It's 67. Have you considered having an informed opinion?

I just read the about page. You're suggesting a search engine by a tin foil hat wearing anti-vaxxer that promotes "alternative" medicine? No wonder you're anonymous.

Dude, the "cultural divide" between the Republicans and Democrats is the distraction. We are kept busy screaming at each other over stupid, ideological bullshit rather than working to make things better for everyone (except the oligarchs that run the circus.)

I like the idea. But I fear the implementation. The introduction video on the home page makes me think they should have called it agentmulder.com...

Yes. ISIS is not a serious threat to the US. For all their saber waving and demonizing of the US, they are part of an Islamic/political civil war that we are (once again) sticking our nose into. It's not like we care about the brutality of Sharia Law. Saudi Arabia officially sanctions beheading their own citizens, as do many of our "friends" in the region. So we're there for oil. But the Saudi's and many other fortunes rely on being able to sell oil. We should let them take responsibility for "stability in the middle east" and stop meddling. We're bad at it and it's time to face the fact.

Yes, I'm OK with the government banning the sale of food prepared in people's asses. I am not OK with the government preventing people from preparing their own food in their ass. Understand the difference?

You are free to eat all the transfats you want. You are not free to sell food made with transfats to the general public. Just as you are free to sit at home and eat your own feces and drink urine. But the Nanny State won't let you sell food made with (more than a few parts per million) of feces or urine. I'm OK with that.

I am not aware of a law preventing you from eating all the transfats you want. Just as there is no law preventing you from eating sawdust, or plastic. The FA (focus children!) is about regulating the sale of foods made with transfats, not about you choosing to go out of your way to eat them. As for Croissants, they are legal to eat. They are legal to make. You can't sell them if you used transfats to make them. Understand yet?

Drug policy is a shambles and a different topic. Large drinks, that law was overturned. But even that "absurd" law didn't make it illegal to pour a two liter coke into a bucket and drink it. Just to sell it to the general public pre-poured into a bucket.

Flame bait? Seriously? I don't agree that our society is unsustainable, but that's a point for discussion not modding into oblivion. Of course I believe that the way to sustain our society is through recognizing the costs of pollution, deforestation, and the massive release of green house gasses into the atmosphere and using regulation and tax incentives. Blasphemy on this site, I know. And the way to get to sane regulation is to make our government more transparent and to make a constitutional amendment that corporations are not people. People are people and should have rights. Corporations are legal fictions that don't have a natural death and can't be punished.

As for the haters of regulation, we ran that experiment (and sadly are getting ready to run it again.) US rivers were polluted to the point that nothing lived in them. We had "smog days" when we were advised against going outside and exerting ourselves. Rivers caught on fire. I lived through this shit and it saddens me to see people think of it as "the good old days." Of course Libertarians have a solution to that. "Private ownership." So who gets to own the atmosphere? The ocean? Who gets to own the rivers, lakes, aquifers, glaciers (while they last), and rainforests?

Bad regulation sucks. Over regulation sucks. No regulation sucks too. Regulation is like code. Code bloat is bad but the solution is not "no code." The solution isn't "throw it all out and start again" either. The solution is iterative improvement based on real world feedback and improved transparency.

Follow the link in his signature. Extreme Christian Libertarian/Anarchist. I wish there was an island-continent for everyone that believed as he does. Honestly, I'd love to watch that experiment play out as long as I didn't have to participate. Too bad Australia is already twice spoken for.

There's always your lover.

You are free to eat it. You are not free to put it in food sold to the general public. Is it so hard to understand the difference between those two scenarios? Is it so hard to understand that with the benefits of civilization come certain responsibilities to the other members of that civilization?

Wrong. Google recently invested $900 million in SpaceX specifically to develop a satellite based Internet backbone. All these articles saying Google abandoned satellite constellations are by people that don't know what they are talking about. SpaceX intends to use less expensive, shorter lived satellites. Yes their orbits will naturally decay. That is a feature, not a bug, for SpaceX. They will constantly replenish with newer, cheaper, better satellites. Google decided that it made more sense to support SpaceX's efforts rather than develop it on their own. They believe is economically viable and have placed a substantial bet on SpaceX succeeding.

There is nothing cloak and dagger going on and no strong arming. Iridium is in the satellite handset business. SpaceX is building a satellite based Internet backbone. Google and Fidelity have invested a billion dollars in SpaceX specifically to develop the LEO constellation and SpaceX has opened an office in Seattle and is hiring people to develop the satellites. Google gets access to a satellite based Internet backbone that will help expand access to the developing world, without having to develop it themselves. SpaceX gets a recurring income source to fund it's R&D. Iridium is irrelevant to the deal.

P.S. Iridium would not delay launches as a threat to SpaceX. Delayed deployment is delayed income. SpaceX doesn't "need" to strong arm Iridium, they have a backlog of over 50 launches.