This very topic is discussed in "Entertaining Physics" printed first in 1912. And I'm sure it has been discussed even earlier.

Mathematically it's an example of a degenerate orbit with one zero semi-axis, and the orbital period can be simply calculated from Kepler's laws.

What's more interesting, it even holds true if you do not move through the center of the Earth! For example, a train from any place on Earth to any other place on Earth will move all by itself and always arrive at destination in about 45 minutes (neglecting the oblateness of the Earth and need to compensate for Coriolis forces and friction) if you put it inside a completely straight tunnel.

Bing! Wrong.

Each financial transaction over NFC includes a cryptographic signature. All the attacks on NFC basically involve signal interception and/or retransmission. The next generation of NFC systems will include distance-bounding protocols to combat even that possibility.

I'm was an H-1B and I came to the US for a salary that put me in the top tax bracket. My job description included development of critical medical systems.

H1B is simply an employment visa, that could be used for many purposes. There actually are no other options, even for highly qualified professionals (L1 requires corporate relationships, B1-in-lieu-of-H is extremely rare and Green Card processing takes way too much time).

Uhm... Aphids ARE multicellular.

Erm... Monsanto GM modifications are open source. The sequence of nucleotides and the method of their insertion is clearly described in these patents: https://www.google.com/patents... , https://www.google.com/patents... and other related patents. Feel free to use them, they are expired as of the last year.

If the reporter thinks it's the first example of horizontal gene transfer then they should go and study molecular biology. It's not even the first example of an animal stealing genes from another kingdom! The bacteria-originated genes were even found in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - a model organism in biology.

No, homeschoolers do NOT outperform schools. There are NO studies comparing the outcomes of homeschooling and public schools. All the current assessments are based on self-selected tests administered by _parents_.

That's an argument from absurdity. You see, we have a framework of mutually agreed obligations (we call the "laws") and a process to change them. They are not perfect but they are much better than nothing.

And the framework that you propose quite demonstratably leads to a fucking mess. Yet you persist on forcing it upon everyone. Why? Are you a communist or something?

Nope. There's a complete exemption for the first $100k of income (plus rent and cost of living). And then tax credits are good for ANY amount. And the US income taxes are on the low side in the developed world.

And how is that different from the fast Internet connection?

You want another example? I have lots! Last month my council decided to fund a new park. By your standard it should be a commercial park with fee paid each time you step inside. You see, not everyone will use this new park!

Not true. My new housing development paid quite a bit of money to connect to the electric grid. Once the connection fee was paid (about 4 years) the monthly electricity bill went down. So yes, it happens a lot. So your argument fails.

Certainly. IF the buildout was financed from taxes then everyone is entitled to the same low fee. However, what if it was financed only by the initial subscribers? What should be done in this case?

Without knowing the scale you can't tell ANYTHING about it. This might as well be a granite countertop (they are about 10x more radioactive than the surrounding items).

The truth is: getting a radiation sickness is HARD. Even when you work near the actual radioactive materials. Getting a heightened cancer risk is easier, but even that risk is too small to worry about. And given the amounts of radioactivity that has escaped from Fukushima I have exactly ZERO worries about it.

I don't use my gas stove, yet I have to pay a connection fee (multi-apartment building). I don't roads much, yet I pay for their upkeep.

Sorry, but "pay for what you get" doesn't work with lots of essential stuff.

No. You don't get it. The cost of fiber optics is basically a $lotsofmoney to dig trenches and lay the backbone fiber. Then it's a couple hundreds of bucks to connect your apartment/home to the nearest point of presence. That's why most of the subscriber fee will go towards repayment of the initial $lotsofmoney lump. Once it's repaid the subscriber fee can go down a lot. Should the newcomers pay the low fee?

This is a local council. The decision was made by majority of representatives on the council, so it's the _will_ _of_ _the_ _people_. If you don't like then feel free to relocate or lobby your council.

Besides, it's the only reasonable way to do a municipal-scale project where initial construction costs overwhelm the incremental costs of adding new subscribers. So if I decline to pay now and then wait 5 years until the infrastructure is built and paid for by the first subscribers then should I pay the whole share or just the connection fee?

"Competing private entities"? Do you mean Comcast or AT&T? LOL!

Nobody stops Tim Cook from opening Apple Singapore or something like it and transferring IP properties to it. It won't be an inversion.

If these cars are not American then they are not produced in America and so taxation change doesn't cause any issues. If they ARE produced in America then they should pay taxes here. And competitiveness argument is bogus - it won't affect cars exported from the US and for the domestic market it will simply level the playing field.