Because market inefficiencies make certain necessary adaptations effectively impossible.

For example, if Company A decides they want to be responsible corporate "citizens" and shift their energy consumption to sustainable sources, then they increase their costs and can no longer compete effectively with Company B unless there's a mass movement to purchase A's products because of their energy policy. And unfortunately the existence of Walmart and the like is proof enough that the mass of Americans consider up-front price to be the single most important factor in purchasing decisions, even when it increases their own long-term costs (a $50 appliance that needs to be replaced yearly is far more expensive than a $200 appliance that will last indefinitely), much less indirect social costs whose full weight won't be felt for generations.

Granted, at the moment if we removed all fossil-fuel subsidies renewable energy would look far more competitive, but to really level the playing field we would have to also impose new penalties on "socialized-cost subsidies" that have long been grandfathered in: Coal for example imposes phenomenal pollution costs at almost every stage. If however we imposed well-structured penalties/taxes to reflect the actual cost of reversing that damage then it would be one of the most expensive energy sources available.

Sure, and if LexisNexis owns the copyright they can sue, but the State would have no standing to do so. No more than I can sue you for pirating a Disney movie.

The fact that the state is suing implies that THEY are claiming copyright ownership. And while I'm not 100% certain about Georgia, that would certainly not fly if the federal government were the one making the claim - as an agent of the people, any works owned by the government are automatically placed in the public domain.

That is the case with Federal government works, but are you sure it's also true about Georgia?

It absolutely *should* be, but what's does the law actualy say?

I like to play with orbital mechanics - "hard science fiction" scenarios such as orbital catapults and the like, and spreadsheets are a decent way to quickly run the numbers for a large range of parameters. For example, a few hundred mile tumbling-cable space elevator around the moon could grab payloads directly off the surface and launch them on Hoffman transfer orbits to Mars or Venus, without ever exceeding a fraction of a g acceleration.

So an ideal presidential candidate then?

And? Russia, the US, and most of the other major nuclear power producers already have huge weapon stockpiles anyway. So where's the reprocessing?

Not sure if that is better or worse pay wise (when taking cost of living into account) than a job offer I got for $35,000/year to work for a medical company in Boston a few years back. I laughed at the person who was so dumb they didn't know if I was laughing because the value was silly high or silly low so they asked if that was good. I replied it was fucking awful and that I made about 3 times that living in a lower cost state.

Hey that's the sound your mom made last night when I had her bent over the kitchen table.

Is this a recent development or was I mostly just lucky that almost 20 years ago the state school I went to (MSU Mankato) offered it as an undergrad class as an option. They also offered compiler construction as an undergrad class which I gather is another one that is fairly rare at the undergrad level.

I'm still trying to figure out what benefit this provides me.

Sorry, ignore the *, I decided to rephrase my footnote as the next sentence.

100 acres would be a radius of only ~392 yards, and from what I can find the range of an unimpeded 9mm pistol round can be a couple thousand yards*. Obviously the accuracy will be nonexistent at that range, but we're talking about how far a stray shot can travel before hitting the ground. So, unless you've got *really* dense trees, a bullet fired into the woods will potentially cross several neighbours properties as well as your own. I really hope you're using a proper backdrop.

That was one of the best crime sequences I had seen in a long time. It was very imaginative unlike so many other ones.

Same thing in Minnesota. Purchase is 21 own is 18, this applies to the ammo as well.

My understanding of that is that once you strop cranking the 10/22 or mini14 it stops firing so not an automatic weapon. This basically makes any manually driven Gatling gun legal, not sure about ones with an electric motor or not but who knows with the BATFE. With the shoelace hack on the SKS it will fire until empty thus a machine gun. Love these decisions or not they are at least consistent. The BATFE does however seem fairly schizophrenic in other regards as was the case of the arm brace addition to AR and AK platform pistols.