And that business model is clearly not even part of their problems. Clearly. The government should give them our money because we aren't giving enough of it to them.

This is what I was going to say. "Is there some sign that says 'good guys only' that stops bad guys from using it too?"

1) A jury-like panel of practitioners to judge obviousness.

It should, perhaps, be noted that a lot of things are obvious AFTER they've been invented.

NO doubt there are some that were also obvious before they were invented too, but it's by no means the same set of things....

The old "you can't yell fire in a crowded movie house" comes to mind.

The proper quote is "you can't FALSELY yell fire in a crowded theatre".

Pay close attention to that extra word - it's important....

Democrats are far more likely to have no valid ID

What, Democrats don't drive?? And can't be bothered to get the DL-equivalents that every State offers for non-drivers to use as ID?

consider that the Apple Watch is just the start of wearing things around your wrist. .

And here I thought the cellphone was the END of wearing things around my wrist....

Unless something is done about the population growth

Absent immigration, population growth in the US is negative.

Ditto Europe.

And China.

India isn't quite there yet, but their population growth rate has been steadily declining for most of my life.

In other words, the Third World is the only place where population growth is an issue today. So, yes, we do have the resources....

Nothing in your agreement with the ISP requires them to peer with the people you want them to peer with, at the capacity you want them to have.

And nothing in the net neutrality rules requires your ISP to peer with the people you want them to peer with, at the capacity you want them to have.

The operational phrase being "at the capacity you want them to have"....

All of these recent failues (including the U.S. ones) give some insight into the Apollo program's amazing success (except for 13) in the U.S.

Umm, Apollo had two failures (1 & 13). Out of 17 Apollos (not all of which carried crew). So a failure rate of 11% or so....

As opposed to Shuttle's failure rate (two shuttles of 133 flights) of 1.5%.

Admittedly, Soyuz also had two failures, of 117 flights (as I recall - could be off by a few), which amounted to a failure rate of 1.7% or so.

Oh, look! Shuttle had a lower failure rate than either Apollo or Soyuz! How is that possible?!

You're thinking of the Associated Press that's doing all the work in that situation.

I totally don't dispute that.

You're right, although he grew up Catholic, so I expect he gets the concept.

To wit, New Pope is a Jesuit and worked as a chemical engineer.

They weren't against free thought or free exchange in general. They were against free thought and free exchange when it dealt with theological matters. The early colleges and universities were started by them.

There's obviously going to be some conflict over "theological matters" when the Universities you found are uniformly staffed with clerics in all departments. Note many of these "scientific" or philosophical conflicts tended to arrogate with theology. All of the science faculty at the University of Paris were trained scholastics and din't for second see any conflict with science and, say, Thomist natural theology, which is in fundamental opposition to the scientific method and the interpretation of empirical knowledge.

It could also be difficult to have any political argument in these places, since the Church was not just a Church but also a state, in alliance with many of the countries of Europe against others, either due to the schism or the Reformation, and voicing a political opinion not in accord with Vatican policy on, say, the excommunication of Urban VI by Clement VII could get you kicked out of your job, or worse.

his unfortunate habit of insulting a medieval absolute monarch.

As I said, freethought and free exchange of ideas. Note also that his "insult," substantively, was attempting to publish his works.