I thought everyone knew that Iraq had no WMDs (yes, chemical weapons are WMDs), so how could our soldiers be injured by chemical weapons in Iraq?

Likewise, we don't have to worry about ISIS capturing any chemical weapons in Iraq, since Iraq had no WMDs, therefore no chemical weapons....

and learned that the fast neutrons cause neutron activation, creating often long-lived radioactive isotopes of what they hit

Or non-radioactive isotopes. Or short-lived radioactive isotopes. Or fission (yes, you can do fission with fast neutrons, it's just inadvisable). Just depends on what they hit.

So yes, every nuclear reactor that thinks and sooner later gets breached: is a ecologic disaster. And YOU certainly would not like to live close to it or be depending on fish fished there.

I'm curious as to how a fusion reactor can be an ecological disaster.

Yeah, the fuel will spread all over the ocean, but the fuel is hydrogen, so it's not like we're going to notice a few kg extra hydrogen in an ocean that is 1/9th hydrogen.

The fusion byproducts are tritium (again, hydrogen), and helium (chemically inert, and part of the atmosphere).

The shell? It might get irradiated. But slightly radioactive iron isn't really a meaningful disaster, unless you've managed to stick a megaton or so of iron into the 500 cubic feet of that reactor (hmm, 7 foot by 10 foot. Wonder if that's seven feet in diameter and ten tall, or seven feet tall and ten in diameter?). Hint: a million tons of iron won't fit into that volume....

This disease prays on

Yet another reason to be down on religion, if even Ebola is praying....

Not yet.

Wait for the first one case not related to a previously known case, or the hundredth case, whichever comes first.

The IRS would probably see that as tax avoidance.

Which is legal, so that's not an issue.

Note that what all these companies everyone here loves to hate are doing is also legal....

And when Ireland changes its rules so it's no longer advantageous to be based out of Ireland, they'll move HQ to elsewhere, and Ireland will be out some tax dollars that won't be much by US standards, but might be a lot by Irish standards (or not)....

Anecdotally, I occasionally play EQ and EQ2 (yes, there really are players of EQ2 still out there). As does my wife.

More than half my guildies in EQ2 are women (we use voice chat a lot, if you're planning on asserting that they only claim to be women). The GM's include two Grandmothers. And (some of) their children are in guild. As are a grandchild or two...

EQ was fairly bad at putting the female characters in "slut-mail"

Yah, that always annoyed me. One of the reasons I started doing EQ2 was that I could avoid that sort of armour for my female characters (about half of them, in each of EQ1 and EQ2)

Realistically we need some kind of transaction layer tax system that captures at point of sale.

So, in your example (If I purchase something from Amazon, while in New Zealand, with my UK credit card, shipped to my Aussie address.), where, exactly, is the "point of sale"? New Zealand? Australia? Wherever the Amazon billing department processes your credit card? Wherever the product was packaged up for shipping to you?

And why?

Thank you.

I doubt I will see a Mars landing. I didn't see Moon landing live since I was born too late! :(

I don't expect to live long enough to see a Mars landing, though SpaceX might surprise me...

I *did*, however, see the Moon landings live. All of them.

there are a number of well documented cases of aircraft ditching and people inflating life-jackets inside the aircraft and people needlessly ending up drowned.

Citation?

I can't recall ever seeing that in a description of an airplane accident, but I don't read about all of them....

the states just seed control

Cede. Try not to write words you've never seen in print.

That still doesn't explain sending him home with antibiotics for what looked like a viral infection

Antibiotics to deal with secondary infections resulting from a viral illness aren't exactly unusual. Nor are they necessarily medically wrong.

Umm, your quote uses the phrase "state law". The ACA, which makes that whole pre-existing condition thing illegal is FEDERAL law.

Might want to check up on Supreme rulings about the primacy of Federal law....

That's more than 3X the rate of the Spanish flu of 1918 that killed... a third of the western world or some damn thing.

Well, if 3% is 1/3, then you're right.

Otherwise, your estimates for the 1918 flu are a bit off, and I'll assume your other estimates are similarly off....