In Japan there are monuments marking the high water lines from tsunami that happened hundreds of years prior, and when the 2011 Tohoku tsunami happened the water came up to those historical markers again.

And in Honolulu, there are markers painted on the walls of buildings, and on shop windows to show how high various tsunamis got, with dates to tell people which one was which. I'd be surprised if there weren't similar markers in those parts of the US where floods are common. For that matter, if you're ever in Los Angeles, take a look at the LA river's concrete banks, and see how high they are. I spent most of my life there, and I've seen the river over half full many times, and possibly up to 2/3s.

I've always considered programming to be a branch of logic, not math. Yes, many of the algorithms are based on math, but the implementations are based on logic.

I was born and raised in a commonwealth country, and we had Maths (short for Mathematics) I thought that Math (singular) was an american invention.

No. People in Commonwealth countries think that Mathematics must be plural because it ends with an S, but here in the USA, we know that not all nouns that end that way are plural.

I do a fair amount of traveling by car up and down the Interstate because the only other option is by bus, which is far less convenient. This way, I can stop when I want or need to, usually at a truck stop to stock up on caffeine after a pit stop. It's just easier to make sure I have some cash with me for the small purchases and don't have to worry about which card to use. And, I can register the bills ahead of time with WheresGeorge.com, and occasionally have one hit and find out where it's gotten to.

What would happen if/when the Internet goes down for good was predicted in The Machine Stops over half a century before the Internet was invented.

People seem to have lost that simple trick for calculating change.

Except that it isn't calculating how much change to give; it's an algorithm for giving the right amount of change without needing to know how much that is. I learned that method for making change from my father back when I was a lad and I've been using it ever since when I was working a cash register. I've wondered, off and on, how many cashiers today could make change without having the register tell them how much change to give.

One for each of His names: The Nine Billion Names of God.

Yes, I understand what a No Knock warrant is. I guess that if it came to a civil suit, it would depend on whether or not the jury believed the cops.

I'd like to know why "Reckless Endangerment" and "Depraved Indifference" weren't part of the charges, and kept as part of whatever deal his landshark negotiated.

"The weed of crime bears bitter fruit! Crime does not pay...The Shadow knows!"

Didn't the cops identify themselves as they came in? I know they're supposed to, so doesn't that put them at fault? If nothing else, I can see a big, fat wrongful death suit in the near future.

In the Niven/Pournelle novel Inferno, people in Marketing and Advertising end up in the Eighth Circle, Second Bolga, along with all the other flatterers.

I very seriously doubt that this will be considered for a Nobel Prize. More likely, it will be the recipient of an Ig Nobel Prize.

I can't help but wonder what Mel would have thought of C. Remember, C won't stop you from doing something dumb because that would stop him from doing something clever.

These stories are all over mainstream media, and independent media, and YouTube in general. Yet I found not a WORD of it anywhere on this ostensibly tech-centric site.

If you feel that strongly about it, why don't you submit a bunch of stories here? Not just one, because it may or may not reach the front page, but several to up your chances of getting one posted? If it's that important to you, the least you can do is try to spread the word.