White roofs? Really? That's the closest you could get to insulation? You've got a long way to troll before you troll, troll.

You see taxes as a weapon to punish the wealthy and successful.

On the contrary, taxes are a way to maintain the stability of society and thus save the wealthy and successful from their own shortsightedness. Without progressive taxation to maintain a middle class, wealthy elites will eventually end up being lynched by rampaging hordes of serfs. History has shown it to be pretty much inevitable.

If you're a member of the wealthy elite, your choice is not between being taxed or not being taxed; your choice is between being taxed and having your head forced into a guillotine.

And here we get to the real point, and why you and I will never agree. You see taxes as a weapon to punish the wealthy and successful. But I have no faith in your socialistic gospel of envy and class warfare. Government should not be concerned with redistributing wealth (which is almost wholly unrelated to the legitimate social responsibility of caring for the poor and needy). Nor should it be concerned with protecting and enhancing the wealth of the already wealthy. Since our current government, like a madman, seeks both of these contradictory ends, it is ridiculous and ineffective. Until government ceases to seek these two ends, it will continue to burden us with perpetual debt, regardless of our tax system.

I'm your core.

Taking a dump.

And trust me, you do NOT want to see what's backing up!

But I'm color blind...

That my first thought wasn't "oh, it's Apr 1st". No. My first thought was "Oh great, now the editors have left the building and whatever story gets the most upvotes will hit the front page. Time to leave for good".

Explicit language might modify what would otherwise be there only by an implicit doctrine.

In general, a licensor can modify their own terms. So, if you are using the GPL on software to which you hold the copyright, and you add some sort of exception, it applies. You can't do it to other people's software.

With a little more insulation than usual, you can do that pretty much anywhere in the USA. Oddly, California has higher standards for insulation than pretty much anywhere in the USA. We would very much like the rest of you to catch up sometime.

Right, just the majority of available coal. We've used up the most convenient deposits of it, just like everything else.

Which suggests the question, is that actually that wonderful? Also, whether it's being collected. Maybe in Germany. Not in the USA or China, though.

...make poisonous drywall out of it, as they have done in China?

Assuming you believe those figures.

You can mostly thank our massive population. There are more people living in and around Los Angeles alone than the population of at least half the states in the nation — probably far more if you count illegals correctly, something the census can never possibly accomplish.

Indeed, California is 49th in per capita energy use, no doubt due in large part to having the largest population in the nation.

The only reason why airplanes often use more power in a headwind, is because the pilot may elect to fly faster to (partially) compensate for the wind. An 80 kt airship in a 40 kt headwind will only have a ground speed of 40 kt, so the pilots may well choose to increase power to get a higher ground speed.

The other reason why airplanes use more power in a headwind is that the pilot still wants to get from point A to point B, which are fixed relative to the ground. If he has a headwind, it means he needs to cover more "effective distance" (relative to the air) to get there and thus use more fuel even if he doesn't increase his airspeed.