"Safety means lower costs for insurers."

And rates went up regardless.

I remember when they mandated seat belts. Rates went up regardless.

I remember when Daytime Running Lights were invented, then mandated. Rates went up regardless.

I remember when airbags were invented, then mandated. Rates went up regardless.

I remember when crumple zones were invented, and became common. Rates went up regardless.

Using every tiny little excuse possible,- as the saying goes, any excuse will do for a tyrant.

You can see the same patterns throughout all of American business and finance. Who do you think actually has representation in this country?

That's like hearing a midget brag about his huge dick.

Oh, the story has one good function. It points up how in isolation, such metrics are garbage.

Otherwise.... what you said.

No, it isn't about orbital elevation - that is not that hard to change. It's about inclination - the angle of the orbit vs. the Earth. That takes a very large amount of energy (i.e. fuel) to change. In general, the only time that's changed is for satellites headed to geostationary orbit (when the satellite ends up directly over the equator), and that requires special stages designed just for that.

Nothing involving the ISS was possible. Columbia's orbit was different from ISS; it takes a LOT of energy to change that, and neither had that level of fuel. Orbital mechanics is hard.

XP64 here. Same philosophy. Block the garbage, don't be stupid, glory in my lack of visitors, and remember that attack vectors are mostly discovered by reverse-engineering the patches. No patches, way fewer clues.

Whatever small risks are well offset by an OS that doesn't continually make me long to reach through my monitor and throttle a UI developer.

Sort of like the Royal family?

I went to school back in the days of leaded gas. Precisely zero of that shit happened back then. I attribute it to societal breakdown due to economic pressures (american businessmen offshoring as much as possible, and automating the rest), effectively ending traditional stay-at-home parenting.
And also due to social pressures, (media constantly trolling for clicks with flame headlines and "analysis") combined with political extremists shouting over everyone all the time. It's the "false dichotomy" thinking that leads kids to think there are no alternatives.

California brings water from a lot farther than that -- the Aqueduct runs about 500 miles to service Los Angeles. (And has turned the formerly-lush Owens Valley into a desert.)

Destroying the first dam was environmentally catastrophic, and produced a massive fish kill. Ooops.

https://californiaglobe.com/ar...

It was discussed extensively among certain progressive news sites which is where I was hanging out at the time. I hope nobody thinks the DNC is somehow liberal or left -- they aren't. Except to those who are so far to the right that everything else is left of them. And yes, I recall watergate, and the pentagon papers. Was there and alive at the time.

Actually I got it from rather prominent progressive/economics site. They were rooting against the DNC for rather obvious reasons at the time. Nice try, tho.

No kidding, I did believe that he was the leaker. Never heard anything to the contrary, this is the first time. I am disgusted more by the behavior of the political animals than anything else.

Let's not forget Seth Richards (Hillary Clinton 's IT guy) seems he was shot in a botched robbery attempt. Something about emails and leaks.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s it was pretty much the same for me. The crap didn't really get started until the 90's IMHO. And now it's in overdrive.