My landline worked during every hurricane: nobody's cellphone did. The electrical company was down but the phone was not. I could call 911 when no one else in the neighborhood could. The phone company doesn't want to maintain that even though it was part of the original deal when they were granted a monopoly.

The title sez it all.

whereas the high-quality materials (and engineers/scientists) for nuclear plants would not be available, nor could they be created for decades after a war. But coal is a well-known proven tech, can be used to produce steel and get the manufacturing base back up to speed quickly, even if there is no sunshine (due to nuclear clouds around the earth).

Get rid of the department of Education, founded by Jimmy Carter, our worst President, in 1979.

Congress should eliminate the Department of Education. It was created in 1979 by peanut-head Jimmy Carter, possibly our worst President. My education preceded that and I and my cohort (Boomers) did fine w/o DOE.

The American Indians (both North and South) were doomed when the first European walked ashore and was greeted. The Indians and their ancestors had no exposure to European diseases and so, as soon as the European coughed, farted or offered his hand as a gesture of friendship, the match was lit.

The flame spread as Indians returned to their villages. It turned into a conflagration spreading in all directions slaying Indians before it. As the white man advanced, he sometimes found entire villages, sometimes entire civilizations, struck down where they stood: tools and implements scattered about among half-eaten bodies, dwellings, and crops in the field unattended,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange

The fate of the American Indian was sealed by his/her geographical isolation. And the American Indian could give as well as get. Syphilis was a disease that was spread from the Americas to Europe.

That bag is starting to smell; maybe time to put it down and quietly walk away.

Subject should be Re:IncomprensIble NOT "Re:Incomprensable" Start by spelling properly.

Goddam string and particle physicists are costing USA a bundle and delivering squat! We need to defund these guys until they're limited to a handful of pencils and paper pads.

Texas' contribution to taxpayer fundwasting: the superconducting supercollider (1/8 of it): https://www.dallasnews.com/new...

(stumbles then falls down).

They've got it backwards!8-) Maybe the upgraded version...

Horseshit! l'm in my seventies. Tossing trash on any roadway has always been both unacceptable socially and illegal where I live. This dates from my childhood on. There have always been those who dump trash in remote areas and the law pursues and prosecutes them.

This problem has occurred repeatedly through the history of Windows. So much so that I had decided it was a feature of Windows rather than a bug. b/c of that, I believe Microsoft should leave it in, so that we know a true valid version of Windows when we see it (and don't see the Start Menu and Taskbar Shortcuts).

Good news: Trees getting fatter! Bad news: Fatter trees burn longer, generate more heat!

...by dropping off an explosive turd for the "Inspector" to either

• a) pass by or
• b) examine.