But we're friends with Putin now. Shouldn't we do as the Putinians do?

Education doesn't reduce population. Offering birth control to women is extremely effective...but you must control all the governments to make this possible...and not a lot of people are on board with this idea anyway. Bringing everyone up to the decadent standards of living we have in the west helps too...unfortunately the planet simply can't sustain that many people living that wastefully. Honestly, we're probably just headed more warfare and famine regardless of what we do. And transplanting vast numbers of people off planet is just stupid. It can't happen with current technology. Colonization will happen with small numbers of people building out infrastructure and filling it with their own children.

Then yourself is blind. Most planes have auto pilots. Many cars these days are capable of self driving and do it.

Is you mean that webpage, then I agree. It's javascript cancer.

We're talking about politics here. It's all unfair. You think Merrick Garland got treated fairly? And regardless of the fact that there's no evidence, her story certainly seems on the surface to be credible while his version looks weak. It's a popularity contest and Kavanaugh is losing it. They need to abandon this guy and find someone who isn't so badly tainted.

Um, no it's not. The problems you describe are issues with constantly changing hardware. Windows supports more hardware because hardware manufacturers and Microsoft have small armies of programmers to make sure the consumer doesn't have to think about anything...including the spyware they installed.

But it's not an exact copy...unless there's already a 3-D model of the Enterprise D.

The government (at least ostensibly) represents the people. The market represents the will of a couple of rich people.

Indeed, when I think of Donald Trump I think of a man who keeps his promises. A paragon of virtue right there. Quite a catch.

Yay, the fuckers who charged me $50,000 to have my appendix removed will rescue us from the price gouging pharmas.

Because the notion that the market can fix everything isn't real and is akin to a religious belief.

Keep in mind: All of our modern problems can be solved or significantly mitigated by mandatory population reduction...including this one.

We're not evolutionarily engineered to survive long enough for this to matter.

The Old Forest, just outside the Shire.

Except things like language barriers, immigration laws, and having no money to actually pay for it.