To go further down that road: All assets are immediately turned over to the government and used to fund cleanup and mitigation. The government becomes the most preferred creditor.

So, the shareholders, eh? People whose 401k's include some of that stock, that sort of thing?

furthermore, WHAT THE FUCKING KIND OF RULE IS THAT!?!? shouldn't the organizer of the event -any event- get to choose if it can be broadcast or not, since aren't they in control of the copyright of the recording????

Ummm...for NFL games, the NFL is the organizer of the event, and get to choose whether it can be broadcast or not.

So, what exactly is your problem with the rule?

A large amount of radioactive material was released into the ocean where it will remain in the food chain for decades.

Hmm, 1.3 billion cubic km of ocean, at 3 ppb uranium naturally...

So, the ocean has, as a matter of course, ~4 billion tons of uranium, of which 0.72% is U-235. So 28,000,000 tons of U-235 in the ocean naturally.

So, if the reactor in question had a MILLION TONS of fuel (trust me, it didn't), it increased the natural radioactivity on the oceans by less than 4%.

A more realistic number would be 0.001% for the increase.

And even that number is a generous overestimate.

Now find me people who:

a. will agree with me

"The true test of another man's intelligence is how much he agrees with you"

I agree the country is going to hell in a hand basket

Note that this has been a common belief for the last 50 years or so.

Arguably, it's been a common belief for the last century....

intended to be tonge-in-chic?

Tongue in cheek.

Again, try to avoid writing things you've never seen written. It frequently makes you look like you're illiterate.

Just so.

Assume 300 new jobs, paying an average of $50K per annum each. Sales tax + income tax on that will be somewhere north of $1M per year (guesstimating sales tax and income tax based on LA's tax rates - too lazy to look up TX's numbers this AM).

And that's ignoring other taxes that might apply, tourism dollars (hell, *I* might go there once it's operational), etc.

Which, presumably, is why OP mentioned CONTINENTAL United States.

Note also that "most southernmost" is redundant. You don't want to be referred to the Department of Redundancy Department, do you?

What advantage could this site possibly have over Cape Canaveral?

1) don't have to worry about launch schedule conflicts when you're the only people launching at the site. Do remember the number of delays that SpaceX (and everyone else) has to deal with at Canaveral - you have a minor glitch, scrub your scheduled launch, spend two days fixing if, then have to wait weeks to launch again because someone else is launching in the meantime.

2) Much lower probability of the government deciding it needs your launch site for its own launches and putting you out of business...

I'm asking more about what happens to DRM'd content that was purchased from Sony's ebook store now that Sony is pulling out (e.g. authorization servers).

Get Calibre, strip the DRM from all your Sony content, done.

Note that that's what I did when I had a -505. Stripped the DRM from everything I bought, converted it to ePub format, and used it in that format.

Now that my 505 has gone away, I use a Nook, and still strip the DRM with Calibre so I can load unencrypted ePubs....

Low Earth Orbit with a polar orbit path. Limitless power from the sun

Well, limitless for the twelve hours per day the sun is visible to a station in LEO.

No, polar orbit doesn't give you 24-hour a day sunlight. It just makes for lots of delta-V to reach orbit.

Their monthly rates are attractively low, but they do their absolute best to _insist_ that you buy a new phone from them instead of migrating your old phone, and their sales people do their level best to discount even the _possibility_ of such an option.

Not the experience I had talking to a T-Mobile guy a few months back. Showed them my old phone, they told me to get it unlocked by my old carrier, and they'd be good to go....

That's a lot of jobs that could be lost to autonomous driving.

Seems to me a lot of jobs were lost when we gave up on horse-drawn carriages also.

So, should we be required to keep professional drivers employed in spite of the job being completely pointless in a few years to a decade?