That depends on whether or not you're a Malthusian...

Think of it as right-totalitarianism vs. left-totalitarianism. One's mostly concerned with your bedroom activities, and the other's concerned about your bankbook. The problem is your bankbook can impact your bedroom activities, or vice versa, so eventually fascism/socialism have to regulate those activities as well. Hence the cause for your confusion. The difference is probably more easily explained using cows.

You mean the one where politicians decide if they're going to hold other politicians accountable? Yeah, that works as well as the bullshit that is Internal Affairs where the police decide if they're going to charge themselves with a crime.

That would be great if SCOTUS wasn't part of the same corrupt system. However, even with your solution, it still involves police / military coming with guns to remove people from office.

Somewhere in the Swiss Alps, a poor delivery drone lies buried in an avalanche, only to be rescued by a Saint Bernard trained how to change drone batteries.

Depends on the situation. If they decide to make themselves the government, definitely not. If they decide to actually honor their oath to defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic, then it could turn out quite well. What do you find wrong with them demanding that politicians who violate the Constitution step down or be removed from office? How is that any different from a politician being removed from office for say committing murder or rape? The only "issue" is that it would be most of the politicians going to jail - but again, given how poorly they've run this country for almost a century and how low their approval ratings are, that's not a bad thing either.

Odds are he wouldn't be allowed to live long enough to make it to trial. Many US politicians / military / spy agency leaders have publicly stated that they want him killed for exposing their crimes.

Especially when the queen of asset forfeiture is in charge. If I was Snowden, I wouldn't take any deal from this administration, because you can't trust them. No honor among thieves, as the saying goes.

This is just another example of why 3D printing isn't "There" yet...
The concept is cool, but the material it's made out of isn't strong enough to make this a high torque device. That leaves precision, but 3D printing isn't nearly precise enough either... by the time this has made enough turns to make the output even do one revolution, the sketchiness of the printers output makes even the idea of labeling it 3,000,000/1 kind of a joke.

Maybe you could use the parts as cast forms to make metal parts out of? But even then, why not just mill it?

I'd still use Firefox. I would probably continue to use it until I couldn't access my credit card website to pay my bills.

Maybe I'm not a very imaginative guy, but it feels like in the last decade that we've moved through most of the growing pains and going forward we'll only have to deal with a slowly evolving web. (or maybe that's the optimist in me)

I still have Presto-based Opera installed on a few systems (Mac and Linux), I can't imagine much practical use for supporting Opera 12 anymore. It think I keep it around for nostalgia more than anything. I do test against it, but for failures I might not do much other than file a bug against my project and let it stagnate just to see if anyone else even cares. (they won't)

I'm a libertarian and hate subsidies, but having many farmers as relatives, feel I have to correct your misinformation.

Lets say the price of corn hits something insanely high like $10/per bushel.
You might think to yourself "I should get into this corn farming thing" and invest money in starting up a farm.
As you do that starting a farm is expensive. Equipment for farming corn is unique and can't be used for something like Peas. But the price of corn is so high, it's worth it.
After you harvest you get your money... whew! What a good investment! But by the 2nd year you realize a lot of other people had the same idea you did and they started corn farms as well. The market is glutted with corn, the price crashes to $1/bushel
But you notice Peas are selling really high so you switch to farming peas. It costs you a fortune for new equipment but you get your peas planted...
and 2 years later, you run into the same problem, everyone switched crops at the same time you did, Pea prices fall through the floor and you're trying to buy back your corn equipment.

This happened at the turn of the century a LOT. No individual farmer can be expected to accurately predict the price of corn the following season. So the feds do it for them. They offer a floor on the price of their crops, and they pay farmers not to plant. This stabilizes the market, prevents over-saturation and allows farmers to be more efficient. The cost to the government is actually a net profit because those wild swings in the market price cost them a lot of tax revenue.

That's kind of the joke here... their methods are 100% stolen from people who've been figuring out how to grow pot in their basements over the past 20yrs so they can avoid the police/criminals involved in normal marijuana transactions.

No, Dark Energy more than compensates for any gravitational affects.
The current leading theory regarding the end of the universe is called: The Big Rip
I find the idea very unsatisfying though... not that the universe cares what I think.

hrmm... damn slashdot removing php characters...

That was supposed to read:

Your argument is what's commonly used to explain leftist economics, and I'll never understand it. "Our system is so complex that math doesn't work!"
I'm here to tell you that you are unfortunately completely wrong.
Greece's Economic output is less than Greece's Spending
It's as simple as that. Any ATM in Athens will confirm my math for you.

Your argument is what's commonly used to explain leftist economics, and I'll never understand it. "Our system is so complex that math doesn't work!"
I'm here to tell you that you are unfortunately completely wrong.
Greece's Economic output Greece's Spending
It's as simple as that. Any ATM in Athens will confirm my math for you.