Not a chance he will even mention the case of female entrants and employees :) How does 50% of humanity strikes you, buster?

You may have a very good case with off-road mining equipment. Such a ridiculous claim can be thrown out or invalidated on the basis of examples I would hope. Look at the very slight difference in colors between Komatsu, Caterpillar, Dresser and some older Euclid equipment. Very subtle shades of yellow. It can also be brought back to light that the fundamental reason for the yellow is often for field equipment and tooling to stand out and not get lost or accidentally damaged or destroyed against a varied background.

Time zones of 1 hour are a remnant of the 19th century railroad time table sync problems. Up to then, everybody followed the natural (sun) local times. For centuries it did not seem to cause any problem because travel times were much slower than sync times. Now we are the other end of the spectrum, we can bridge time zones at a speed that makes arbitrary one-hour divisions kind of quaint. Here is my proposal: there is no problem whatsoever having actual sun time to the millisecond- network time everywhere. Anybody can post their actual time online and make it clear that they open or close at their actual time. Time translation apps are a cinch, as we all know. If I can do business with a West coast store from Indiana with 3 hour shift, what exactly is the problem doing so with a, say, 2h47 shift? Besides, by having a continuous actual time, there will be no zigs and zags to the time maps. An ordinary gps unit will be all that is needed to tell you the local time. So, when you finally adopt the metric system, consider adopting modern time management?

I am sorry to defecate on anyone's parade, but nobody seems to question Manning's ability to actually be a woman? Womanhood is not a default state, and not a catch-all for men's failure to have a workable and broad enough definition of themselves. Cutting off your dick does not make you a woman. If he is unable to deal with his male body, what makes you think that he will be able to deal with his female make-over? Of course for the next 35 years he won't have to put up with the issues of rape (well, maybe not), -17% average salary for the same job, and never even being heard again on technical and scientific subject-matters. And of course his make-over does not include bearing and raising children either. Woman- schwoman.

Yes, it was a Big Brother copier :)

One word: Bravo. You spared my lazy bum a comment :)

Ok, this may not be a comment that you will like, but from a different viewpoint, what you are asking could be interpreted as "How can I go infest and contaminate an erstwhile quiet place, bringing all my paranoia, war mentality and trash with me just do I don't have to live with the mess that me and my society created? I would hate to stay right where I am and peacefully, stubbornly work at changing things I don't like. That sounds like hard work." You think that the NSA doesn't have the capability to trace you to Mars if they wanted to? And the problem when they do that is that they will infiltrate and pollute yet another foreign site that could have done with that undue intrusion, thank you very much.

"No shit, Sherlock". The problem is that we are over-running our resources, short-term. What is happening to consensus, universal rule of law (with a consistent, elegant and optimal body of law) and rational thinking on a large scale may be indicative of the level of potential of our basic resources. Ah, well. Fail fail fail.

As a physical species, we are not particularly interesting or outstanding, what we may want to leave behind before we come to pass, is the list, to the best of our knowledge, of what our ideals were and how and where we failed to attain them (or, to greater consternation, to achieve them!). The rest is really circumstancial detail. These lessons learnt could be engraved on tungsten tablets, in 3 languages or codes including one pictogram language and one of the languages being chosen for its grammatical simplicity. Nothing should be overlooked in the way of keys, such as indicating the top of the tablets, the order of reading, and the tablet numbers. The circumstances of how we chose to deplete or destroy our resources, let our population exceed its food and shelter support like any species of coyotes or rabbits, is of little interest. The important message to whomever or whatever may come after us should be that if reasoning function there be in a species, it should be used to supercede animal instinct, not to boost it or serve it as a damn weapon. Ideally, we do not want to plant a Foundation so that all our stupidities are perpetuated, but rather, for once, be useful to the next thinking species around this planet, should it come to happen.