The Democrats believe in social spending with taxes to support it.

No, they don't. They believe in social spending, more every year.

Won't work.

There will be many who fuck up their retirement and have no place to go besides the street.

Upon this happening there will be great hue and cry to rescue these people.

I thought it was more like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOXtWxhlsUg

I had zero issues, technical or otherwise, with FTL.

Still dealing with game killing bugs with Mechwarrior Online...

There is too much work for you, because you've kept good care of your business contacts.

What do you do if you have no business contacts?

Any currency is legit if the two trading parties agree to it.

Interesting. Is that why it's so hard to fire bad Teachers in the US?

I hear stories where the managers have to take the union to court multiple times and are STILL stuck with bad Teachers.

If that was the case, then medical science could only advance by using twins for all test cases.

Basic atomic theory is one of the most important things we've discovered as a species, right behind "Scientific theory".

Both of those are covered, and practiced in Chemistry.

Carrot and stick problem.

However, all the "Incentives" he listed weren't incentives at all, they were just morale boosters.

Getting paid for work completed, that's an incentive to do more work.

Bonuses for completing projects that don't generate more work tickets?

Because only some of the projects are like that. All the Kickstarter projects I contribute to are two categories:

1. Pure charity. I receive nothing beyond helping someone implement a cool project. (Which has value to me.
2. I get one of the items. All game Kickstarters seem to fall into this category.

Best Buy? That company which is in a financial death spiral?

Science requires reproducible results.

Please recreate the Earth and humanity, without the fossil fuel burning, and measure the CO2 levels.

Weapons do the will of their wielder, and nothing more.

To decry weapons in the hands of people, is to say that people cannot be trusted to make their own decisions.

I don't understand how allowing other sites to scrape impacts their business at all?

They charge for the posting right? After that, it doesn't matter.