Is there any sort of eye protection for laser weapons like this that can be made inexpensively, for use by protesters and the like?

Something less unwieldy than welding glass, perhaps tuned to the laser's spectrum?

Was his plan for the Human Colonization and Exploitation of Space https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space a realistic one, given the new things we've learned in various fields of research over the last 50 years?

Has anyone come up with a better long term plan for either Colonization or Exploitation?

I still haven't seen any overwhelming evidence that global warming is real. Just a lot of hot air from talking heads and religious pseudo-science "true-believers".

Any actual proof that isn't bought-and-paid-for or biased by one side of the debate or the other?

"The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy."
-John Jay, 1st Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court 1789

A small Pamphlet called "Citizens Rule Book, A Palladium of Liberty, Bill of Rights, Jury Handbook" Has the rights and responsibilities of a juror all laid out. I suggest everyone find a copy.

The U.S.A. and several other first world nations (to my knowledge) have policies in place preventing crops from being grown at maximum production rates/acreage.

I'm under the impression that first world nations (U.S.A., Britain, Japan, etc) have a near flat population growth curve. It is the up-and-coming third world nations that encourage massive overpopulation (China, Africa, India, etc).

If these nations cannot produce enough food to feed their own populations, let them starve and their societies collapse. Problem solved. Darwinism at it's finest, and it keeps the first world nations in a social/cultural position of preeminence.

As an alternative, repeal the policies keeping first world farms from producing the wanted crops and selling them to anyone who wants to buy. However, that would require Politicians to admit there was something they or their predecessors screwed up. Good Luck!

As a side note, China doesn't need too much help reaching a Malthusian solution. Check the male to female ratio in China. http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/03/14/sex-selection-china-india.html
People this irresponsible frighten me.

"Peer-to-Peer Software enables Piracy in the same manner that Automobiles enable Smuggling."

Would someone inform me of what changes to make regarding stopping the plugin from redirecting traffic every 15 pages? Or even provide a link to a version of the plugin that doesn't do that?
http://mafiaafire.com/wall-of-text.php#s

I quit using Yahoo back in the day because it impinged on my give-a-damn. Too many ads, not enough do-what-I-want simply, quickly, or silently. Google's bare bones front page was exactly what I wanted in a search engine.

Is there any sort of replacement for Google in that same vein? A bare bones search engine I can set as my home page and expect not to be impinged on by irritants like someone else deciding what I may search for?

Also, does it mean anything for the non automated search function of Google's HTTPS feature?

Could you use the scalability of fractal images as a map in this manner?
By my understanding, this would give you random numbers depending on your "depth" and x/y coordinates.

...who hasn't updated since April 1st and doesn't use the PSN service, what does Sony banning users mean to me? Absolutely nothing. I owe these people nothing. I owe Sony nothing. If Sony has a problem with me using this knowledge to my own personal benefit, tough luck jack. I lost any inclination I had to buy from them EVER again on April 1st. I had been a fairly loyal customer up to that point (Sony TV, DVD player, etc...).

An approach to space exploitation (and thus exploration) has been known for decades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space

Gerard K. O'Neill wrote this book decades ago, and I see no reason to deviate from the basic plan described within.

Sounds like some companies are lobbying for the burden of verification to be put on the consumer, not the provider. Like Verisign (et al) in reverse.

I like things the way they are now, because I don't have to provide an explicit identification to anyone I don't need to.

You can't plot the weather here on Earth more than 3 days from now accurately, but you expect us to believe you can plot the sun's weather 2 years from now?

I call BS.

Presumably the ones who bought it, they aren't outlawing DVRs.

I thought it was Liberal party not Libertine party?