You forgot it is too expensive to duplicate the internet for your factory or plant.

Build. I never used a PC that didn't strike me as a piece of crap.

My theory for why we lack women in science (not sure about engineering) is that science is structured to reward individual prowess. You get a PhD by doing your own work.

I was an assistant director of a lab. The men in the lab all pretty much stayed in their swimming lane. The women were busy socializing with one another. Since we had a lab, they had a place to socialize and myself and the director had no problems with them socializing over their research or anything else. The research produced by the men and women were more or less comparable.

Most science is not so welcoming to socialized problem solving, women need to socialize and hence feel that science is either not for them or is structured by males for males. I expect a similar dynamic happens in engineering.

The subject material of science is also not encouraging of social interaction. It has an abstract, unidirectional air that men find appealing and women do not, generally speaking. I don't find it odd there are so few women in science. Unless the process of how science is pursued is changed, and more cross-disciplinary science is encouraged, I don't see most efforts at encouraging women in science being successful.

re the sea levels used to be much higher...yes...but not in the recent past with all the coastal cities. What to see how upsetting that can be? Take a look at current day Bangladesh. Let's take a poll of Bangladeshis on how they feel about global warming causing sea level rise.

Not only that, the GP assumes because that average rate was true in the past, it must remain at that rate in the future. If all the extra CO2 and methane cause the earth to jump into a new normal, then we might find that very unpleasant. There's just no assuming the earth responds linearly to what we do to it.

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I agree, how else will we find out what's crawling around underneath.

I think the reason Apple refused Flash was a bit more mundane; it sucked energy and would have made the iThings unviable in a consumer market addicted to Flash. The fact that it was a security nightmare was just icing for whacking the entire cake.

It is a bit worse than that. It is a curious fact that Flash contains more bugs than can actually exist in the code...it is considered among philosophers to be akin to Russell's Paradox. The latest scientific explanation involves higher order quantum mechanics and several new and very odd dimensions. The best theory I've seen so far is that Flash is bit like quantum soup with a black hole in hiding in the extremely odd extra dimensions. Virtual bugs and fixes appear in pairs, but curiously, only the fixes are attracted to the black hole and disappear from our time-space continuum forever. The consequence is that Flash seems to us as though it is a net emitter of bugs.

When questioned about this, Adobe refused to discuss the matter or its implications...firm evidence of a coverup in my book.

Yes, but that isn't home grown success that you have in Texas. Your idiot former governor went around the country enticing businesses from other states to come to Texas. And this while he was gutting education. You also have a decrepit welfare system which kicks you if you are poor because being poor in Texas is strictly your own fault. And you over built, the recent water shortage is evidence of that. To make it worse, most of Texas doesn't believe in climate change and hence doesn't realize the lack of water is the new normal. You'd need a hole in your head to head to Texas with any idea of starting a family.

How about the coal slurry ponds that recently erupted? Those of use who grew up in the 60's and 70's are ashamed this is still allowed to happen.

Hmm...how many species do you reckon we should wipe out before the EPA should step in? C'mon, don't hold back, put a number on it.

More importantly, the market doesn't do very good job of predicting what solution will be needed. Rather, it must wait until a problem has occurred and then there are clear directions for market-based solutions. So, things like the interstate system never get built except as a labyrinth of disconnected routes with no rhyme or reason and they'll all be toll roads.

Clean air is similar. It would never have been cleaned up because just about all industries were involved in screwing up the air quality, so there was no market solution. Similarly, there is no market solution to clean water.

I would posit there is no market solution to security. There might be litigious "solution" which means you get to sue after your credentials have be spewed to the interwebs...strangely, that's what we have now. There are no federal laws saying you need to protect your customers' data. There are companies who will sell you "security"...which is mostly snake oil in a can. That's the sum total of the market solution for security.

Food and Drug safety is another area. How many people need to die before the market respond to a bad manufacturer? 10? 100? Surely, a good market actuary could figure this out, but the result will not be pleasing to just about every one except Rand Paul types.

Mt. Rushmore wasn't built by the U.S. government. It wouldn't be allowed in China unless it depicted one of their dickless leaders.

No, this is just the effort of the Commies in China to make their dicks look bigger. It is the sole reason they want Taiwan back, the thought of an independent country of Chinese makes their dicks look smaller. It is the reason they are shoving Han Chinese into Tibet and into Xinjiang province. It is also the reason they go apeshit at the thought of Hong Kong freely electing their leaders. Penis envy is also behind the problems they had with the Falun Gong doing calisthenics on their front lawn.

It is all about the lack of dick of the Chinese leaders because they have no legitimacy. Hell, they didn't even fight the Japanese very well, that was the Nationalists who got beaten up so Mao could prance in a declare victory. And on the Long March, which was a retreat by the way, Mao was carried along by the proles he so valued.