidents with 25,580 of them having a fatality. (0.44% of the accidents had fatalities).

There are 109,870 personal fixed wing aircraft registered 2012 and there were 1,020 (~1% of registered aircraft) accidents with 206 of them having a fatality (20.2% of the accidents had fatalities).

I don't know, aside from a few mountains that mostly stay put there's nothing to hit in the air except other planes, and there's a LOT more room to maneuver than on the street.

You forgot about the weather. We had TWO Cessna crashes with fatalities in my state in since February. Both may have been weather related.

You can always pull over in a car when the weather gets rough.

Take Medisoft as an example:
http://www.medisoft.com/ [medisoft.com]
Find me an open source program that does what that does and I'll be impressed.

I don't know what makes Medisoft so special, but here is a list of open source healthcare software to get you started on your search.

The paper (if you read it) claims that the requirement should be enforced based on the Microsoft having monopolistic power in the marketplace.

The proposal seems dubious and restricting it to Microsoft with some handwaving and using "monopolistic power" as a condition doesn't make the proposal sound any better.

Administrative fees, Utilities, Facility Maintenance, I.T. Expenses, Employee Benefits, Liability Insurance, Incidentals, etc.

There are other people involved in teaching that class other than your coworker.

Research scientists are not usually the same people who teach college classes. Their research is funded by grants and licensing revenue NOT tuition. Tuition is used toward the education of the student.

Performing research and furthering science is a mission of a university.

Cross-country trip? What about it? The supercharger network reaches coast to coast, and by the end of the year there will be a few more cross-country routes possible.

Yes you can get from LA to Miami if you don't mind going through South Dakota. Also I don't spend 30 minutes filling up my car at the gas station and with the Tesla I can only go an additional 170 miles after a 30 minute charge. So if you seriously believe that you can actually go coast-to-coast in a Tesla S then be prepare to go many more extra miles and spend some extra downtime getting there.

Tesla S is still a good car for commuting within a metropolitan area. If I didn't have to commute across my state, I would buy one myself.

I never enabled the wd2go option. I just use it as a local NAS appliance and use OpenVPN when I really need remote access to my backup images which is very rare.

If I need a remote cloud I use DropBox with their DMCA auto block feature. ;) All kidding aside, I never had a problem with DropBox. They are worth every penny I didn't spend.

Herein lies the problem: what standards are you referring to? ACID? Mysql 5.5 in strict mode *is* ACID compliant.

If that is really true then it's about time. It took them long enough. I knew something good was bound to come from Oracle.

I think you're remembering history differently than it was. MySQL was always significantly faster than Postgres, which was a slow database until relatively recently.

Nope. I remember history just fine. I remember having trouble with replication. I remember having to manually check for overflows. I remember having to wait for InnoDB to become available in order to have transaction support. I've been using MySQL for many many years and I know its limitations. I still use MySQL while keeping its limitations in mind. I also know enough to realize there are better alternatives.

There's a reason companies like Google chose MySQL for their adsense platform.

Yes it's called not really needing a heavy SQL engine for something as simple as tracking click traffic.

MySQL is simple, fast and does a sufficient job for those who use it.

I think his point is to say that MySQL is a full fledge SQL database is like saying IE 6 is a standards compliant web browser. Both do the job adequately for most people, but both aren't without serious faults.

MySQL owes its success to web frameworks where better SQL servers like Postgres are considered an overkill and it works quite well in that domain. If your requirements are more on the SQL-side than the web-side of the equation, you would do much better with Postgres.

Only as a powder or thin shavings. As a solid block, it'd make an effective barrier.

Well except for the powder or thin shavings resulting from the scrape/impact to the barrier.

Noticed how negotiating was in quotes?

Negotiation shouldn't involve you hanging around the dealership for a minimum of 2 hours while the sales staff perform a dog and pony show to make you believe that you are getting a great discount off of a very inflated sticker price (value added services (undercoating) or accessories (a different color pin stripe)). After which you spend another 2 hours before you actually purchase the damn car and leave.

They make it too time consuming and require travel to find a competitor selling the same brand which discourages a majority of their customer base. The last thing they want is for me to be able to purchase a car online and have it delivered to me.

They also have three phases to their bullshit practices.

Phase 1: We negotiate the price that I'm willing to pay for the car after stressing that I only care about the actual cost not some monthly payment goal.

Phase 2: After negotiating the price, you have to argue about how you are not paying anything extra in dealer fees and other bullshit. You start the next wave of negotiating. I usually either have the price of phase 1 lowered so that the amount paid is the agreed upon price or I leave. They either comply immediately or call me within 24 hours asking me to return.

Phase 3: They try one last time to get more money from you and try to sell you a warranty or other options. You have to listen to their sales job for at least 30 minutes when you already said no.

Phase 4: Despite already having financing arranged prior to shopping, you have to spend at least an hour in their finance department. Usually they bring up the warranty again.

If you had a trade in, you have to be vigilant because you just gave them another number to manipulate in their favor.

In the end, I think we would be better off if we could purchase a car like we purchase a computer, television or toaster. You shouldn't waste a half a day to purchase a car.

The governors will talk about how good Tesla is but their day job is still governor and that office is under the thumb of the National Automotive Dealers Association who could easily contribute to their rivals.

The state laws that prevent direct sales of automobiles should be criminal because it preserves the insane concept of "negotiating" the best price. Hopefully Tesla will go farther than cars.com did.

A layperson would think that the state laws would go against the US Constitutions commerce clause.

Actually it was a short story called "Let there be light!" published in May 1940. Friday was published in 1982.