I'm trying to decide whether this makes any more sense than a square circle. 3D surface is a contradiction in terms. A surface is 2 dimensional by definition.

Only until we build a bigger telescope.

It's not really the same because anything that collides with a black hole will cease to exist. There is no way for anyone with any sort of conceivable detector to observe what no longer exists. Even if the collapsed star's gravity did not stop the photons from exiting it would effectively vanish out of existence.

After you.

It is unfortunate that we live in a society where posting a game video on youtube is seen as "unwise".

It sounds like you cannot have a serious discussion period. This kid made a little video game. That is not against the law no matter what the characters look like in it. The cop in this case is a dangerous thug and a threat to us all and our freedoms. He belongs in prison or at the very least he should lose his job. I don't think we want to rely on the judgement of some mentally retarded cop as to whether or not people get arrested for thoughtcrime.

No it does not constitute a death threat. A death threat is, "I'm going to kill you now, AC". A video game is just a video game now matter what the pixels may or may not look like.

Let me say that again. AC, I am going to murder you sometime very soon. I own a gun. An assault rifle. I am going to kill you with it. This IS going to happen. So you might want to prepare a will or something. Perhaps flee whatever country you live in as well. Just to be safe.

The only problem is that I have no idea who you are and no way to find out and I don't actually own a gun. Do you see why threats are required to be credible and why the person making the threat is expected to have some realistic means of carrying it out?

No it isn't. It's just kids being kids. It's 100% harmless. Let me get something through your head. A VIDEO GAME IS NOT REAL. Did that help?

He isn't being charged with threatening anyone. Legally threatening someone would be considered assault in most states so long as the threat is both credible and it is possible for it to be immediately carried out.

The reason for this is simple. Talk is just talk and even we cannot build enough jails to hold something like the 80% of the population that makes some kind of vague threat to someone at some point in their lives.

If the kid has a gun in his hand and says, "I'm going to kill every last one of you" that would be simple assault in most states. But if he says the same thing without any immediate means to carry it out and it doesn't seem credible then it is not asssault in most states.

I think they really need the new terrorism laws to go after someone for making non-credible threats that anyone can see is just talk. Lucky for people like you they do have such laws now. Just be careful what you say...oops did I just threaten you? I guess it could be seen that way, right? Someone is pounding on the door. I'm just going t

This is where your reasoning fails. This kid is no more likely to end up shooting someone than anyone else. You may as well arrest everyone who owns a squirt gun or who plays violent video games or who has ever used the word "gun" in a sentence. If the cop's reasoning is as you describe then he is a fucking moron.

Let me see if I am following your logic.

Outlaw all firearms. That worked well for illegal drugs and alcohol. So it will definitely work for firearms too.

Since firearms have vanished from existence due to above law there will be no more school shootings. Angry kids will have to make due with bladed weapons.

And when a school kid dies from knife wounds and it makes the national news everyone will behave 100% rationally and not overreact about it like they do now. Someone weilding an imaginary knife will not go to prison because that would just be silly, right?

By that same reasoning I guess they had better arrest everyone who plays violent video games. It's the only way to be sure.

That is becoming clear.

The problem is the lack of fuel or alternatively the impractically large size and mass of the fuel necessary to accelerate to a useful speed. So effectively we have not. The best we can do with curent tech is probably less than 0.1c and we are talking very, very large numbers of nuclear bombs and kilometer scale ships. Of course nuclear pulse ships might scale upward such that a 100 kilometer ship is capable of 0.25c etc but since we haven't yet manufactured even one it's hard to know.

Do you need to and if so why? Does someone have a gun to your head making you solve tensor calculus equations or something?

Haha. Not a kid, but I wish I were. You are right that I don't have money however. At least not by Ameican standards. At the official poverty line and all that. Even if I did have money I wouldn't throw it away on DRMed software though.

Because the private sector isn't known for invading your home at 3 AM, shooting your pets and maybe a few family members depending on how jumpy the cops are and then locking everyone in cages for years. The private sector isn't known for actually forcing you to do anything. The only power of the corporation is the power of money. Economic power. That is a far cry from the power to shoot or imprison you.

Is it against the law to have a brother who is a criminal?