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Darth Wong:

Yes, that's a valid point.

HEY SHITHEAD - THERE ARE NO $400/MONTH APARTMENTS IN THE GREATER CHICAGO AREA. (additional sentences restored to nestled quotes) As usual, the point flies over your head. The illustration is what is involved in sheltering the homeless is around three orders of magnitude less than $5200 billion/year...

Who the fuck wants to read all your shit anyone? You definitely didn't... I don't really see why someone would go to the time and trouble of writing a reply (still a moderately long one in your case) without spending several minutes to read first. I said "not quite but almost as much" sin...

The newspaper said the watchdog's annual World Energy Outlook report, which studied the biggest fields, showed that without extra investment to raise production, the natural annual rate of output decline was 9.1 percent. The findings suggested the world would struggle to produce enough oil to make ...

Bureaucracies get entrenched over time, expand, and rarely decrease. True, but there is no absolute correct size of government; the question is whether it's doing a good job, and it should be whatever size it needs to be in order to do that job. In contrast to your other post, your earlier post her...

(As mentioned in the last post, even after adjustment for inflation and total U.S. population, converted to 2008-dollars, it went from $13700 per person to $17200 per person annually). In contrast, if it was efficient and effective, they would have noticed major benefit from the $3500/year addition...

Admitting that US government spending is inefficient does not mean all spending is inefficient (especially as you admit that it's wasted on military misadventures and failed social policies). This is about the U.S., with the whole argument being sparked by whether the government portion of U.S. GDP...

Sikon's argument is one that pops up frequently in response to major social change in America, whether it's healthcare, electoral reform, welfare, or any other form of government spending or management, the argument is that because America has a spectacularly bad system for doing something via publ...

If trends are left unchecked, the growth in these programs will contribute towards total government spending consuming more than 60% of national GDP in thirty years, rather than the 37% today. Is that any problem? Many European nations who adhere to social democracy have similar percentages of GDP ...

If left unchecked, the growth in these programs will nearly double the size of the federal government by 2040, consuming roughly 40% of the nation's output rather than the 20% today Current federal spending is 21% of gross national product. Current total government spending 37% of GDP when state &a...

'AI is not advanced enough' is a bullshit argument. One, we need to create a driving agent/expert system, not true AI. Two, the automated driver needs only to be better than a human on this very specific task to make it a net gain. Three, humans are terrible drivers. Creating an automated driver th...

Electric highways do have potential. An electric car might even go faster there with the comparatively large amount of power available (without quickly depleting batteries) and with the guiding of a rail helping safety. Anyway, on the topic of automated transport: For the foreseeable near-term futur...

For the opening post images, two earth-like planets orbiting each other is not a guaranteed assumption. It could be a terraformed moon orbiting a planet (as studies determined that merely lunar gravity could hold onto an atmosphere beyond a certain thickness for thousands of years if such was create...

If your legal standard was uniformly followed, I could throw stuff onto your yard all day long until sooner or later you got tired of spending your unpaid labor time returning it... Look. Drop the unpaid labor bullshit. You aren't obligated to return it. Furthermore, if the police did their job the...

Trespassing isn't limited to human beings alone. Cattle have been considered to trespass in other legal situations, and even sending an inanimate object onto someone else's property is a trespass. I vaguely recall once hearing of an incident where some hooligans would toss garbage through someone's...

It also doesn't say anything about the kids tresspassing. Not in the video and not in the posted articles. So that's just an assumption on several people's parts. Trespassing isn't limited to human beings alone. Cattle have been considered to trespass in other legal situations, and even sending an ...

It is not generally a smart idea to refuse a cop, right or wrong. However, most of the responses in this thread are surprising. If she was legally obligated to always return whatever other people threw that trespassed onto her own property, that could lead to all sorts of abuses. Beyond this inciden...

So your idea is MTTT plus MBI would mean if you got killed, you could go back in time to when your body was still alive and possess it again, a guaranteed survival method. That's interesting but perhaps actually too good, too powerful for this scenario since it makes two of the four choices seem to ...

Although other parts of terraforming like getting rid of the bulk of the extra atmospheric mass are hard to do at all, the cooling the atmosphere part could occur in a timeframe of centuries if sunlight was mostly prevented from reaching it during that time, though even that is pretty long for a hu...

Obviously, this process is a very long one, but if we're to the point of terraforming Venus, and looking at the time scales required, it could be significant. Although other parts of terraforming like getting rid of the bulk of the extra atmospheric mass are hard to do at all, the cooling the atmos...

There definitely appear to be enormous additional limiting factors. A bacterium under ideal conditions doubling every 20 minutes would go from a cubic micron or so to around 100-kg mass after a factor of 1E17 mass increase, which would be around 56 doublings (2^56) or nominally around 19 hours ... e...

Although optionally able to be created artificially, such as with giant superconductor loops, a magnetic field isn't too much of an issue. On earth, ten tons per square meter of atmosphere serving as radiation shielding is what primarily stops space radiation, which is like having about a meter thic...

I heard claims from another message board that when drinks like soda are stored in plastic bottles, the plastic seeps into the beverage and poisons it. Is this true? While plastics are primarily insoluble anyway, any health effects from any trace compounds getting into the water, if existent at all...

Maybe a lot would depend on where it was in the ship. If you want to have it keep frozen all the time, to be well-preserved like dead mammoths found in glaciers on earth, you could suppose it was in a well-shaded area of the ship. Details depend on the amount of infrared radiation intercepting it e...

The justices on Friday overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, [would have] faced a deadline of Friday to set up a system to provide local officials with n...