I do feel bad for people who are genuinely unlucky. But 90% (made up stat but probably in the ballpark I'd guess) of health care costs are preventable. If you're overweight and a smoker and drive 110mph everywhere well you have to take some personal accountability as well (not saying this is necessarily your case).

"Screw" them out of two cents lol. Name one thing you can buy for two cents.

Nuclear is costing a fortune in legacy costs safeguarding the waste, and its only getting worse as more and more is generated. We should invest in deep drilling techniques for geothermal and put $$$$$$$$$$ into fusion research. The problem with saying "oh that was an old design, things are safe now", is that if you amortize the plants over a smaller lifespan, the cost skyrockets to even more than it is now (already the most expensive method of generation, and that doesn't even include legacy/cleanup costs). Guarentee when those "old" plants were originally proposed, the funding was looked at over a 40+ year lifespan. You can't expect to just rebuild the plants every 20 years because better designs have come along.

Exactly, the more different things you have experience with the better off you are. I wish I could completely switch it up at my current job and learn more and be paid for it

Exactly, sounds like someone with a chip on their shoulder because they didn't have the persistence necessary to follow through with a degree.

Oil is not really running out, reserves to production ratio has been constant at around 40 for the past two decades. http://chartsbin.com/view/t3t . Additionally North American unconventional sources (shale, tar), are estimated to be greater than the entire world-wide reserves.

The water needs are actually far less since none of it is wasted. You could say the same about fertilizer needs, if your traditional farms are using synthetic fertilizers. Obviously growing huge trees like this is currently a pipe dream, but for smaller crops like tomatoes, lettuce, etc it may be far more efficient. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tomatotree.JPG

At least you're not from (South) Jersey....

And slashdot...

The complete solutions or solutions manual would also be online though and probably torrented.