With " $130,000 — or just 0.08% of its revenue", what is Wikipedia doing with the rest of the 99.8% of the money collected? A good forensic accounting might be warranted.

Were those weapons legally purchased? Roughly the lowest price for a fully automatic firearm is $10,000. And for each purchase you have a several month long waiting period for the federal, state and local background checks to take place before your two hundred dollar tax stamp for each firearm is issued. A quick search provided this list of disqualifiers to own about any firearm, but especially fully automatic ones. If the person is a felon, has been convicted of any crime punishable by more than a year in prison whether or not they were ever sentenced to or served a day in prison, is under indictment for any crime punishable by more than a year in prison, is a fugitive, is an unlawful user of any controlled substance, has been, adjudicated as a mental defective, has been committed to a mental institution, is an illegal alien, has a dishonorable discharge from the military, has renounced their U.S. citizenship, is the subject of a restraining order restraining the person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or the child of an intimate partner, or who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.

The only time that I had to show my TWIC card was to HR to prove that I had a TWIC card.

For those that have not been Fit Tested for a respirator using irritant smoke, most face coverings are just for show. Yes, they can help a little by stopping a good amount of exhaled particulates and maybe, just maybe some of the virus for the wearer when inhaling. A couple of questions, how long does the virus live on the face covering or filters and do those viruses migrate when the face covering is handled?

It went from Ballmers simple, easy to remember name to something that a HR committee dreamed up.

Try saying that a fat person is fat, that will get you labeled.

Only if they are elected officials.

And the inhabitants can take a "Oath of Fealty".

So, who pays for this program? Could it be taxpayers? Want minimum CO-2 produced, then build nuclear plants.

About anyone that has served in the United States armed forces any time in at least the last 50+ years has had this done. Do a simple search for Officer and Enlisted evaluation's, it looks like Amazon has taken a page right out of the militaries evaluation program. And once you have been in the military for awhile, you learn how to "game the system" a little bit, although about everyone that is competing for a promotion is doing the "gaming" too. So it has turned into a typical govt. program.

The author of this article lost me at "welding torches", there is very little (if any) production welding done with torches. Robotic welding done with wire feed, most definitely, Robotic metal cutting done with gas or plasma, yes. Robotic welding with a torch, not so much.

Well, where and how would you rather shop? Your living room or? And not just WalMart or Amazon for example; I needed two 1 pound block's of buffing compound the other day. No local places carry it, WalMart does not carry it in store, Amazon does have it (made in China) for $32, delivered. PJ Tool and Supply does, (made in USA) for $24. Amazon might and only might have been one day quicker for delivery. But I could wait for that one extra day to save $8. I do try to shop local and there is a local dealer of buffing compounds, but they did not have the one pound blocks and I do buy their extremely fine compounds when I need them.

This small plant can easily supply enough energy for a 50 million gallon per day reverse osmosis desalination plant, even in the Middle East where the oceans salinity has the greatest ppm / mg/L. 50 million gallons per day of desalinated water can turn a large sandy area into fairly productive food producing land. The Carlsbad Desalination Plant out of San Diego is said to use 40MW of power to produce 50 million gallons of potable water per day.

A much greater problem is the building of dykes and levee's along rivers that force more and more water downstream. This causes the dykes and levee's further downstream to be built higher and higher, eventually the water will overtop or breach the dykes and levee's. See Red River and Missouri River spring floods. A cure would be for new dykes or levee's to be built and ones already in service to be reduced in hight to a no greater than somewhere between a 100 or 500 year flood stage. Yes, there will be flooding, but at what should be a reduced amount as much of the flood water will be at lower levels along the entire course of the river instead of greater flooding in the areas where the water just cannot be held back anymore.

Hydrogen Peroxide is a good disinfectant, but at higher concentrations it is hard to store and use safely. Now, the article is saying that the Hydrogen Peroxide will be produced and used on site in a safe manner. A "million times" more effective than todays fairly common 4 log removal of contaminants is a pretty hard to prove claim. Now, with 4 log removal, the addition of chlorine and a residual is needed to keep the produced potable water safe. (depending on the waters source and further testing) Killing things in potential potable water is fairly easy and inexpensive, see chlorine and or UV light and as noted in the article, hydrogen peroxide. Today, using UV and making chlorine and hydrogen peroxide is not hard, the storage and usage in the amounts and concentrations of the chlorine and hydrogen peroxide needed is where problems arise. When the AWWA (American Water Works Association) provides positive papers on this new method than it may be time to begin small scale (100000 gpd) testing and evaluation.