Based on the average airline's financials, they are doing well enough putting themselves out of business.

A) There is this little thing called "The Internet" that people use to send each other information. Why the hell would someone go to the risk of keeping a thumb drive that can be identified as in their possession and have their fingerprints, when they can just send an encrypted file?

Why the hell would anyone save something to the cloud that can be electronically eavesdropped when it can be saved to a flash drive locally and available whenever/wherever you may be? It applies just as much to illegal images, your legal banking/tax records, or anything else in between.

WE don't lack the will.

We lack the power.

The ones with the power lack the will (or desire) - because their power depends on control of generation of energy through resources they control; namely fossil fuels. They're not going to give up that power while they have it. Not voluntarily.

The reason thorium never hurt anybody, is because it is complete fantasy. Nobody has ever built one that has demonstrated any degree of industrial reliability and usefulness. Thorium is up there with Fusion, as far as being a demonstrated technology.

... basically, what American Colonists were rebelling against in the first place. . . then adopted.

By that measure, isn't AMD also fabless because TSMC makes their chips? (or at least their big processors)

I guess what I mean by "making" is "designing and having someone fabricate for them". That is what would set it apart from all of the other ARM chips out there today.

>When you have a "press" that is either owned outright by corporations or heavily subsidized by corporation

Um, this is a story about the BBC.

You do know they're a British government agency, right? Categorically prohibited from any involvement with private corporations or any kind of profitmaking in their onshore activities, and with a board of trustees appointed by democratically-elected ministers?

Why do you presume that it's two dudes? Perhaps it's Julie Andrews Charlotte Arnold...which would be an odd relationship to say the least.

It's a midterm election year so expect more lobbying a little later this year. Plus I'm sure there will be rather sizable increase just after it's approved. Lobbyists aren't dumb. Why spend $X to get something approved when you can spend another $X afterwords as a reward.