They are not capping producing wells. They probably won't be capping producing wells at any oil prices that OPEC can sustain, since the capital costs are largely already spent and the marginal costs of pumping an existing well are not prohibitive. That being said, most oil exploration and production companies have learned to deal with a lot of price volatility, and make decisions based on long-term average prices.

The article you linked conflates median income, average income, and typical income, so who knows what they are comparing to what. It would not be at all surprising to see that the price affordable by a median income family is close to the median new car price while considerably less than the average new car price - a few high-priced items can tilt the average well above the median. Also, TFA indicates that "affordable" is based on a some formula that includes interest costs and insurance costs, without stating the insurance costs or interest rates it is based on. Insurance costs vary widely by coverages, deductibles, location, driver record, etc. The last new vehicle bought in our family was only 0.9% interest and the last used vehicle we bought was less than $10,000 total, was in good shape, and had less than 30,000 miles on it. I have no doubt that a median income household (about $53,000/year in the US) could afford either of those if they really needed a car.

If my eyes are focusing for a long time within a single text box - it could grow in size, or if it sees my eyes flitting between two locations, they move to a a more comfortable position for comparison.

That would be so damn annoying.

Like when Chicago (the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, that is) discharges its' treated sewage water to the Chicago River, which flows into the Mississippi and is eventually picked up by the Anheuser Busch plant in St Louis to be turned into the piss water they call Budweiser. (OK, for all I know they use well water now, rather than river water, but that's the old joke.)

Ever wonder why water treatment plants smell so bad?

The chlorine?
Or did you meant sewage treatment plants? Which, however, don't provide potable water to municipal water works already.

Out of the $128 million spent by the top 10 individual donors . . .

You're ignoring the relevant adjective. The Koch bros. are much better at setting up astroturf corporations to spend their money through than most political $ contributors are.

For a newly commissioned, purpose built DC, why didn't they install a ground loop system?

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Also, there are still modes of failure for ground loop systems. None of the links say what specifically happened, so it's hard to judge.

. . . the tweet was not that popular because people love Issac Newton, but because attacks on Christianity are popular.

Apparently such "attacks" are much more popular among right-wing Christians than other people. A publicity-hungry scientist used a relatively innocent statement touting Newton with the element of surprise. That was in turn successfully used by rabble-rousing right-wing publicity hounds to promote themselves, without whom the tweet would have been more-or-less ignored.

A theologian is just an important sounding word for a bullshitter, someone who lies to others and themselves. There is no practical knowledge in the entire "field" of theology, which makes the most far-reaching and outrageous claims such as "knowing the reason for existence" and housing "experts" whose "answers" are not only in direct contradiction to how the world seems to behave, but with other theologians as well.

Strawmen don't help your arguments.

Btw, in reality procedural and object oriented are just two different views and controls on the exact same datastructures and process-flows

Btw, TFA is promoting Functional programming over Procedural/ObjectOriented programming, and does consider OO as a Procedural style.

No, it does not have to be a "work of art" to be copyrighted. It only has to be a creative expression.

IANASCJ*, but I believe that copyrighting Trade Secrets would be unconstitutional.

*I Am Not A Supreme Court Justice

You can license or give away software you write, but if you get paid to do it, the copyright is by default owned by the person/company that hired you, unless explicitly stated otherwise in a contract.

I used to be one of those 'multitaskers'. I took pride that I could crank on 3-4 things at a time.

It took me years to figure out I was doing 3-4 things badly.

I used to actually be able to do 3-4 things at a time well.

Lately, as I've gotten older, I've noticed that I can't do that as readily as I used to.

I agree, cubicles have been the norm since at least the early 80s, when I began working. (and I've seen many hundreds of plans of them as an mechanical engineer in the construction industry) The only exception has been lawyers offices, which tend to have mostly private offices, and only a small amount of open office /cubicles. Also, in the late 80s, early 90s I noticed a trend (well, at least a couple of clients, anyway) of not blocking windows with private offices, and putting the bigshots' private offices in areas that workers would tend to walk by - except for the really big shots, who still tended to get corner offices.