Provide much less energy than fusion energy from the sun because there is a finite amout of the stuff in the ground. Same for uranium.

What about all the eagles killed by trucks, trains, cars and high buildings?

So, should there be freedom for enemies of freedom?

That really is an essential question.

There's a related question, which is what to do about people who don't want "freedom" -- those who oppose democracy and equality and want to live under another system.

Yeah I do a lot of walking as well. Also I worked for our state road authority for a time, so the architecture and firmware of the city of sort of burned into my brain.

These days people seem to expect to be vectored in on their destination by phone,

Our ancestors used to run all day to wear their dinner down to the point where they could catch and kill it. By comparison bike riding is easy on the metabolism. My commute is around 26 km/day but one day I would like to try something a bit more challenging.

But ask a bike rider how to get from point to point by train...

A friend of mine let the battery run down on his WRX. He had to truck it to the Subaru dealer to have it rebooted.

And Hamburg is known as the birthplace of the hamburger, which is made from beef, which is raised in large quantities in Texas, and the most prosecution-friendly venue for patent lawsuits in the US is East Texas...

Aha! We've found the causal link!

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But now I wonder what the basic legal trends are for the Frankfurt regional court. :-P

Cheers,

Whether it's electronics manufacture, or oil and gas extraction. There's only so far you can push any technology.

Oh, and by the way, there's no such thing as magic. No Santa. No Jesus. No Tooth Fairy. No infinite power supplies. No infinite computer resources. No infinite supply of money that everyone takes seriously.

Time to grow up kids.

Correct, but at least you can make the wrong slightly more convenient. If you're going to force me to buy a product that I neither want nor need, the least you can do is pick it out for me, purchase it for me, and just let me deal with the bill.

One of my biggest objections to Obamacare as it has been implemented in Oregon so far, is I don't have 164 hours of my life to give away to downloading a 19 page PDF, to print out, fill out, send in, get the wrong one back, get my identity stolen by the prison inmate doing data entry, get the right one back, pick a plan, get told it's the wrong plan, get a guess on what my subsidy will be, pay the wrong amount, have to write 6 checks to pay the right amount, only to get fined in the end because they lost the paperwork.

Yeah, exactly. Get him a job with a real employer, like one that pays a living wage.

Nelson Mandela proven to be a member of the Communist Party after decades of denial

Who owns the prison? Most of them have been privatized now.

I'd say that is the ideal situation. The methodology of Obamacare is that you are forced to buy a product. Identity thieves buy the product for you, and get a bonus from the insurance company for signing you up. A win-win-lose out of a system that was previously lose-lose.