You just described a conventional airport! Perhaps that was the intention... :D

Clearly no one involved knows what the intent was. Did the judge ask the person who wrote the law? If not, the judge can't possibly know either.

The State of Maine states that the Oxford comma should *never* be used in Maine legislation. This means the second(last) item after a comma in a list should be considered a separate item, based on the legislative drafting manual. I don't see how the court could ignore this.
https://www.maine.gov/legis/ro...

"A. Series. Although authorities on punctuation may differ, when drafting Maine law or
rules, don’t use a comma between the penultimate and the last item of a series.

Do not write:
Trailers, semitrailers, and pole trailers

  Write:
  Trailers, semitrailers and pole trailers

Be careful if an item in the series is modified. For example:
Trailers, semitrailers and pole trailers of 3,000 pounds gross weight or less
are exempt from the licensing provisions.

Does the 3,000-pound limit apply to trailers and semitrailers or only to pole trailers? If the
limit is not intended to apply to trailers and semitrailers, the provision should read:
Pole trailers of 3,000 pounds gross weight or less, trailers and semitrailers
are exempt from the licensing provisions.

If the limit is intended to apply to all three, the provision should read:
If a trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer has a gross weight of 3,000 pounds or
less, it is not required to be licensed."

In French, an umlaut indicates that the vowel is to be separately pronounced, as opposed to being pronounced as part of a dipthong (see Noël). In this instance it indicates that the pronunciation is "co-op" as opposed to "coop" as in "chicken coop". That said, an umlaut is not a component of English so who knows why they are using it.

You've just reinvented hydroelectric power stations ;)

The practical problem to extracting a useful amount of energy from water is that you have to restrict its flow. You'd end up with a giant lake like every other hydroelectric system, except it would flood the city.

There's no getting around the fact that extracting kinetic energy from water makes it slow down. When it slows down it backs up. Its level raises as upstream flow is converted to gravitational potential energy in the form of increased head height while it is "waiting" to flow through the restriction.

If you want to allow the water to flow mostly unimpeded, you could only extract a fraction of a percent of the available kinetic energy.

Polygraph evidence is not admissible in court.

Seriously? House and Senate Bills have different prefixes for goodness sake...

They could just do what they did with quantitative easing...have the Fed buy the debt. US bonds are essentially junk anyway, that's why the Fed alone owns 13% of them; what's another 10%? China has already been divesting itself of US treasuries anyway.

A huge swath of US treasuries are owned by medicare/medicaid and social security, so rising rates would increase their yield.

US debt is a bit of a shell game, as only 27% of it is owned by entities not under control of government.

Not saying any of this is a good thing...

China holds only only 10% of the US debt. Roughly half of the debt is owned by the US government itself. Most US debt is owed to Americans in some form or other.

The trucks with sliding controls still have mechanical steering connections. For example, Unimog VarioPilot uses a horizontal shaft which engages the moveable steering column at either end.

Airbus is 100% electronic, Boeing still sticks to their philosophy of "pilot is ultimately in charge" and retains electromechanical connections between controls and control surfaces.

Many parking brakes use separate pads or a separate drum brake. These are much smaller in capacity than the main brakes.

If it means anything to economists, the longest period of sustained US deflation (1873 - 1879) was a period of high economic growth (>7%). This in spite of some economists of the time predicting inflation would occur because of the increase in gold supply. There's evidence that the period from 1800 to 1900 experienced an overall deflation of around 50%, while the country's economy expanded immensely. Whether deflation is bad or good depends more on the context and reaction than any mathematical model. That's why I am a contrarian. If most experts say it will be a certain way, it probably won't be.

I believe the idea that people stop spending money because of deflation is a logical fallacy. People need food, housing & utilities, healthcare, vehicles & fuel, entertainment etc. These are ongoing needs that need to be serviced in the present. All consumers look at is the price NOW. As we can see from consumer debt levels, people don't consider the future regardless of inflation or deflation.

Technology is an inherently deflationary market (today's money would buy something better tomorrow), and it drives economic growth more than anything.

CODEC isn't correct, no. An audio/video codec is an *algorithm* which operates in the digital realm, converting digital data from uncompressed to compressed format and vice-versa. A codec can be implemented in hardware but is not the hardware itself.

Ffmpeg is a codec.