Rohm was actually part of the faction that wanted the socialist in there and was for wealth redistribution from the aristocracy to the workers as well as nationalization of industry. Because of his help founding the party and friendship with Hitler, he was able to champion the cause and even maintain that he was Hitler's equal. That part of the Nazi party died in 1934 on the Night of Long Knives.

They were, but that part of the NAZI party died with Rohm on the Night of Long Knives in 1934. His faction was the one that put Socialist and Worker in the name of the party and sought nationalization of industry with greater worker control and wealth redistribution. After that night when Hitler and his faction took firm absolute of the NAZI party, Socialist was just an awkward term that everybody ignored.

The Baath party in Iraq and Syria had the same trouble since were/are the last vestiges of the NAZI political machine, being heavily influenced if not started by actual NAZIs sent to the Middle East to spread their political viewpoints in WW2.

Actually, it is more accurately called a chartered car service such as used for town cars and limos. The thing is that smart phones and wireless means that these days anybody can essentially call a home office, charter a car for right then, and have it show up where they are in minutes. IIRC, those were the laws that Lyft was operating under in Seattle in the beginning because it was all kosher as chartered car drivers and companies weren't as regulated as taxis. When the laws were made, nobody thought you'd call an office and charter a regular car because of the lack of pay phones and time lag involved. Technology got rid of those issues before the laws were updated. When the city redid it's taxi laws to deal with Uber, they also had to redo the chartered car laws to deal with other avenues of doing the same thing.

That's an interesting theory. I eagerly await your paper to see the math behind it or your science fiction novel, whichever you are attempting to support.

Sounds just like Seattle's regulated taxis. Not sure what the problem is.

There's really no chance of that in Seattle. The number of token is limited, the city isn't releasing any more, and the people who own them don't want to sell because they're direct income. I know one guy that was a cab driver that bought his own token, but he only got one because an owner ran into some trouble, needed money fast, and he had the money to buy it. The law limits the sale of such tokens to $20k last I heard, but he also had to slip another $80k under the table to the guy. Once you have your token, you rent it to the taxi companies, who rent it to the taxi drivers. If memory serves me correctly, that's about $200/day to the token owner pretty much every day their taxi is in service minus the cost of the taxi as they must supply the car (which are all used police cars) but the taxi company handles maintenance.

Depends on the market. They want to do what it takes to get into a city. Here in Seattle, they're offering a superior service for more money. Too many people are pissed at regular taxis being dirty, never showing up, or late. Since the cities core is fairly wealthy, they are willing to pay more for a cleaner, quicker, and more reliable service.

Well, nobody that knew about it. Sounds like some of the stuff my uncles would do growing up on the farm. Stock a neighbor's pond because they'd rather fish there the next season than travel all the way to the lake.

True, which I why I stated "detected accurately". In fact, for a super massive black hole it should be less than the background radiation from the big bang. Thus, we could expect naked black holes (not singularities) to possibly be a cold spot against the CMB.

Actually, in theory, they are not black, but have Hawking radiation that if could be detected accurately would be of some use to us confirming theory. Then there is the radiation given off by the things falling into them. Most black holes probably aren't observable because the region around them is opaque from all the energetic things going on before matter even hits the event horizon. Then, space isn't black, there is cosmic background microwaves, distant galaxies, gas clouds, etc. A black hole will obscure everything behind it and should be detectable just as taking a photo of a new moon would be because there is a noticeable area without stars. Even a black hole without and accretion disk should, with a good enough image, be detectable via occlusion of what we would expect to see in that area, not to mention the lensing of the objects visible around it.

Garages are important. Any sort of startup that can't afford a commercial space, a garage is a convenient space that can be used as a workshop. Garages are a sizable amount of square footage that can be used in place of a commercial shop for everything from personal hobbies to budding businesses. Similar amounts of space probably are less available inside of people's homes. When several friend of mine were looking to buy a house, a large garage has been a very attractive thing because it was a place they could work with machinery on their hobbies. Now that I'm looking for a house, I'm finding myself in the same mindset.

Well, if they're really physicists and not just playing philosophers, they'll show us the math.

Well sure. In a lot of these things, like Tippler's time machine, space gets folded in improbably ways, but as Frank Lloyd Wright said when asked how his mile high tower he designed would be built, 'That's a problem for the engineers'. A lot of it requires either exotic materials or structures that might simply not be able to be constructed, but technically, they don't violate the known laws of physics. So they're all based on exploratory physics like string theory, loop quantum gravity, or MOND. Neat ideas that might work and the math is at least partially there, but can't be tested or figured out exactly.

Travel through a wormhole would be through normal space time although highly curved, but things get weird when such things happen. A thought experiment with a black hole and various lightlike paths around it can easily come up with two light like paths that have different distances between the same points. Hell, it's basically happening in every case of gravitational lensing. People mistake things like wormholes as being FTL when they are not really as the path taken through the hole is not FTL, but may be seen as such by observers that can't see the wormhole, although the actual relationship is determined by the properties of the wormhole. This can be taken in extreme with teleportation. If it's possible to teleport between point A and point C, then they must be connected somehow, either either through something like a wormhole, hyperspace, or a transform of some type or every point would be equal to every other point. The typical FTL travel is time travel doesn't hold for such cases because while it might be if it was FTL through Minkowski space using the Lorentz Transform, the actual relationship and qualities of such travel are determined by the qualities of that space or transform that is actually transversed, not of the flat space time between the two points made by a separate observer.

Well, we can get rid of special relativity right off the bat because that only works in Minkoski space and we don't live there. We can approximate it really well, but things get weird just as Newtonian physics broke down in certain situations. If we're talking about wormholes or warp drives, we are not in Minkoski space by definition. To figure out stuff by General Relativity, you'll need to know the topology of the space you are in and crunch the math. If something goes outside of normal space, then all rules are off because that space, in fiction, can have whatever rules we want it to, so FTL travel via hyperspace is certainly possible according to whatever transform you want to use. As for causality, Tippler showed that physics doesn't care about that in 1974 as far as general relativity is concerned.