So, maybe now you can see why it's so difficult to distinguish the "left" from the "right"? Both are after the same thing, and both fuel the contempt that the lumpenproletariat has for itself, which is what keeps them in their place, and *them crazy baldheads* up on top...

Any centralized, planned economy is a policy of failure.

As is everything that is dependent on the intellect of man. It's all very high maintenance. That's why your capitalism works so well. It requires no intellect, and certainly no "morality" of any kind. It is a natural predator and prey relationship. And all attempts to regulate it have been quite farcical at best. Can't expect much different when sociopathy is the dominant trait of those we support.

The constitution is the law you dumbass. No other law is needed or is superior. The fourth amendment and other [un/en]umerated rights prohibits search and seizure upon your life without reasonable suspicion and backed by warrant.

It's a real shame that the Supreme Court doesn't really agree with you.

Given how many residents of Boston are already scared of the places in contention for the new factory, I don't see a problem with this...

Of course not! Would you voluntarily give up a tool that was handed to you when you started your job, without a replacement provided?

That's the entire point of having separate branches of government.

I believe it's possible to have more than 100% blame for a situation.

Those that shot-down a civiian airliner deserve 100% of the blame for shooting it down. That's a given.

Those that provided weapons without providing proper training deserve some blame.

Those that gave orders in the heirarchy to the crew that fired the missile deserve blame, even if they weren't actively involved in the choice to engage the target.

Those that chose to fly through that region also deserve some blame. Not as much blame, but some.

And honestly, I don't have a problem with the concept of blaming, at least to a small extent, the victim. That doesn't mean that one should shame the victim, but from situations as insignificant as not maintaining situational awareness when walking through a rough neighborhood and being mugged to as large as flying through a warzone all have a kernel of blame attributable to the victim, in that the victim's choices assisted in being victimized. The world is a harsh place, and while the perpetrators of violence are 100% responsible, there's still more blame to assign to some of those that fail to take basic steps to protect themselves or those in their charge.

Well, since the party whose member is placing the hold has to at least make that known, if there's bipartisan support in the House and the Executive Branch is on board, I don't expect such a hold to go over very well. This might be one of the few things that both parties agree on and that neither party could really use as leverage against the other in an election year, as the public is starting to get upset across the board about it too.

I've lost my faith in Riddle to make anything good.

I'm just worried that he'll insist that the protagonist is a replicant or something like he did for Blade Runner, when there really isn't that vibe in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. He admitted in an NPR interview that he never read the book before making that movie, so I don't think that he's qualified to make such declarations.

Good. Then it won't accidently time-travel when it's borrowed to attempt to escape from terrorists that are unhappy about their pinball machine...

I suspect that the name is also a bit of an homage to Back to the Future, but given that Musk is of South African origin and didn't move to North America until three years after the movie came out, I'd like to hear it from the horse's mouth to be sure.

It would also make sense that since SI prefixes are fairly well known and since Giga- is the largest that most consumers are familiar with and associate as being large, it's a way for them to name a plant so that it has obvious technological associations, while still allowing for growth (Terafactory, Petafactory) as both the need for manufacturing capacity and the public's understanding of bigger SI prefixes change.

It is; however, responsible for protecting the United States against foreign attackers.

I didn't know those little rockets could reach the coast.

Well, then, that would be an admission that we are slaves to our biology, wouldn't it? Because natural law is all you got.

Which one will the US government assist? Of course when you do the math, the answer becomes clear.

Aren't you one of those who go around proclaiming that "human nature" precludes anything else?

precedence

Yeah yeah yeah...