well are the overheads designed with those kinds of loads in mind? i said turbulence not a crash. laptop won't take someone's head off... might crush someone's throat, cause a serious concussion if it was moving really really fast. flesh and bone are pretty resilient. also might help if it were aluminum...

13 lbs of laptop falling 2-3 feet won't be pleasant if it lands on your head, but i don't think it'll kill you too easily unless you're unlucky. 50-60 lbs of metal falling 2-3 feet is pretty lethal anywhere near the head.

... the only thing you listed where you are not actually trespassing is your car. everything else is subject to the good will the proprietors.

:) that's right, bringing is a gun into an airplane is no more dangerous than bringing a gun into a school.

As we all know, there have never been any school shootings. ergo, guns on planes are perfectly safe.

i'd be more concerned with turbulence. you're going to stow that chunk of solid metal in the overhead? that thing ever pops out of that bin, and it will kill someone, no might or maybes about it. also, what kind of lunatic would think that that would pass muster?

again, if you want realistic we can go even more realistic. a composting business doesn't need to be huge or even a business to really pollute the air so to speak. i was thinking semi urban for the dance club, but lets just take the key elements of the nightclub. sound and lights. it's christmas time, lets say your neighbor has a true eye sore, animatronic, and lit up like a spot light. Yeah, i'd complain about that. sound, people coming and going at all hours of the day and night, loud as loud can be... basically you're living next to a frat house, with you know unsavory types, because Colorado legalized, it should be legal everywhere... dude. I'd probably complain the hell about that too.

where do you draw the line, you believe that what you were doing was fair and reasonable, and what others perceived about you was unreasonable. but isn't that true about everyone? that lady down the street with the vegatable patch in front. Her lawn basically looks like it was torn up by a tank. That family down the street, they've got a damn couch in the middle of a tick haven. is that fine?

how about the broken windows on that property down the street that went into foreclosure and now the bank owns. it's got squatters now, should nobody take the bank to task?

and his neighbor? He's the worst. he's got litter all over his lawn, a couch and a broken down chevy on cinderblocks in his driveway, he sits on his lawn with a six pack all day and yells obsenities at the neighborhood children. But he owns his house outright, firehazard that it is, he's broken no laws. he's fine in your books isn't he?

you can do whatever you want, but the people in your area have decided that they would prefer that you no let your inner slob out to play. This is what democracy is, if you want any different, convince people that your freedom is more important than their money. not everybody is put out by the constraints. some people don't even view them as constraint.

wow, you're certainly proving your name at the moment.

individually, not much, from a policy perspective a great deal. there's a difference between getting better people and getting the ones you have more help.

thought so too, but compression would change it, and we know nothing of the precision required.

... i just made stuff up until it seemed rightish

Well.. I am not sure it means what he thinks it means.
he must mean that it is similar in that his profession has special wardrobe, and it is difficult to interact with your device or preferable not to with your hands.
anything else would be inconceivable.

you give us some nice remote controlled robots with some nice dexterity, and i'd say people exploration isn't that important. Low latency is also pretty key, as getting directions from earth is a pretty slow thing

farthest reaches, at least marianas style were all about finding different life. everest :) yeah, vanity.

one great thing about people, we're incredibly finicky, need a shit ton of maintenance, yadda yadda yadda, so damn fragile. but we've got these unparalleled manipulators attached to our arms, and don't need constant monitoring from earth. Like, literally, you can build in redundancies sure, but for replacing a lightbulb, tightening a screw, replacing a solar panel, just reacting to when the unexpected happens, people are pretty good.

well, similarly, not much purpose in doing a lot of stuff in space. not much purpose in going to mars at all. no point in going to the top of our world, nor going to the bottom of the ocean. sometimes you don't know what you don't know, but you know how to get a good look at its shadow.

you're citing a phrase from 1870.. you know they were still leeching people back then... and it was a decade after origin of species came out right?

We've also been called the consumer of last resort. so you should probably thank us

the quaint look of a homeless stove. rustic.

http://www.mcall.com/news/brea...

it's more along the lines of risk that the fire will get away from you. and then it's not just your property that's in danger but your neighbors as well.

fine, lets tone down the hyperbole and think of a more suitable example than dogfighting and skunk raising.

your neighbor wants to turn their property into a club or a composting company. noise complaints are an invasion of property rights aren't they? and the smell, the constant smell.

i was trying to inject humor into it, you know, instead of just coming out and just staying you've got pretty shaky stances.

you've got a lot of faith in what your neighbors will and won't do, me i'd rather not risk a significant investment like a house on the good behavior of others. You know, it's not just a "pleasant environment" at risk here, it's also property values because generally that's linked in.