I'm not sure what it would take to bring down our power grid.

Well, how about an earthquake? And, before you reply that there aren't earthquakes where you live, consider this: everyplace is earthquake country if you wait long enough.

So, because the judiciary is very conservative, his appointment is being suspended until the allegations are cleared.

They're not doing this because the judiciary is very conservative; some judges are, some are very liberal. It's just because our court system has centuries of experience with this type of thing and knows that judges are like Caesar's wife. They not only need to avoid doing anything that would call their impartiality into question, they have to be above suspicion. Being investigated on a "morals" charge could jeopardize every case he works on because his integrity would become an issue on appeal, and the easiest way to avoid that is by not having him hear cases where the charges against him might become significant.

Hotels have offered power outlets, network connections and (sometimes) usb connectors on desks and tables for years, now, both in rooms and in their lobbies. I don't remember seeing any on couches, but they often have easily accessible outlets in the wall, or on the floor. The last time I can remember having to get under a table to get to a socket in a hotel lobby was back in 2010. It's not exactly hard to do, you know, you just have to take the same precautions you'd use if you were putting a new outlet into the wall, and make sure your work is up to code.

The most charitable thing you can say at the moment is that they apparently have more power than they can manage is a responsible way, let along legal way.

It may be more accurate to say that certain IRS agents think they have far more power than they actually do and have let their mistake go to their heads.

AIUI, cops tend to follow this type of ruling very, very carefully and do their best not to violate any new guidelines handed down. This isn't because they have such a great respect for the law (although many individual cops probably do) but because they don't want to have their evidence declared inadmissible, with the chance that the entire case might be thrown out. After all, they don't have to agree with the rules of evidence, they just have to make sure they follow them.

A friend of mine wrote a book about the state of virtual reality over twenty-five years ago. Back then, special glasses, headsets or other similar viewers were state of the art. Now, your average first person shooter video game has better 3D than anything he wrote about.

Well, this is Slashdot, you know. What else did you expect other than unfounded speculation by people who didn't RTFM and hyperbole?

If you'll go to the post I originally replied to, you'll find this: "For all we know, 97% of those researchers were ungrad-students doing research for a professor that required them to assume AGW was man-made." I was just remarking that using the term AGW includes the assumption that it's man made, and that any professor who expects them to use that term also expects them to accept that assumption.

Thank you; I sit corrected. Still, the point remains that the term AGW assumes that it's caused by mankind.

For all we know, 97% of those researchers were ungrad-students doing research for a professor that required them to assume AGW was man-made.

For that matter, for all we know, almost all of the papers that took the position that the current warming trend wasn't man-made were rejected and that their position on the cause was part of the reason. I'm not saying that there was selection bias, just that it's a possible explanation. And, btw, the A in AGW stands for anthropomorphic, or, "man made," so AGW is man made by definition.

The Baltic Sea isn't anywhere near as salty as it sounds. There are so many rivers emptying into it that parts of it, especially in the northern part, are very close to fresh water, and most (if not all) of the fish there are fresh water species. That's why, back in the Viking days, people in that area had to buy salt from mines in what's now Poland, instead of getting it from the sea as most other maritime areas do. This simplifies things tremendously, because they don't have to worry anywhere near as much about corrosion from the salt.

Using archaic tools for modern jobs is just flat out asinine. You didn't grow up with those tools -- those tools are from my university days. And I'm 49, not 24.

I'm 63. If I'd kept with what I first learned, I'd still be using punched cards and batch processing. Now, I use a GUI for most things, but hardly a day goes by that I don't open an xterm for something because there are some things that I just find easier that way. Personally, if I need a CLI editor, I like Mork's editor: nano.

I think it is you who is stuck believing what you tell yourself. You can't accept that (highly likely) possibility your government simply used you and tossed you aside, exploiting some of the best years of your life. But hey, I guess like your pills and hearing aids.

It was Johnson who got us there because he thought that Kennedy wanted it. Gradually, through his Administration and Nixon's, the far-left contingent of the Democrats got stronger and stronger. Then, after the war was officially over, when the NVA invaded again, it was the Democrats (who as you pointed out controlled Congress) reneged on the agreement to support ARVAN and left them to be slaughtered.

And, as far as my VA benefits, without them, I probably wouldn't need hearing aids because I would have died about a decade ago after I ran out of money to pay for the medicines that keep me alive. Of course, if the government had "tossed me aside" as you claim, they'd have closed the VA or declared all 'Nam vets ineligible instead of providing care for us, but don't let inconvenient facts get in the way of your prejudices.

May you live forever, Ephialtes.

Thank you, but nobody who knows me has ever even considered accusing me of being a radical. I'm just another aging Boomer, who happens to have lived through a section of history that you can't understand any more than I can really understand either World War.

Shrug! Go ahead and believe what you've been taught. I was there, and I can assure you that the opposition to the war was never as general as is now claimed. What is true is that the opposition was very vocal and the support wasn't.

That's because I didn't. I earned it by helping turn back an invasion intended to overrun a country that didn't want to be ruled by communists. Later, of course, the leftists in Congress gave the commies everything they wanted and pissed away what we'd done.