Wrong. It would be one of the most effective ways to inspire interest in kids of STEM. Far more than $10B will be flushed down STEM oriented programs for kids that are far less effective.

Not to mention the technological spinoffs that will benefit people. Clue: You are greatly benefiting from the original space race as you are reading this.

Other than inspire a generation's interest in math, science and engineering? Other than the dual use of much of the technology that will be developed for the space program?

Both of these things were major benefits of the original space race and you are materially benefitting from both at this very moment.

Note the game is under development. Those frame rates will probably not last as more code gets added to the game. Eventually new code will be getting discarded or optimized to get the frame rate up to 60fps.

Also, it may be 300fps on a developer's system with the latest card/chipset AMD has to offer. If may be 60fps on the type of hardware consumers actually have.

As a single guy in my late 30s, I would bang a 70-year old if I got 300k a year for it.

There's also a problem with liquefaction. Most of Victoria and Vancouver (in BC) are built on soft earth which will become mud and will stop supporting the stuff we've built. All those foundations, bridges, streets, they'll all become impassable. There's a liquefaction map I saw at an engineering presentation and the whole thing was red and black. Victoria is literally built on landfill garbage right next to the ocean. One of its landmark buildings, the Empress Hotel, was slowly sinking until it had a major refurb to drive piles down as far as they could reach.

Vancouver is the biggest port for exporting all of Canada's wheat, lumber, ore, etc. If it shuts down, people could be starving for work and food all over the world. It's not all bad though, because EA North would cease to exist. However, greater Vancouver is where most of BC's engineers live and work. We're your experts in fixing up after an earthquake, and most of us would probably be gone.

It's going to be bad when it hits. The upside is that most people here have earthquake kits, emergency supplies, ninja reflexes (we do earthquake drills) and have some idea that it will in fact happen.

The US economy flourished because it had just modernized during World War II and many other industrial nations had their economies wrecked during the war. Plus US industry was heavily "subsidized" by the government financed reconstruction of many of those countries devastated by war.

When making such comparisons always keep in mind the caveat of the statistician and economist, "all other things being equal". In the 1950s they were not.

Whether or not people choose to follow a course is not evidence of whether or not it would solve the problem.

Ranked-choice does not change the fact that it is necessary to vote out of misbehaving incumbents even if they are from your own party. Whether you are voting for 1, 2 or 3 *other* candidates you still have to deny a vote to your party's candidate, that your vote has to be punitive.

Apple recalled millions of their original iPhone/iPod touch chargers. The small 5W USB adapter, they were a fire hazard. They still use the design, last I checked they still put the little green dot on them that differentiated the later safer models from the original hazardous models.

I hate driving, and I'll avoid it if I can. I prefer to bike, walk, or if it works, run.

I used to run to work once a week, and it would take me about 40 minutes. (Yes, I'd shower at work.) I'd bus home and it would take me 45-55 minutes to get home by bus. Yes, it took longer to bus home than it did to run in. T2 moment: "I can get out and run faster than this!".

Add to that the erratic bus schedule, the chance of missing the bus, or getting passed by the driver, or whatever. Taking the bus is awful.

Except that there are multiple currencies and not all currencies are equal. The supreme currency is the vote of the citizen, it determines whether one gets into office, stays there, or is removed. The vastly inferior currency is the favor trading among peers in the House or Senate that will not save a politician from the wrath of voters.

You guys used to have a great train system. The biggest users were minorities, poor people, immigrants, ethnic groups, hell, even LGBTQA.

Typical Americans and their attitudes... made you dismantle it.

Everything has a price. It is a Darwinian process. For candidates to be shown that serving the people is the path to future office and serving special interests is the path out of office they must see that party loyalty will not save them. They must fear that their party members **will** vote for the unattractive less favored opponents in response to bad behavior.

You are essentially arguing to vote for a party platform, essentially excusing a office holder's bad behavior. That is exactly what is happening now and why candidates are essentially free to serve the special interests of the party rather than the people.

There is no magic bullet, no cost free solution.

In 2014 House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his seat in the Republican primary to economics professor David Brat.

Your argument is severely flawed. That corporate job is a consolation prize that offers little of the things the politician sought by gaining office. Power chief among these. Politicians want to be leaders not minions, even a well paid minion.

Only to inform naive apathetic minds, and these people only have a disproportionate power because so many of those who do care take themselves out of the game by party loyalty. Exception, NRA and AARP members. They care about their issues, show up to vote, and are not loyal to a party; and as a results they have enormous power. These organizations show the secondary status of money, delivering votes is far more powerful than delivering money.