I see no issues here that have not already been discussed when it comes to organ transplantation. What I'd like to see is someone try to figure out the liability issue of some person losing their house because someone else flew a 3D printed helicopter into it. Is the pilot solely at fault? Does the designer of the helicopter share in the blame? What part does the manufacturer of the 3D printer play? There is already a slew of tort law and civil aviation regs out there coving the that.

Just hurry up and get those replacement livers lined up. I don't care what they are made of as long as they work.

What is a catastrophe is that they haven't just foreclosed on the whole thing and sell it off. How much longer do we have to watch it linger. Pull the life support and let the damn thing die.

If you can't get the people already there to be productive import them!

Personally I say let it die, scrape the ruins into a big ditch and make it the dump for the rest of the US. That would be an improvement.

If musicians are dumb enough to sell the rights to a music company, then they are no longer independents, they are employees and will be paid like it.

Anyone doing anything hate when a good or service (that they produce) becomes commoditized. You buy it by the pound and not by the exclusivity. When that happens you stop being able to charge a premium.

Streaming companies buy music in bulk and could care less about the newest/latest top 40 since it'll be in the bargin bin within 6 months and leased to them as part of a library.

It's about time entertianers and their industry were knocked down a peg or three seeing is it is nothing more that a scam based on heavy handed copyright laws. I'll never begrudge an artist for charging $100 for a ticket to a show, but $1-3 per song (digital media) for ever and ever that is not right.

No what I am saying is even the "rich" guy started out poor. Compared to my 20 year old self I am quite rich. The difference being at 20 I had pretty much done nothing yet and had no capital, but at 42 I've worked and built up capital. By the time I hit 50 I will be much more wealthy compared to me at 20.

The rich guy get's loans cheaper because he showed over time that he will pay them back or at least has the capability to pay them back. In my case my loans have always been cheap even at 20. The secret I've only missed 1 payment in 26 years. My first credit card was a Mobile gas station card I got at 16, right after I got after my first official job.

A new car is not cheaper than a used one. A used one is much cheaper, but most people have no interest in working on them hence the expense. There is also the the fact that if you are going to drive used vehicles you need more than one so you can be working on one while driving the other. A decently running car can be had for a few thousand dollars and costs less than a $1000 dollars or so a year to keep running. A new car costs $30,000 which ends up being about $3000 a year until it needs work. That cost is the depreciation of the vehicle. After 5 years you will have to start start fixing it too or buy another new vehicle. This is ignoring the costs of insurance which is much higher for the new vehicle.

No nitrogen narcosis? That's no fun. Don't tell the kids else they'll all be trying to dive to tech levels to get a buzz.

Yes. When diving very deep you need Tri-Mix which lowers the O2 content down enough, using He, to keep it from causing toxicity problems.

If you are poor, you don't need a house, a car, etc.

What you mean to say it's expensive to be wealthy. I beg to differ, you can have all of those things but you have to work up to it. People look at those they consider "rich" and think that they just magically get this fabulous lifestyle with all the wealth (durable goods) that goes along with it. This is true for a few I guess, but the rest of us get up and go to work almost every day for 20 years to get it. Once you've paid off the big ticket items in your life (car, home, & education) it just adds up quicker since you are making more and spending less. There is no magic formula. You work, you get paid, you buy stuff. Rinse and repeat for most of your life.

Of course there are those that think that it is not fair to have to wait that long to get those things, and I did too when I was 18-25, but now that I've done it myself, my response is suck it up kid and get to work. If I can do it, so can you. You want to avoid the expense, then dial down heavily your expectations. Want to buy a house you can't afford? Get 3 roommates (I did that, not fun) to help pay for it, drive old cars that you fix yourself (I did that, not fun), get big loans to pay for it (I did that not fun), and work 60 hours a week (I'm doing that right now, not fun!!)

I had to add a dimmer to the bathroom light switch, "after witnessing the power of the fully operational battlestation" of a large bank of LED bulbs above the mirror getting ready for work.

The work quite well, but my poor retinas can't handle that kind of output at 5am. That was actually a good thing about the CFLs before. They'd give my poor brain a minute or two to figure out whether or not it was awake yet.

Specifically, I meant trading one type of pollution for a different, potentially longer lasting type of pollution.

Not true. Dealing with the mercury from CFLs is far less than dealing with the mercury polution (amongst other things) that is released from burning coal.

I personally have moved on to LEDs. They last longer, the price isn't that much higher, and most importantly I can use them with a dimmer switch.

It'd not expensive to be poor. Last time I checked in only costs $1-3 a day.

What is expensive is to be un-informed and even more so is to be stupid.

You are correct, instead of running the wires, just run a length of string/cord through, that way later if you decide you want a run then just tie it off and pull it through. Don't forget to add another piece of cord along with the cable you are running!

( Sigh)I wasn't hunting for equal opposites for the comments. What I was hunting for were equally asinine comments from the opposite end of the opinion spectrum. Different concepts.