You might be right about the VLHC. I think the 100km circumference is meant considering current/near future magnet technologies. AFAIK when designing LHC to fit into LEP they planned for magnets that did not exist at that time. Maybe with a really good advance in magnet tech VLHC can fit inisde LHC tunnel ...

Seriously. Did anyone expect any other result? Money talks everywhere.

Is superbad then better than bad ?

How hard would be for those large companies to just offshore the sales to avoid paying this tax? I mean they are already doing it to dodge other taxes anyway. Wouldn't this just affect smaller shops that do not have an army of lawyers and "tax optimization" specialists.
Fortunately this is US only (for now) but it's a very bad example for other goverments. I can already see other country politicians smiling and thinking: "Hey - we can do that too, right?"

I wonder if Reuters did use google to find it out.

There's very little probability there will be 2 bombs on one plane , right? And I will definitely not detonate mine, therefore making the whole flight safer...

Joke aside. I think if someone is able to take over plane with scissors or box cuttters or whatever else is banned, they will be able to do it without it as well. It just takes a bit more effort. So why bother with such draconian rules? Scan people for IEDs and firearms and that's it. In addition strenghten in-flight security. For example someone trained for close combat in such scenrios will be travelling as part of crew or undercover on every other flight.

Finally a solution for people without any backbone.

Looks like they need moore wheels for teh internetz!

Money talks... Shotsighted decisions for quick profit and cost cuts are "in" these days. But in the end all cuts on wrong places will come back and bite whoever will be in charge. The sad thing is it is already someone else because the one that decided for outsourcing is most probably safe up the ladder for the money he "saved".