Why is it more cost effective to build a new Capitol than to build a water pipeline?

nice fiction, AC. Never happened.

A coworker was bragging to us how even in elementrary school he and his friends would "take a girl behind the bushes" with multiple targets. Look that phrase up. Maybe parents don't want their kids subjected to thugs, gangsters, rapists, thieves, junkies in training. "Protection from the world" you mock, yet we have armed forces and police.

But you're talking to people taking the time to homeschool, not those dumping kids into a public babysitying service . They care more about their kids than that.

You left out getting crimes committed against them by gang members and other thugs of a lowlife subculture. Add to that the mentally ill with access to weapons. Savages are dangerous.

you've described what our big cities have with public education.

There are great public schools but there are too many farce ones, especially in the biggest cities. The quality as measured by tests shows the USA falling in rank over decades, strangley coinciding with the establishment of the Dept of Education.

> from a security, stability or usable prospective

You and me both but most people only score feature count. If they've grown accustomed to some oddball feature for a few months they feel they can never use anything else.

That they went their entire lives without it before isn't relevant.

From a market perspective, rushing more features to market makes more people with money happy than getting a good product to market.

Wow, you trust the Trump administrations values so much you want to pass those along to kids?

That's certainly a choice.

It sounds like Nokia, once a great company, thought they would just pay up? But I read elsewhere that a patent troll called Avanci was behind the shakedowns?

If HP and Dell begin to make this more common and could encourage Lenovo and Apple to follow suit, then the "default H.anything" crowd might start to think seriously about moving to AV1 to drop the revenue of the trolls to zero over time. Hardware support for decode is mostly complete with more CPU's bringing encode online recently. I remember when Steve Jobs went to bat against the trolls for h.264 decode; Apple should do it in his memory.

Separately, Google seriously needs to flex against patent trolls when required. Heck, Lou Rossman is more aggressive than Google on defending the community against patent trolls.

Speaking of which USPTO intends to stop challenges to patent trolls and maybe you, dear reader, should spend five minutes to fire off an email to help EFF try to head this one off at the pass.

I used to have many magazine subscriptions.

They would each mail me a reminder to renew my subscription.

If I sent them a check my subscription would continue. If I didn't send them a check my subscription would end.

I didn't have auto- anything. I didn't have to call to cancel.

The same went for when I was a paperboy. You pay for your week or you stop getting papers. When you remember to pay you start getting papers again.

I think this is how subscriptions have worked for hundreds of years, with auto-renew on a payment card developing in the past couple decades.

Without a contractual definition the corpus of caselaw would very likely date to throughout the history of the country.

that is called lying and hurt the cause of convincing people to get vaccinated. better outcome was the only reason to get vaccination, transmission and infection happened to the vaccinated.

wrong, the covid vaccines didn't prevent infection or shedding of viruses, only gave much better odds of survival and less damage to the body after infection. A vacinated infected person could spread the disease. The benefits are to the vaccinated person.

the covid vaccines don't prevent infection and shedding of viruses, they do provably increase your chances of survival and decreases risk and amount of damage to your body.

You poor TDS sufferer. A post about how science advanced by admitting new information and you go off ranting about Trump and Christians. Have you considered that America isn't the country for you? We are a Christian nation and our constitution s fit for no other. Leave us. You do not belong here. We desire neither your arms nor your counsel. Go now and lick the hand that feeds ye, and may history forget ye were our countrymen.