I know a couple like you, met at a bar, married two weeks later, been happy ever since. I many more couples who were divorced after a year who did one of the following: dated less than a year, had more than 200 people at the wedding (more people = more expensive), or eloped.

People vary a lot. Relationships vary a lot, but there do seem to be trends that help form long lasting marriages: date at least two years, don't live together before the marriage, have a nice wedding, have a honeymoon, and DO discuss all the important stuff before getting married (kids, money, sex).

If you keep the guest list small, say 50 people, choose a reasonable venue, don't hire photographers,videographers, etc... splurge a bit on food, and play music from that good friends collection on a half decent sound system you can easily do a very nice wedding under $10,000. /you can rent wedding dresses, just like tuxes. Diamonds are just shiny rocks, go with a more reasonably priced stone. You won't have 200 guests, but you will have a nice wedding.

What I got from this story is that the USA has terrible labour laws, and that some small companies have very low levels of diversity among their employees. From an outsiders point of view the USA has a very strange culture that puts companies and the abstract idea of the "free market" on pedestals while doing the bare minimum to help out regular people.

The USA is the last 1st world country to implement universal health-care, and you did it in the most strangely bone-headed manner that guarantees that large insurance companies continue to profit from human suffering. Single-payer is cheaper, more efficient, and proven to work. The USA is the only 1st world country without federally mandated annual vacation time for full-time workers. Your so called "right to work" laws are just union busting, and your politicians take great glee in taxing the middle class, berating the poor, and handing out tax breaks and other largess to the rich and hug companies. And your middle class keeps on voting for these clowns.

The USA is no longer a model of freedom, human rights,or progressive policies. I hope one day the electorate comes to its senses and starts voting for people who want to pass laws and policies that help people - not profit.

Hey smarty, don't give up. Use those smarts and keep trying, learning, and growing, until you get where you want to be.

First step, figure out where you want to be.

If you are a flight risk, fly to where they seem to think you are going to flee.

He said arrested and imprisoned, not executed. The USA incarcerates more people, in absolute numbers, and per capita than any other country in the world. The USA has 5% of the worlds population and 25% of the worlds prisoners.

China isn't even in the top ten.

Yes, you had the only one. And it took a very unusual series of events for you to get a reliable Fiat.

It was a rare Wednesday that was also a National holiday. The regular crews were all off, and the temps were called in, but it was a Wednesday not a Friday so the temps weren't drunk. Being not drunk they remembered that they had played cards last night with the crew of a Saudi Royals yacht. This crew was all nubile Japanese girls who were taking a holiday from their work building Camries. The Fiat boys convinced them to take their shifts, and behold - the one ever reliable Fiat was built from 1969 through 1988.

You are making stuff up. We know the Jurassic was much warmer, being tropical or sub-tropical over most of the world. We think the sea level was much higher. There is no evidence of ice at either pole. Pangaea was starting to break up.

We have no reliable measurements of either O2 or C02 in the Jurassic.

The point you seem to be missing is that the climate change we are experiencing now is happening MUCH faster than any in the past, and we are causing it. Yes, life will go on, but it will disrupt millions of people if we do nothing about it. I'm not sure why so many people think the short term profits of large energy companies are more important than the general welfare of millions of people.

Since when have protective tariffs been "efficient"?

Freemarket capitalists should be supporting freetrade no matter what reason the politicians give for getting rid of tariffs. Or are you one of those freemaket people who only think there should be freetrade if the USA benefits?

Generally when people say autistic, they don't mean a mildly afflicted, high functioning person, but someone who never speaks, rocks in a corner, and screams if their normal routine is changed. You DON'T have to be autistic, or be anywhere on the autistic spectrum to be a great programmer.

Like becoming good, even excellent, at anything it requires hard work, dedication, and practice. Any normal person can do it. Programming, and I've been doing it since an assembler was a real cool tool, can be mastered by normal people. Sure, I've seen a few odd balls in the field, but no more so than in other fields.

As far as making programming easy for the masses: that is fine for little toy systems, but if you want a large system built, you want properly trained professionals working on it.

Why would you expect poverty when robots produce the same or more than all human workers?

Capitalism, regulated by government to prevent the worst abuses, has proved itself the best economic system given our current level of technology, and culture. When everything you could possibly want is produced without human labour then capitalism isn't going to work. There will be NO work. Obviously, some sort of socialism will have to replace capitalism. This theme is explored in a number of SF books, and often labelled "Post Scarcity".

The current economic recovery in the USA is often called the "jobless recovery" because while corporations profits have recovered the number of jobs that have been created has been much lower than in previous economic recoveries. This trend of increasing productivity through automation is going to accelerate.

Some form of socialism is inevitable in the long term. Dogmatic free marketers are just going to have to learn to change. The culture is going to have to change to value something other than "work" as a good use of one's time.

Pretty much everything in your post is wrong. The IPCC's latest report does NOT state that the science supporting global climate change is "weaker than ever". Sure, a few minor botches were discovered in the report, but that doesn't change the fact that there is overwhelming evidence, supported by over 90% of climate scientists, that global climate change is real and caused by human actions.

Many people are much more willing to change their mind when presented with evidence that contradicts favored beliefs than religious fundamentalists, and others who strongly identify who they are to a particular dogma.

There seems to be a .lot more "noisy" republicans/conservatives that are proud of not changing their mind in the face of evidence than there are democrats/liberals with this trait. For example some liberals are now promoting nuclear energey now that global climate change has proved to be a much bigger issue.

I don't think it is a win for freedom when your company, run by very few people at the top, gets to tell the employees, a generally much large number of people, how to run their private lives. Each person should be free to make important decisions about their lives without interference from companies or the government when their decisions harm no other people. Embryos are not people.

More importantly, no secular government should be paying any attention to any religious belief when making laws. Iron Age superstition has no place in deciding important moral, philosophical, or law questions. Our body of knowledge about what is moral has change drastically since those days, and especially since the enlightenment.

Keep religion out of the law - it is the only way to have freedom. There are thousands of religions, and even if you restrict yourself to Christian sects, you still have thousands of sects - there is no way to pick the "correct" morality from this mess of contradictory, and generally backward beliefs.

Don't get offended when I call Christian beliefs backwards; go read the bible. I'm always amazed at the number of people calling themselves "chistians" who haven't bothered to read the bible. Often, reading the bible, and/or making a serious study of theology cures one of religion.

Once all the cars are autonomous, and networked there won't be traffic jams.

And everyone in that plane is going to want to kill you after only 5 hours. For the love of god, don't do it unless you have a miracle child that will sleep through the whole flight.

As a parent of three grown children, I never inflicted my perfect, but often screaming, children on theaters, high end restaurants, or long plane trips. It is is selfish, unthinking, and rude.