US population growth is entirely due to immigration. It's the same story in the entire developed world. The USA is almost treading water as far as internal population growth with a total fertility rate (births per woman) of about 2 (replacement is about 2.1, as birth rates are skewed slightly male). Canada and the EU sit at about 1.6.

When people have the option to control their fertility, by and large, they opt to not have children.

And every year, more Americans die than are born.

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You don't need population controls. You need cheap (preferably publicly funded and given away for free), readily available, and effective (i.e. IUDs/implants) contraceptives, along with an ad blitz to make people aware of the availability of same.

Do that and people will happily not have children, as seen in the entire developed world.

Not even close to only 20 years. Evergreening tactics can at least double that.

With a new console out, Wii Us are likely to come onto the used market, making it significantly cheaper to acquire, potentially enough so that it is worth it for the one game.

What you've thought of is basically the second half of Manna.

No, but their apparent inability to e.g. complete or even progress the story-line of Half Life certainly irks many, since "every 3 months" has turned into "9 years and counting".

It certainly can be. A single-tasking OS wouldn't need a scheduler.

Valve's structure has both good and bad points.

On the good side, basically everything they produce is pretty great.

On the down side, they don't produce very much and they have almost no ability to hold to any kind of schedule.

There are pretty much two possible ways for it to go.

Your comment is incorrect in every particular.

For starters, the person being quote-mined is a woman, Dr. Diane Harper.

She had (this was back in 2009) two concerns regarding the vaccine, namely the data about the persistence of immunity (data at the time showed it would last at least 5 years, but they didn't have data about past that) and the way the vaccine was being marketed (she was concerned that the way the vaccine was being advertised may lead to women forgoing screening tests such as pap smears as they figure that they don't need them as they were vaccinated).

Great. It should only require a few years of dealing with tough-on-crime prosecutors and judges to make use of that, whilst your name is being publically dragged through the mud.

Already tried.

It's perfectly legal in the USA for corporations to force you into using their bought-and-paid-for "courts".

Or gets extorted from businesses by their legally-enshrined shakedown mobs.

Most police field tests are utter bullshit and will product a positive result off of air.