Who says that de beers is not selling artificial diamonds as well?

I would rather include something that turns skin blue after eating so many. Or makes them limp forever.

So these counterfeit will do the trick just as nicely. Right? And with them dumped on the market, the price should drop and the profit removed.

If there will be in app purchases.

Hmmm.
Why the lack of monorails? Because of lobbying. Not because of engineering or superiority. Monorail IS cheaper and superior to any of the twin rail systems. The real issue is that twin rails were established in nearly all nations over 100 years ago. So, it is hard for Monorail to gain traction, esp when there are multiple designs.

Now as to hyperloop, it really has the only design that can make it cheap to build and safe.
You say that it is not safe, when the exact opposite is true. They are looking at electrical storage on-board. That enables the air compressors work, just like they do for jets. IOW, a pressurized container is no big deal because we have been doing this for over 60 years (all aircrafts that fly at 15K and higher).
It should be easy enough to either provide side-outs, OR even better would be to provide for 3 tunnels in which the 3rd can be used for bi-directional traffic (i.e. when traffic is much heavier in one direction, then use 2 tubes) or as a back-up. If a car develops an issue, then it is possible to stop 1 tube and re-pressurize it. With the 3rd tube, it is either not being used, it is already going in the same direction, or it is being used in opposite direction. If it is the later, then you have to wait for that tube to clear out before using it for the new direction. And if this moves at 700 miles / hour, and there is 'stations' every say 70 miles (i.e. 10 minutes), then issue solved.

Plenty of issues to solve, but I think that hyperloop really is a smart way to go.

why is the lease part of solar city NOT a good thing?

Plenty of weapons in India. In fact, only America has more guns.
It does not help. Why? Because it is lack of FIRST amendment combined with gov. enforcement that allowed this.
Sad that you do not understand the difference between these or even how the 2nd is applied.

1) yeah, I can not imagine that anybody will think to put up LED screens with cameras on the outside so that you get a view.
2) odd. What you just described is exactly what we call an airplane. And there is no reason why there would not be compressed air on-board.
3) yeah, sad that nobody on the hyperloop team will think like that.

In the mean time, I will trust that hyperloop will get there sooner than can be believed.

you mean the fact that the other side decided to get a fucking lawyer involved?

Plenty of things to blame on him, but he was a supporter of new private space. Hell, COTS started under him (via griffin), though it was the neo-cons that killed off COTS-D, which would have created multiple manned launchers.

So, no. I am not going to blame the man for what he started, when it was a good thing.
But, I am going to put blame where it belongs. The senate under dem control has gone between what O wanted and the neo-con controlled house voted. Now, that the senate is under neo-con control, and that includes this sub-committee, now voted to gut it further than the house neo-cons.

BTW, I fully agree with you about having a civilian and VERY public trial for him. Parts of it will have to be closed off to the press and public, but the majority of it can be left open.

Also, if Russia and CHina have NOT cracked this already, then they are inept. These documents should be at the top of their todo list.

I have said all along that he was right to out the information about spying on Americans. I will say that when I worked on the PAT act, I saw things that made me realize that terrorism is a real threat and that I have little issues with NSA doing what many were promised it would be. Of course, in 2006, when I saw the neo-cons remove oversite of our work, I also knew that things had happened and they did not want to take responsibility for their action.

However, once he outed the information about spying outside of America, he became a traitor. The fact is, that ALL nations on this planet have groups that spy on other nations. By doing that, you can figure out what their real intentions are. I suspect that insider knowledge of USSR helped us survive cuban missile crisis. Likewise, USSR spent a great deal of effort spying on us, but it was mostly to understand what we were up to (as opposed to Chinese spying which is about stealing any tech that will help them take on the west).

Make no mistake. Snowden is a traitor in every and any sense of the word. NSA's whole purpose is to spy on the outside world, which is what snowden has told others about.
I have said, we should hive him a medal, and then put 2 between his eyes for his treason.
But, I would much rather that he spends the rest of his life in one of our prisons.

they will turn over snowden when economic sancations are too much for Russia. And Russia is having a difficult time right now.

Snowden was a traitor that blackmailed America with the threat of releasing the codes if he died or was jailed.
Now, Russia and CHina have the data that they want (which was EVERYTHING that snowden had).
Snowden is sitting in Russia, while we are putting extreme economic pressure on Russia. No doubt at some point, Russia will pull out of Ukraine and will want the sanctions gone. My guess is that America will INSIST on having snowden turned over for prosecution in return.
Snowden will then join manning in prison. For the rest of his fucking miserable life.

Really? What was the vote? And why did the dems vote down their leaders amendment that would restore it?

Fact is this bs is purely neo-cons.