What we need is a modern cab over van. To hell with safety.

I had an older Boxster S and tracked down a Becker unit in Germany that would allow me to use bluetooth for the phone and integrate my iPod. It didn't say Porsche on it, but Becker matches the Porsche interior with the same fonts, buttons, etc. The only problem was finding a home for the mic for the phone, there was…

Serious question - has rape on college campus been shown to be more prevalent than that of similar age groups who don't go to college? I'd like to see studies which are corrected for employment, alcohol, drug use, etc. I'd wager the problem is alcohol abuse, not necessarily the types of people at college.

Employees are typically at will employees. This means getting fired for them not liking the look on your face. If they want to publish a policy that says you can't talk about pineapples during work, then you better not talk about pineapples. It's as simple as that.

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Aren't pets normally sedated when they travel? I remember flying with my cat once as a carry on years ago and the vet recommended sedation (which we did).

I see no problem with watching the watchers. Journalists have quite a bit of power to destroy somebody's life and livelihood, I don't see any reason to afford them special protection or status. They can play by the same rules as everybody else.

Meh. There's always assholes in any political or social movement. How many people dispensed death threats to what's-his-face Zimmerman before a trial. The assholes don't invalidate the majority of the movement.

Dressing up as a team mascot should be considered a crime.

Maybe they fired her for broadcasting to the world some asshole's joke and ruined the reputation of the store. Damage is done, the shop is finished.

Regulations always entrench the giants. They are mostly written by their lobbyists, and work to kill off any threat to their business. This is why our country is screwed, any real tax or regulatory reform to make things simpler will fail- all the entrenched interests will kill them.

Maybe that's right if you assume we are heading to a mad max dystopia. Water isn't a problem today, and provided that tech keeps advancing and the US economy doesn't collapse, won't be a problem in the future. If there's problems piping water to Phoenix, Southern California will have already died of thirst and…

Or e), the whole thing is a BS goof. Personally, it's either c) or e). He's either insane and should be locked up, or it's fake.

I'm not sure what's so hard about the old fashioned "crack egg into pot of boiling water" method. 4 minutes gives me perfect results every time. The end result is two things to clean - the pot, and a slotted spoon.

I was referring mostly to the public sector since that's where money is spent. The retirement age is very low, often 55 so people end up being retired longer than working. They spike pensions by dumping all sorts of vacation pay on their last year of employment. Elected city morons lie about pension obligations to…

also, we encourage people to work as little as possible and retire as soon as possible. We can't even afford to keep the buses running in schools let alone build new rail lines.

All that's great. But I can't think of a single example of a truly meritocratic and egalitarian society in the world outside of small societies of hunter gatherers. As long as the rich love their children, they will provide them with whatever advantage they possibly can. There's nothing inherently evil about doing so,…

Eh. It's been that way since the beginning of time. Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, Rome, feudal society, even in the USSR the party elite were rich compared to normal citizens. Inequality is just a result of people working hard to differentiate themselves from the rest of the population, whether through money, power,…

Kent Pietsch's Jelly Belly Cadet stunts are funny and crazy - aileron falls off, he looks out of control near the runway, wing scrapes the runway, etc. I have no idea how he gets the plane to do those things and stay in control.

My biggest fear would be social engineering.