the 3,500-year-old Senator Tree in Florida, was burnt to the ground by some kids doing meth inside the hollow of the tree, despite it being fenced off and inside a park. , . . .

Yeah, drugs are cool. Thanks a lot rejects.

The conclusion to this part of the discussion is as follows:

Leonard: Unless, Superman matches her speed and decelerates.

Sheldon: In what space, sir, in what space? She's two feet above the ground. Frankly, if he really loved her, he'd let her hit the pavement. It would be a more merciful death.

If someone can reasonably live without power and can find a better use for a grand or two per year, hey, more power (no pun intended) to 'em!

Let me rephrase this:

If someone can reasonably live without healthcare and can find a better use for several grand per year, hey, more power (no pun intended) to 'em!

Sounds about right.

Considering we just had an Eagle Scout get plastered by a train, I don't think lasers will do any better of a job.

So you subscribe to Sheldon Cooper's diatribe about Superman trying to catch a falling Lois Lane. For reference:

No, no let's assume that they can (i.e. men can fly). Lois Lane is falling, accelerating at an initial rate of 32ft per second, per second. Superman swoops down to save her by reaching out two arms of steel. Ms. Lane, who is now traveling at approximately 120 miles per hour, hits them, and is immediately sliced into three equal pieces.

Citations, please.

I found the following related to the above quotes. The first one I couldn't find anything in context, only that Bush supposedly said it, and the second one is part of the the Constitution being just a piece of paper quote which was false. As to the rest. . .

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." George W. Bush - Link

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - George W. Bush - Link

"You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on." - George W. Bush - Link

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." - George W. Bush - Link

No, it doesn't work because then the page is set to the left of the screen.

What I and thousands of others want is for a single page, centered on the screen, just the way it used to be before Office 2010 came out.

Without fiddling with your zoom level or screen resolution, this cannot (currently) be done.

At least with Office XP you don't have deal with the huge flaw in Word where it insists on displaying two pages side by side on the screen rather than one page at a time.

Not being able to see one page without shifting around screen resolution and zoom levels is inexcusable, yet Microsoft apparently feels usability is far down the list of things it needs to worry about.

Sort of like large portions of FOSS software.

If we sent illegal aliens home rather than coddling them and giving them amnesty despite breaking the law, disease infection wouldn't be an issue, would it?

Why should I have to pay for rehab for a drunk? They're the ones who couldn't control themselves. As I said in the beginning, if they have money to buy alcohol they have money to pay for their own treatment. In fact, this would address two issues: they would have to go to rehab or face jail and by spending money on rehab they'd have less money to spend on purchasing alcohol.

but if it just ends up with a bunch of drama queens at work, it will end up with a worse environment for everyone.

So like large portions of the nearly all-male programming community as it exists today?

So essentially anyone can do whatever they want, regardless of the consequences, knowing full well someone else gets to pick up the tab.

Just keep taking from everyone else so someone doesn't have to be an adult and take responsibility for their actions.

Got it.

Why is it my responsibility to use my money to get them to take care of a problem they created? Does personal responsibility not enter into the equation or should we keep coddling people who have shown they have no regard for anyone but themselves?

What does work for DUI cases is to provide access to rehab clinics

If they have money to drink they can afford to pay for their own rehab. The taxpayers shouldn't have to shell out anything.

followed by support organizations,

See above.

Amazon had revenues over the last twelve months of roughly $75 Billion

And yet they still lost money and have been for at least the last 2 years (possibly 3 once this years numbers come out).

If Amazon is having losses because of their upgrades (such as this warehouse stuff), then this might pay off down the line. However, if they're losing money because they're over extended, not so good.

As I said in a previous article on the same subject, just hire Bubba and his friends to take target practice on any drone anywhere near an airport.

Problem solved.