High costs to build out the infrastructure, maybe? This is a proposal that can be adopted now as opposed to 10-15 years from now. Why should we let the perfect be the enemy of the good?

according to that article, they used LIGO laser to generate gravitational waves, but they state "it's so feeble you can't detect it directly". Spinning a large mass you say? Wouldn't spinning 2 dense masses around each other be more effective? Like the moon around the earth? Or a binary star? Spinning a large mass isn't as important as the density of the mass. At least that's what I remember in my college kinematics class. I'm not a physicist.

spinning large mass around would make gravitomagnetic waves, but for making gravity waves take two large masses and spin them around each other. Detectable or useful? No. But this article's crank claims to make useful amounts which is nonsense.

Why give them money when they won't fix it? Any chip currently vulnerable was purchased before I knew the product was defective. I'm not going to give intel money for defective chips knowingly.

Think of it this way. If you have a chip slow enough that a new one would be an upgrade, why not go AMD and at least not be vulnerable to meltdown?

Problem is that it won't be viable for the rural population to go without, but at the same time launching satellites won't be economic when supported *solely* by the rural population.

I think they are *much* better served by sorting out a strategy for economicly viable high speed internet rather than continuing to try to find ways to have them not require internet so much. If they have satellite broadcast television and the urban population breaks from that, either way the rural population would be missing out.

No, it's private hire in the rest of the UK too.

There's no such thing as "ride-hail company" in UK law.

According to the Law in the U.K., Uber is a Ride-Hail company.

Legally it's not.

Here in the UK, taxi driving and private-hire driving both require a special driving licence, with a background-check. Uber drivers don't have these.

I'm Canadian (although mostly Scottish by ancestry). I once stayed in a bed and breakfast in Ireland.

The woman running it said "oh, you're American!" I said "well, Canadian actually." She said "basically the same thing." I said "sure, I guess that makes you English?"

The US has the money to provide UK-style healthcare out of the existing Medicare/Medicaid contributions. Obama had eight years to do it, instead he screwed up the private insurance market.

the US is 22 trillion in debt and rising :-)

So? The mandatory contributions to the public medical system in the US already bring in sufficient money to provide UK-style healthcare with no deficit or borrowing.

you know.. we have choice here too. We can get private policies and btw... I have a BUPA family plan, they are a massively cheaper here than over there.

How nice for you. But you have a system in which the government provides a basic level of healthcare through government-run institutions, controls costs strictly, and permits a thriving national market for supplementary and private insurance.

That's not what the US healthcare debate is about. The US healthcare debate is about providing everybody the same top-notch medical care regardless of income without meaningful cost controls on providers. And then people pretend that such a "universal healthcare system" is anything like the UK system.

The US has the money to provide UK-style healthcare out of the existing Medicare/Medicaid contributions. Obama had eight years to do it, instead he screwed up the private insurance market.

I can tell you that in the US my friends and colleagues have been harassed by police for standing on the road with a camera. They were required to deleted the pictures and leave the area or be arrested. Outside of the US we have been harassed and required to delete photos of public buildings.

The laws prohibiting photography in the world where everyone fears terrorism more than they value freedom are sometimes pretty vague and give the police excessive power to harass.

I have no doubt that standing in a field with a camera, especially if that field were next to a sensitive target, would get a photographer arrested.