Other than the summary - is there any reference that this promotes 'bacteria capable of infecting people who eat meat'? Or does it promote bacteria with resistance to the antibiotics in use that can affect everyone?

I wasn't aware of the 'Amazon Basics' line of products until now, look like good stuff reasonably priced.

A couple checks though and it looks like monoprice.com is still a fair amount cheaper- no idea if quality is comparable, but I don't really have any problems so far with monoprice.

rofl

Maybe life on earth is the result of the self-replicating probe...

Thats the point though- this would theoretically be perpetrated by the cable providers, and they attempt to recoup all of their lost tv revenue via increased internet costs.

Comcast already did it without usage based billing- I have internet only and they jacked it up to $70/month from $40, if I bought a internet + tv package it'd be $75.

6Km under the ocean is probably the safest place for it.

Solar* power is not really renewable -- eventually all of the hydrogen in the core will be fused.

*and every form of power related to solar: wind, hydro, bio, probably more.

While this is kind of a smart ass answer- the reality is we don't need an energy source to last forever, just long enough for us to either get off this rock, or go extinct. The later will happen in the next 100,000 years (couldn't find a cite in time, but often discussed on universe today, because of solar heating) if we don't leave.

I think your missing the obvious thing here (as pointed out upstream). Theres no need to require the government to _provide_ access to everyone. We just need them to stop trying to pass laws that restrict it.

From above, something worded as: Congress shall make no law .

That says nothing about providing access to anyone, just limits Congress's ability to screw people over when they're not looking.

As I mentioned about no such limitations on access to electricity, the same is true for food and water. When there is a hint of Congress limiting access to one of those _then_ I (and everyone else) will worry about it. Until then its pretty much ridiculous, they have however shown great delight in writing laws about limiting the internet in the last decade, and its only a matter of time before they get one to pass.

Correct, but the point of this is preventing Congress from ever taking them away. Something I wouldn't have thought we needed 10 years ago, but as the years go by they sure seem awfully excited to limit or prevent access.

Sigh- that should read: Congress isn't trying to pass a law

Congress trying to pass a law every other year to limit our access to electricity. Let me know when they start discussing the first bill, then I'll worry about it.

Like Vacuum Energy or Dark Energy?

The assumption is- if the universe had a fair amount of both, we'd see the gamma radiation leftovers from collisions, and we don't...

I'll second that- I shudder when some part has to be through hole. It makes routing harder, and soldering is a bigger pain too.

Reasonable questions, but the problem with every government program is that they will always eventually have the same answers, regardless of original intent:

-It doesn't really matter, at the minimum it'll be available to any government agency just by asking, without oversight
-Forever (or as long as their IT sleaze can feasibly maintain)
-Mostly for reported 'problems'* but also for lulz

*problems being defined as anything, everything and whoever the current government isn't fond of.