You mean expand it to the fraction of the 20% outsourced parts that weren't already being exhaustively tested? Most of those outsourced parts are electronic, because Elon Musk doesn't own a semiconductor factory (yet). All of those electronic parts are tested exhaustively and repeatedly, right up until the literal second of launch, as software verifies sanity in all systems. What's left are things like struts, that should be stupid-simple enough to be trustworthy. And apparently aren't.

So some fraction of a fraction of the parts will need newly exhaustive testing. Not free, but really, it's not that big of a bill.

Probably Bill the Cat with Donald Trump's brain in his head will win.

I figure the Trump campaign is the reason Bloom County is coming back. So much new material, for free.

That was the obvious next study to conduct even before you said that: what, if any, change happens in the rate of hospital visits in zip codes that had no oil drilling at all and now have solely conventional drilling?

The quoted increases of 0.07% and 0.06% for cardiology and neurology visits are so tiny that it's extremely likely to be visible in that case too. It's just industry, and real jobs.

With the notable exception of:

No. Just no.

MUMPS is a language broken by design, if it does that. That's indefensible. And outrageous. And wrong on so many levels. I don't trust any part of the language if the designers thought that was a good idea.

And capitalism is tailor-made to make sure that this always happens. Capitalism is founded on the fundamental premise that owning things is more valuable than doing things. That effectively all of the benefits of the doers should accrue to the owners of capital, because the capital made the doing possible.

Capitalism is tailor-made to make sure that this never happens. The fundamental nature of capitalism makes absolutely certain that those who have capital can easily acquire more, while those who have none can never acquire any.

Hence why you get calls for burning down the system, be it from Marxists, "crypto Marxists" (whatever the hell that is), or what have you. It's not that Marxism specifically is necessarily attractive. It's that the current system is actively hostile to the increased well-being of the vast majority of the population. This is also why you get calls for make-work jobs. If the benefits of increased productivity are never seen by the vast majority of the population, why the fuck should they care if productivity goes up? When increased productivity exclusively benefits 0.1% of the population (to within a rounding error), 99.9% of the population has no vested interest in continuing to increase productivity.

So, redistribution, or just outright destruction.

No one is advocating radically altering the entire global economy because of electron tunneling, either.

If they weren't asking for so damned MUCH of my money, I'd be handing it over. I'd be delighted to have solar panels on my roof. But despite the fact I don't think I can install them safely myself, I also don't believe that it should cost $30,000 to safely install $6,000 worth of panels.

So, take my money. Please. Just... don't rip me off.

Never fear, cold fjord is here! With Astroturf Superpower!

Sometimes the rhetoric just gets away from you, doesn't it...

At least he has a good idea what he did wrong. Whoever tries again will avoid that mistake, at least.

I'm fairly sure Hollywood is physically incapable of portraying a military that operates normally and competently, sci fi or otherwise.

I'd like to see something from Jerry Pournelle reach the big screen. Unfortunately, what's in production right now is based on Janissaries, which is an entertaining book, but a pretty exhaustive cliché these days. I wish they had chosen something from the CoDominion instead. The Sauron Supermen story arc has its own clichés, but it's also got some solid writing.

I guess we'll see what they do with Janissaries. If my thesis is correct, it will be terrible. I don't know if I dare to hope or not.

You left out murder. That is one seriously fucked up movie.

Congratulations girls, you have your very own psychotic anti-heroes now, just like the guys.

It's nothing to be proud of...

Because the world is only borderless if you're a gigantic megacorporation. To everyone else, it's anything but. Shit, an American can't even get into the US from CANADA without a passport anymore. Want to move to Germany and get a job, as an American? Or how about one of the Nordic countries? Good fucking luck. You'll be waiting for your work visa for 3 years, if you're lucky. Unless of course a megacorporation wants it to happen, in which case you'll get it this afternoon. That's assuming you can even afford to move your household across an ocean, which the majority of people can not pay for.

Don't talk to me about borderless.

Funny, but logged in users with good karma don't have to type confirmation codes except under unusual circumstances.

I find it hard to believe that even pictures of specific fat people are generally hurtful or shameful to the person in the picture. Most people have never heard of or read that particular subreddit. I never knew it existed until it got banned. I'm sure it works very much like the People of Walmart site, where the people being mocked are utterly oblivious of the existence of the site.

People still try to treat the Internet as if it's radio or television or newspaper. It's nothing of the sort. Unlike all mass media that went before it, which were push media, the Internet is pull media. It's unique in that respect. If you don't ask for it from the Internet, you will never see it. Whatever 'it' may be. My father uses the Internet every day, but he will never know that fatpeoplehate ever existed. He will never care to find out. As opposed to what happens if ABC in the 1960s decides to mock fat people (more than television already does, which is a LOT), where it's very likely that at least 50% of the population will see it, simultaneously. Those days are long gone, so a whole lot of otherwise objectionable speech is never seen by the people who find it objectionable.