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Big exaggeration on the black walnuts. It's about 30 years.

3 types, you forgot the people insightful enough to buy stock in the companies that purchase the robots to make the "obscene profits" that they will share in through dividends. Wait for it, "But you have to be rich to buy stock, only the Rich get richer", sorry that's just loser thinking that you've been programmed to think to keep you poor, vulnerable and easy to manipulate. Sure some stocks are quite pricey making buy-in all but impossible for most of us worker-driods, but there are always Mutual funds and 401Ks. If even those are out of your budget you can form a stock club, just follow these instructions and where it says lottery, just substitute stock.

Who knows, maybe if the Democrats don't ass-rape you too bad with capital-gains taxes, there might even be some left over for your kids when you die!

Door lock doesn't make any difference if the car is in water. You cannot open the door against the water pressure, locked or not.

That's why, if you're in a car that falls into water it's essential that you open the windows before the electrics short out

You can still open the door once the cabin is filled with water because the pressure has equalized. Granted, that assumes that you can hold your breath long enough to do that. As long as you unlock the door before the electronics short out, you'll be fine. See here for specifics: http://www.ehow.com/how_740940...

It is actually a completely unreasonable position. No government will ever return to using commodity money. Some discussions of the issue here, here, and here. Probably any number of textbooks cover the issue as well.

Generally, just being subject to (large) volatility having nothing to do with the actual need for money for exchanges is a bad enough trait to disqualify it, without getting into any other issues. Anyone who is willing to ignore the problems with commodity money is put into the position of needing some alternate explanation for its abandonment by one and all. A conspiracy theory of some sort is a requirement; the exact form is immaterial. Lizard men are only slightly sillier than Rothschilds (Rothschildren?), Illuminati, Bilderbergs, Jews, or whichever other group our gold bug decides to blame: a difference of degree, not character.

All other justifications aside, I sure as shit don't need to pander to any given worldview in the context of a joke.

Relax. Although the submitter's write-up uses the binding "will", the actual paper is about as firm as the (in)famous Geico commercial. The one about 15 minutes, that could save you 15%. Or more...

It is safer that way — when the time comes and the mongered fear does not materialize, the "researchers" can shrug and offer you some new and improved fears to worry about without having to explain their past mistakes. "We never said it will happen, only that it could."

Pedantically speaking, such statements are not falsifiable and thus non-scientific. Consequently, any "scientists" using them in a supposedly "scientific" article is a con-artist...

If you get health insurance, sick days, retirement, it's because you earned them. They are yours. It's not company largesse.

Depends on the state that you live in.

In Wisconsin, for example, vacation days are pretty much down to company largesse. They can set nearly any policy they want; use it by X or lose it, we're not going to pay it out if you leave, taking vacation has to be approved by two levels of management on forms submitted in triplicate, etc.

If the amount of new programming is insane, the decision that created such new programming must be insane.
Mr. Landgraf is chief exec of FX networks, one of the network that contributes to the amount of new programming.
Since Mr. Landgraf is responsible for the decisions that created the new programming, he is insane.

What part did I parse incorrectly?

Also, "sanitorium" and "sanatorium" are nearly same thing. The one with the "a" is the tuberculosis one, not the one with the "i".
http://www.ehow.com/info_87669...

In the USA, the county auditors office will give you a listing of the homes, owners, purchase price, current tax appraised value and much more. Often this is online and available from anywhere in the world. For instance, you can go to

http://property.franklincounty...

which is the county auditors office property page for Franklin county Ohio (Columbus Ohio area). You can select search, then by any means you have and gain access to the property records. For instance, I searched for willis under the search by owner, then double clicked the first one that popped up, selected detailed and saw lot size, number of buildings, assessed value, taxes paid, taxes owned, owner's name and address, number of buildings and so on.

For vehicles, it's a little less easy and you need a reason. You need to know the V.I.N number and I have yet to find an automated system that doesn't require an access fee. But you can go to the title office for the county and search the vin number to get a copy of the title information. On it, it will list the current owner of record, previous owner of record, the last mileage reading when it was transferred to the current owner, type and style including color of the vehicle when registered and the last license plate number issued to the car.

I guess you can get the information from the state DMV also. This article shows the claims on that.

http://www.ehow.com/how_731172...

