Really? Do you think that the IPs have not been spoofed? The hard part is tracking down the source of the attacks through all the various agents running on infected hosts -- and finding the sources that do not originate from an IP. Besides, what is the point of doing that? What do you think is the strategic goal of such a scenario?

Most terrorists are human.

I've replaced the battery on every phone I have owned for the passed 6 years because they typically do not last longer than a year before they are degraded beyond usefulness. Yeah -- it's a deal killer.

The question becomes "industrial espionage for whom?" Do campaign donors for the winning party get preferential treatment? That's called "corruption" and it's a leading reason why the U.S. is steadily rising the the "government corruption" rankings world-wide. Secondly, the only beneficiaries will be multi-national companies (yes,all your favorite and least favorite brands), most of whom choose to hide their income and assets in tax havens. The CEOs are more than happy to have big U.S. government -- just as long as they don't have to pay for those benefits.

It's been over 20 years since I worked in a rapid prototyping shop. That's exactly what we did with most of the models. We made a latex mold and cast parts using various resins, typically polyurethane. The chemicals used in stereolithography, including the cleaning agents, were pretty nasty. I would not want that in my house. The urethane resin had to be degassed and the molds cured under pressure to prevent bubbling as the exothermic reaction took place. The commercial vacuum pumps, degassing chamber, compressors and pressure tanks were pretty expensive. Though that cost was nothing compared to the 3D Systems stereolithography machines. Those were upwards of USD500,000 and about USD80,000/yr in maintenance costs.

My first Unix workstation was an SGI Personal IRIS. I would never buy one. It could be emulated on my phone using a few mW of power.

Ask UPS and FedEx how well that model works for them.

It is not hard to do at all. All addresses are classified by the postal service already as residential, commercial, etc. *Everyone* at a residential address that wants daily delivery should pay for daily residential delivery. The USPS should not subsidize someone's home-based business. Also, the business can always get the delivery point re-zoned and re-classified or get a PO box.

Why not just do "every other day" delivery for residential service? It seems like it would make for a much bigger savings with a similar impact to the recipient. How many residential delivery points needs to get mail every single day? And if people want their mail every day, charge a hefty fee.

Software? PCB designs? Documentation? Photographs? Technical articles? Done. Now what, smart-ass?

Now do the same analysis on copyright and the public domain. Trillions dollars of our public wealth has been sequestered by the corporate oligarchy. And they paid fractional cents on the dollar in "campaign donations". I'm fine with it if we tax the hell out of anything that doesn't go into the public domain after 17 years. You want to keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain? Sure, just pay $1,000,000 the first year, doubled every year after that, and adjust the starting and ongoing amounts for inflation. At least we, the people, get something in return.

It's the only way to be sure.