It has the ability to bribe congress, or throw enough lawyers at the problem, to bend the rules no matter what previous legislation or case law says

This is merely one symptom of the bigger problem of our growing plutocracy. The rich get richer by using their size and power to tilt the laws and rulings their way in order to grow even richer such that they can use their size and power to tilt the laws and rulings their way in order to grow even richer such that they can use their size and power to tilt the laws and rulings their way in order to grow even richer such that they can use their size and power to tilt the laws and rulings their way in order to grow even richer such that they can use their size and power to tilt the laws and rulings their way in order to grow even richer such that ... you get the idea.

Yes, it is a slippery slope. Inequality has sky-rocketed since about 1980 and the rich are tilting campaign laws and killing unions so that they can do more damage.

Not in this universe

Perhaps they mixed up in-coming mail with the outgoing mail. Sounds like angry customers.

Show me one other alternate universe.

Fox "News".

There goes my alternates chance with Kate Upton.

worse, you've been rejected 482,360,237,103 times.

Toddlers must be profitable!

"Look how you can get a spreadsheet to do your boring repetitious homework for you."

at the current rate of increase of smog production, Earth is going to transform into a gas planet

Fitting: Uranus created by your anus. Or perhaps rename it Ouranus after we fuck our planet up.

The general concept is one thing, doing the math and science to show it's naturally feasible is another.

What makes you say they are targeting Mercury-like planets?

Notice how the article used Neptune instead of Uranus as an example.

Here are a few acronyms that most citizens hate: IRS, NSA, CIA, DHS ....

I hate dental visits also, but I still go. And citizens generally prefer "protection" from foreign threats. Whether it's all warranted or not is highly debatable. DHS wouldn't exist if not for the 911 attacks. The pendulum of public opinion on such seems to swing back and forth, depending on attacks.

flea problem

Rather than argue with them, bet them money. If they are so certain of the quote, let their stubbornness make you richer. Mine stupidity. And slapping them with their own wallet my wake them up. 2 benefits.

history has shown over and over and over again that big government is very bad.

Too much of anything is bad. Some water is good for you, too much and you drown. Some big company influence is good for us; but too much and we get corporate fascism and/or corporate communism (which may degenerate to regular communism).

The slippery-slope fallacy can be used to justify any position.

Overly-influential banks already had a big hand in crashing the world economy recently and almost got us into another Great Depression. (True, gov't mistakes contributed to it, but run-away greed was the main cause.) I thank Big Gov't for having prevented another Great Depression...in this case.