Oops, looks like little Bobby Tables visited their site....

Can you supply audio information at a latter time, and trick the brain into interpreting it as having happened earlier by "context"?

Just in case anyone is gullible enough to believe this without checking, your noble AC above just invented that "fact".

That's because it blocks while waiting on zero point energy. If performance is an issue, you can use /dev/unull instead, if you don't really need high quality nullity.

Government only rises to greatness when faced with an external threat, e.g. war.

Wars not make one great.

That's the bit that you found unrealistic? The 80 hour work week?

Not, for example, the idea of fighting off H1Bs from a 22nd Century space station?

Huh.

This is completely wrong. The Statute of Anne was introduced in 1710, when Johnson was less than one year old. And Johnson was contracted to write the dictionary by a group of London book-sellers who approached *him* for the task.

Did you just try to make a point by beginning with "I read an editorial..."?

Are you ill or something?

I think I'd have to go with the one that doesn't redefine "absorb" to mean "magically disappear".

Oh, I don't. Many people are sincerly good people and are polite with it. You're not one of them. You're weren't looking for the best in someone, you were looking for the worst. You're the Wormtongue of this particular scene and your "Perhaps the latter..." is yet another example of your passive-aggressive crap. No doubt you were "just asking questions". Grow some balls and stop being the worst kind of human being. You could be better if you tried.

Linus Torvalds has produced the Linux kernel.

Whereas you, with your sneaking, sneering faux-politeness...what have you done?

I prefer Torvalds' approach, thanks.

DDT isn't banned for use against malaria. Interesting that you're trying to make our that you're so knowledgable about DDT and yet you didn't even know that...

Yes, really. The wikipedia article on Radiation Pressure explains it fairly. Also have a look at the one on Solar Sails.