I don't think you know what government mandated monopolies are, understandable as you are American. The monopolies exist because the companies are colluding to not compete, please explain how that makes it "government mandated"? Anyone stupid enough to mark this insightful can feel free to chime in as well.

If people act like the corporations did people would be standing in the middle of crowded streets shooting people in the head while shouting "Lol, standing my ground".

What if a law was passed that said any company presided over by a man named Tim didn't have to pay any taxes provided he did a sexy dance for you?

Oh come on, Civ players are masochists but even they draw the line somewhere.

America has always had a national debt. Might want to check your memory and preconceptions.

Money is Debt, you clearly have no idea how money works

You're on the wrong site, everyone on here knows better than everyone else who ever lived. I wonder if these "professional" mechanical engineers have considered using teams of highly trained monkeys, probably not because of all their book learning preconceptions.

Ah, I see now, that colossal ball of thermonuclear fire doesn't count as an unusually large amount of energy.

I don't know, does it take an unusually large amount of energy to warm something the size of a planet by that much?

I just took a dump on your lunch plate, is that a technical problem for you to solve or would you rather skip lunch?

It would be cheaper at least.

I used Synfig to make some animations and would really recommend it, takes a bit of time to get used to but it's actually pretty great when you get used to it.

Audacity should be competing with Sound Forge and Wavelab, but it hasn't changed in the last 10 years or more and it shows.

I'm sure according to your logic whale oil will soon be feasible again too.

The pope's response seems to be "don't be surprised if you get shot every so often"