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You could design them with frosted windows or blinds that obstruct passengers from looking at downwards angles, so they could still see the horizon and the sky. I think I've read a…

The way the "trapped" situation is solved for large Ferris wheels is a secondary spool of cable that you can attach to a truck and propel the system for long enough to evacuate it.…

I think the distinction is between software and hardware DRM. DirecTV controls the entire hardware chain. This means they can do various proper encryption schemes (public/pre-share…

Well, Ubuntu's unwavering pragmatism in getting GNU/Linux on the desk- and laptops of reasonably regular people has had a big impact. But being right (even very right) in the 80s a…

The conspiracy theories generally hold that 9/11 wasn't perpetrated by "terrorists", regardless of their benefactors. E.g. WTC towers were brought down by explosives, not planes cr…

Wouldn't it be a factor that On2 isn't/wasn't in the search space at all? Only after the Google acquisition did duck.com come to be associated with search, and then only by virtue …

There is a certain chance that this is not, in fact, an example of bad password management. This service ("MilFlip") could be an internal service on an internal, secure network (th…

You can never avoid this, but take an approach like ZipCar: http://www.zipcar.com/how/faqs/how-are-cars-cleaned In almost two years of being a ZipCar client, I've never had any iss…

Despite the fact that nominally conservative parties implement such policies does not make those policies 'conservative' in any meaningful political-history/ideological sense. Just…

In what ways do you consider Sweden a conservative country? It is very socially liberal and while it's finances are run mostly sanely, it has a huge re-distributive welfare state.

You can be arrogant if you're brilliant - not the other way around. As a junior engineer (in the 'not much experience', not 'pay grade' sense), you're probably not brilliant enough…

I don't agree with your comments about arrogance. You can be right and strongly opinionated without being arrogant. Junior or senior -- making anyone , boss or not, look bad anywhe…

It bears mentioning that you obviously have a shitty boss and that you should leave at the earliest possibility.

Ah, I was thinking of a Gatling gun ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_cannon ), not a rail gun. The concept of rotary tubes seemed to mesh with OP's vision.

"Rail gun" could illustrate the way carriages are added to and remove from the loop.

I meant anti-discrimination as the law that keeps the GP from being fired for admitting he's gay. As for the number of Brits being religious, I think it's easy to conclude that mor…

Since then, the city noticed that it has been far from ideal to use only OpenOffice for digital correspondence. Microsoft Office for instance is the standard for external communica…

Most of the negatives you mention are perhaps styled in the language of religion, but they're underpinned by deeper causes. The Middle East isn't solely a religious conflict, it's …

That's not political correctness, that's anti-discrimination. Political correctness is "Seasons Greetings" instead of "Merry Christmas" for fear of offending non-Christians. It's i…

> Hate speech and anti-discrimination laws have drastically improved the lives of millions of people in the UK. Cause and effect, dude. This happened in the same time frame in virt…

No, nobody is an atheist when they're born. Atheism is the conscious rejection of the existence of god. Agnostic, more likely. Yes, religion is by definition irrational. Humans gen…

I meant that sentence to make good atheists distinct from bad ones (such as various brands of communists). In general, I agree with you. It's incredibly hard to separate out religi…

The point is that "app" means application. "What does an application cost?" - well, is it a CLI that prints the current time in the terminal? Or is it Microsoft Word? You can get a…

It's a meaningless question. How would a world without religion come about? By flipping a switch, and everybody becomes well educated, peace loving, hyper-rational atheists? In tha…

It's a set of guiding principles. But you can either be pragmatic, go for the good rather than the perfect and make continuous small steps in the direction of your goals. Or you ca…