The amendment process is the closest that the US Constitution comes to a legal path to revolt. However, there's only two ways to legally do that - having the so-called Representatives of the people pass it with a 66% majority, then having the Senate do the same, then having 38 states (presently) ratify it; or calling together a Constitutional Convention which requires 66% of the states to agree to (which has never happened outside of the original Constitutional Convention where the US Constitution was written).

You can't get 33 states to agree on the merits of motorcycle helmets, much less a reconfiguration of the entire legal system. And besides, you'd be depending on the current oligarchy to vote themselves less power either at the Federal or State level in either scenario.

Now all we need to do is take this proof to the powers that be, so we can make changes!

... Shit.

Yeah, this might as well be titled "Study finds that fire is still hot, and that water is among the wettest substances known"

I want an SD card that has a label that looks like a floppy. Or, better yet, one where it actually does have the hole in the middle.

Everyone uses less than they could. I don't have a giant natural gas flaring operation in my back yard, even though I could.

What the hell does that have to do with anything?

The Koch brothers don't have a share of a Nobel prize for making a PowerPoint about climate change, nor do they pretend to tell everyone how to be more eco-friendly while zipping from venue to venue on a private fucking jet.

Apples and Oranges in this context.

Here's how you fix NASA:

1. Tell Congress to fuck off, and that they should get back to passing laws, and get out of rocket and spacecraft design. You don't need to build rocket parts in 47 states in order to go to the Moon or Mars.

2. Every President that steps into the Oval Office needs to get it through their thick politician asshat that they don't "need to make their impression upon the space agency". How is NASA supposed to finish any 10-year projects when their priorities get changed every 5 years?

Because the current government in Moscow gives a shit about what's legal?

It took Apollo flights 3 days to get to the Moon going Mach 32, and they had the ability to do course correction burns while in trans-lunar flight.

You could probably figure out how to get something from there to here at the lower speed of that railgun; it sure would not be easier, faster, nor cheaper than just launching a 1950s bomber from New Jersey.

Because clearly there is exactly no difference between shooting a robot to the moon, and then coming back with a rock or two, and sending multiple humans to the moon, having them explore a bit, and then bringing them back safely.

Which is exactly what the article is talking about doing.

Still smug now, moron?

Or, go to a building material recycler where you can find solid doors, pre-hung.

Should be with, rather than without. Damn no comment editing...

Well, for one, if you have an app on your secondary display, you get that app's menu bar on the secondary display. Each display has an independent set of virtual desktops (spaces) which you can change without affecting the other (example: display 1 has your email and chat client, display 2 has web browser. You can go to "space 2" on display 1 which has a code editor, without your web browser still on display 2.)

Also, you can now use an AppleTV as an additional display via Bonjour - easy wireless display without depending on other manufacturers and software (Intel WiDi, MiraCast, etc)

Funny, because a guy that worked at both PARC and Apple says you're wrong.

Yeah, when they bought CUPS and then hired the guy they bought it from in order to have him continue maintaining it, and then kept it completely open, they were clearly forced to do so. Oh, and CUPS clearly only runs primarily on OS X.

Are you cracked?