They didn't get the right answer, they got an answer with a very small variation of error.

The amount of space that contains matter and energy is likely finite, but space itself is not. We do not, at the moment, have a way of outpacing the rate of expansion.

Citation: "How Deadly Is Your Kilowatt? We Rank The Killer Energy Sources" http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/

... but once we start ticking off the body count of the millions dying to radiation poisoning and starvation, we might want to reconsider that path.

What makes you think that? We are already ticking off the body count for coal, and have been for years, yet we repeatedly fail to reconsider our decision to use coal...

Who is the "their" that you're mentioning? I have no patience for misogyny and it's a very small minority of dickheads who cause trouble, but like every other normal gamer, I got roped into it with the shoddy "gamers are misogynistic assholes" articles pumped out by "games journalists" trying to deflect the blame from their own issues in a transparent attempt to make themselves seem more important and listened to than they are.

I like how you keep reiterating that this is some sort of "movement" that you "join."

"Hardcore gamers" don't remain hardcore gamers forever.

Eventually they actually do develop a real life.

I thought "one letter programming language" would refer to the syntax, not the marketing name of the language.

what can keep me from ever having to type out the entire word "while" again?

Two words: gun camera.

They started using gun cameras in WWII to look at the effectiveness of the aircraft, but you could use them on police firearms to hold police accountable when they draw their weapons. Here the main problem is the he-said they-said nature of the event. We don't know what happened because there is no recorded account of it. Using off-the-shelf technology, you could install a small iPhone style camera and microphone that activates whenever the safety of the weapon is taken off and enough storage for 10-15 minutes of footage and audio. The recorded footage would then be available to establish whether the officer was justified in drawing their weapon and, if fired, whether the firing of the weapon was justified. If the officer committed murder, we'd know. If it was justifiable, we'd know. Either way, we wouldn't have rioting in the streets right now.

Even the government is culpable. The national lab where I live has frozen wages so many times that the PhD's working there are on the bottom end of the pay scale for people with their degrees.

Mind you, I have to wonder where those people on the top end are. Really, who *is* hiring PhD chemists and physicists and paying them so well?

It's worth remembering that the protests started out peacefully. It was the police who escalated things by responding to peaceful protests with armored vehicles, police in body armor carrying assault rifles, launching tear gas at people exercising their constitutionally protected rights to freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. You have a police force that has abdicated its responsibility to protect and serve the population, and is instead acting like an occupying army and oppressing the community they are sworn to help. And this is after years of targeting the black community. If you act like an occupying force, it's hardly surprising if people start acting like insurgents.

Of course it's up for majority rule, if the majority is large enough. The US Constitution isn't set in stone, ordained by God. You just need a Constitutional Amendment, which requires majorities of a certain number of states. But Americans don't feel strongly enough about banning hand guns or abortion.

It's mocking an attitude, a reference to the source material: Team America, which reserved it hatred equally for the left and the right.

I don't know of anyone, besides actual Muslims (and often the fundamentalists) who hold that value. Now there ARE liberals who hate Christianity and like to mock it (and usually other religions). And there ARE also liberals who think that Islam should be held up as a "beautiful religion of peace." But they're not the same people. Neither liberals nor conservatives are monocultures.

Too stupid to adequately respond to.

Most don't know about civil forfeiture, and that's truly unfortunate. However, I think you would find that a majority of Americans, while perhaps a bit uncomfortable with some parts of the PATRIOT act, are generally for it, as well as the TSA. Or at least, they find it better than the alternatives. There are plenty of folks on the far far left and far far right and of course on Slashdot that will rant and rail about it (I certainly have), but it's hardly something that is forced on them by a dictatorship.

Boy, I'm not sure that you've been to many startups.
That's the very frequent business model -- yes, you are required to give your life to startup, including things like free time. It's to get the business "off the ground" or in first place or jumping at an opportunity of some such nonsense. And yes, they're shitty places, often run by shitty humans.