and if the government wanted to start up a tax funded competitor to my business, I would be fighting that tooth and nail too.

are you a communist?

is that what communism is really like?

in any given currency there may be diminishing returns, but there are an infinite number of potential digital currencies

decompression speed is unimportant for general purpose compression, it is either adequate or not adequate, if deompression speed is not adequate it does not matter how well it scores on other metrics it is unusable for your use case, if decompression speed id adequate, it really does not matter if it's just barely adequate or insanely fast.

how many wifi routers do i need to buy in order to qualify as an ISP?

if the government really wants what is on your disk, they will put you in a small cage until you give up the keys, if they REALLY want it you will take a trip to an officially nonexistant location and find out what successively higher and higher voltage across your genitals feels like until you give up the key, or die.

If it would get some more cash for NASA to do real science independent of the nitwits we call Congress I'd put up with it...

because google potato'd the security

Couldn't NASA find a generous corporate sponsor to shell out some $$$ to have their name on the side of a building or rocket ?
Stupid companies pay for namespace on sports facilities why not take advantage of the side of the gantry.

Recycling, and re-using are great but that assumes the water is there to be used and re-used in the first place. The Colorado river doesn't even reach the gulf anymore without artificial aid.
 

Been meeting with the same group for more than 30 years now on Saturday night. I started playing the when the 1st red-book with crayons came out, I was like in 6th grade, and yes I still have the boxed set and nearly EVERY other book, module, and accessory. I'm 46 now and NO other form of RPG online or other can compare to the fun and comradeship of a face to face pen and paper RPG. More imagination, more interaction, and for those of you who doubt it is family fun, our group consists of 2 single ladies, 3 single guys, 2 married couples all my relative age (mid 40's) and 3 much younger players in their mid 20's ( 2 guys and a girl. We have 3 players who rotate as Game Master and we play in a long standing organically customized world. We have been at several Gen-Cons and we ran a full tourney game that was very successful several years ago.
Long live D&D

arm the character with eyelasers (pew pew pew)

Religion and Nationalism are just flip sides of the same coin.

Neither is evil per-say; in fact both can be quite admirable; but they enable evil.

Yeah, my bad. You are on the money there; I should really have said: .. Nationalism: currently the single biggest excuse for evil on this planet.