We don't need 2000 pages for this...

Hmm, seems to be a reference to the ACA. Note that we didn't need 2000 pages for that, either.

Start with "Age of eligibility for Medicare decreases by one year for every 90 days after the date this legislation becomes law".

Then, "All individuals under the age of majority (currently 18 in the USA, last I looked) are eligible for Medicare as of the date this legislation becomes law".

At that point, we're on a 12 year transition to Single-Payer, and everyone should be happy (except possibly the Insurance Companies that bought the ACA).

Multiple technologies are used by mobile comm units in the military. Setting up the Satellite downlink on one side of the cantonment area and using a laser link to transmit to the ops area sure beats laying fragile cable.

Or satellite downlink at a single area and using this to distribute to multiple fire bases. Definitely a win.

Essentially an all-in-one disguised as a tablet. Works as both.

The i3 version is a dog but the i7 version is quite nice.

Ion engines [wikipedia.org] can impart much higher velocities to the "fuel" than chemical rockets

Pedant Mode...ON.

"Fuel" is what produces the energy. "Reaction Mass" is what you push out the back to make thrust. In chemical rockets, they're the same thing, but in ion engines (or NERVA engines), they're not.

I know a lot of guys don't even wear their wedding ring because it's annoying when you're not used to it

Let's see...I think I stopped wearing my wedding ring the first time I had to put that hand into a junction box with some 450V circuits. Reminding myself to remove the ring every time I had to do something similar just seemed a particularly stupid way to live my life, so into a drawer it went, and it's never come back out.

Maybe a legal system where lawyers are funded purely by taxes and still only receive payment for the services rendered?

The coffers of people doing frivolous lawsuits are finite. The amount a lawyer can get doing frivolous lawsuits at government expense are NOT.

In other words, do we really want endless frivolous lawsuits being filed at our expense?

That the Dupont corn is considered tastier thereby, and that yeilds with it being higher mean increased total supply. These factors combine to drive down the price of local variety and make farming it a losing proprosition over time too.

So, the Dupont corn tastes better & produces more edible grain. Enough so that the local competition is a "losing proposition".

And this is bad, why?

Do keep in mind that industrialization pretty much requires that you get some of those farmers out of the fields and into factories. if 80% of your population are growing food, you don't have much left for anything else, and will end up with a population of peasants....

Criticizing a company for getting steep discounts worth millions of dollars on jet fuel from the government

Citation? I didn't notice any mention of "steep discounts".

and then getting a large lease from that same government seems in line with their mission.

"Getting a large lease"? Is that the same thing as "paying the government a lot of money"?

(and Ak...did they declare a winner yet?),

Yes, the winner wasn't a Democrat....

Given the assumption that AGW is an existential crisis, everyone is going to have to reduce emissions to zero in the near term (near being defined as within half a century).

At that point, we'll all be at the same emission level.

Note that if AGW is NOT an existential threat, it's probably not important to bother with landmark agreements that won't accomplish anything meaningful anyway.

There are about 7000 hours in the year, so we get about 500 KWh/m^2/yr.

Closer to 9000 hours per year (8760, 8784 in leap years, 8766 on average).

Which would make your estimate closer to 600 KWh/m^2....

Maybe the NSA? Have them do something useful and since they already have all the video...

In most if not all US jurisdictions, no photo release is required for individuals appearing in a photo/video taken of individuals visible from a public location. Check YouTube, do you think everybody appearing in those videos has signed a release?

Now most commercial agencies will require a photo release if using something commercially because of CYA and lawyers but legally not required.

I've had two CT scans this year.

Compared to that, a maximum of 8 becquerels per ton of seawater is pretty much meaningless.

On the other hand, "@madamemariecurie Fuck you and your science you should have stayed in the kitchen, I'm coming right over to your lab at 37 Rue de Nord, Paris 50123 to murder you and defile your body": that's what we want people in jail for.

Fortunately, that's already a crime.

Problem solved a century ago....