BA is PA. The BAs here take meeting minutes, and ask for clarifications where needed. For the additional job of "asking dumb questions", they are paid 5x what a PA is paid. They don't know anything about anything, and if they do accidentally learn something, play dumb.

Power falls off at the square of the distance. Nobody ever said that the engineers failed to make that calculation, but that the power levels of the craft would have to be lower than my phone power needs to be able to function at those distances. That seems difficult. Nobody said impossible. Nobody said it wouldn't work. Someone said that the power would be low that far out. The rest was fabricated by you.

Dead like me?

You implied that licensing eliminated assaults. He proved you wrong. If you want to claim they reduce them, rather than eliminate them, we'll demand to see your proof.

Nah, it was about the industrialized North controlling the raw resources of the south. Slavery is a convenient surrogate to ignore the oppression by the winners. Like every other war, the cause was written by the winners.

In case anyone reads this, it is 100% wrong. He is lying to make a point. No, I'm not going to debate the point with him. I am an expat. I had to deal with it more than him. He just read something once that was a lie to make a point, and he's repeating it. But he's a zealot. So there's no point addressing this to him. I just don't want anyone else reading it and thinking that's correct. It's not.

If they have a monopoly, people will either do it or not fly. And people have put up with worse to fly. So your example fails.

That's why it's inconsistent. The heirarchy of liberties is weak. They are all equal, and conflicting. Right to carry a gun? Not when you are on someone's property who doesn't want it. So their property rights override your personal rights. But when you put it that way, they object.

I'm a socialist libertarian. The problem with libertarians is that they think the government should be small. I believe it should be effective (and with that, it would be small if it were ideally effective).

In practice, libertarians are also anti-democracy. Because they don't trust anyone else with the vote. Benevolent dictatorship is the libertarian ideal. Though sometimes they call it a "constitutional" democracy, where the constitution eliminates the power of the vote.

So, does a person have the right to carry a gun on them in public? What about in private? Must they notify the landowner if requested? Why does the ownership of the land trump the personal liberty to carry a gun?

Is abortion murder, or a medical procedure?

Libertarians fight over such issues amongst themselves, so it's not very self consistent. The self consistent libertarian philosophy is the one based on property having rights, but people don't have rights. When you over-simplify to that abominable extreme, it agrees with 90% of the Libertarian philosophy, and is self-consistent. But highly impractical.

Ah, so we've moved on from abusing the word "liberal" so much we've invented new boogeymen, and call the new one "neo-liberal"?

Well, Blame Democrats has been the motto of the previous 20 years. The Democrats just learned it from the Republicans. But it's ok when it's "your side" using it against the "other guys".

10 years ago, they were closer to the same. Liberal meant smaller unobtrusive government. Libertarian meant toll sidewalks and "blacks only" toilets.

Cities aren't measured by the city lines, but the metro area. For example, L.A. is a small city in a large metro area. So the metro area is usually what people mean.

Not all are requirements in most places that I know of.