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Comment Re:Squeezing the balloon (Score 4, Interesting) 80

Exactly crime is a business. as long as someone is willing to do the work and make a profit at it they will do so.

Prisons are part of what makes crime expensive. Another thing is flooding the market with low value goods that simulate high value goods.

Look at car radios. since manufacturer's started putting high quality audio and navigation systems into cars, car radio theft has dropped off considerably. It isn't worth it to steal the radio.

Tv's aren't big ticket items anymore. neither are dvd players. Computers are a mixed bag but even they are so cheap now a days. jewels always will be. Though if you want to protect your diamonds the best way is to put staged storage areas filled with fakes. the crooks will steal the fakes.

Crime falls when the standard of living comes up, and inequality is lessened. As inequality is increased so does crime.

Comment Re:1947... (Score 1) 65

Well considering that the scanning electron microscope wasn't developed until the late 60's and it took 30 additional years to make a decent one it makes sense.

I dare you take a modern computer tablet back to 1947 and ask them to make sense of it. I bet they struggle just to keep the battery charged.

Now you want to figure out anti grav?

Comment Re:Overblown (Score 4, Insightful) 396

exactly. I bet they also had all sorts of contingency plans, and meetings if Scotland voted to leave the UK too.

The USA has military plans to invade Canada, and the UK. and they keep them updated. it is war game scenarios just in case and it makes for easy test cases for new people to think about.

Comment Re:Overdramatic (Score 1) 42

both words are overly simplistic for the process.

however you can use up all the local resources. It is called strip mining. So galaxy's are like people they strip mine an area of all useful stuff, and living behind a desert filled with rusting metallic husks.

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