I have never went to the DMV directly for this information and it has been probably more than 10 years since I needed to (Used to repossess cars). With the new camers in use, this information is easier to collect but it still costs a fee.

http://spy-nexus.com/bug-guide... http://spy-nexus.com/bug-guide...

http://www.talkingelectronics....

http://www.ehow.com/how_743793...

The full-time staffers didn't bitch about the interest rates on their bank loans. Back in the early 1990's, it was probably three percent.

The article is pretty terrible on the details. It seems that this CPV device is intended to be built near the ocean, and use salt water for cooling; the water can then be run through a desalinization system.

The hot water can then be used in an attached desalination system that creates drinkable water by passing itwater[sic] through a Gortex-like membrane.

According to Wikipedia there are several desalinization processes available that use heated water and a membrane. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Desalination_powered_by_waste_heat

The article is vague on how the CPV system provides cooling, but the CPV system produces heat as a byproduct, and it is possible to use extra heat for cooling. There are refrigerators that run on propane, with no motors. (There is a sort of pumping of coolant that relies on gravity.

There are a lot of places in the world that get lots of sunlight, are near salt water, and could use more fresh water. So this sounds like a good idea, but it isn't going to be installed everywhere.

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The basic oddity of the Model 3 plan is Tesla's intention to jump all the way from the $80K S down to half of that on the next model. An electric car doesn't really need to be as cheap as $35K, since the S has demonstrated demand for a higher price if the car is good, and since the average price of a new car is already $28,400, and those cars will burn tens of thousands of dollars of gas over their lifetime.

One way or another there is going to be a financial incentive to feel their way down the price point more gradually, although I hope they remain committed to, and are able to pull off, the revolutionary approach.

Now, would you please refer to sections B. and C below? To answer your question, you must angle the camera's down so that they record only up to the top of the fence or to the property line.Private property has an expectation of privacy in Georgia.

Not taking a section quoted out of context to make it appear you are right when you were really wrong:

(2) Any person, through the use of any device, without the consent of all persons observed, to observe, photograph, or record the activities of another which occur in any private place and out of public view; provided, however, that it shall not be unlawful:

(A) To use any device to observe, photograph, or record the activities of persons incarcerated in any jail, correctional institution, or any other facility in which persons who are charged with or who have been convicted of the commission of a crime are incarcerated, provided that such equipment shall not be used while the prisoner is discussing his or her case with his or her attorney;

(B) For an owner or occupier of real property to use for security purposes, crime prevention, or crime detection any device to observe, photograph, or record the activities of persons who are on the property or an approach thereto in areas where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy; or

(C) To use for security purposes, crime prevention, or crime detection any device to observe, photograph, or record the activities of persons who are within the curtilage (fenced yard) of the residence of the person using such device. A photograph, videotape, or record made in accordance with this subparagraph, or a copy thereof, may be disclosed by such resident to the district attorney or a law enforcement officer and shall be admissible in a judicial proceeding, without the consent of any person observed, photographed, or recorded;

Ummm...you do realize the parts you quoted out of context are really the exceptions to the law that state where recording is legal? Reading the entire section it only states it's illegal to record activities "which occur in any private place and out of public view". It doesn't say a single word about recording on another persons property. In other words what you linked to actually shows you're wrong. At least with regards to GA law. Please try again.

I'd advise you in the future to ask someone for evidence first, especially if you are going to make demands after you've just insulted them via their speech. For example, a better way, "It smells like BS to me, would you please supply some evidence and additional information?

My original post said exactly what you suggest except I spelled out "bullshit" instead of a weaselly acronym. I even said please. I certianly didn't say you smelled like it or were stepping in it or anything.

Well, how does it smell, since you've obviously got it on you? I'd advise you in the future to ask someone for evidence first, especially if you are going to make demands after you've just insulted them via their speech. For example, a better way, "It smells like BS to me, would you please supply some evidence and additional information?

Now, would you please refer to sections B. and C below? To answer your question, you must angle the camera's down so that they record only up to the top of the fence or to the property line.Private property has an expectation of privacy in Georgia.

