Real Estate. There were three rules in Real Estate, but I can't remember them ATM.

>Please give us your plans for "fixing" the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Put the Israelis on Iapetus, and the Palestines on Phobos.
The North Koreans can live on Nereid.
Iraqis can go to Io.
and Afghans can go to Adrastea.

Easy peasy.

There's water on the moon. Launching from the moon is cheaper. Build an industrial base on lunar soil first. Expand from there. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090923-moon-water-discovery.html

Have you never dealt with people who enjoy negative consequences?

We are showered by particles with energies far above that which can be produced in the LHC.

I have a theory. It's called the "Bureaucratic Inverse Competence" theory. BIC states that the quality of work done in any organization is quantity whose direct inverse is the number of sycophantic bureaucrats. As the ratio of actual working operators and engineers to parasites increases, so too does the production and quality increase.

tldr; It ain't the universe, it's too many parasites, and too much money. Heck no I don't have a solution. I'd be a very rich man if I did.

Invent a language. With all due respect, Mr. Tolkien.

Perhaps folks are comparing windows 7 to vista, rather than to xp. Vista, due to added "features" like DRM, was and is unusable to me. I have tried windows 7. Windows7 is also useless to me. The services and their dependencies are a complete cluster-fuck. For instance, if you turn off network services, you may no longer configure your network card. If you turn off cryptographic services, windows7 cannot phone home anymore, and tells you that it will be shutting down in ten minutes. Windows7 is vista sp2, and both are dogshit.

What used to be accessible in one or two clicks now takes three or four clicks to get to. This is improvement? This is smaller? Microsoft oughta buy up Damn Small Linux, roll up the directx API as a binary kernal module like nividia's driver, and start selling a usable OS again. Hell, I'd even give them money for that.