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?

How about starting with perjury and treason charges?

US Constitution, Article 3, Section 3.

Learn it, love it, live it.

FYI, treason is defined there, and the definition is EXTREMELY narrow. No, nothing the CIA has admitted to doing qualifies.

but calling any of them "legitimate" is shilling so hard you could pence a crown.

I'm trying to figure out the source of the expression "pence a crown" (old British money, obviously, but I'm missing something), and wondering whether the use of "shilling" earlier in the sentence was an intentional or unintentional play on words re:"pence a crown"....

Would you be more or less inclined to put your money into a company whose seemingly sole focus is profit?

Note that "profit" is misleading in this context. What they seem to mean, based on TFA is "income" or "revenue".

Admittedly, income generates profit (usually. See "loss leader" for an example of income with no profit attached). But they're not synonymous, as any taxman can tell you.

Example:

I had a bone-marrow transplant in late 2012.

Over the next year, the Hospital and Insurance companies went round and round, churning out bills and checks.

In one case, the insurance company needed some information from the hospital to process the claim. SNAFU at the hospital left the insurance company without the info for about six months.

Soooo, the hospital sent the bill to a collection agency, which started sending me letters demanding payment. I was, therefore, among the 35%.

The next month, the hospital sent the info to the insurance company, the insurance company cut a check, and the collections agency sent me a "never mind" letter.

So, I never really had any overdue debt, but I would have counted under the methodology of this article as part of the 35%.

Which leads me to wonder what fraction of the 35% might have had debts referred mistakenly to collection agencies....

TFS notes that Obama is behind this bill.

I find this interesting, since as head of the Executive Branch, he can order the NSA to do what this bill requires without bothering with a law, since no law exists requiring the NSA to collect telephone records on everyone.

And if such a law existed, it would be pretty clearly unconstitutional, and thus null and void....

The laws should be identical to the extent possible, between different forms of currency.

So, your average C-Store should be required by law to accept Japanese Yen or the Sudanese Pound?

That aside, doesn't the Federal Government get to decide what's money and what's not? Didn't think it was the business of State governments to be regulating money....

Iraq on the basis of made-up "evidence" of non-existing weapons of mass destructions

You are probably unaware that chemical weapons are defined as WMDs in all the treaties related to WMDs.

And you are likely also unaware that Hussein used chemical weapons against his Kurdish population.

You are most likely also unaware that some chemical weapons were found when the US Army moved into Iraq.

Note that all those things were mentioned in the news at the time (at the time meant the Clinton Presidency in the first two cases, the Bush one for the third case), but presumably you don't (or can't) read the news either.

Which is why, presumably, you're still blathering about non-existant WMDs in Iraq.

Interesting you should say that when Musk has the cheapest space launch capabilities in the world, is in the process of making his first stage reusable (and thus cheaper still), is in the process of man-rating a seven-man capsule that will be reusable and will cost less to launch than the three-man Soyuz, and is developing a heavy-lift launcher that can put more payload into orbit than Shuttle ever could.

And all on his own dime....

SpaceX has scheduled eleven launches over the next several years with the US Government as the customer (ISS resupply missions).

In addition, it has 17 launches scheduled for other customers (private satellite launches).

So, no, SpaceX doesn't have to do space tourism, nor do asteroid mining, nor make all their money being a government contractor. What they are is a LAUNCH company. They don't do payloads, they just put other people's payloads into orbit for them cheaply.