Bwa ha ha! More than most of the core of a city. Do you think nothing was affected beyond the rim of the crater? If you have been twenty miles away from that impact when that crater was formed, you'd have been quite very dead within seconds of impact. But the heat generated would have insured you had a nice, all-natural cremation.

An outcome that Andrei Gromyko and others predicted in the early-to-mid 70s and were working furiously behind the scenes to try to avert. Wait, how they they know Ronald Reagan was going to do that? They didn't. There were merely aware of the coming problems leading to the (it turned out) inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union THAT HAD NOTHING AT ALL WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH anything Ronald Reagan did. Mickey Mouse could have been president throughout the 80s and the Soviet Union would have collapsed right on schedule, despite right-wing fantasies about their non-existent part in it...

Ah yes, the alleged Washington Monument Symdrome. It's hard to prove beyond the one obvious case in 1969 from which the name is derived, and it led to the firing of the person responsible, so it's questionable to what degree anyone actually does this. Most civil servants like their jobs...

But... but... they're job creators! Shouldn't we just let them do whatever they want?! Making them pay for their mistakes leaves them we less money to trickle out to us as jobs! /eyeroll

That's not a good example to generalize from, though. When the prosecution presents a case with holes big enough to drive a white Ford Bronco through, this is the result. It wasn't so much a competent defender as utterly incompetent cops and prosecutors...

FTFY

The more interesting question is, why do so many people who clearly lack it complain about the lack as if it's not their own problem?

That's a weird conjecture, given that for every other manufactured thing in existence, disposable versions have a much lower limit on their price. Making things reusable always puts a high lower limit on their price. It's a lot cheaper to make something that doesn't have to last, often so much cheaper than it's cheaper than the maintenance costs of the reusable thing, even discounting the reusable items much higher initial cost.

Right, and since disposable products are always so much more expensive than reusable ones, reusable has the cost advantage.

Oh, wait...

But how much of that has already been spent?

Making new matter does not require breaking any fundamental laws. All it requires is some energy...

You don't even mention human input to search rankings in your troll. Did you have it all typed up before this article was even posted, waiting for the first Google-related post so you could try to slip it in without appearing to be completely off-topic (despite the fact that your troll is, in fact, completely off-topic for this particular article)?

This, of course, depends on your definition of porn. To many of the people who oppose it, half of network TV content is porn...

The fact that law enforcement cannot prevent all violations does not invalidate or make illegitimate a law or attempts to enforce it. Personally, I think it's a stupid law, but using a stupid argument against it does not help...

Unfortunately, no. Humanity is exceptionally efficient in this regard. No matter how quickly we use them up, we make more of them even faster.

That's nothing new. It's no different than land mines...

Oh, wait...