The primary nuclear deterrence of United States is the ballistic missile submarine fleet anyways.

Those things are definitely not sitting around decaying from neglect.

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Or for those who want to keep working and be productive:

If you are a liberal, do volunteer work saving lives in Ebola-infested areas or some other place with a humanitarian crisis in Africa or Middle East.

If you are a Republican, volunteer for an army tour of duty in Afghanistan or Iraq or Syria. Yes being old could be a problem. However those powered exoskeletons could make you strong.

Their website is giving me a WordPress Error page after a lengthy timeout:

Warning: mysql_connect(): Lost connection to MySQL server at 'waiting for initial communication packet', system error: 95 in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1147

Before bringing the "internet to every corner of the world", they need to bring a better database to their Wordpress.

Do you realize how big the hypersonic glider would have to be to seat 140 people? (Hint: Boeing 737 doesn't even seat 140 people)

Your weight estimates could be correct but there is no way you're gonna fit a 140-seat glider in the Falcon 9 fairings.

Anyways 5 minute weightless suborbital flight is so 1961. I would just make a stretched version of Dragon that seats 20 people (no cargo) and send them into orbit for $50k each.

It's a Chinese company located in China, and most of its business and customers are in China. So why is it doing its IPO on the US stock market?

Shouldn't NYSE/Nazdaq disallow this? SEC and FTC have no jurisdiction in China or anywhere else outside the USA. If a chinese company listed on NYSE did fraudulent accounting or whatever, SEC can't do jack shit about it.

The whole thing seems like a clever scheme by Chinese companies and Goldman Sachs to sucker money out of U.S. investors.

you guys need to get the word out there. Seriously. Nobody knows you exist.

Start by submitting a slashdot article. Slashdotters HATE Microsoft. Tell them an open source version of Minecraft exists, and you will get favorable replies.

Nah, it wouldn't be cool to go against the wishes of the original authors. They put a lot of work into it. If you're gonna leech off their code then naming your project something other than Truecrypt is the least you can do.

I suggest RealCrypt.

haha yeah, that's the one thing we'll miss if Russia goes offline.

they would've simply set up their own version of the internet, the Cosmonet. All of the iron curtain countries would be connected.

Gosh I miss the old days.

In 30 years the question may become moot, Scotland and England with Muslim majorities ruled by Sharia law.

What the tree huggers will find even more horrifying than chimp warfare is how lions kill baby lions.

True story. When the alpha male of a lion pride is challenged by another male lion and loses, the new lion takes over the pride. This happens inevitably as the the former alpha lion ages. Now the new head lion will often KILL all the lion cubs in the pride. Not because he's hungry, but because he doesn't like the fact that the baby lions are not his.

Linux? Or do I have to buy a mac.

West, just by the fact of existing, messed up Africa.

Before white men's ships arrived, Africans were living in their tribal villages leading simple agricultural or hunter/gatherer lives. Just as people all over the world have been doing for ten thousand years. It was no paradise, but they had a balance with natural forces where the population wouldn't grow faster than the food supply.

Then comes the white man with his antibiotics and high-yielding maize (which he got from the New World Indians, but that's another story). Suddenly infant mortality went down and crop yields went up and population could grow like crazy. But Africans never developed the institutions and social structures necessary to support a densely populated society that the Europeans and East Asians did. African nations today still run pretty much like they did thousands of years ago, local warlords taking power. Except now it's millions of people instead of a few villages.

Africans would've been infinitely better off left completely to their own devices. Would they still be living in stone age primitive societies? Yes. Would it be preferable to what they have now? Yes.

My luggage only has a 3 digit passcode, iphone is 10 times stronger encrypted!