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If you are going to change pi, make it 3. That way maybe some people in the Government can also understand it.

> teachers usually remain on payroll throughout the summer. That is not exactly accurate. When I was teaching, my salary was for 9 months only. I was paid in 12 monthly installment…

I'm not rich, but I give a lot of money every year to charity, to try to help those who need help. The United States is the richest country in the world. It was also giving to char…

National Review has been a critic of Trump since before he was elected for his first term in 2016.

There's also the wifely we, meaning "you", as in "we need to take out the trash."

In the 1980s a company called Quotron developed a contactless keyboard. The main circuit board contained a bunch of LEDs and some sort of photo diodes or photo cells, all arranged …

Wouldn't it make sense to assume that as the size of the population decreases, perhaps for external factors such as climate change, you are going to see more and more inbreeding?

1.- My apologies for the terminology - I took one overview class on the subject in Spanish, and haven't looked at it in the last 60 years. 2.- Agreed - that's why rebar on horizont…

As I understand it, concrete has excellent resistance to compression but fails easily on traction, while steel bars are exactly the opposite. That is why you put rebar in concrete:…

> I'm not opposed to making voting mandatory, but making election day a national holiday should come first. How about having elections on Sundays instead of on Tuesdays?

Something similar happened in 1975 in Uruguay. The brit that saved the penguin wrote a book, which was made into a movie, "The Penguin Lessons", currently on Netflix. https://en.wi…

Just out of curiosity: what happens to you if you don't vote? Can you get a medical excuse? What if you are traveling?l

I can understand your not liking Harris, Biden, Clinton et. al. But I can't understand how you selected a person like Trump as your candidate for President. One time, maybe. But th…

RBG passed away while Trump was president. Obama did pick a replacement for Antonin Scalia though: Merrick Garland. Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to even give …

Frightening thought: Alito and Thomas resign now, giving Trump two seats to fill with younger Justices of their "textualist" persuation who will be there for a very long time.

It's very simple: if the terms are satisfactory and against an agreed upon collateral (e.g. shares) banks will give you a loan that does not require periodic payments. The interest…

Plus, the money he borrows is not taxable. If he sold stock he would have to pay taxes before he could spend the income. Sure, he now owes money to someone, but he can refinance th…

This is absurd. Denmark can't afford to buy California. On the other hand, if they just invite us to join ....

I also think that the system of party primary elections by popular vote is a big part of the problem. To win the Republican primary you have to be more "Republican" than your oppon…

Because it's in the Israeli government's interest to make the threat from Iran look bigger, rather than smaller?

Florida must be using cheap cameras. My daughter got a red light ticket in Beverly Hills a couple of years ago. They mailed the ticket to her as the registered owner of the car, in…

Back in 1969 I had a summer job in the engineering department of a factory. The Chief Engineer was an old guy who was a slide rule artist. He taught me how to solve second degree e…

You don't have to multiply the powers of ten in your head. In your examples, the slider of the slide rule must be moved to the left of the body of the rule. This means the number o…

I have been getting repeated emails saying something along the lines of " We have a family office who has a strong interest in making an investment into industry. Can we set up a t…

If your definition of Democracy is based on how we elect our leaders, then Hitler's Germany was a Democracy because Hitler was elected Chancellor by a majority. You need to define …