(B) For an owner or occupier of real property to use for security purposes, crime prevention, or crime detection any device to observe, photograph, or record the activities of persons who are on the property or an approach thereto in areas where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy; or

  (C) To use for security purposes, crime prevention, or crime detection any device to observe, photograph, or record the activities of persons who are within the curtilage (fenced yard) of the residence of the person using such device. A photograph, videotape, or record made in accordance with this subparagraph, or a copy thereof, may be disclosed by such resident to the district attorney or a law enforcement officer and shall be admissible in a judicial proceeding, without the consent of any person observed, photographed, or recorded
http://www.ehow.com/info_83762...

Ideally, the repository should then be placed in a safety deposit box that can't be accessed outside of the hit-by-a-bus scenario, but that would admittedly be an extra expense and arguably overkill.

The problem with a safe deposit box is:

(1) The survivor needs to be authorized to access the safe deposit box after death, and then needs a death certificate. http://www.ehow.com/how_579095... You're letting the bank decide who gets access to your passwords.

(2) Anybody with a judge's order can also access the safe deposit box, even if the owner isn't dead. So a safe deposit box isn't a good place to keep your Swiss bank account passbook, or anything else you don't want the government or the adverse party in a lawsuit to get.

From your link:
Solar Energy Comparison with Fossil Fuels
By comparison, solar power is still the clear winner, according to ecology.com, in terms of being more environmentally friendly. When solar power generation is matched against fossil fuel-based energy production, solar is less damaging to the earth. Even the dangers that are presented by solar power are found as often, or more so, in the by-products of fossil fuels, and there is no escaping the fact that a solar panel can provide as much as 20 years of power generation for a single carbon investment of manufacturing the system, which cannot be duplicated by any other commonly used type of energy production, other than wind system

Read more : http://www.ehow.com/list_63278...

The energy needed to power vehicles used to come from oil-derivatives (gasoline, diesel fuel). In a way, each car was its own little power plant.

With more and more cars becoming electric — for better or worse — the need for somebody to turn fuel into electricity will increase. That somebody can only be a power company, really... Solar panels remain joke — you need too many of them and making them is rather harmful to Earth. And disposing is a problem too.

So, even if they lose some business to the consumers' ability to generate some share of their own electricity, they'll gain from our increasing total demand for electricity.

They have to be careful what they say about beef in Texas, there is a law against disparaging beef in the state.

first link on google...

http://www.ehow.com/facts_5206...

You can make pure gas if you want. Here's a guide.

You can import the 1 liter funnels from China.

2km long freight train maintaining 110 km/h

Mean freight train speed in the US is closer to half or one third that.

Maersk container ship wallowing across the girth of the Pacific at a leisurely 20 km/h

Try 47 km/h. We've come a long way since those slow WW2 convoys.

So you see, given that the train route would be much longer than the direct one to, say, Los Angeles, ships are fast if not faster.

good luck getting it programmed as they won't likely carry the numerous systems required to program each and every model by all the different manufacturers.

That is not how "programming of the keys" work at all. Once you get the key, it is a matter of getting the vehicle to accept it. You don't actually program the key. And with my vehicle (and it seems most others), all you need is the car itself to do it. Someone please double check me... http://www.ehow.com/way_570876...

It very much depends on the design of the keys. For example, my Mazda3 has to have both keys programmed at the same time with the computer. Reason I know - it was in for repair and the body shop lost the key they had so I had to drop off my remaining key; they had to get a new key and reprogram both keys and the car to match up.

Now some simpler key designs may allow for what you are saying; but the more complex designs require specialized computers.

Even if what you say is true; you still have to be able to get ahold of the various keys - and each manufacturer is different, and sometimes different from year to year and model to mode - to make it all work, with a potentially high risk of "bricking" (your access to) the vehicle if not done right.

good luck getting it programmed as they won't likely carry the numerous systems required to program each and every model by all the different manufacturers.

That is not how "programming of the keys" work at all. Once you get the key, it is a matter of getting the vehicle to accept it. You don't actually program the key. And with my vehicle (and it seems most others), all you need is the car itself to do it.
Someone please double check me... http://www.ehow.com/way_570876...

You might want to read how Boards and CEO's actually work. The CEO works for the Board not the other way around.

Beam divergence is a function of wavelength. There are no efficient generator of microwaves at a high enough frequency to be received by a field of synchronously rectifying 'rectennas.
Bear in mind, and over-spray would warm water, or burn houses and people.
http://www.ehow.com/how_584952...

