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There are also twists to this story. I am a retired engineer with considerable drainage and roadway experience. The infrastructure bill will increase the demand for my skills, whic…

Me again. I committed a serious spelling error. The Actual phrase is the "right to be LET alone." This is actually quite explicit in the Fourth Amendment. Privacy was not "invented…

Actually, the U.S. Supreme Court has a formal definition of freedom: "The right to be left alone." This is a very frequently quoted phrase in USSC decisions. BTW: the right to priv…

Google Docs PDF This was originally written with the idea of selling it for one buck. But: (a) I started late (b) It took longer than anticipated (duh) and (c) I could not (quickly…

What can you offer that I can't find with a search engine? I'm interested in circuit design (Ham & tinker background).

I commit spreadsheet abuse, I have excel files with tons of links

What, exactly, does this do? The ReadMe is somewhat terse.

I come from a civil engineering background. The problems you cite are not engineering problems - they're management problems. In the environments I've worked in, heads would have r…

I'm an engineering tech (land development) who lost nearly everything in the crash. I "lived" (slept) in my truck, which has a custom cap made for the purpose, for four months this…

Thanks for the links. My area of (amateur) research is "contra-science," and one sub-set I find most interesting is so-called "race." What is called "race' seems actually to be the…

No. Crudely put, the rich guys get the pretty girls. This re-averages the IQ. There's an article somewhere; sorry I don't have a link handy. Edit: This re-averages the overall gene…

Just, please, don't blame it on the Tea Party. We need them badly - at least until they finish fracturing the Republican Party. As for the Democrats - all in good time, my friends,…

I'm spare you the details, but some pages have 'Page Meisters" that you must get by to add to the content.

Here's an analogy some may find crazy: I've been collecting data that classifies sugar (cane / corn / etc.) as a drug, rather than a food. Considering that type 2 diabetes is a sel…

The question: What do / can I do with this now? It’s a lift device unlike anything now available. I call it the Scorrendo. I’m begging, but only for comments. Thanks in advance. If…

Henry Ford Jr. asked Walter Reuther how he would get the robots to pay union dues. Reuther asked how Ford would get the robots to buy cars.

"Emergency vehicles" are not required to obey the law. A friend of my was ticketed for "riding a bicycle on the sidewalk," by a police officer who was riding a bicycle on the sidew…

That link returns a 404.