Remember back in the day when we all thought we'd be driving flying cars in the future? Well that clearly didn't happen

That's the beautiful thing about the future, it is still (and always will be) ahead of us.

Don't worry, your "omniscient" god doesn't know the difference ;-)

From the text of one of the bills they support:

Sec. 101. Refundable tax credit for congressional House campaign contributions.

Seriously? This is literally trading tax dollars for campaign dollars. What the hell kind of reform is this? Even with the proposed $50 limit on the credit it's a bad idea -- and what good is $50 going to do, anyway?

I think what you're missing here is that we are not at the *end* of human evolution, but instead we are somewhere in the middle. Perhaps that's why the human face is better than some other creatures for taking a punch, but not as good as it could be. Also keep in mind that there are many other factors that would go into the evolution of the human face, and what we look like right now is a result of all of those to varying degrees.

I log in to my Amazon Payments account and I still don't see any recurring nor scheduled payments options. Is this on a rolling deployment where some users get it before others?

You referenced the same article I did, but completely ignored the rest of the paragraph you quoted from.

That's why the headline says "might" and the summary says "may" -- because they correlate strongly, but the causal link isn't proven.

Auto-save typically saves to an alternate location and when you exit (or if you have a power failure, then next time you load) you are asked if you'd like to commit those changes to your actual document. This is true in office applications and video games, at least.

This article is about recoverable oil, and according to wikipedia "the technology for converting rock into an oil from the Green River oil shale deposit has not been developed, and it has never been profitably implemented at any significant scale."

I have a lot of friends with kids who complain about common core, and I've long suspected that what you just said is the reality here. I hope the public backlash does not stop our teachers from teaching students these valuable tools just because their parents don't understand it.

Agreed, and our testing system encourages rote learning -- which doesn't help at all.

Standardizing *what* they teach isn't such a bad idea, but standardizing *how* they teach is the part that we should stay away from.

The US has the most right leaning government there is. It also has the most racially, socially, culturally, and economically diverse population there is.

We certainly do have a right-leaning gov't, but your statement just isn't true. There are lots of gov'ts that are farther right than us. Particularly in the Middle East & Aftrica.

Also, people who don't do well academically tend to not take tests like the SAT and ACT. It is a self-selecting group who do, and they tend to be fairly confident that they stand a chance of passing, at least.

And in a safer environment perhaps her glasses would not tend to get broken...

And better socio-economic status generally means you are in a safer environment... so I think you just helped the GPs point.