And DOS commands are still quite useful. I find myself teaching younger admins DOS stuff on 'doze cmd.exe more and more. Sure, Powershell exists, but it's not ubiquitous yet, and oft-times Powershell running files as scripts is disabled by default, so batch files are still pretty useful (even if it's just a batch file to enable Powershell scripts and run the argument as a script).

Setting aside socialism, if the system was working anything approaching optimum for the current configuration of third party payers and patent holders and everything else, insurance companies would already be inventing (and/or buying inventors of) drugs and practically giving them away to their members (or cross-licensing them with other insurers cheap to get their members the best drugs available in multiple categories). As a side effect, insurance companies would inherently aim to reduce side effects (guess who pays when you have a heart attack because of taking some drug) rather than cover side effects up (see: VIOXX). It would also eliminate the (real or imagined) conflict of interest between finding cures and finding treatments.

I thought 3d printers and CNC machines required stable platforms. Even a guy whittlin' with a knife has the sense not to do it in a moving truck.

How do professional gunsmiths get their tools if no one will ship them? Is Fed Ex refusing to deliver only this specific gunsmithing tool because the intended users are amateur gunsmiths?

It's where a lot of refineries are located. The infrastructure there is also set up for distribution of refined products throughout the US.

No, no, it's in the secret cow level.

I live in a small touristy town with a lot of visitors and window shoppers. Sidewalk navigation is unpredictable at best. Sudden stops, people veering from one side or the other to look at something, the odd dance where they step forward to look, then backward to take it all in, thus blocking traffic in both directions. We also get a lot of families who apparently think if they're not walking side-by-side they'll get separated and lost or something and refuse to scoot over for oncoming walkers. I'm usually more interested in getting by, and thus skip around the far side of parking meters or into the road itself if there's room, but I've often been tempted to just hold my place and see if they run straight into me.

I don't see an address for you, but feel free to email me with the address listed in the header, or use the contact page in my URL (a completely different project) and I can email in your preferred format. Feedback is definitely welcome. Thanks.

You've posted a lot here and keep saying things that resonate well with my youth. I don't have any answers (met my wife by coincidence of having the same birthday and both being out celebrating) but I can commiserate a little. I've written a novel about a guy resembling you (or young me) struggling to meet people in the wrong environment, who wants to pick up and move to a more likely location. It's humorous, and might be something you'd appreciate. Not trying to drum up a sale, here - if you're interested I'll get you a free copy just as a sort of "I know how it feels" gesture.

It would be, but it'd be impossible to prove unless someone in the State or at Google spoke up about it.

Are you sure no other sub group objects to porn popping into their faces?

I've never had porn just "pop into my face" if I wasn't going and looking for it. Are you sure you're not asking a bunch of people from Utah why they use more porn than any other state? "I swear I didn't go to pornmd.com it just popped into my face! It was a typo! a virus! moonbeams!"

That said, the only groups I can think of who tell people what they can and can't look at or listen to are liberals and bible thumping republicans (also liberals).