Did you go to University of Chicago, then, or major in neo-Marxist horseshit somewhere else? ;-)

Hipsters aren't interested in classical liberal arts. They're interested in neo-Marxist horseshit. Most people with a legit classical liberal arts education are far too insightful to be hipsters.

It didn't work for the 787, did it?

I miss my Nokia 2320. Not remotely a "smart" phone, but Nokia made some great handsets. Good to know they still do.

This is effectively what I'm hearing consistently from a friend who is a nuclear engineer. The fear of "nuclear", coupled with the directly associated regulatory environment, have crippled investment and development. Who's going to put millions into commercialization when the democratic fear state makes the resulting technology illegal?

Who could have foreseen that wind power would be variable, even unpredictable?

Yes, things that hurt another person. Smoking pot or doing a line aren't similar to slavery/human trafficking. Conflating them is profoundly incorrect.

Hiring great teachers from one district and putting them in an underperforming district doesn't necessarily work. Because teachers who are great at teaching subject matter may be completely unprepared to deal with the classroom management issues in a poor school. Teachers who can hang tough at a poor school would likely really enjoy moving to a good district and getting a chance to enjoy teaching subject matter. The reverse move would likely result in worse results all around.

Just look at educational textbook prices in general. The whole educational text industry is a racket.

That guy is dead. I guarantee there are enough well-funded sociopaths outed by this that there will be a hit placed on this dude. He will be in worse shape that Assange or Manning.

It seems so obvious that basic law enforcement, economic develop, and educational reform would fix most of these kinds of problems, that I'm forced to wonder how awfully bad government corruption is that going to these extremes seems a practical choice for the people doing it.

Do you acknowledge that while what you say is true, it still indicts the folks who blamed Katrina on AGW, and those same people who predicted exceptionally bad hurricanes in the past 10 years?

If you can't have a rational discussion between your architects (who are most likely just really senior guys slinging code) and your product managers (who are most likely just sales and account reps without a market vision) you are already screwed.

Shit. I just described my own company.

We should give control over this to the same government that suspected Ray Bradbury novels of being intended to cause mass communistic hysteria.

Given that almost everybody is now calling it theater, would you say it had a positive impact on constituent relations?