Etc... etc... Lots of potential reasons.

Yep. Hence the "unclear", as opposed to "stupid decision" or something similar....

If they get that going beyond the talking stage, I demand that they include a clause banning divorce in that proposed amendment. Vows that include the phrase "as long as we both shall live" should mean something, dammit!

Note that marriage is NOT a religious thing. It's a government thing. The religious ritual is completely irrelevant to marriage in the USA, since the only thing that makes a marriage valid in the eyes of the law is that marriage license you get at City Hall (or wherever the appropriate office is where you live).

The words the pastor says no more a marriage make than your father saying "well, you're ready to drive" means you have a Driver's License....

Of course, the GMO proponents will oppose this.

Of course they will. Because if it costs money to develop GMOs, then there had better be a return on investment. Or noone will bother.

And since GMOs, like any new drug, includes a lot of trial & error (mostly error), your successful new GMO (or drug) has to carry the costs of all your unsuccessful ones. So you have to be able to make a lot of money on any success, or noone will bother.

Note that the cost of developing this failed GMO will have to be paid, down the line, by higher costs on other products produced by the same people.

39 of the rockets they've "acquired" have never flown. LauncherOne is over a year away from its first test flight.

Arianespace's soyuz launchers (the other 21) have at least actually, though why they're not buying soyuz launches directly from the Russians is unclear.

They did just censor search results for merchandise branded with a particular logo that has a negative connotation for most enlightened humans

What, they decided to censor Civil War games too?

Except that if "State", only means individual states, then many of the constitutional amendments - including the second - fall apart on the federal level.

I'm curious as to which part of the Second falls apart on the Federal level. I'm assuming it's "shall not be infringed", but I'm not sure what that has to do with the "State".

Note that "being necessary to a free State" does not actually imply that the Federal Constitution is any less bound by "shall not be infringed" (since the Second is a modification of the FEDERAL Constitution, not a State Constitution).

That's a pretty bold claim considering a 1KW lithium ion battery currently cost 10x that.

***shrugs***

Harddrive prices fell that fast. Or perhaps faster. In my lifetime, they increased in capacity by a factor of 100,000 or so, and the price per HDD fell by a factor of five or more (100000x the drive for 1/5th the money)....

managed to lose 40 lbs in 8 weeks.

Losing 300+ grams (11+ oz) a day is generally considered seriously unhealthy. Yeah, you started from a seriously unhealthy weight, but continuing a diet like that is a really bad idea.

Shame it won't work the way it did in that story.

Still, a major step, especially for the rarer bloodtypes. Be nice to not have to depend so much on donors, especially since donors are way more likely to have loathsome diseases transmitted via blood than any lab-grown blood....

The solution is to drop the birth rate and immigration.

US birthrate is below replacement rate now. Population increases are entirely due to immigration, legal and otherwise.

BLOCKQUOTE>Access to water, food, transportation, trade, and industry, and the increasing shortage of arable land, are all squeezing available living space and ruining the dream of "owning you rown home".

Umm, no. What's ruining the dream of "owning your own home" is the hidden qualifier "any place I happen to want to live".

I own my own home. Ditto my parents and siblings. And my cousins. And children of same are mostly paying off mortgages. Mostly because we didn't choose to live in places like Silly Valley or LA or NYC....

Nine people were killed in South Carolina last week.

And on a (nearly) unrelated note - on average, 200 people are murdered across the USA in any particular week.

Let's not lose sight of the other 190 in our haste to remember the nine....

When they signed the agreement, didn't it effectively become law?

Not speaking for the Dutch in particular, but in general, no, agreements with other nations do not have the force of law until appropriate enabling legislation is enacted.

A 20 minute data Lag for a modern CEO could cause major business issues.

A multibillion dollar corporation that requires the CEO on call every minute of every day is filled with complete incompetents on every level. I can't even imagine a decision that requires the CEO to be available 24/7 - if nothing else, running the decision past the legal department gives enough padding that the CEO will have hours, if not days to make any decision....

It's the dream of every young (straight) geek guy to find a real geek girl to share their life with.

I take it you've met me and my wife, then. Alas, the only Dave I remember from back then died many years ago....

Not a lot of storage is necessary as long as electricity is never priced below market equilibrium

Those of us who have to run our air-conditioners 24/7 seven+ months of the year disagree. A lot of storage is necessary, or a lot of the energy producers have to be baseload. For which read "nuclear"....