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Then get yourself elected to a national level office and get to work. Usually an idealist's first set of budget or appropriation meetings is enough to cure them. It sure worked for me.

Yes! My college roommate was shutdown in Las Vegas after eating for 3 hours. That was thirty years ago and I still can't stop laughing after witnessing such a debacle.

We do a fair amount of business with DO to the tune of about 40+ droplets used together and separately for various tasks.

While we could certainly survive the loss of these assets, the recovery would be long and costly.

So I would certainly say that this story gives me a great deal of pause and will take up some mental space this weekend as I think about future dealings with DO.

A quarky guy with a love of simplicity. Thanks for the inspiration a long time ago. RIP

I believe your response is emblematic of the budgetary responses from the democratically controlled HOR: To hell with what the people want and need, "If Trump wants it, it must be bad".

That's one view through the leftist lens, but at least you ended your comment with an appropriate question.

But it depends on the car! For example, if he's driving a lamborghini, meh. If he's driving an Aston Martin, cool :)

Can they awk at them too?

Successfully taxes streaming services? Shiiit, there's no such thing as successful taxation in Chicago. The city and it's crook county are corpses.

I vote yours "best comment"!

One unintended consequence for one person is a disaster in the life of that person. And you're right; the genie is out and about.

While I have a very high disregard for San Franseptic, I do applaud this decision if it comes to pass.

I think the broad use of facial recognition by governments will lead to nothing but disaster for its non-violent citizens.

Oh no! Not all sins are a "social construct". But I do agree with the rest of your post. True laziness with a degree of comfort and lack of anxiety is quite difficult.

Hey, c'mon now... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida%27s_highest_po...

And compared to say Venus, FL's pretty comfortable!

<sigh/>I'll stipulate your point if you agree that Atheism and Trump hatred is your religion. Because hey, you need just enough faith to believe what you believe as I need to believe what I believe.

Then we probably agree more than disagree in this regard.

What I do know as someone with degrees in mathematics and physics and several years in the USAF, is that some very smart people that I have personally spoken with have seen artificial objects in the sky that move in ways that they cannot explain nor do they have imaginative basis on which to speculate about such performances.

My claim is not unreasonable and it is not my goal or desire to persuade you in any way. There are plenty books and reports out there for you to arrive at your own conclusions.

I disagree. Reasonable people can see and understand things that they know to be unreasonable; like your comment for example.

Not at all sure why they're graying you down, but you make some very good points. There are just way too many credible witnesses who have observed objects in the sky far outperforming the principals of aeronautics and the laws of physics as we know them.

Why the hell am I not on that list?

In the US, you can get pre-made bathroom vanities of varying height, or get some nice lumber and raise one yourself.

I can see in your reply that you have a firm mastery of the obvious along with Engineering 101. I was simply pointing out that men have a different frame of reference than women.

> But I do think you could have had a more thoughtful response to your wife.

LOL! What are you, my marriage counselor?

Ha! Now you've inspired me. I, and I alone, would like to start manufacturing a line of 43" tall work benches for sale around the globe. I will soon consult my attorney about the legality of manufacturing to this height specification. One month later I will get a bill from her for 5 minutes of her time...spent laughing.

Interesting article, but don't men invent and build a lot of things, so they do so with a certain male frame of reference?

And this reminds me of a time when I built a work bench in the garage. My wife needed to use it for a project she was working on one weekend. She got aggravated and asked why I made it so tall.

I didn't have a real good answer for her so I just chuckled and went to work on something else.

Ugh, what a humorless bunch!

Wait a second! Is this really Perl 6 he's talking about??

Class is dead and buried especially in America, and this article was clearly written by one of its grave diggers.

I certainly respect all reasonable opinions on the matter, but I'm personally convinced that there was some sort of, ahem, intervention involved. It seems that the mechanics of life involve many complexities that seem far from inevitable. Who knows, you may be right.

Not sure why you're getting grayed down, but what you say is right on the money.

Good post. I had an organic chemistry prof back in the late eighties that remarked something like, "if you think the origin of life was some sort of random event, think again". This was a really bright guy no one would take for a religious sort.