bluGill

Maybe slightly - but you are a fool if you test this.

The US doesn't want to. a few people do and they temporarly have power but most don't care much so long as ' our boys' are okay

Firefox doesn't always generate a password for me. I have never figured out when/why but sometimes it won't

That doesn't establish a cause though. well off parents teach their kids to value education.

America is a big country. The schools in Finland are different from the schools in Italy.

In the Des Moines area all the difference schools share the same funding. Some schools are still vastly better than others.

As I've said before the largest factor seems to be parents that don't value education teach their kids to not learn much in school.

While what you says it true, beware that some of the worst schools are well funded. The issue isn't money to schools, it is the people on poor areas don't value education and teach their kids learning doesn't matter

I have one with a small solar panel for scout camp. It sits on my tent all day and I can get a charge when I happen to be by. earns the kids some green points in the daily inspection

I've seen engineers no be promoted for complex code. Not all managers are stupid

A 20% jump in something that is only 5% of costs is not a 5% jump. It will hurt but not kill most.

above water perhaps. Underwater is different - water jets can get through and cause a lot of damage. Air jets don't work nearly as well.

Fuel is a tiny cost of restaurant meals. It isn't zero, but it is much less than 5% of the costs. So even if prices are going up, it is easy to hide them in the profit margin in the short term. Long term of course it affects more and more things indirectly and eventually something will give and raise prices forcing something else to give.