At least the Dutch tax payers get to shoulder some of that burden for you.

Take your idiotic talent to the track. In traffic, you put your foot down at the intersection. This causes you no delay at all, since you can start creating forward movement with the other foot still on the pedal.

But because of Archimedes' principle, isn't the amount of mantle mass displaced equal to the mass of the mountain displacing it?

Wait, that can't be right. I am actually running AdBlock on my machine, so it's not really the end of the discussion. I don't see how their paying for bandwidth is giving them power over my machine. Also: by not requesting their ads I'm saving them bandwidth too. They can do whatever they like on their end, but they choose to still serve me and other freeloaders the video streams we request. Apparently they are interested in our freeloading.

I'm not saying dual flush toilets would solve California's problem, but your numbers lead me to 1%. Am I missing a factor of 400 from your reasoning?

Isn't the general idea that light has all the properties of each?

Wouldn't beating the shit out of 85% of the people also be something robots could excel at?

Airplanes are designed for midgets. If I have the window seat in any plane I've ever been in the window is below shoulder height and the seat in front of me is so close that I can't move my head in any way that would allow a view outside. I'm about average height (for a Dutchman). Having looked it up, I guess I'm about 12cm taller than the average Dutch man.

If it'd had a layover in Moscow the flight would never have been anywhere near the Ukraine.

Not really. The early build is probably a lot like the release build that came after. You might see some bugs that were later fixed, but I wouldn't think it comprises any company secret. The code on the other hand is secret. And the early code will also be a lot like later code, so you could now roll your own Windows 8 from this code (if you did your own bug fixing as well).

Maybe he wanted to wear it on his belt, as was the style back in the day...

Yeah, you need to go on. You've listed 8, which I personally find impressive, but the poll has an option for "More than 15". So you're only half way there.

You'd still need energy. Are you volunteering to hand-crank a trebuchet designed to launch a person at mach 1?

They could use a renewable source of energy, but I wouldn't want to put one too close to a wind farm.

If you make your treb' large enough acceleration at launch can be low enough to be survivable*). Just pack a parachute for your arrival.

Back-of-a-beer-coaster calculations indicate that subsonic speeds won't even get you across the English Channel on a ballistic trajectory. Maybe the parachute would help you glide a little farther, but you'd still need a whole network of trebuchets to get you anywhere you wouldn't rather just walk.

*) I am not a physicist, this is not travel advice.

Is there a specific type of display that will filter out naked people running across the pitch?