Yes, we know. "Tax is for the poor" and all that jazz.

This "Oclahoma pig fucker" actually comes from the only other nation in Europe with universal conscription - Finland.

As far as I know, you have rules for ammunition that are fairly similar to ours. Have a permit or you're breaking the law. The only difference is that you choose to keep your reservist guns at homes, while we keep them buried in the ground or stored in army storage all over the country..

Buy ammunition, get arrested, go to jail.

Many people don't know that beyond the weird NRA-based claims of "armed nation", swiss men have assault rifles at home disassembled and with no ammunition. Assembling the rifle and taking it out of your home without special permission is a crime. Having ammunition for it without special permission is also a crime. They brought down their mainly assault rifle based gun crime down hard with that policy.

That said, their army has excellent plans on how to distribute ammo in event of threat of war.

Few in EU like Swiss banking any more than US does. It's a known tax fraud heaven, and with EU has been shaken by the crisis pretty badly, tolerance for Swiss "give us your money, we'll help you not pay your fair share" policy is growing thin.

I'd grab a bean bag one :D

You means like most people with windows that don't downgrade to windows 8?

Funnies aside, MS threw pretty much everyone with a desktop under the bus with w8 to get their failing phone OS more familiar with people.

This update breaks mouse in GAMES.

So your update breaks games entirely. A pretty steep downgrade.

Probably the same, as the only thing you'd lose is hydraulic assist, just like you did. Electric parts can be driven by the battery.

In large plane civil aviation, even that has redundancy. There are two sets of control hardware, on each side of the cockpit. There are two pilots, who are even required to pick different items from the in flight menu in case of food poisoning.

How do you recognize a populist? When he can't simplify the issue and is forced to talk about complexities, he attacks the other party for being too difficult to understand and exists the discussion ASAP.

I'll just quickly run my take on why I think that free market will remain an opponent of any improvement of status quo:

Free market will always push for path of least resistance to maximize short and medium term profits. Right now, that is coal. Representatives of free market, swimming in money pervert the political system to ensure that whatever limits come out, they will not be hit by them to the extent where profits will be endangered. A good example of this is the carbon tax/quota trading scheme in Europe, that was basically diluted to uselessness by massive lobbying (read: corruption) by large power companies who want their cheap and profitable coal.

Green movement isn't helping here either. Their ideological, borderline religious anti-nuclear bend, combined with apparent lack of understanding the difference between "power" and "base power" results in things like Energiewiende, which once again results in coal build-up.

Then there's the whole "oil producers financing green terrorism to attack nuclear power generation from all possible angles" elephant in the room. Various power generation companies compete, and being huge conglomerates (not to mention entire states in some cases, such as Saudi Arabia) they have few qualms with using underhanded methods of competing.

Problem is, all these elements do in fact represent the current "free" market. As infrastructure build up involves a huge investment, that particular market will never be truly free, its strategic importance will ensure that it will always have to be tightly regulated, and the amount of money involved will be too great to not use underhanded means to take over if it becomes unregulated. And about the only way to stop the current massive perversion of it is a strong government intervention. Of course, Energiewiende is also a good example of what happens when government intervention gets ideological instead of practical, and guided by ideologists instead of engineers.

So in my opinion, we need a group of experts in energy generation, with proven experience, preferably from all over the world (so we don't get the "let's use hydro" etc) to work on a solution, that will then be implemented on governmental level. So far, there's zero political desire for this, even though the need is dire, and subject goes beyond national borders for many regions such as Europe.

Fly by wire has multiple redundancies. It's not a single point of failure any more than hydraulic control system is.

Incorrect. You once against went to simplify a complex issue to derive a conclusion.

That is the main tool of people known as "populists". It usually stems from the fact that most people are incapable of understanding the actual depth and complexity of the issue. As a result, simplifying an issue may cause a severe error in logic, even though it will look logical because factors that cause the error are erased from the issue by the process of simplification.

Example: US incarcerates largest portion of its inhabitants in the world. Therefore US is the least free state in the world.

By simplifying the original exceptionally complex issue (concept of freedom) I draw a patently false conclusion. There are many countries in the world that are observably much less free than US, even though they have a lower incarceration rate.

You are doing the exactly same thing. You are simplifying a very complex process that is leading to current global warming to draw a conclusion that CO2 is a pollutant. You do this by eliminating details that conflict with your opinion though simplification, and then drawing a patently false conclusion based on your simplification.
That is populism. Populism is one of the biggest if not the biggest enemy of actually understanding and beginning to combat issues.

It just wants a piece of linkedin's pie.

I think it would be pretty difficult to identify the "most important" part of fusion research right now. There are several critical factors to it, lack of any of which would cause failure.

Right now one of these is tech process. Another one is material science necessary. Failure in any of these would cause failure of entire project. And advantage of material science research is that unlike fusion process research, it is in fact applicable in other industries. There is a definite need for materials that can take significant heat energy input without losing their physical properties. We could significantly increase efficiency in almost all of our steam turbine based power generation if we could do this for example, as one of the main limiters on how much energy we can extract from steam is tolerance limits on turbine blades, piping and heat exchangers.