There are some conventions over what various symbols mean. The tear drop means either they killed someone or someone they knew was killed.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2363815_identify-gang-tattoos-symbols.html

Gangs and Their Tattoos: Identifying Gangbangers on the Street and in Prison [Paperback]
Bill Valentine (Author), Robert Schober (Illustrator)

1. People can't change the orbit of the Moon or Earth or would have major problems with even a twinkly eenkly little asteroid 10km across.

2. Don't worry about stuff you don't understand. Either learn enough science to understand it, or don't worry about it. But above all, don't invent stuff. (Hint: orbital mechanics depend on velocity, not mass of stuff in orbit. And if you move stuff moonearth, that's even more true).

3. The purpose of the UN Outerspace Treaty

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

has little to do with the Moon, per say. The core of the treaty is to prevent conflict on Earth.

4. Finally, you cannot and should not avoid a scramble for the moon, mars, venus, or anywhere else. Since we still live in this era of capitalism, scramble is the best we can do! Whoever gets to some place X and stakes it, gets some rights over those that do not. Whoever settles an area, gets stronger claim than just stakers. Pretty clear and simple.

http://www.ehow.com/how_5785851_stake-mining-claim.html

Eventually you get local governments and the like and problems resolve themselves.

http://www.ehow.com/about_4672449_transactions-do-banks-report-irs_.html

A CTR is required for every deposit, withdrawal or exchange over $10,000 in cash. Wire transfers or transactions by check and non-cash means are not subject to the CTR filing requirement.

In addition to the above, banks can file for an exception from the CTR for a customer.

Once you get above a given amount of money in the bank, you move from the tellers to the private banking dept and receive a higher level service rep who handles things for you.

Or do you really think Bill Gates has every transaction he does reported to the IRS? I would imagine whatever bank he uses has an exemption on file for him.

The engine doesn't magically cut out at a car's rated "top speed."

Actually, I used to have a Nissan Maxima and it does actually did have an electronic engine governor based on the speed of the car. The way I know this is a fact is that I accidentally experienced it on I-80 straight-away in the salt-flats just outside of salt lake city*** Since the road was straight, I wanted to see how fast I could go, but apparently, not faster then the governor.
Of course you could always remove this hardware...

** I'm sure the statute of limitations expired on this transgression as it was many, many moons ago

The subway is not a jobs program. If positions are unnecessary, the public should not be burdened with the cost.

This treatment of public employees really angers me

In NY State, transit workers are not allowed to strike. They are paid far above market wages, so I think that is a reasonable compromise and something to consider when you work there. You are right, it's not about me - it's about the millions of people the few transit workers and terrible MTA management put in the position that they did. It's worth noting that the poor were disproportionately affected. During the strike, Manhattanites could walk, bike, or car pool easily enough. Most of the working poor live in the outer boroughs, and they were in a much worse spot. Me? I fired up my laptop and telecommuted - so yeah, it wasn't about me.

I don't know about your salary numbers and don't have the time to go into them,

I suspect you take the 5 whole minutes it takes to Google and compare the average conductor salary (over $60,000) to the average police officer salary (just under $60,000). Considering that you could put rookies on the trains at a whopping $37k each, you could actually save money by ensuring public safety with a cop on every single train. This is only salary - I concede that I did not calculate benefits.

However, if you are able to use alternative methods of identification, such as a birth certificate, driver's license or passport, to enjoy the same privileges as fellow American citizens, the government will no longer be able to track activities using the Social Security number, making it useless as a data collection tool. Read more: http://www.ehow.com/how_5764619_remove-security-number-government-system.html#ixzz2iOUP2jNh

Therein lies the problem. You CAN'T enjoy all the same privileges, nor even the same RIGHTS. Just off the top of my head, you can't claim your children as a dependents nor put them on your healthcare plan unless they have a SSN - and if my kids have an SSN, that's just as easily used to track me as my own.

And even that article says that you can not remove it, just avoid using it. Which may work for a single person willing to live life with a tinfoil hat on, but it won't work for anyone with any sort of family.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/04/22/head-of-cdc-admits-on-cnn-that-vaccines-can-trigger-autism.aspx
"Recently Julie Gerberding, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), appeared on Dr. Sanjay Gupta's show House Call and explained that vaccines can trigger autism in a vulnerable subset of children. This is the claim that many parents have been making since at least the 1980s, and they have been dismissed and even mocked for making it."

