They'll have less resources to assign to the 90% of the time they have given to domestic disputes and even less to the chuckleheads who are cutting you off, talking on their phones, while drunk and snorting coke, while driving.

Every new law should be bound to carry funding to enforce it.

Here is tip, comrade, everyone is a terrorist, but me!

Starbucks are probably kicking thenselves for not thinking of this first.

Something I got a kick out of was when Michael Stackpole wrote out an elaborate Japanese Tea Ceremony in Zero-G in one of his BattleTech novels. He didn't have to, but it was great reading.

I'm waiting for 3D-printed House Representatives. One more dimension than the present models.

To 3D print the cartridges.

You're funny.

Next time you try building a house, see how successful you are at getting all the contractors to arrive and get their work done according to your schedule.

It's no different with a private firm, like Granite Construction, which may have a few pavers or shovels, but they queue the jobs up so they can get things done in an order, but breakdowns happen, unforeseen things interfere, weather can delay things, then all the planning is replaced by a scramble, maybe subcontract or lease from another contractor.

Seemingly simple projects often run over in time and can't be helped.

Aside that, one thing I've noticed which makes traffic move smoother is a few police cars in the traffic. Bust the chops of a few of these jerks who keep changing lanes to save a second or two. That's what gets the whole mass of traffic crawling. Amazing how well it all works when everyone sits in their lane and goes a reasonable speed.

You know nothing about these construction contracts, which are handled by private firms. There are incentives to get the work done fast. But there are somethings you just can't rush, like having that sandy soil properly settled so new roadbed doesn't continue to settle and end up with cracks and holes. Then there's the matter of having the equipment necessary at various stages there on time, much of it coming from other worksites. There's hundreds of miles of freeways alone in the LA area. I see the same thing where I live. It looks simple enough, until you are in charge of the logistics and find how much more expensive it can be to try rushing things. Maybe if Musk threw several million dollars at the contractors, so they had more equipment they could get some things done faster. Sometimes private industry isn't faster than a good ol' bloated public department with lots of taxpayer dollar funded extra equipment available.

Probably pays the salary of 1 worker, without benefits, no overtime. A junior one at that.

it's all the cars on it.

if they built the sort of light rail which the region desperately needs it could cut down on the traffic hugely.

It's not that -- the problem is there are found to be between 10 and 20 Klingons sitting each exam.

i remember this happening in our registration system

Doesn't Diet Smith hold many patents on the Dick Tracy two-way wrist computer?

NASA is into reruns, too.

Better stick to books this summer.

That's nothing, wait until they can issue H7N9 Avian Flu from 3D printing.

Though at the end of 15 years, or long before that, the network will appear to be too slow and overburdened, because of web bloat, streaming media, tracking, MMO games and spying on everyone with cameras and the natural progression of technology.