That's easily explained as most people committing death or dismemberment don't startwith that crime, but work their way up to it.

Yeah, we should have let the Germans and Jews sort it out at Auschwitz. It's not our fight anyway.

We did let them sort it out in Rwanda, and everyone blames the US and UN for NOT stopping it.

A regexp for your position would be [*] US is wrong.

Cuba and the Phillipines cost more to defend and 'pacify' than they were worth at the time, so they were let go.

Aren't they genetic twins?

I don't consider responding to an armed invasion (by Russia) of sovereign territory (Ukraine) 'offensive' use. That's usually considered 'defense', at least in my dictionary.

I wouldn't expect them to be used, but it would serve their design purpose by deterring Russia.

I'm not looking for *mandatory*. Just stop subsidizing it.

In the US, there's a tax credit per child. If you are on public assistance, the monthly payment goes up with the number of children.

Instead of subsidizing children, why not pay people for either permanent or temporary contraception?

And this is the endgame of all of the 'nuclear free' 'disarmament' talks. Ukraine relied on the treaty, signed by the US, UK and Russia to keep them safe and independent. Russia is violating it. The US and UK are doing nothing concrete to stop it. Do you think for one moment Russia would have invaded if Ukraine were still a nuclear power?

As usual, this affects 80% of the people (who can only afford one car/person) severely. And the 1% won't even feel it, as they have either a stable of cars or the ability to call a black car service who will come with a car to take them wherever they want. The real solution is fewer people, but no one wants to look at that.

I'm all for this - if the President proposes something else to cut by $1Bn. The budget is currently way over what we're taking in, and taxes are high enough already. Find something to cut to pay for it - as well as any other new spending.

Is there a source reference to this?

Does anyone else see a problem with their math?

The headline indicates that six Leaf cars can power the building. Later they say the scheme reduced peak power load by 2%. Doesn't that indicate it would take 6*50, or 300 Leaf cars to power the whole building.

This sort of fuzzy math makes me doubt most of the solar and wind claims.

Another post is heavily in favor of net-metering, where the utility pays you the same rate per KWH as they sell it to you. That's bad economics. That means you can buy power at peak periods and have them buy from you at off-peak. You're asking them to be your energy storage source at no cost. If everyone did that, the utility would go broke trying to keep generator plants available (at zero cost) for when the sun doesn't shine or there's a hot day with a large air conditioning load.

No, capital punishment is the onlypunishment that has not had any repeat offenders. People sentenced to *life* have been paroled and killed others. People on death row have killed guards. People who have completed capital punishment have never killed anyone else.

Obviously /. is a Swiss shill, as evidenced by their almost universal use of Helvetica.

I thought Cook and Jobs destroyed Ballmer?

> Illegal tortes are made with immigrants, but that name is considered politically incorrect.

Actually, the preferred term is "undocumented torte".