At three minutes in, specifically, she suggests a stress could trigger autism, and such a stress could be a fever resulting from a vaccination injection, the result of which in children who are predisposed by a mitochondrial disorder could thus set off the symptoms of autism...

See also though, along the lines you suggest, for other more likely and more frequent causes of autism though, such as vitamin D deficiency and food additives and so on:
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health-conditions/autism/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autism-research-discovery_b_794967.html

Dr. Julie Gerberding has since left her position as head of the CDC and is now the president of Merck's Vaccine division. As you point out, people against vaccines also may have financial interests at stake (book sales, medical practices, product sales, etc.). Whatever one can say about vaccines, certainly understanding the conflicts of interest and weasel words pervading the whole field seems like a huge job...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Gerberding

To build on some other suggestions in comments to this article, since getting enough vitamin D, eating more vegetables, avoiding dairy, getting exercise, nursing children past age two, and so on have been proven to often improve health and increase disease resistance in humans, it seems like any family which is not doing all of those things is putting the community at risk. So, the question is, should we legally enforce "BlueZones" and "Nutritarianism" on the world in order to protect those with compromised immune systems because they avoid sunlight, eat poorly, don't exercise, were bottle-fed, and so on?
http://www.bluezones.com/
http://www.drfuhrman.com/children/default.aspx

Maybe we should start by cracking down on luncheonmeat consumers? :-)
http://www.ehow.com/info_8360513_luncheon-meat-dangers.html
http://institutefornaturalhealing.com/2012/04/processed-meats-declared-too-dangerous-for-human-consumption/

At the very least, as a deterrent to creating health hazards for themselves and others, perhaps people who admit to having eaten processed meats (or who otherwise can be identified by credit card purchase records) probably should not have any possibly related medical conditions covered by insurance?

The medical literature is very messy, for lots of reasons, such as expressed in quotes I've collected here:
http://www.pdfernhout.net/to-james-randi-on-skepticism-about-mainstream-science.html#Some_quotes_on_social_problems_in_science

It would help to have better tools to use to wade through all the muck (including for detecting statistical fallacies as the grandparent post by "Todd Knarr" points out). Some suggestion

"You have to pass the bill to know what's in it." - Nancy Pelosi

And this representative from California was re-elected. Huh. Well as Ron White says "You can't fix stupid."

If you wanted to fix the US Healthcare system by making care affordable for all and allowing people with pre-existing conditions to get insured, then it wouldn't take 2700 pages of other crap that's in the legislative package. What we didn't get was:

1) No direct influence over rising expenditures for Medical Care. You have a system which doesn't abide by market forces and hospital administrators get paid millions of dollars in salaries and benefits. When you're seriously ill, you don't usually have the time to shop around so whatever they charge you (or your insurance) is what's charged. Sure, there's negotiations and maximums that insurance companies negotiate but that drives further business through insurance companies, forcing you to deal with them.
2) There was no discussion on tort reform so thousands of ambulance chasers can still sue the doctors and hospitals when your scars comes out a little bit strange. A big component to care is the necessary malpractice insurance which can cost upwards of $200,000 in some high cost states. Add that to office staff, paying the Nurse, the building costs and the medical coder to bill the insurance companies correctly and you can see easily why it costs a lot to see a doctor over a routine sniffle.
3) The Drug companies were let largely intact. There are a few costs they'll have to put up with but they're still expected to rake in Billions in profits under the ACA. Ask yourself why that pill you're taking is $5 and why, if it was allowed, you could get it for $.25. Sure the drug industry will claim that "these are inferior" but really it's a smokescreen.
4) The Single Payer system died. Nobody wanted to go against the big Insurance Firms and their lobbyists so we love big business in this country, so why not throw a few billion dollars their way. Well, they do now have to spend more on direct costs for Insurance which is good but allowing interstate competition and other market driven forces into the process would have been much better. That's what the exchanges are supposed to do but here we have the US Government trying to create markets rather than creating incentives with appropriate regulatory oversight for markets to flourish. Oh wait, considering the Financial Collapse, the Regulatory Process failed, so DC can't be trusted with that.

