In India. Because the crime happened in India. (For example, Union Carbide was sued in India for the Bhopal disaster.)

What standing does she have to sue in the US?

Never said it was.

Because it's a lie. You wouldn't like a conservative group saying, "we're nonpartisan!" would you?

"Nonpartisan" means that Resources For The Future doesn't officially support the Democrat party. Everyone who works there, however, voted Green or for Obama.

IOW, it's effectively partisan.

You could try to build it from source. I'm sure the LO developers would help with config errors, etc.

Of course not!!!

There's also Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Mint and this thing called "Debian"...

The name of the browser and plugin would be helpful...

(The PDF happens to work perfectly on Linux with the built-in viewers of FF35 and Chromium 39.)

Must I mention that this hypothetical modern air-lock does not have to be the size of a tray of milk bottles from three generations ago?

Two thoughts:

1) How do you get the one-time TrackPIN to the UPS guy before the fact?

2) Way back when the milkman delivered his eponymous product, there was a small "airlock" built into many houses, with doors open both to the outside and the in. Some sort of mechanism could be developed so as to deliver the package from the airlock to the house.

Quick, alert the YouTube idiots: the Anunnaki are returning on Planet Nibiru!!!!

What happens when two people enter the room, and they have different preferences?

Spouses already fight about the thermostat; who's preference is "the house" going to pick?

Said who? It costs the same as a BMW 535i, yet only goes 265 miles. That's *not* revolutionary.

Call me back when he's got a $25K minivan that can go 300 miles at 80MPH while carrying 4 people and a whole lot of stuff. That will be revolutionary! Maybe my teenagers will be able to buy such a vehicle. But I doubt it.

Using an engine designed by someone else using taxpayer money is IN NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM revolutionary.

It's great engineering and no-nonsense construction from a company that hasn't (yet) become bloated by sucking on the DoD & NASA teats, but that is *no* revolutionary.

For it to be revolutionary, they'd have to come up with something *really* game changing, like... a fuel better than LH2/LOX which doesn't corrode everything it gets near, or spray radioactive death half-way across the countryside.

Practical, reusable rocket engines (where you don't have to strip down and rebuild the engine every time like they did with the SSME are stupendously important, and I hope SpaceX can get that working.

However, and sadly, getting a booster to land on a floating platform is "mere" engineering: throw enough time, money, sensors, accelerometers, actuators, etc -- IOW, stuff that we already have and know how to use -- that's not revolutionary.

A *real* revolution would be to find

So, while Musk is doing some important work

The air on the outside is still going to *aggressively* want to rush in through any little crack.

Let me see if I've got this straight: we can't build regular maglev trains because they're super-expensive (the engineering, construction and maintenance would be incredibly difficult), so... we'll just make it that much harder by wrapping a (partial) vacuum tube around it???

You've got to understand that as much as Europe loves it's trains, there's a reason why high-speed trains aren't draped across the continent: the tracks have to be *perfect*, and they're always stopping and starting; even the express trains don't get up to full "steam" for very long stretches.

There's a reason that autobahns/Interstates are such a great idea: they combine all the benefits of an express train, with the flexibility of a two lane road (if you're near one, there's an on-ramp close by). And when you get "there", you still have your car to drive around in.

So, no. If maglev was a good idea, it would have already been built.

I've been around long enough to know when an idea is a crock of shit.

Wow, you have drunk the Kool Aid!!

What's the purpose of developing a technology which we *know* is WILDLY impractical beyond the Pneumatic Tube Transport developed for local delivery of small items. See the Wikipedia entry on "Pneumatic tube".