A new standard has been set. Now I will demand a cat/cow analogy every time. Seriously this makes it clear why this is neat, at least to me it did.

That is why I don't play politics either, and yes I do document everything. For me it has saved my ass from stupid customers a number of times.

Not quite. If you want to play office politics everyone is you enemy, just play them all off against each other so you don't have to deal with them.

Might I make a suggestion here. I would go for them to be either to be drawn and quartered, or crucified. I would settle for just having them executed and their head placed on a pike as a warning to future generations though. Although we do seem to have a suitable pike already in DC so that would seem to be a lower cost option.

I suggest:
cat /dev/urandom | nc nsa.gov 25
and:
cat /dev/urandom | nc nsa.gov 80

Well it gives us 2 day to contact our Senators and have them not listen to us. If you want to know who supported it you can find it here. I guess my 2 senators Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar really don't want people to keep their freedoms and want various agencies to take clearly unconstitutional actions like issuing general warrants. Maybe they need some public shaming so it will be clear that they want to take your freedoms away.

Well I was referring to the ones who in 8th grade were the little druggies so I doubt it was a lack of jobs at that point. They continued to be druggies throughout high school and if they can currently hold down a job it is a minimum wage one, like working the drive through window or working as an oil change monkey at Valvoline Instant Oil change. A number of them ended up in jail as well, and a few even ended up dying in car crashes when they were strung out. The point being that their destructive behavior started long before they entered the job market.

Hmm, my mistake - the ramjet does appear to predate Doctor Bussard considerably - clearly my avionics history is lacking.

On the other hand, Arthur C. Clarke credits "L'Autre Monde: ou les États et Empires de la Lune" (1657) as both being the first example of rocket-powered space flight and for inventing the ramjet. Though I would imagine they probably discussed something similar to a conventional ramjet, fusion having not yet been imagined. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramjet#Cyrano_de_Bergerac)

No, it's been shown that one particular hypothetical design based on one particular set of assumptions would not be viable. Not that the fundamental concept is flawed. There's a post a few pages up that gives more details.

No, I'm pretty sure it's the other way around - there's now a real jet which adopted the name of a theoretical fusion engine that had been designed decades before.

Immortality is only available to individuals who have been permanently sterilized before having children. Your choice - you can strive for immortality personally, or through your children, but not both.

Of course enforcement would be an issue...

Nope. Cosmic radiation is pretty much continuous. What's (relatively) rare is the ridiculous high-energy radiation, such as a single photon carrying mass-energy equivalent to an entire iron atom. Our planet is still presumably getting bombarded by them near constantly, but they're rare enough that it's uncommon for them to hit the few particle detectors we have capable of recording them.

Actually, I believe current research suggests that there may be a link between cosmic rays and cloud formation - it's actually one of the current areas of genuine controversy in climate science. The caveats being:
1) The effect is relatively small - to the point of being virtually invisible until you have modeled the many stronger influences with sufficient precision.
2) It has nothing to do with Global Warming, as the direct measurements of cosmic ray levels have been basically unchanged in recent decades.

Of course, the link between clouds and temperature is even less straightforward. As I recall the research suggests there is only a very small effect on average temperatures, though there is a dramatic effect on the diurnal variation - cloud cover tends to stabilize temperatures, causing slower heating during the day, but also slower cooling at night.

Nah, there needs to be an intelligent species present at both ends of the desired wormhole in order to coordinate its creation. So far no such species exists in the Sol system.

Ah. Of course. Absolutely. Nice catch. I look forward to the day when high-capacity flywheels become cost-competitive with chemical batteries. But I'm not holding my breath.