Why pick on just one of the engineers? Lots of things failed before that port became vulnerable....
Michael Cain
Michael is a systems analyst, with a taste for obscure applied math. He's interested in energy supplies, the urban/rural divide, regional political differences in the US, and map-like things. Bicycling, and fencing (with swords, that is) act as stress relief.
Colorado's 2016 state-wide ballot initiatives are final.
Where will all of California's renewable electricity come from? Not necessarily California.
Trying to graphically represent the geographic relationship between share of GDP and red/blue voting.
Back in June, the Supreme Court quietly took another step in their ongoing "war on coal"....
In the beginning was the command line... and it's still here.
Unfortunately, the second in what appears to be an ongoing series...
What won't you give up -- not just for Lent, but not for anything?
President Obama took a position on strong encryption. He got everything wrong.
The Supreme Court decides in favor of flexibility and conservation in electricity supplies.
Colorado will have state single-payer health insurance on the ballot this November. After reading through the initiative,...
How five little words turned into an ongoing minor obsession...
Something about things going wrong, again and again.
I suspect that my off-off-year ballot is different from most of yours in more ways than one.
Sometimes I think I live in a completely different country than the one I read about in...
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The Supreme Court takes on one of my favorite subjects.
A second Civil War?
