Walking has demonstrable benefits, both for physical and cognitive health. "Man up" when you're 20 might mean getting off the couch and running, but when you're seventy might mean going for a stroll or doing a few reps with a five pound weight.

Some people might have no other choice than to use a scooter - it's not necessarily laziness, but it's certainly not good for you, and people who want to live healthily as long as possible should minimize their use as much as they can.

If you can hack an air gap down in the avionics bay, you can hack the one where a control cable runs by inches from your seat. That doesn't have much to do with the wifi.

If the wifi network is connected to the avionics network, i.e. with no air gap, that's stupid and should be fixed.

Sure, because a cheap, clean source of energy wouldn't help with any of those things.

You'll live longer, healthier, and keep your cognitive abilities longer if you "man up."

I'm not American, but your IRS site says that to qualify under section 501c you must be an organization that is "charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition, [or] preventing cruelty to children or animals."

Therefore, churches are tax exempt because they are religious organizations. That exemption category seems to be problematic because somebody has to decide what is a religious organization, so just eliminate it and let regular churches be tax free under the charitable organization exemption, or one of the others.

If somebody has to decide who is a religion and who isn't, that immediately creates a tax imbalance.

My suggestion is that churches be given tax exempt status based on already existing non-profit and charity criteria. That way religion isn't singled out either way, and the accounting requirements make sure they're actually operating the way they're supposed to.

Corrections to gravity were discussed at great length when they were still a reasonable alternative. You CAN explain some galactic rotation, and the movement of some clusters. The problem is, in order to explain all galaxies, all clusters, or all galaxies and clusters, modified gravity theories need lots of dark matter anyway.

Dark matter isn't really all that revolutionary of an idea. Neutrinos are "dark" in that they don't interact electromagnetically, and they were mysterious mathematical figments (very prominent physicists literally thought they were fudge factors in nuclear equations) until we observed them.

Churches are tax exempt because they're churches. If they satisfy the requirements of a tax exempt non-profit or charity, that's great. If not, pay your taxes. Scientology, for example, would likely fail quite badly as a non-profit.

But presumably that disadvantaged person is disadvantaged for a reason, so the best candidate is really the non-disadvantaged one!

You can play Vizzini with silly arguments all you want. Not having sexism means that if you're making a decision that has nothing to do with sex, such as hiring, you don't consider sex as a factor.

Your post indicates you don't understand the meaning of the word "profit." I chose that term carefully, and note that it anticipates your "25 cents to cover the cost of the blank media." Perhaps you should spend a few minutes on Wikipedia and then come back with something less superficial?

The problem isn't with a drone that flies to a set of GPS coordinates, drops a bomb, and flies back. It's with a drone that flies to a set of GPS coordinates, waits around until it sees something in the general vicinity it wants to blow up, drops it's bomb and flies back. The issue is with the "something it wants to blow up" part.

A nuanced response to piracy seems to me to be a very good thing. Individuals sharing your stuff? That's free advertising and lots of companies would kill for it. Somebody you trusted with a screener leaking it? That's a breach of trust and you shouldn't feel any qualms about going after them. Professional pirate pressing thousands of copies and profiting from selling them? Again, no problems going after that.

I had the same thought. The only surprises in the show are what they left out, and major events like deaths aren't going to be among those.

Has working illiteracy reached the point where this is actually a big deal?

As a sailor, I can assure you that once you run out of ice you switch to rum, and it's all good until you make port and can run the freezer off shore power again.

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