To be honest, you could have taken this 2700 pages, cut out the BS, the Pork like the "Exchanges" which Deloitte is now merrily feeding upon it seems and done away with it and had legislation that was no more than 10 pages long. Starting next year you'll hear more pigs in DC all lining up because the Feds have just blessed one industry with unlimited monopoly powers and you have to pay what they want to charge you. You have no choice, so invest in big Pharma, Hostpital chains and big medical concerns because they'll be raking it in even more.

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You can kind of use the foxyproxy add-on in firefox to get what you want - it is a bit fiddly to set up, but once it is running, it is very easy to switch on and off.

A rough guide to setting it up is here.

This is exactly backwards....a human will be aware enough to never jab the needle all the way through your arm.

http://www.ehow.com/about_6595401_phlebotomy-injuries.html

If there's a bug, the computer will do that happily and quickly.

You would design the hardware not even to be capable of that.

I have read that gold deposits form near fault lines and volcanoes. For example http://www.ehow.com/info_8564326_characteristics-gold-deposits.html. What I am not clear about is if these pressures create gold atoms or whether they simply clump gold atoms together.

It's basically carried up from deeper in the Earth and concentrated by hydrothermal systems associated with the fault zones and volcanism. It's more like it's precipitated, not actually formed there.

I'm not convinced you hit the meat of the matter and, further, exclusion of religion is an interesting criticism but not necessarily valid (as you have no burden to rag on that more than, say, ESP).

Regarding homeopathy:

Non-Falsifiable

        A non-falsifiable hypothesis cannot be disproved. This is not because it is inherently accurate, but because a person has no avenues on which to go to try to disprove it. Certain fields of study, such as homeopathy, can use hypotheses -- such as water molecules remembering the imprint of a medicinal substance before the substance undergoes many dilutions, and having a biological effect on the body thereafter. Since possible avenues to disprove this do not currently exist, the hypothesis is a non-falsifiable one.

http://www.ehow.com/info_12015027_difference-between-falsifiable-nonfalsifiable-hypothesis.html

Likewise, you can't falsify my claim of speaking with my dead grandmother. "No, I spoke with her and she was very clear about NOT having spoken with you!".

Likewise, you can't falsify 'young earth' as people can just claim it was made to look old (like those kids with premature ageing).

Ponzi schemes at least can be attacked mathematically!

Better still why don't the Russians simply get him a UN passport http://www.ehow.com/how_6811457_u_n_-passport_.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_laissez-passer and convey diplomatic immunity on him (Its been done before, although, not in such a high profile case). That way any attempt to interfere with him en-route is technically an act of war. But then again they've already done that with the president of Columbia's diplomatic flight so why aren't the UN already spanking America?

http://www.ehow.com/facts_6860900_specifications-dell-latitude-ls.html

So was Dell. The specs aren't on their website any more for it, but I had one of these. It was a great little laptop until the battery died and I didn't feel like spending $120 for a new battery when I could get a new computer for $300.

It detects sulphur. Anyone who has used matches recently will be tagged as well.

Judging by what I ate today, if I farted on that sensor it would probably explode.

http://www.ehow.com/about_5549939_foods-containing-sulfur.html

All I'm saying is that video taping cops behavior during arrests CAN HELP YOU, it can almost never hurt you. Anybody looking for your arrest record can find it by association: http://www.ehow.com/how_5660993_public-arrest-information.html .

Procedural violations, 3rd degree assault, lack of probable cause are all things that can straight up get the charges against you dropped. But when it's the cops word against yours, you'll probably lose even if you've never been arrested.

how to create a hyperlink

Satisfaction of stubbornness, I suppose. Gotta keep in mind, I was both young and a gearhead at the time.

Well, you are supposed to be smart about your educational choices. Who else is supposed to choose a good vs a bad program for you?

From eHow:

When you're comparing AAS programs in automotive technology, look for schools that are certified by organizations, such as the National Automobile Technicians Education Foundation (NATEF), as well as a program that will offer you the opportunity to earn ASE (Automotive Service Excellence) certification.

