No independent testing? This is one of three devices built by three separate groups that exhibit similar behavior. I do believe that is the definition of independent testing. Now, as to whether it every becomes useful, who knows.

Except it may very well be a warp drive if that is how it generates its thrust. Just because it is neither a FTL warp drive or a bubble drive does not mean it isn't a warp drive.

Not during the Grand Jury hearing he doesn't. Which given the lack of any power that hearing has, is what the criminal equivalent would be.

You do realize that money was not first on my list. I would guess that the majority of engineers are not primarily interested in the money the career will bring them. Rather, it's the 'build shit' mentality that calls most engineers. But the type of guys to get an engineering degree, especially the ones who join one of the P.E. societies, do not do so because of the societal good they can accomplish.

Never said they wouldn't then USE their engineering skills for societal good. Just that they didn't go into the field for that purpose. There is a rather fundamental difference. Not to mention, and this is kind of important, EWB does not require any sort of engineering degree. As well, that percentage was the school club, not the percentage of ASCE members in EWB. Thus, using it as any sort of metric is rather... shortsighted.

You won't find a male engineer that became an engineer to feel better about himself and the 'societal good' he can do, that's for sure. Instead it'll be because it either interests him from a 'I get to build neat shit' aspect, or because of monetary consideration. Any 'societal good' he can do with the engineering will be a tertiary consideration at best.

Sooo, you want a universe where Washington got access to the Fountain of Youth and people keep voting him into the presidency against his will?

*headdesk* Really? I did NOT know that. Not at alllllll. I certainly wasn't both expressing my opinion on the actual event and at the same time taking a jab at the ubiquity of cat pictures on the internet. Which of course subsequently gets labeled troll by idiots to dense to figure out my position. Or by people who want the people who killed her to get away with it. Hard to say.

I was going to offer my condolences. I was going to say how this was a great loss. I was going to say that the barbarians responsible should be hunted down like the dogs they are. But then I saw the cat pictures.

It is however, both much easier to fuck up doing and much more expensive per fuckup.

Because between 5 and 10% of convicted felons are actually innocent of the crime they were convicted of. Given the current state of laws in the US, saying they are wholly innocent of any lawbreaking is insane. In any case, that means that between 1 in 10 and 1 in 20 of people killed by the state should not have been, which is wholly unacceptable.

Which goes to show that Paul the elder is a fucking dunderhead. The chance of peace breaking out in 1908 Europe, oh sorry, the Middle East is about as likely as the Kardashians suddenly deciding not to act like media whores or ISIS to convert wholesale to Asatru.

Of course, the difference is that Nixon primarily did what he did out of paranoia that he would lose the election, which hilariously turned out to be baseless. Clinton does it to cover a multitude of other crimes.

Email Server. Really that's all you need to know. She turned over roughly half the emails, then DELETED the rest. When several of the emails reference second hand that she employed one of the premier private intelligence services in the world none of which is primarily touched upon by the turned over emails, this is a pretty big problem.

Except that A) his rants came in response to screeds just as racist by Jemsin(also functionally wrong given VD's actual heritage) and B) he said that a civilization composed of Jemsins would be utterly useless and without accomplishment. He did, however, call her a half savage.