Because I'm not even going to pretend to understand the physics and math behind it but supposedly the first law of thermodynamics breaks down in sufficiently small systems.

That would kind of answer why it is that even though we can create a total vacuum inside that total vacuum things just kind of pop into existence for no reason we can explain....

Oh and if your system isn't a closed system none of it applies anyway.

None of this is to say that this guy with his magic propulsion system should be trusted with any money. Like the grandparents said this can and should be demonstrated on the ground

That the headliners for record store Day are all guys from when I was a little kid and I'm older than dirt...

Then again with how rapacious the music industry is it's a wonder anyone can make any money in it

To be fair I'm pretty sure American Motor Company is a better bet that $DJT.

to depress wages. Women weren't that dumb. They see the writing on the wall and the sheer amount of Indians in IT and they're steering way clear of that mess.

I said I couldn't do worse. Big difference.

I've never gotten my country into an utterly pointless war for the sake of maintaining my political position. So I automatically win this contest.

if the companies have to compete then they can't just pass whatever costs are on down to the consumer.

So I guess it's a good thing we didn't just spend the last 44 years gutting anti-trust law enforcement in favor of getting bogged down on pointless culture war issues & moral panics...

Wait a second...

I think the problem is that we think of regulators as bureaucrats instead of as law enforcement. We mentally categorized them differently so we let them get away with behavior we would never in a million years allow with our police. We need to remember that the guys who enforce antitrust law and who Force Rich tax cheats to pay their taxes are cops just like any other cop.

they let the contracts expire. Nobody involved with these companies has a job. They're all "contractors". That's what happens when you're non-Union. It'll happen to you too if you live long enough.

because of it's negative connotations. The same way fascists and other anti-democracy elements have for centuries now. It's an argument used to strip voting rights from some segments of the population and with it the right to self govern.

I don't even know if you're aware you're doing it, but if not this is your signal to stop taking pot shots at Democracy.

good enough is always good enough. If that wasn't the case 90% of us wouldn't be typing out /. posts on a windows PC.

And good enough can be shockingly terrible, especially when we've had 40 years of non stop mega mergers and zero anti-trust law enforcement. They could care less what you, the customer think, because your options are to shop at one of the other companies they either own or own a controlling share in or go without.

And increasingly "go without" isn't an option because they're buying critical infrastructure.

to where ever labor was cheapest, but all anyone can remember about his books is that a few tinpot dictators borrowed them for speeches.

"The problem with capitalism is eventually there's nothing left to take" - rsilvergun.

I write pithy nonsensical things that don't actually mean anything too. Can I run the UK for 11 years? I couldn't possibly do worse than Thatcher.

so he's going to be opposed to Democratic values by default. You can't join the ruling class and support democracy. And they learned their lesson from FDR, they're not gonna let something like that happen again.

to evade SEO spam. Google needs to do something about it or they'll be irrelevant in a few years tops.