Oh snap! Well played.

Insightful, how? If theres is anyone on this site that didn't already know that an iPad is a computer they are a bot.

Thermal paper didn't double in cost in a week.

The linked article does say illegal sales have gone down, and gets into some reasons why they haven't gone away completely:

Business has fallen since the law passed, but enough people think they can score a bargain, or simply donâ(TM)t trust the shiny new stores, to keep things moving.

These are temporary problems, and they don't translate well to other industries. For example, high quality, low tax medical marijuana resold on the black market can easily undercut legal recreational sales. But a black-market brothel can't undercut the legitimate ones as easily, or offer the same level of service -- lower prices tend to mean lower quality, and operating in the open gives the legal ones extra advantages (marketing, health inspection, integration with other businesses).

Time.

How about we give him cash to buy a GoPro (if we bought it for him ot would be a plot) and a weather balloon and a string and a lead weight and he can do what fucking middle schoolers ddo and send it into space. Oh wait he's just a guy trying to get money out of people who are dumb.

This is missing the point about American rail traffic. America moves freight on rail and it is a far better choice than moving people. Sure it would be nice if America had better passenger rail but not at the expense of freight. The Economist had a great article about it a couple of years ago.

How can you possible argue that that one aside that has nothing to do with his core argument invalidates the rest? If energy and GDP are linked and energy consumption increases at a similar rate as to the entire history of industrial activity will we reach physical limits?

It solves nothing. We are fucked no matter what.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/201...

Fuck the summary, look at the title! "Could a Helium-Resistant Material Usher In an Age of Nuclear Fusion?" Don't they mean Helium transparent anyway?

Bullshit. Basic science is not profitable and takes massive amounts effort. Capitalism only funds proven processes not real R&D. If you disagree go try and get a loan from a bank of an unproven but brilliant industrial process. NASA is a strawman argument because it has been turned into a jobs program by southern senators.

"I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed." Bullshit. You're free because of the effort of the lineage of our forebears that created the United States. Not since the Civil War has the presence of domestic personal arms had any bearing on your freedoms unless you are a Black panther which I doubt. What you should say is "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Though as for that you should be railing against the combination of human rights and limited liability for corporations as an assault on your freedom far more than your ability to have more guns. Corporations have more money than some states or even nations now so much so that they can field private armies. How would our founding father's view them when they only grudgingly granted them the right to limited liability in return for limited rights? They would see them as worse than kings but as they are, immortal kings who pollute political discourse.

Then what album have I been listening to while I watch teh Wizard of OZ? Or are you a wizard? Please be a wizard.

So OSX?

There is a great article about this somewhere. The answer is in the funding. Those numbers are based on spending that has fallen consistently over that time resulting in a constant time to finalize the project. So tax cuts for the super wealthy and fuck the sciences and basic research because they contradict the bible and climate denial. Whoooo hooo ameriKa third world shithole FOREVER!!!! YEAH!!!!

Technically you are liberating the energy not creating it but even a fool can be right .