The drug cartels get all their weapons from the US. It's an uneven playing field.

There's always money in the shit pipes.

No, it's really not (at least not in the sense you mean). It's only limited by the amount of relevant raw materials you have on hand (there are no limitations on weight or size with this kind of drive), and no other (currently achievable) propulsion tech can match the thrust/power of a nuclear pulse rocket. In other words: the same limitations apply to an ion drive (which is limited by the power-generating facilities you carry on board, and no, solar power won't work in INTERSTELLAR travel) without the other advantages.

It will fill it, just with a density gradient. If the container is large enough (say, on solar system scales), then yes you could say the container is "unfilled," but that's not really accurate because the vacuum of space isn't really a vacuum.

Ion drives can be more efficient, but efficiency isn't everything (and in this case it really depends on how you define efficiency)

Ion drives are either low thrust or low specific impulse. They cannot have high both be high. The Project Orion design idoes. This makes it substantially superior for TRAVEL into deep space. Travel meaning, people going from A to B in relatively low time spans.

No, but beyond the Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field it is STILL the best design we have for travel into deep space.

Is it hard to talk while fellating that straw man?

Oh you ignorant fool.

What is a set of lay judges (i take that to mean judges who are not trained in the practice of law) other than a jury?

Depends on whether the tampering proved material to the case at hand. Censoring the names of innocent parties is not in and of itself grounds for dismissal. That it was done under the table, and without the prosecutor's knowledge doesn't help their case, but it doesn't necessarily help the defendant's either.

Yes, one of personal servitude and enslavement to the elites who own all the productive capital (i.e. robots) that make everything necessary for survival. If your child is lucky, they'll get a job as court jester. If they're unlucky, they'll be wiping Murdoch's wrinkly hemmorhoid covered asshole.

OP is the kind of facile moron who fills the entertainment industry. He doesn't understand that DRM DOES NOT PREVENT PEOPLE FROM COPYING OR DISTRIBUTING MATERIAL.

It never has, and it never will. It's only function is to prevent legitimate uses. It does nothing to prevent illegitimate uses.

Sloppy terminology in these discussions is what allows utter lies like this to appear to be truth.

The superrich DO NOT pay 30% of their income in taxes because their income is not wages. Their income is capital gains. The term "Federal Income Tax" is itself a lie. It's a "Federal Wage Tax."

Sloppy use of the term "income" allows both sides to be right while simultaneously lying.

Never mind warrants, they used to convict people based on bullet alloy analysis which has ZERO validity. Dogs are at least good sometimes and sound in theory. Bullet alloy analysis was NEVER valid, and was used to justify executing people. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/17/AR2007111701681.html

While you did it explain it to them, you did a rather crappy job of explaining how the two scenarios are equivalent. You explained the first scenario (how they need to know the data exists), but did a crappy job of explaining how the same argument applies to second (how they need to know that he has the key).