I'm just saying you wouldn't need to burrow the habitat under the ice to get the radiation shielding from ice... Just like Inuits don't need to dig a hole in the snow to get the insulation from it.

Right, there is sexism in college sports, but it's not in the massive amounts of money pumped into men's football and basketball. The sexism is why people are willing to pay huge amounts of money to see men play football and basketball, but not women.

While this is generally true, sane people sometimes need to speak up. For every loud Hitler, there is a loud Martin Luther King Jr.

Well governed? Did you watch the show? Starfleet command and the general Federation council decisions being total stupidity are the basis for several episodes and even entire arching plotlines in the series. It's especially true in DS9 where government idiocy goes to a whole new level.

Spectacular radiation shield? You mean a lot of water? If we are melting water at the surface, it might be feasible to melt water, pump it over the habitat, and allow it to form an ice radiation shield over the habitat. Think like a big radiation blocking igloo... All it takes it a lot of energy, but if we get fusion figured out, you'll have all the fuel you need on Europa!

It's so much easier to tax visitors and tourists since they don't get to vote on the tax...

Yes, those damn Canadians! http://pics.imcdb.org/0is442/o...

Which will drive the customers away first? Smelly bathrooms or $5 hamburgers? There is no such thing as a free lunch...

Exactly. All these people who think more spending will solve a debt crisis are crazy. You can't "fix" an economy that is undergoing a correction after distorted market signals (low interest rates, high debts) by lowering interest rates even further and taking on more debt. Reinflating the bubble just sets up another bust.

You'd probably just end up with a lot of this: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho...

Regardless of why they are moving, the point is that they are. The cities and the infrastructure aren't mobile, but the people are. People move and resettle all the time for many reasons. Calling any human settlement "fixed" is rather misleading.

Don't handle change well? Umm what kind of time scale are we talking about here? Human populations, especially in urban concentrations are very mobile. The vast majority of major cities have popped up from small towns over the course of 100 years or less.
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Not to mention that the original replacement for TEL was MTBE http://www.epa.gov/mtbe/gas.ht... which is still in use in limited quantities. MTBE has been largely replaced with ethanol for octane boosting. Ethanol is pretty cheap compared to MTBE, but it carries large government subsides.

Leaded fuel can still be sold for use in aircraft and race cars in the US.

The first time I had to use Windows 8 it was at a hotel and I was trying to print a PDF. I had to give up... Metro is the worst interface ever. I'm sure if you had a day long training explaining where you randomly move your mouse to so buttons appear it might be usable, but seriously... I'd rather use DOS. I mean if I can only use one application at a time, where is the advantage?