Where in the law the USPS is required to future pay pensions of 75 years?

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-109hr6407enr/pdf/BILLS-109hr6407enr.pdf

Sec 8909a(d)(3)(A) defines the amortization table of advance payments, and the enclosing section defines further payments beyond FY 2017.

PS The 75 years comes from the OPM requirement that government agencies us that number of years for accounting purposes for figuring furture liabilities. It is used by the DoD, Social Security, etc.

You're asserting that the OPM requires all federal services to, essentially, fund in advance the retirement plans for workers that have not yet been born. How about a link to the law defining this, or an article from a credible site?

USPS was entirely self-sufficient on postage fees alone, with surplus revenues, up until Congress passed legislation that mandated USPS pay forward *75 years* of retiree health benefits within *ten years*. No other organization, business or government, has such a mandate.

"Taxpayer-funded" kicked in after that point, as you'd expect it would.

Wealthy congresscritters want to kill off USPS so their cronies in the private sector will benefit, IMO.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/07/20/how-congress-is-killing-the-post-office/
http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2011/nov/11/sanford-bishop/bishop-signs-letter-saying-post-office-faces-big-p/

There's a $5 utility for that:Start8. Restores the Windows 7 Start menu, and lets you control/disable all the Surface b.s.

You're talking about the size of the fitting attachment from the ratchet to a socket? "Drive" isn't that common of nomenclature, in my experience anyways. We referred to it as the socket "head size" oddly enough.

I do know that they are ONLY measured in English fractional inches, and that those sizes are used internationally. There are no metric-sized socket fittings.

If you're living in a predominately Mormon area, and you're not one of them, you're a lot less likely to be part of their circle, do business with them, marry their children and so forth.

This as told to me by various Mormon and non-Mormon friends from SLC.

I suppose this isn't a lot different from other religious groups. But it's worth pointing out.

How did you determine it's illegal? Flying aerial surveillance drones over what is very likely public land? It's clear you don't know anything about the law.

In the U.S. and many other countries, public photography is permitted where there's "no expectation of privacy." You have no control over whether others take your picture in public. That goes for drones, CCTV, and photo joes with digital cameras.

I can't imagine that taking pictures of poachers killing rhinos on public land is illegal. And if it is, the government(s) in question would probably look the other way, given this project is helping them solve a very real problem.

I hate to spoil the fun, but oil companies don't "set" the price of oil. It's ultimately determined by futures contracts for delivery of the various crude oil products.

Plus supply, demand, production rate, and other smaller factors.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled conspiracy theory.

Hehe, true, true.

Detroit have dragged their feet on every little government-mandated change over the decades. I don't expect Detroit will change, I just hope it perishes AND IS REPLACED by newer, faster, upstart companies that design emissionless cars from the ground up.

While Fisker and Tesla are interesting startups, they're aimed squarely at the luxury market. There needs to be an everyman emissionless car.

Would you shoot someone holding a camera on the edge of your property for allegedly violating your privacy? Probably not- the state would probably take that up as murder or manslaughter. With an RC copter, it's about the same distinction -a nuisance, but was it necessary and lawful to shoot it down?

Can you determine that a moving RC vehicle is recording you from a couple hundred feet away? Those cameras are awful tiny, lately. Though, once downed you'd be able to see the camera and claim your privacy was being violated, even if you weren't *truly* aware of it at the time.

I suppose it depends on the state in which the shooting occurred. I could see this swinging from unlawful property damage to the drone (urban area/blue state) over to self defense/trespassing (rural/red state).

I get a strong "shoot that varmint down" vibe from this thread. That's a vestige of the old days, the time when people had to fight off bears, coyotes and Indians. This ain't the same thing.

IE also pioneered stuff, a lot of stuff we don't really want (remember ActiveX?).

But also some stuff we do: XMLHTTP requests (now AJAX) and iframes.

I'm not a MSFT fanboi, but credit where it's due... in tune with the rest of your post.

Try Start8: it does away with the Start screen, and returns the Win XP/7-style Start Menu, and plus other adjustments to the GUI.

A much better experience if you're not using Win8 from a touch device. When I get one, I look forward to Metro - it just doesn't help me on a desktop with a mouse and big monitors.

So wait, does that make this One Weird Old Report that Republicans Hate?

Only when advertised on nytimes.com. It's "Stupid Lies Lib'ruls Tell" when advertised on newsmax.com.

If you set an alias, like x4="expand -t4", it gets a lot easier. I use tabs and set my aliases to better handle them.

Drug tests aren't infallible. False positives do occur.