This issue comes up twice a year, every year, then disappears just as quickly as the sun sets on an arctic day in December. Until there is concerted year-round pressure on congress to change it, this issue will continue to come up twice a year every year.

The airlines did indeed overbook in the 80s and 90s. It is just that back then planes were not flying full like they are now, so it was somewhat rarer A lot of destinations that are now served by small regional jets were served by mainline jets like a DC-9 or 737. United in particular has a habit of cancelling flights that are not completely full.

A city the size of Barrie would probably have a smattering of bus routes (at least in the Midwestern U.S.) where the buses run so infrequently that they are only used by the most desperate. I went to college in such a city and to use the bus to get from the school to the mall on the north side of town was an exercise in futility.

In the U.S., a city that size likely would not have any public transit save school buses or the senior trolley. The only exception would be if it were a suburb of a larger city in which case the city's buses would extend out to the suburb. I am not sure if Innisfil is some isolated community or near a larger city, but either way this seems like a strange solution. It also seems strange that two buses are more than double the cost of one.

I often watch YouTube through Chromecast on my TV. The ads are not skippable and cause all sorts of problems for the video that plays afterward (out-of-sync and stuttering). A few months ago, they put up a 30-MINUTE ad. If they think I am going to suffer through a 30-minute ad before watching a 7-minute video, well they would best think again. I wound up shutting the whole thing down and starting over and researching ways to block ads on Chromecast.

The people might not vote "properly".

I say "Bonk! Bonk! On the head! Bonk! Bonk!"

Why are the Summer Olympics being held in Brazil IN WINTER?

For washing dishes, I actually use a product called "Cascade Fryer Boil Out". The reviews on Amazon are funny, but the stuff really works in the dishwasher.

If the funding they get is so meager why would it matter if it were cancelled? Our local PBS station (WTTW Chicago) always claims during pledge drives that the funding they receive from government sources is very small compared to donations and sponsorships. For some reason during pledge drives they replace their normally excellent programming with special programming that, in my opinion, is mostly very low quality and I tend not to watch during those two weeks every quarter. If the government funding stopped and they quit with the special programming (except Geoffrey Baer's excellent tour shows) I would probably increase my support.

I thought that an intro to computers class was a state requirement in Illinois. I had this as a high school sophomore back in the 1980s. It was just a nine-week class that covered BASIC programming on TRS-80 computers.

Isn't that the same? Kind of like Swaziland and Switzerland isn't it?

I am curious if the Nest has a way to turn off the auto update feature. I do not currently own a Nest but I have thought about getting one. I could see this being a major headache for someone who might be away for a long trip and not be able to "reset" a thermostat because of a problem with an update. I prefer to be around when a device is being updated so that I can intervene if there is a problem. I would want to be home for at least a day or so after an update. I don't allow Windows to auto-update, so why should I allow a thermostat to?

How can they be pro-Arab and anti-Semitic at the same time? That doesn't make any sense.

Now they will discover that Mars is actually made of delicious channa masala!