I know he is joking, but I suppose they mean a production reactor as opposed to a research reactor.

Has anyone tried to sue (this is the US after all) for excessive use of force?

Anyone with some knowledge about economic theory will know that income you get in 20 to 50, not to mention 50 to 95, years from now should have almost no impact on your decision about whether or not to invest time ( = money ) on creating a copyrightable work today.

Unless you calculate a extremely big income or a absurdly low interest the present value of that income is negligible.

No, but he may have lots of good information about what was common knowledge (among experts in this field) at the time of the development of Java. Also what pre-existing knowledge and systems the inventors of Java had for inspiration when developing it.

There is a difference between buying extra content for a game, and buying Items to give you a head start you could achieve by playing.

As games are for your own entertainment I am not implying one is better or worse than the other but it is different.

U.S.A is a socialist country and have always been a socialist country.

You pay taxes and those taxes and those taxes are spent on "the common good": roads, schools, military, police, firebrigades...

Healthcare is just one more ting on the list of what your taxes pay for

Military grade explosives will not go off from being hit by a bullet.
They require a blasting-cap (I hope that is the correct word in English)
or similar to detonate.

I think requiring a full production model on sale is to steep a requirement.
But a working prototype should definitively be required.

Mythbusters often use pigs when testing that kind of damage.