Well, regulations and the possibility of rent control being added to new construction properly scares away investors.

Politicians want you to build for them to take the pressure of limited housing off them, but also want the factional brownie points rent control and hyper-needless environmental impact analysis brings.

I say let the politicians rot in their own festering stew. California eased up on barriers to electrical plant construction after their running brownouts brought on by same.

Sovereign to within the limits of the people-created constitution, that is. Assuming there is one, as parliamentary systems are more vox populi vox dei.

This is upside down. The elected government is sovereign, and derives its necessary powers from the consent of the people.

The correct way to change a government's course is by electing new people. Did the people of Holland appoint a judge to overlord the elected government?

Samsung: You're terrible programmers!

Microsoft: No, you are terrible programmers!

Kids, kids, you'really both terrible.

Sofia Vergara: Yay! It unsendided!

Capitalism can solve it.

Shove it in a landfill and let robots sort it out in 100 years.

And no, we are not running out of landfill room. It's only a NIMBY problem.

It's possible strawberries taste like beetle wings rather than beetle wings taste like strawberries.

Many flavors you like probably evolved in response to various insects back in the primate days and earlier, back to the vole things that survived the dinosaurs.

Bacon tastes like worms, not worms like bacon. Or whatever that is. X 1000 flavors.

In decision theory, a partitioning algorithm that guesses 100% of a population is in one group, and is right 98% of the time, is in one sense a very good algorithm. It's useless for sorting, but it is very accurate.

I am fine with assuming the vast majority of people, and their lawyers, in this type of situation are useless leeches looking to get pay-ay-aid to go away.

Do you seriously think you would have an octocore Galaxy S6 in your hand if it were all government?

Go look up a Trabby car, as governments tried to keep up with the free west. And if not for the west, they wouldn't have even bothered.

I can handle Government Should Do More types, who look to safety and safety nets and such, but your type is found exclusively in cloistered areas of the free west.

Here's a recent Radiolab on CRISPR

Sliding DNA into dynamic storage locations your body uses to flag viruses for destruction, for other uses like recognizing and killing cancer, or performing DNA surgery, might be.

D&D Doctor: "Some people are doing +STR or +CHA or +CON, but most males are taking +PNS."

This does not stop the UK from allowing private backups and copies -- many EU states* do. This is a violation of EU regulations, where, if such copying is allowed, there must be compensation from government.

This typically takes the form of an extra blank CD or DVD tax, or tax proportional to the memory size of the device (bigger can hold more copying.) Presumably direct payments taxed some other way are also acceptable.

But sorry, welcome to...

* The United States of Europe! All mere States shall be broken to the saddle of the Federal Government. Muahahahahaha

or you get only Taylor Swift and Kardashian search results.

My god. I work on mannequins and you have no idea how bad it is when I search for "silicone butts"!

Slashdot's mostly non-tech stories have been left-wing outrage disasrerbation fodder for more than a decade now. Get over yourself.

There, i fixed that for you - you are welcomed!

There, i fixed that for you - you are welcomed!