Sending frozen blastocysts out towards likely planets, to be incubated & mothered by robots upon successful arrival? That might work.

Sounds great, but I guaran-damn-tee that someone will twist it into something perverse and destructive. Like, "all consciousness is equal, but some are more equal than others."

At the very least, add something about not being racist, and overrunning available resources before sending out diaspora.

"I am not prepared to debate that subject."

Which is exactly what I'd say if I was asked to debate "phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny"

And the Glorious MEEPT!

Oh yeah?

My point was P(pickup), not P(found). But you knew that.

If you really want to challenge my argument, instead of a strawman you should challenge me to provide citations of this (and similar) douchey behavior happening prior to the FCC's 2015 Open Internet Order. If you did that, I would list:

* Major ISPs throttling Netflix, et al.
* Verizon stating on-record that they would like to charge services for better access to their subscribers
* Madison River (ISP) blocking vonage
* Comcast (ISP) blocking P2P applications
* Telus (ISP) blocking access to a website critical of them
* Shaw (ISP) charging a 'QoS fee' to subscribers using competing VoIP solutions
* AT&T blocking VoIP apps on the iPhone
* AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon blocking Google Wallet
* Verizon blocking tethering apps
* AT&T charging extra if iPhone users want to use facetime, instead of AT&T's competing product

No one would put up with a power company that charged more for electricity to power appliances that weren't also bought from them. And yet, when a company that is a combination of ISP and content provider decides to trollishly increase the cost of competitive content streaming, somehow that's OK? SMH.

You ended with a point about opening up more spectrum & increasing service (which I take to mean that the former would cause the latter.) I can't personally speak to the matter of opening up more spectrum, because I don't know how much spectrum sits fallow. I would be surprised if much did.

There are no hippogriffs, thus the probability of hippogriff attacks remains firmly at p=0.

In contrast, the probability of what I described is approximately the same as the probability that you would pick up a stray $100 bill you spotted in a parking lot. Because, why wouldn't you?

Profit motive is rather predicable, that way.

Sounds great, except that the Quiverfull movement is explicitly attempting to outbreed secularists / liberals. They might meet stiff competition among predominantly-Catholic Hispanics, but I can't imagine secularists deciding to engage in reproductive warfare, even if they do realize that's what the Fundies are up to. Overbreeding is kind of anathema to secularism.

Cable internet companies throttling people's Netflix streams because they want those people to get frustrated w/ Netflix and switch to their cable TV packages, is a non-problem?

Muphry's Law.

Humans don't understand 2+2. They perform the operation by sending electro-chemical impulses from axons to dendrites, ending in a pattern that others interpret as 4.

Huh? I peruse FB exclusively on laptops & desktops, and have never been kicked off.

You sure do have a lot of AC replies throwing shade at you. It reads as though someone had nothing better to do with their time than to write a program looking for new creimer comments to troll.

Do you count Forbes as 'some rag'? https://www.forbes.com/sites/c...

Outliers are anecdotal at best. Write back when you find a governmental entity in the U.S. that is willing to let you erect a structure that millions of people every week will trust with their lives, having only read a book on the subject.
I'm not belittling your autodidactic joie de vivre; to the contrary, I share it. But, know that book knowledge is just one leg of a 3-legged stool, where engineering is concerned.