Also, compare programs' job-placement rates, and check to see if a program offers internships with area dealerships and repair shops that will help you get hands-on experience and networking opportunities before you graduate.

http://www.ehow.com/about_6302018_associate-science-automotive-technology-program.html

Capitalism is really Feudalism, but with a much better PR department

No "feudalism" involved in your particular problem; you made a bad choice and it cost you a lot of time and money. That's the way it's supposed to work. And by giving your time and money to a school that offered a useless degree, you kept it in business, meaning others may be tempted to make the same mistake. What alternative approach do you think would have worked better?

How are they going to do that? It's in the Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone, did you read the article or just jumped to posting a reply for the sake of trying to appear clever? They can't clam it but they could just setup shop and start mining, and the Japanese and US and anyone else can park right up next side them.

http://www.ehow.com/about_5423099_ocean-mineral-rights.html

I can tell you in most cases people cannot follow instructions for the following reasons: low level of literacy, unfamiliar with art, or some sort of manual dexterity is required. We do not sit athletes down with books and just let them practice. We go to great expense to provide them with coaches because there is a process of physical movements that must be observed and corrected.

At it's basic level cooking does not require much physical dexterity, but to expect a begineer to be able to follow instructions for the first time and get it right is like thinking a beginner can read a book on basketball and then make a shot for the first time. It is not a reasonable expectation.

The reason some people think it is a reasonable expectation is that they have background. If I took a person who has been shooting baskets for her entire life, then yes they might be able to read a book and do a better job. Likewise a person who has experience in the kitchen, is familiar with the art, can equally understand and be a better cook. Such a person has experience with the tools, the heat, the pans, the knives. They have context.

But without context then practice is required. Even boiling noodles is not going to happen the first time.

The point of this that any cook book requires some previous knowledge. If one have never used a dutch oven to cook in the oven, then there is going to be no possibility of success. If one does not understand how an item is supposed to be transformed in cooking, then there is no possibility of success. Cooking is not magic where you throw some stuff in a better stuff miraculously appears. It is a high skill. Sometimes I think that because it is traditionally 'women's work' some cannot comprehend how difficult it is. One would not expect a random person off the street to come in a code even 'hello world' in C simply from instructions. Yet everyone who can boil water and make Ramen noodles think they should be able to make a Soufflé.

Suicide helps nobody but yourself.

1) How is it being selfish if you kill yourself before you start becoming more trouble than you're worth? If you kill yourself cleanly and quickly you cause far fewer problems than if you linger around for years or even decades with alzheimers. Have you ever seen people with late stage alzheimers? A once polite person could go around molesting or attacking people. http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_stages_of_alzheimers.asp
2) Some insurance companies have policies that will pay out on suicides as long as the suicide is after the designated period. http://www.ehow.com/facts_6371163_life-paid-out-after-suicide_.html

Is it really so selfish if you suicide before Stage 6? It seems more selfish to not to. By that time even if someone comes up with treatments it's probably too late - too many brain cells would have already died.

What good is a gun without ammunition? (what if instead of controlling guns, the US govt would switch to ban ammunition and/or gun powder and/or primers? It'd be just as simple as to make "illegal to possess or handle explosives in any shape, form or packaging without a license"... this in the name of "the war on terror")

Banning ammo would be even harder. Although few do it some people make their own ammo. Making gunpowder is and isn't easy. Ammo shells can repeatedly be reused. And it's easy to form new slugs by melting old ones.

Falcon

Go find me the professional gamer making the league minimum in any professional sport.

In 2010 the Starcraft player Lim Yo-Hwan had an annual salary of $400,000 + $90,000 in endorsements.
For Major League Soccer the minimum salary is $40,000.

This doesn't mean that your entire point is wrong but don't use arguments that can be refuted within a minute of googling.
I also recommend that you try to be less of an ass when you don't provide sources.

Neutral with the accelerator slammed down will destroy the transmission. At 128 MPH, I bet there would be a high chance of fire or maybe even an explosion. Overrevving.

Turning the engine off usually locks the steering wheel up. This would have been fine assuming that he was on a very long, straight road.

The point of neutral is the engine is physically disengaged from the transmission, that's why you can coast in neutral. Most modern engines have governors to prevent them from catching fire if they're over-revved, and at 120+ MPH, he's bringing plenty of cold air in. Granted, once he stops, he's going to want to turn it off or jump out pretty soon, as it might catch fire if it continues to rev without airflow.