"At least a "fake drug" with a placebo effect is safe. "

A "fake drug" is NOT safe, rather it is not effective. The danger is that taking your fake drug will often prevent someone from taking real medicine or seeing an actual physician, thus their condition is not resolved, and can even get worse. People can and have died from that kind of thinking.
Then it's also conning sick people out of their money, which you apparently don't care about either.

Yes, medicines have side effects, and there are some pretty scary looking warnings because of the way they have to list all kinds of things that happen during the study even if it was probably unrelated to the drug. Also, there are billions of variations in humans, so there are unexpected and undocumented differences that won't and can't get tested for. For example, my family has a whole list of drug variations for our doctors. Most pain killers are rather weak, and stimulants tend to put us to sleep.

As to complaints, well, you're going to get those. I've talked to someone that blamed her flat tire on the gas she just got when she filled the tank because it was only about 10 minutes later. In her mind, the one preceded the other, so it must be the cause. On top of that, some people will just complain no matter what. I've done plenty of work over the phone, and in the same day with a rather even and polite tone used all day, I've had people accuse me of being too somber, too cheerful, too friendly, and too businesslike. Often just after the opening spiel, so it's not like there's a chance to do anything other than the canned greeting.
Look up anything, and read the complaints. They will be there, even if you were selling the actual magical age reducing waters of the fountain of youth.
*Please note: I'm not saying that any particular complaint is invalid, or that the body of them isn't indicative, just that the existence of complaints is meaningless. It's better if you can judge the volume of product or services used, and then figure out the quantity of valid complaints to figure out a relative prevalence. I said valid complaints because some people will be very vocal, others will just parrot second or third hand anecdotes, and then there's the nutjobs that have no idea what they're talking about, like the lady that blamed the flat tire on getting gas.

By the way, smart move to talk to your doctor, and it's too bad that you apparently had a negative response to a medication. You did the right thing with that. (Now if I could just get certain stubborn friends of the family to act as sensibly as you did in your incident.)

It's a con. A newer version of the old snake oil routine with less song and dance but more fancy looking brochures and official looking pretty labels.

Going the homeopathic route to "treat" a medical issue is wasting valuable time and money while allowing a condition to worsen when it should be taken of by an actual physician with real medicines. People suffer and risk death doing this. If you were bleeding to death from a huge gash, would you be better off applying direct pressure and going to the hospital, or pouring a vial of water that a knife had been waved at over the wound?

As to regulating it, well, medicines are regulated and are required to be safe and to work. Homeopathic "remedies" most certainly do not work, so they will fail the test, as they have failed in so many tests of the efficacy. Of course, if they stop making claims of curing things, then they can drop off the radar as simple "lifestyle supplements", but then their profits will also tank as virtually nobody will buy water that's massively overpriced and no longer makes extraordinary claims of miracle cures.
Come to think of it, even selling water that is intended for human consumption is regulated by the FDA.

No matter how you look at it, bilking people out of their money and risking their health and lives through false promises and outright lies is not something that is acceptable.

1) You still can't breath in that environment.
2) It's significantly more expensive than any of those. It has to hold what amounts to passenger vehicles in a very low pressure atmospheric internally, while said vehicle zooms along at HIGH speed. This takes a lot more engineering, material, skill, and precision than any old pipeline.
3) I don't know what the numbers actually are, but the increased speed is in many ways like increasing mass since the kinetic energy involved is not exactly small. You know, that whole mass x velocity gig...
4) And if they solve the problems, and actually get it built, it should be awesome. So long as they actually solved the problems and didn't just handwave them.
5) All early designs need improvement, but which original design are you referring to? The one musk unveiled, or the one published way back in the 30s or 40s?

Optimism is great, unless the optimist is your engineer, then he's going to get people extremely dead at some point.

It's best to work out as many bugs and solve as many issues as possible before spending the money on building hardware, even test hardware.

You've obviously never had to do vacuum experiments in science class before.

The test tube is 4' diameter, not the plans for a real one. Think of it as a working scale model, where the real one isn't so tiny.

Of course you can, but due to the volume of the tube that has to be filled, it's going to take a lot of time, unless you want a hollywood style idiot caused disaster.
Now if you can seal off discrete sections of the tube, you can reduce that volume, but those kinds of emergency seals will be expensive mechanisms to install, so don't expect there to be very many of them, so you are probably still dealing with a LOT of volume, just not an absurd volume.
Now it would probably be a lot safer and faster to use frequent emergency access ports that can lock onto a pod and airlock open just like at the stations, but that assumes you can get the pod to such a point rapidly.

All in all, it's a neat idea, just like it was when they published it way back in the 40s. (I forget whether it was popular mechanics, or popular science.) But it still has plenty of issues, and dealing with emergency situations isn't even the first in line. (Like how do you make a full sized track at a length of a hundred miles or more that is torn apart or otherwise caused to leak unacceptably due to geological movement, not just from quakes, but also from thermal expansion and even the sun tide. Half a meter every day in some places isn't something for an engineer to sneeze at, especially when they want to try and maintain a near vacuum in a giant metal noodle in those conditions. )

Only in the aspect that you have a whole lot LESS applicants to interview.
On the other hand, there are a LOT of far more capable programmers out there that are excluded because they haven't wasted time learning your internal language that's pretty much only applicable if you already work for them.

In other news, NASA has developed a new language this year to make communicating with Martians easier. If you'd like to submit an application, please be aware that they require fluency in their new language along with 6 years usage with actual Martians. :P

"Some of the mice have lived as long as a day after the operations according to Ren and he hopes to have similar success with primates."
Really? He'd better get survival rates down to something close to normal lifespans before he moves up to primates or he's an idiot.
I wonder if he's even bothered to look at the old Soviet attempts at this. With that short "survival" duration, I highly doubt it.

There was a particular well known mobster that they could only nail for tax evasion. When they want to get you, they often find a way.
The big question is if the charges they are trying to prosecute on are prosecutable charges. If so, that's what they are trying to convict him of, even if they'd love to be able to add the other charges that they haven't added because they don't meet the requirements to charge him for.

I've heard there are places where it is illegal to pay blackmail. It's a kind of disincentive to get people to not cooperate with blackmailers. When the criminals know their money making crimes will most likely not make them anything, they are far more reticent in doing those crimes. On the other hand, you pay those low lifes, they'll often just keep doing it over and over. Just look at Mexicos revolving door kidnapping economy. It's so common, companies have funds set aside to pay for it.

Yes, something awful will happen, some unnamed person from a three letter agency won't be able to peruse your porn while he's at work. :P

Don't forget that Avengers:Age of Ultron is still in theaters, and Mad Max opened the same time. Too much known competition for an unknown property unless it's something that will totally blow peoples minds, which are exceedingly rare.

"Jet" can be, and has been, applied to a lot of technologies, but there's no way that NASA could even try to develop it on their budget. So far we haven't even gotten a manned mission to Mars, so one to Alpha Centauri, or any other star system, is pretty much a moot point.
For now it's just science fiction until somebody will lay apply the necessary resources.

Wrong Ramjet
Try checking out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet

He was making a game reference you racist troll.