since when has taxes ever had any relation to how much the government spends? (at least for the US)

never in my memory, they have been talking about the budget deficit since at least the 80's

every abandoned car on earth would have an alternator. just need to rig something to spin it and you have electricity, say make a windmill.

heck all the cars also have batteries i would have to imagine at least some of those would still work as well.

electricity wouldn't be too hard to get.

part of defending a network is understanding how it can be attacked. so you can develop countermeasures to mitigate the attacks.

so it helps when defending a network if you are also good at attacking one.

really what they are saying is that a universe could arise from fluctuations in a quantum vacuum.

which is basically the lowest known energy state of anything. and is about as close to "nothing" as we have ever found in nature.

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This is being developed for the millitary, it doesn't every really have to be commercially viable. it just has to be viable enough to allow extended operations while reducing need for resupply to be be considered viable.

oops sorry i guess i was mixing miles per hour and gallons per minute in my units

about 2.3 miles per gallon? not bad, much better than i thought it would do.

better than some super cars

who taught them this? certainly not congress.

i suppose you are a member of peta? people for the ethical treatment of apostrophes

but i like eating tasty animals in pita's you insensitive clod!

with it's C-x M-c M-Butterfly command, emacs just breeds lazy programmers.

oracle still has a useful product that people want. (not sure why) but because of this they might survive. people would be willing to trade other resources to them for their product. which requires specialized skill and knowledge to produces, and this creates value.

a company like Apple on the other hand is potentially screwed. simply because they hold so much money in the bank all of which would be useless now, so they would lose nearly all their value. the only value they would have is whatever products they currently have in a warehouse, and their manufacturing abilities, which much of that they purchase from other people and don't do in-house. however they would have some intellectual value in their developers.

i don't agree with all you are saying but some of the tech companies would possibly be screwed.

Intel might survive as they still own most of their foundries and their product takes a lot of specialized skill and knowledge to produce.

yes indeed they would pay their militia. Corporations are large and control a lot of resources i am sure they could find something of value to use to pay their militia.

so, what keeps the military from killing the president and other govt leaders now?

corporations are practically governments themselves. they have similar authority structures. i would imagine the corporation would print its own banknotes, or would trade in some item that has intrinsic value. in the past many places printed their own banknotes and they were accepted in various other places for trade. and they would likely accept them in the company owned stores.

people would work for the militia because they would indeed be paid and the force of the militia would provide backing for the companies own banknotes, similar to how you seem to think the govt somehow magically provides value to their currency.

yes indeed i think a 70 year old suit is going to maintain control. money buys loyalty and i guarantee the business men are smart and would be paying their militia well. what makes you think they wouldn't be able to find something of value to continue paying them? they are big and already control a lot of resources. those resources can be converted into something to pay the employees and keep them loyal. they would just hire a few more employees to maintain security.

in the power vacuum if the government suddenly disappeared, large corporations are the best suited to take their place as they already have the internal control and authority structures setup.