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"....

hair-brained

Hare-brained. It's an analogy to rabbits, not to people with ingrown follicles....

Capitalism, unlike how it is portrayed by unions, is not a system by which companies make more money by paying people less. So the capitalism solution is not to have people get paid nothing at a recycling center, but for the recycling center to find out how it will be profitable.

Couldn't agree more.

Qualifiers:

1) it's not capitalist to say "if we can convince the government to force people to use our service, we'll be profitable".

2) if your only "customer" is the government, capitalism is largely meaningless to you (buying favourable legislation isn't a new idea, contrary to popular rumour, and it always happens when it becomes cheaper to buy legislation than to compete in the marketplace.

2) Note that the guy I was responding to was the one saying that capitalism was a bad thing. I'm all for it, because, ultimately, capitalism is all about getting paid for your (hard) work. And I like to get paid.

Is it the government that requires you to do extra work and pay extra money, or is it just life?

It was definitely the government. I don't have to send a check to life every month for water, sewer, and garbage collection.

Recycling takes a certain amount of work. The government may be trying to split it with you. If they did all of the work, maybe the would have to charge even more.

Then they shouldn't have put the tax to pay for the recycling center on the ballot as a "cost saving measure".

Of course, there's the whole "it's been in contact with food so it's not recyclable" thing too. Which probably, before they ever started, eliminated 75% of the recyclables. But that's another rant....