Laws protecting an outdated business model are far different that laws that protect individual laborers.

I'm OK with workplace safety laws. I'm not OK with laws that prop up obsolete businesses.

The problem isn't laws that prop up obsolete businesses, it's folks that regard any business that isn't shiny and new and app and mobile friendly as obsolete. And damn the workers so long as the self absorbed class get theirs.

It's telling that you don't seem to support laws that protect employees from predatory employers - you only seem to care that they're "safe".

Am I the only one that grasps that the S-512 is a bizjet, not a passenger airliner? The economics of the former are considerably different from that of the latter.

Frankly, because most non-Americans seem to get their news about America from Faux and Facebook.

They're making rockets and spacecraft that will be human-rated. That's a bit more challenging.

OK, look to Falcon I then. And note that they haven't launched a man-rated vehicle yet. Etc... etc...

Or, to put it another way, like the original poster you're clueless moron.

Really, the engineering to make and guide a missile is not formidable these days.

Looks at SpaceX's record, looks at the original poster... *shrug* Yeah, whatever.
 

Iran is more than capable, though testing is probably hard for them being landlocked.

Have you ever actually looked at a map? Iran is anything but landlocked - they have hundreds of miles of coast on the Indian Ocean and clear range six thousand miles long before they reach the Antarctic coast.
 

A good machine shop and a knowledge of F=ma is all that is really needed.

Yeah, except for all the stuff you can't do with a "good machine shop" and all the math that is far more complex and F=ma. Which is pretty much all of it.
 

The rest is detail, easily accessible on Wikipedia.

As they say, the devil is in the details - and Wikipedia is essentially a kindergarten introduction.
 
Or, to put it another way, you're not only wrong - you're completely clueless. How does bilge like yours get modded "informative"?

Isn't the problem the exact opposite? That we struggle to find cures when treatments are so much more profitable?

That's *a* problem certainly, but it's not *the* (not that there's any singular problem in the first place), and it's a problem that's tied to Big Pharma. But the article isn't about Big Pharma. It's about Big Charity, which has a separate set of problems.
 

This article reads like it was written by a spokesperson, and turns a blind eye to every disease that once had no cure - but now does.

If you actually read the article, you'll note the author turns a blind eye to them because they're completely and utterly irrelevant to her thesis. He even carefully outlines why - because their are two types of diseases, the curable (that come from bacteria and viruses and other preventable or treatable causes), and the currently incurable (mostly genetic).

Seriously, did you actually read the article? Because both of your main statements read like either you didn't read it, or you completely failed to comprehend it (to the level that amounts to you might as well have not read it).

No, one quarter of all accidents which include pedestrians, not one quarter of all accidents at intersections. The former category includes many accidents which don't include intersections.

Only if they're a stupid as you - which I doubt. They won't be flying until the cause is understood and the escape system validated.

We're talking Google here - they certainly are incompetent at a range of things, but when it comes to "accidentally" gathering information, they're very competent indeed.

Cmon you all, don't you see a pattern here?

  Yes.

Expert on what? The field of human endeavor, and thus the question, is impossibly broad. (Though the questioner quasi limits it to IT/science/hardware by implication.) In fact, the submission reads an awful lot like someone trying to get content for free...

That being said, for most of the stuff I want expert help on I tend to visit specialized forums far more than blogs. I've generally got too much going on to strain the sea in hopes that something I can actually use drops into my lap by happenstance.

It's possible to predict in advance the outcome of 40 years of blackjack. It's impossible to predict in advance what constitutes 40 years of "a good mix of income producing assets".

And with a technocratic, authoritarian gov't, they have some leeway to take drastic measure that would be difficult if not impossible in a democracy. It will be interesting* to see how this plays out in the coming days and weeks.

But with a very large middle class that's become very accustomed to a middle class lifestyle... they lack the leeway to take some drastic measures that a technocratic, authoritarian government could do.

Seriously, China isn't the same as Soviet era Russia or the current North Korea - where only the Party elite and faithful have wealth, economic influence, and access to goods. They've been liberalizing their economy over the last quarter century (which is one of main reasons for the increasing dominance of cheap Chinese good on world markets), and a lot of people have made a lot of money in the process.

That's why the government is working so hard to stabilize the market - to keep that segment appeased. They aren't going to be very happy to be reduced to penury.

i'm 41. and people who meet me for the first time think i'm in my mid 20's

If that because of your foodie fad idea of what constitutes "taking care of yourself"? Or good genes? Somewhere around a quarter to a third of my friends who follow the same silly ideas look markedly older than their chronological age.

Until I injured my back and started gaining weight in my mid 30's, people used to guess that I was younger than I was. (Though I took no particular care of myself.) That's markedly reversed over the last five years though - though my weight is stable, my family's genetic tendency towards prematurely graying hair has kicked in with a vengeance.

No, the biggest problem is attempting to monetize a fairly long-established platform that is highly dependent on volunteers, who do not appreciate being disrespected despite their commitment, coupled with participants that do not like changes in things that they have grown accustomed to.

Or, in other words, pretty much what the grandparent said - by petulant children.