I agree, if you ARE the person that facebook or twitter thinks you are, you F-ed up. It should be an online advertisement. Why is AWESOME. and at least 15% of the most personal information, should be just false. City of birth, city of residence, favorite things. Come-on, fake-it, be safe.

INAL, but;

Giving away free content/service/etc to put competitors out of business and then charging once you have a monopoly is fairly common. And its not allowed. Its not allowed in the U.S. It is an illegal practice banned under the monopolies law; and it has been banned for like 135yrs.

Proving someone has done this, in common law U.S. Well, that's another story entirely. Proving it in France? Well there system is a little different, they can concentrate on effects of acts more and spend less time divining intent. France, is the right place to bring this complaint.

most near-light designs have the ship being powered from earth btw. I.e. the earth hits the ship with a laser and a mirror on the ship gets momentum from the laser. The issue isn't fuel, its focus and range.

If you could make singularities, then a 'romulan' type drive would be possible and you could use interstellar gas as fuel.

Exactly. 14years is enough recoup an investment. Beyond that, someone has achieved the owning of ideas and expression. That was never the goal.

No one has a plan for going to the moon. The first moon program was done at a fraction of the actual cost due to the national pride and the massive donation of talent by the populous. It would cost twice as much to go again,but the plans all call for spending 1/10 of what was spent before. No one has a plan for going to the moon.

It would be interesting to have such a group of tests, just so people could try to pass them, and then fail. And then know first hand, DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS IN REAL LIFE.

I get paid to have people click, then buy.

I don't care how much gets blocked.
I don't care who gets whinny.
I don't care how much gets repurposed.
I don't care [insert your favorite predicate here]

I/they want you to click so I can pay, I want you to buy, so I get paid.

That's how it works.

ALL nuclear reactors DO have a proliferation risk in them. The main driver of the proliferation risk is they create and spread knowledge about how to safely and effectively work with highly radioactive materials. Some designs are worse than others in that the materials and of processing equipment can be directly re-purposed for weapons. With that said, the main reasons nuclear is dead in the US is, #1 Given its history, who is dumb enough to trust a multi-billion dollar investment to the regulatory whims of the NRC? Answer: No one with a billion dollars. #2, There are too many people who earn a living scaring people about nuclear power. Ralph Nader essentially retired on it. NIMBY is just a tactic they use.

I hope solar and wind eventually pay-off because Hydro and Nuke are dead in the U.S.

I'm a nuclear engineer.

These things are not cheap. We have recovered one from the ocean floor before to fly it on a later mission. (albeit, the relative shallows of the florida coast.) If its possible to build a remote sub that could find it, I would bet the cost of recovery would be less than the cost of manufacture. (radar, sonar? how many right angles are on that thing? HOW would you find it?)

Its not dangerous. PU-238 cannot be used to make weapons.

Ref:
http://www.ne.doe.gov/space/neSpace2c.html
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SNAP-19B2

Nimbus-B-1

Meteorological

18-May-68
Status: Mission was aborted because of range safety destruct. RTG heat sources recovered and recycled.
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It is a StratoVolcano not a Caldera. It doesn't do Caldera type things.

The screen is 'locked' to prevent errant touching from activating. It would be unlocked by a gesture, something non-random. A slide is the most obvious gesture. Who couldn't figure out that this was 'obvious'

Isn't there a rule that until someone else sees it, it just doesn't exist. So the mere fact that no one else saw it, MEANS, per rule, it don't exist.

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Lots of Don's books here. http://www.betterworldbooks.com/Norman-Donald-A-H0.aspx?SearchTerm=Norman%2C+Donald+A.

While, there are boulevards in Illinois, i.e. places where big trucks are forbidden. There are not traffic lanes for car-pooling, or certain special-cars/drivers.

I got one of these letters too. It is an obvious lie. The battery is replaceable. The device has a button you can press to determine that the battery is fine. Illinois is the most crooked state I've ever experienced. Bad state. Stay away if you can.