Yup. The AL always wins. They have far more good players from more competetive teams.

Of course. Just a little shot at bureaucracy there. But my stance about technology remains.

There is a known genetic anomaly in certain sheep that makes their wool black. The existence of black sheep has been known for far longer than African Americans have considered taking offense at the nursery rhyme.

It's technology. The U.S. has the high-tech arsenal to take care of any rusted-out junk Russia has left from the Cold War Era. Besides, the Russian government is way too corrupt and inefficient to effectively wage a world war against the U.S.

Obviously. It also prevents the paper from bunching at the top if the clearance between the spool and the wall is small.

I think the transportation of the future will be increasingly rail-oriented. As electric rail and maglev technology become cheaper, safer, and more efficient, more communities will encourage their use.

And from a safety standpoint, these advanced trains are safer than personal vehicles or aircraft.

They will be able to play sounds in patterns like music, but it won't be music. Music is for humans. It isn't supposed to be a series of tones, it's a series of emotions expressed in tones.

I highly recommend the short story by Herbert Goldstone, "Virtuoso."

Stupendous Man!

(Alter ego Calvin, from Bill Waterson's comic "Calvin and Hobbes")

Aside from the fact that he is from one of the greatest comics of all time and has the best alter ego of any superhero in existence, he fights for all the suppressed 6 year old genii in the world!

Learn Chinese. Then become a nuclear scientist or aerospace engineer.

Too many were able to exploit the democratic system in its infancy. Now the honest people who care about improvement don't have any of the opportunities that were intended under the system of democracy.