But how will people strategically vote if they don't know what other people are voting for?

I wouldn't say that the civil rights acts are about increasing freedom, but rather increasing equality and justice. Sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice some freedom to increase equality and justice. This is a good thing, but let's not contort the term freedom too much.

_Every_ action impinges upon the freedom of others. The question is, how much is allowable?. And it's not a black and white question.

While I'm all in favor for getting people to work to support themselves, Republicans have been working hard to make it not worth it to work, by killing minimum wage increases, encouraging outsourcing, and generally constructing a rent economy where people make (far!) more money by owning things than by doing actual work.

But can you perform a skype interview?

Any time there's an error, just skip it and go to the next instruction.
Bam. No more errors.

One could argue that the moon is made of cheese. What do scientists say?

You ought to be able to buy it from a chemical supply company. Just not labeled as food.

The difference between partially hydrogenated oil and your other examples (with the possible exception of fast food) is that it is basically masquerading as food, which is supposed to be good for you. Everybody knows that cigarettes are bad for you (thanks to govt. efforts), so you can blame it on a smoker's poor decision making to smoke. Putting partially hydrogenated oil in food and marketing it as food is more akin to poisoning people, since the final product looks like food and is passed off as food. The consumer still bears some blame, since such products are usually labeled, but even then some products are not fully labeled (a piece of bread from a bakery, etc) and some labels are outright disingenuous (0g trans fat).

If you wanna go all out free market liassez faire shut down the FDA, are you prepared to deal with straight up poisoned food in the market. Because that's what we are talking about here. Trans fat = poison, literally. Let's just put some hexane in this oil since it's cheaper to extract. Also, let's get rid of required labeling. Caveat emptor.

That's a problem that marketing can solve. Tell them it's rapidly biodegradable.

Usually what happens is you set up your own modem and they end up charging you a rental fee anyways. You call the service rep and they tell you to restart your computer to solve the problem.

Deal with it like everybody else.

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They are getting plasma pressures at levels similar to tokamaks and stellerators, which is pretty impressive, while using a fraction of the magnetic field. If you didn't know, 1 keV temperature is a little over 10 million K, and a density of 10^20 m^-3 is close to vacuum, but because of the high temperature the pressure is fairly significant, on the order of one atmosphere. It's refreshing that they don't exaggerate their progress (they admit that tokamaks are more advanced as of yet). But if they were trying to offer a cheaper alternative to tokamaks, they have a way to go. At 23m long, their FRC is not small. If they need to scale it up considerably to reach reactor levels, well, it's going to be an expensive project like ITER is.

If the FRC turns out to be the way forward, most our research into tokamaks hasn't been wasted. There's a lot of overlap in the theory and the technologies used. Neutral beams are also used in tokamaks, for heating and diagnostics, and are also being used to provide torque to the plasma, which can stabilize the plasma in various ways which can be understood in turbulence theory. The NIMROD code is also used in tokamaks, as is the technique of lithium wall conditioning. I suppose the point is, a lot of slashdotters will condemn the work of government research but this research wouldn't have been possible without decades of groundwork backed by government funded grants.

Helping a lot of people to sell drugs.. actually, that sounds quite a bit worse than selling drugs to me. --Well, taking the assumption that selling drugs is bad.