It doesn't require nearly as many people working nearly as hard as we have now to provide for everyone.

Years ago, when I worked for Generous Electric, some brilliant CFO decided the way to cut costs was to offer early retirement with a generous package to get rid of expensive engineers. All the senior engineers I worked with spent their days justifying why they should get a package, and ultimately they did. Six month Slater tehy were rehired when GE discovered they were the only ones that really understood how to fix the systems when they broke, since they had years of experience doing just that. The upshot was they kept all their retirement package benefits plus got those of a full time employee.

As I said, I'm an aeronautical engineer. Close is good enough, 6 is close enough to 4 for large values of 4, and in case, it'll still fly... If it doesn't just add bigger engines. As I told my accounting prof, I'll just hire an accountant (and I did).

Mine is an HP45. Later got an 41CV. RPN means never having family borrow your toys...

In my ay, we had to rely on bribes and neopotism to get into goood schools, no fancey technology to help us.

Yea. A number of my engineering profs offered an oral exam vs a test if you wanted it. Later in grad school, they didn't and one class (accounting) I did poorly on tests (I'm an engineer, close is good enough for airplanes) and would go over tehste with my prof, who said I know the material I just have trouble adding and subtracting...

One reason Vogtle added two was the original site analysis called for four units so they didn’t have to get a site approved. I suspect, ifvthey do build these plants, most if not all will be built on existing sites that were licensed for more units than they built.

For somecreason, we haven’t learned ftom the mistakes of the past. 17 billion and a COL doesn’t fix that.

I'm guessing the three years wasn't for the cheating but the money laundering and unauthorized computr access, the cheating was just a by product of those crimes.

Which means it better not fold until after DJT leaves the White House or they'll be investigated by the DOJ for losing junior's money.

Regullations are evil and the government should let the market decide; except, of course, when the regulations protect them from the market.

Both. The hundred year flood is a rare event and he hasn’t seen it. Just because it is a hundred year flood doesn’t mean it happens every hundred years.

Anyone on /. already knows Americans can't read...

People I know that have touchscreens use them for one thing - scrolling through websites. I'm sure there are other uses, but that is what I have observed with friends as well as when traveling. Small sample, for sure, but pretty much consistent across laptops and Surface devices. Frankly, what would be cool if apple could build the scroll capability off screen in the black area around the active screen.

I have used my iPad as a second screen where touch is enable, and never really found it useful as well. I suppose there are specific use cases and it will be interesting to see how well it sells. I just hope they introduce an as powerful non touch version for less cash.

Apparently they're homeless because Microsoft didn't pay out so getting out more is probably the last thing on their mind since mission accomplished - they're outside already.

I guess you didn't read very carefully. They found a marker that appears 5 years before a diagnosis and also part of the mechanism of smoking and other things causing lung cancer AND potentially how to interrupt it. That's a good bit more than simply finding a well known correlation.