ok then why not talk about how 100y ago nobody thought the speed of sound could ever be broken by human beings. The point isn't the myth about "the earth that once was flat and now is round" but the fact that sometimes humans limit their own way of thinking until somebody proves it to them right before their eyes. And physics still being a science that eventually needs to prove it's statements is a real incarnation of that way of thinking. (This doesn't prove that the research isare correct but that we might not be smart enough yet to see past the speed of light if that where somehow possible)

Is my math wrong but i come to different numbers:

20'x8'
135TB * 280 = 36.9 PB
2^88 Bytes = 274 877 906 944 PB
=> ~ 7.5 Billion shipping containers

1 container = 160 ft => 1miles = ~174240 containers => ~43000miles
=> stack 8 high => 5380miles => 73 miles to each side

40'x8'
135TB * 1400 = 184.6PB
=> ~ 1.5 Billion shipping containers
1 container = 320ft => 1 miles = ~87120 containers => ~17220miles
=> stack 8 high => 2152miles => 47 miles to each side

maybe there is some space left beneath area 51

Try that with chrome,ie8,safari,... please and let us know if your windows is crashing. Because chrome will open up a seperate sub-process for each task resulting in much more overhead for windows. And ie8, well i don't have to draw a picture of it.

Wait, i can remember that storie, isn't that from one of the superman movies?

I hope your not a big shot in a company because that would be to easy to shoot your arguments down. Wasn't it capitalistic American companies that forced drinking, smoking and fastfood on they're people to make a profit an make there shareholders even richer on the money of the shareholders neighbours? Are these rich people not obligated to help the people they extorted into sickness? And what about people with genetic diseases that where caused by toxic substances they (or there parents, grandparents,...) had to work with to support the rich Americans? Most of us don't fully choose there destructive lives some of us where born in it or even pushed into it and are to tired fighting it when there first thought is to stay alive. Sorry that this sounds cruel but my father had to work hard to make a good live for his family and died early of cancer and I was lucky to climb up in live and have a nice education and a good payed job, so I'm one of the persons that can appreciate such safety nets even if it only helps 1 million of the 35 million people. And less then 1% off the American defense budget is small change for 35 million people.

If i understand the US-founders correctly they had a country in mind where everybody is equal and even the poorest have right to a respectable life in America. This bill tries to get the people who earn more help the people who earn less get a healthy life. If you earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year then you can spare a couple of grant to help a poor family get health insurance that is most likely required because of doing the kind of jobs the rich don't wanna do anymore.

O no i'm getting flashes of the matrix movies

I'm having the exact same problems with PulseAudio, some of them are related to SDL not being 100% compatible with pulseaudio, but not all of them use SDL.

Actually i never said the catalyst would change the direction of the reaction. I said the catalyst change the circumstances, In fewer words than you do.