First, the Oklahoma Budget is a hundred and some million short, so they cut about $60 million out of the schools. They cut meal programs, STEM programs, arts (always. They cut those even when money falls out of the ceiling). Probably cut Science too, making the whole bill moot.
But one thing they DIDN'T cut is administrative salaries. Administrative salaries account for 90% of salaries in Oklahoma schools. This SHOULD be about 5%. But Oklahoma, along with pretty much every other state has bolstered the useless overhead administration in education by a factor of many hundreds over the last 30 years. There are some school districts where the administrator to teacher ratio is higher than 1:1. There is literally more than one administrator per classroom (of course, they never set foot in a classroom).

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If you have a 401k and it invests in NASDAQ index or comm stocks, then you are also one of the shareholders.
As a rough guess, I would say there are probably 60 million people in the U.S. that are either shareholders or customers of this company. That is a lot of people to put in prison.

Had to go with BASIC, as the only choice that I had heard of, but I don't really consider it a toy language. My first job was programming automated trading systems in BASIC, and FORTRAN.

By midafternoon lull, I assume you mean Peak Pricing?

Not to worry, the electronic components in any device always fail before the mechanical devices, so the electronics will fail and the car will be bricked long before the vehicle is fully depreciated.

That explains why we have so much crime in inner cities as most major cities, especially older ones still use 100% lead pipe to the faucet. Lead solder is also quite common in houses built up through the 1980s and is still used on occasion.
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The controls on mine and many others are above the oven and of course heat rises. The insulation on an oven is not sufficient to keep it from baking anything directly above it after a couple of years.

My oven has both dials and a digital display. The dials still work great. The digital display not so much. Unfortunately, most electronic components don't work very well in the environment that most electronic components are subjected to.

Maybe your tractor shouldn't have a computer. Maybe most of the crap in your home shouldn't have a computer, and it sure shouldn't be connected to the internet. The computer is the first part of any home appliance that breaks, and it is completely unnecessary in most cases.

Moon shots are something that nobody would have invested in, and the commercial profitability at the time was still probably a hundred years out. Some private companies STILL invested money even though they knew it was a sinkhole. The bragging rights and the knowledge gained were worth it to them. But we never would have gone without the research money from the government.
Electric vehicles are commercially viable and therefore commercial interests should be investing in them. We don't need to take money from every single taxpayer to make the rich owners of auto manufacturers even richer.

Obamacare was more like taking from the middle class and giving to the poor and the rich. The rich insurance company owners now get dollars from everyone at gunpoint. The poor get insurance paid for by the government (note that insurance is not healthcare. They still can't afford healthcare), and the middle class can no longer afford insurance OR healthcare, let alone both.

Go ahead and take your personal $4 Billion and invest it in driverless cars. As for me, I will go ahead and invest MY money in companies that I choose.

The melting pot DID work. Up until about 5 or 6 years ago, there was relative racial harmony. However, then we began a crusade of overt media and top level government attention depending on the race of individuals involved in incidents, which has created a rift between the races that the media and the administration continues to encourage.

Not to mention, which pole was north back then, and where were the geographic and magnetic north poles back then? Was that area tropical back then? Did the mammoth merely wander that far north after an encounter with man?