Someone should call estoppel on patent trolls. Not enforcing a patent when they could, in full knowledge that it is being used, is deceptive, as it is good grounds for others to assume they don't have the patent. Therefore to enforce the patent now would be in bad faith, yada yada. I am not a lawyer, nor do I know any lawyers, or anyone who knows a lawyer, but I do know some big words. So there is a good chance this won't work.

That would cause a change in momentum of the entire system while travelling. Citation for this "little loophole"?

BTW it would be more like: use initial force to accelerate, reach destination, use reaction force to decelerate and stop, since you are still moving when you reach your destination.

Accidentally or deliberately?

"Democracy in Iran" has nothing to do with fingerprinting, datamining and facescanning in the regime JoshuaZ lives in. The US is not the world, remember?

You know, writing that you expect people to mod you offtopic/troll/flamebait doesn't necessarily make you not any of those things...

Repercussions? What repercussions? That's what protection is for...
Or do you mean the repercussions of someone (FBI?) finding out and thinking it's their business to ruin someone else's life?
Just guessing here.

It's called the drive to survive.

If Microsoft was a human being, I'd hate to imagine what he would look like. (A terrorist? A lawyer? I don't know which is more likely)

If you feel all the "data and analysis" is too biased to make an opinion from, then I would guess that it is not sufficient evidence. ie. A murderer standing over the corpse holding a bloody knife, pointing at a random person walking past and saying "he did it" is not sufficient evidence to conclude that said random person is the murderer, due to bias. IOW you fit GP's definition, assuming your analysis of the bias-ness of the situation is correct.

You forgot "(S, H) = Oops, the warming destroyed the ecology our agriculture and horticulture was based on, and the world economy collapsed due to famine."

By the way money isn't some magic 'gold' we can use to buy supplies from conveniently placed NPCs in the next village. We buy stuff from each other. If everyone "saved billions of Dollars, Euros, Yuan and Rubles" then all you've got is a slower economy. If the amount of money actually increased somehow all we would get is an equivalent increase in the price of goods to compensate.

Ooh, I wish I could smell religion...

Does the fact that the sky is blue mean I can refuse to hire people with green eyes?

If we applied the death penalty, would it be justice? All we'd have is two dead people instead of one.

Conan: "Uhh, this isn't the sort of multiplication I was looking for."
Priest: "Shut up, I'm busy."
Conan: "Listen, maths is important! You have no idea of the technology the ancients had!"

...

Conan: "Oh, for God's sake. What's the point..."

I don't think light speed works like that. Wait, where are you going? Come back!

...Damn. Well. See you.. later, I guess...