3d TV as currently constituted, with glasses, etc... is just annoying.

If they had real 3d holograms, that'd be awesome, but primitive stereoscopic seems to detract more in detail than it adds in realism.

This may be too obvious to be helpful, but since the submitter mentioned that they use Drupal on top of their database, why not just use one of the Drupal Google Maps modules as a starting point?

Google Maps Tools provides the very proximity function he's looking for (among other things) and there are many other easy integrations with Google Maps he can use as well.

That said, if he really wants to do the calculations at the DB layer, then switch the installation to Postgres GIS as mentioned elsewhere.

It seems like the system you describe would lead to more power in elections going to incumbents, because they are already better known than challengers, and to the news media, because they publish their views without it being "advertising".

Any indications of this in Norway? Do incumbents win in a much higher percentage than challengers? Do the candidates that the media favors tend to do much better?

There's a system that, based on sensor input, shuts the OBOGS oxygen system down automatically. Why design it so that it then requires the pilot to manually activate the other system?

If you can cut off the pilot's oxygen based on a sensor reading, why not also activate the backup system automatically at the same time?

Seems like a poor design, to me.

The problem with many of the online charity rating services is that because information on religious charities isn't easy to access without federal tax reports, they tend to just exclude them, when they also tend to have some of the most cost effective.

An example:
  The humanitarian arm of LDS Philanthropies:

100 percent of all donations go to help those in need. No administrative costs are deducted by LDS Philanthropies or our affiliated charities

They can do that because the church members cover all administrative costs with a different fund and volunteer time separately, so all donations can go to those in need.

If you only care about humanitarian needs, then their approach of helping people in emergencies and also helping people become more self-reliant (clean water, food production, etc...) then donate online.

The best incremental use of your money, IMHO.

This particular school board member was an education major.

A very low percentage of education majors are interested in lowering taxes or in religion in school. They tend to advocate for higher property taxes at every turn (last four elections in my area, including one special election for just the one issue of raising taxes to give the district more money) and for ensuring religion is banned as much as possible from school.

Nope, this is just your common variety math stupidity, from the dumbest group of college graduates, the education majors.

He's an education major.

That pretty much explains how he can be so dumb. Education majors are the lowest scoring on standardized tests. They also don't "do" math in college.

Yes, that's who they think should be teaching all the kids in the U.S. .... it would be funny if it wasn't so sad...

What was the status of labor unions under regimes historicly regarded as fascist?

From Mein Kampf:
"I think that I have already answered the first question adequately. In the present state of affairs I am convinced that we cannot possibly dispense with the trades unions. On the contrary, they are among the most important institutions in the economic life of the nation. Not only are they important in the sphere of social policy but also, and even more so, in the national political sphere. For when the great masses of a nation see their vital needs satisfied through a just trade unionist movement the stamina of the whole nation in its struggle for existence will be enormously reinforced thereby.

"Before everything else, the trades unions are necessary as building stones for the future economic parliament, which will be made up of chambers representing the various professions and occupations."

There is some confusion brought on by apologists, but once Hitler took power, he replaced the Weimar Unions with "the German Labor Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF), which was comprised of 2 primary entities, the National Socialist Factory Organization and the National Socialist Trade and Industry Organization."

Anyway, the bottom line is that once "the people" allowed the federal government to seize so much unauthorized power, especially economic power they've squeezed out of the interstate commerce clause (which should just be, no trade barriers between the states), then politicians giving their cronies and backers (unions, large corporations, universities, etc... pretty much anyone else with power) payoffs was just a matter of public choice incrementalism.

The app doesn't actually work. An example was it giving 140 degrees outside during winter in Philly.

How much user testing could they possibly have done?

Yes, we subsidize new drug development for your country. It's because of the potential profits that drug companies develop new drugs and pay for testing to get through the regulatory process.

So you're welcome....