you have a good prenup

Homeopathy is not something, it is nothing.

Free Will may or may not be a myth, but in either case you really didn't 'have' to type something there.

You give everyone a 'get out of tax free' debit card. Reloads every year with $x value, so for the first $x you pay no tax. You can even set tiers so after $x, then the next $y is at a reduced tax rate, etc. Each card fully resets each year, and is non transferable (photo ID or some such)

If you had read the summary at a minimum, you would have noted that Gates was advocating 1) moving away from a 'labor' tax to a 2) Progressive 'consumption' tax.

It is ok to disagree, but at least disagree with what he actually said.

It has been days since my last battery breakthrough fix. When is the next solar panel announcement?

Hey! Camels gotta earn a living too. Think of their families!

well, I recently installed about 10,000 square feet of sod and it cost me about $3500 just for the sod, so...

and don't forget the raised floor

Limit each applicant to three colleges, instead of the insane blanketing of the choices that goes on today.

Makes the student more responsible for refining the selections and quality of presentation, and not relying on the crap-shoot approach.

How long before I can reinstall Windows 95 and be up to date?

I personally have reservations regarding the Indians

I agree that I exaggerated regarding the "whole future of the universe". However my point was that sufficient of the future would be 'seen' that the effect I postulated would be true.

Hey, I wasn't expecting a trip to Oslo.

Can you describe a scenario where I am incorrect on the time dilation issue? Not to be argumentative, but just for my enlightenment.

'Lead to' implies something that occurs after passage of (local) time.

Sure, and in classical GR you end up dividing by zero. The point I was making was that 'finite time' is not zero time, and the disparity in the rate of time inside the event horizon vs far away allows plenty of time for quantum effects in the form of Hawking radiation to intervene and dissipate the black hole before the posited singularity come into existence. Since the events transpire over finite time, no infinite force is required.

And the 'without quantum mechanical consideration' is exactly ignoring Hawking radiation