Putting technology in schools (particularly elementary schools), at best, costs a lot of money for little gain. At worst, it can hurt education because it takes time away from learning the basics (reading, writing, and arithmetic).
It's not the systems fault that those people took out those loans. At some point, people have to take responsibility for their actions instead of always blaming somebody else.
The essential service is universal mail delivery for a uniform (not cheaper to mail something to Chicago than Bumblefuck, WY), reasonable cost. Could/would private companies do that? Reply hazy, try again
When people don't pay their debts, the cost ends up going to people who do. I have no sympathy for people who tried to live beyond their means, and are now paying for it. They made their bed, now they have to lie in it.
There is very little difference between union strikes (especially in "closed shop" states/countries) and the mafia extorting protection money from businesses.
The point was that the people saying that republicans always vote against social reform, or that major social reform bills are always starkly partisan, are lying.
I don't see why it makes any difference that the virus was genetically engineered. The problem is (allegedly) poor safety practices, which could cause infection by non-genetically modified viruses as well.
The problem is not that the intelligence agencies can't stay above politics, but that the politicians meddle with the intelligence agencies for political reasons. Despite what some conspiracy theorists believe, the US intelligence agencies are run by the elected officials, not the other way around. This is good for a lot of reasons, but does leave them subject to the whims of politicians.
If HARO wasn't an original idea, why did he credit them with giving him the idea? Getting lawyers involved is a dick move, but he really set himself up for it to happen.
"Ships fitted with AIS shall maintain AIS in operation at all times except where international agreements, rules or standards provide for the protection of navigational information."
I'm pretty sure that visas are required to work anywhere in Europe (if you are from outside the EU). I know that the UK, France and Germany require them.
Do "have you seen this child" pictures really work, anyway? A lot of children look pretty similar, so I wouldn't be confident enough to call the police even if I had a picture of the kid in front of me when I saw him.
"most of the wars have ended, the age of coups is over"
Really? There may be fewer wars, but there are still a lot (look at the list of ongoing conflicts on Wikipedia). There was a coup in Niger a week or two ago. Things may be getting better, but they are not good.
Message passing is easier than using shared-memory correctly, but ensuring that a non-trivial message passing implementation doesn't have any deadlocks is not what I would consider "fairly easy".