I can magnetize a rod of iron by hitting a rock with it.

And you can, too.

Apartment is to freestanding house as your comment is to useful.

Sorry, this was directed at Mr. Wisenheimer... m.slashdot.leg sucks so hard.

You're NOT bicycling 50 miles to work if you're using the train for most of the trip.

That's just one of your misstatements.

No, raise taxes while gas prices are temporarily low, then when prices return to historical levels, as they will, the blame it on the producers, not the government.

Basically, sneak it in. See a pattern here?

My crap house with most sheetrock and stick is quiet as a morgue. I can't hear my neighbors, they can't hear me, unless we open doors or windows.

You're just incorrect.

Passenger cars drive expansion of roadways. That's worth gas tax dollars.

Touch screens.
E Mail.
Chat Rooms
In-app Messaging

And a lot more. PLATO delivered features not found in public systems until decades later.

Turning FB video centric will require more than just users can generate. So they will repost, which is already a lot of what what you see anyways, just more.

And that means more snore video, bleagh.

I won't be using Facebook in 5 years.

First, video is a pox. Most waste time with pointless or awkward intros, fail to make the point, or, -the worst-, communicate a technical point or information by repeating the unimportant stuff over and over and over. Most video should be text.

Second, a predominantly video Facebook guarantees it will NOT be user-created. You're not creating a quick video on the A train, or being stuck on the PCH, or walking to school. Oh, wait, you are. And doing it badly. Point 1 again.

Never mind. Video will still suck.

When I was stationed at Keesler AFB in Biloxi MS, a while ago, they were busy trucking sand from the most recent hurricane had deposited it back to the Biloxi beaches. they seemed to have lost >10 feet of it.

In Maine, I lived near a beach being depleted by changes in circulation caused by a railroad bridge some 12-20 miles north. Among other things, homes were being undermined. So far as I know, the bridge was modified, but it takes time for this to correct.

Beaches have never been permanent, however, and our time frame is just too short to fully appreciate that, nor long enough to tolerate the cycles.Kinda like so called man-made climate change.

How many Dubai beaches are artificially constructed?

And so should be expected to require a LOT of sand, and not be expected to last very long...

Pencil. That's funny.

Yup. And contests where the risk of fraud is worth the chance, the usual margin of victory will be within the margin of error.

Even recounts will be that close. These taxes are worth it to game with fraud or challenges.

Sadly, your proposal does not improve on paper ballots, because it generates one with the intermediate step of 'marking' it electronically.

Kinda pointless. Give the voter a ballot and a pen, not some newfangled gizmo.