That would teach him how much of his life depends on the poor people doing their part. If pirates attack is Galt's Gulch island or the mercenary soldiers he had hired to protect the island, imprison him and take over all his wealth, would he just shrug and accept his fate?

By the way whats wrong with John Galt? Supposedly brilliant chap, and just because one stupid railroad executive refused to build a railroad track to his pet project he just gives up? For all that brilliance could he not build a railroad? John Galt was an idiot, so are the people who mistake that fiction to be their guiding philosophy.

University of Illinois Professor Jennifer Wiley is very creative. I am not sure how drunk she was when she made this bold connection. Other professors probably made the connection too but they had not been loosened up enough to actually present it as a scientific paper. Or may be her grad students came up with this "project" to drink beer and send the tab to the university.

We thought someone got a Nobel prize for staring into a stein of beer. Turns out that was not true. So first Nobel prize for drinking beer and calling it research is till up. She can go for it.

To this day, one of the important bus stops in Chennai, India is called The Ice House, (though the building has been renamed now[*]). The Boston ice, packed in sawdust made its way all the way to the tropical heat of Chennai, India. . The whole neighborhood was and sometimes still is called The Ice House, because ice was such a novelty in the tropics. Brief history of ice in chennai

Local politicians in India have this predilection to rename everything. Costs very little financially and works as a kind of vote bank politics. Madras to Chennai, Bangalore to Bengalooru, Bombay to Mumbai, Calcutta to Kolkatta, Orissa to Odisha what the hell? There was guy named A Brito who was well known for his Letters to the Editor, Indian Express, Bangalore. When the local mayor renamed yet another road (which had been named for a British officer) after some local politician he wrote: "... To celebrate his grand achievement of renaming $road, I hereby propose we rename the Queen Victoria statue in the $park Mayor Butte Gowda statue. The resemblance is, after all, so striking that ..."

It ca be made pretty high. A wall of LEDs and photodiodes form the basic scanning unit in a flatbed scanner. They easily go 600 dots per inch or even 1200 dots per inch. So the resolution can be high. But, on the other hand, the distance between the source and the detector seems to be rather large and if the laser beams have to be collimated optically it could be come expensive. It is a nice technology.

It is a bloody blast furnace. They could hold anywhere between 20 and 120 tons of liquid molten iron. They are designed to hold that much of liquid metal continuously for five to 10 years. They keep adding raw materials, keep pouring batches and batches of it out. But it always 50% to 100% full of liquid metal. Once in 10 years, they drain, and essentially dismantle the lining of the furnace, and relay the refractory bricks. A three to six month process typically. I don't know the details, I am sure they have a safety pit lined with refractory bricks to drain the furnace in an emergency, like earthquakes, floods or factory fire. It is possible that process was triggered in this instance.

T-mobile says here it is possible for the customers to block ALL third party service provider billing.

I have used it and I have not seen any such slammed bills over a number of years. But one constant complaint I have is that, every time I go to Niagara Falls, (I am an Indian American, all my relatives and friends from India insist on visiting Niagara when they come here. I have gone there some 35 times, might qualify as a guide too ;-)), my T-mobile phone would connect to Rogers Wireless and they will bill me through T-mobile. I have blocked international calls, international roaming and general roaming. Still it gets through and I have to call them to have these reversed.

But, but, but... it does not have notes I had scribbled on the margins. ...

Differential and Integral Caculus. From Mir publications, Moscow. Almost all the IITians swear by it. Sadly I lost my copy.

There is no National Automobile Battery Changers Association. If there was one, Republican governors would have prohibited Tesla from changing the battery like this.

If something gets simpler, the entropy of the universe decreases. It can't happen. It is the law, everything should get more and more complicated as time goes by. Why, the next generation will have easier time to pass Quantum Mechanics I PH304 MWF 10:00-11:30 than I did? Would not stand for it.

Saw the footage in Cliven Bundy ranch? Still say white guys don't threaten law enforcement? Government is weak and timid when white guys trot out long weapons. Fact. Undeniable. Other races, your mileage might vary.

I agree with you, they should have rallied behind a better figure. The black leaders in 1960 did a very good job of picking who to make the face of the movement. Rosa Parks was very carefully chosen. They should have done something like that.

But look at the New York incident, how that guy selling loose cigarettes was being demonized in the right wing media. His tax evasion is nothing compared to the millions of dollars evaded by Cliven Bundy. Still, that racist white thug is a media darling, till he was caught on tape being undeniably racist. You look at yourself in the mirror. Recall what your feelings were with respect to the Bundy ranch incident and with loose cigarette guy in New York. Judge yourself, if your views are tainted by racism or not.

Did you see the footage on that thug tax evader Cliven Bundy's ranch? If the same number of blacks had amassed there with long weapons, you think the law enforcement would be so timid and deferential?

David Koresh fired the first shot. He killed six ATF agents before the siege began. You feel strong enough affinity to that thug who killed law enforcement officers?

The second amendment might apply to all Americans. But, on the ground, the reality is, it applies only to White Americans. Black/brown/yellow Americans with guns, even toy guns are being shot at sight by police. White guys with long guns get deferential treatment from police. Blacks kids with toy guns get shot within seconds.

None of the gun rights guys are standing up for the blacks who were shot merely because they had real or toy guns with them. I am sure there will be tons of comments demonizing the dead victims. Will NRA stand up for the blacks to own guns for self protection and to fight against the tyranny of the police?