So apparently Dutch Trawlers also spoof their locations. They then sneak into danish waters and trawl the areas (beam trawling which partly destroys the fishing areas, and makes future fishing worse). My posting fu sucks though, so if you are interested you will have to google it....

R&D costs are generally not the bulk of the basic price. The trouble in R&D is usually the time investment. You have to find a basic molecule or similar that does something. Then you have to find which one does it best. The expensive part comes from the testing, called Trials. The most expensive Trial (Phase 3) can run anywhere between 40 mio USD up to several billion.

The last article was talking about how much money the fifa organisation got from the deal. A common gripe with these ea sports games is that most of the money earned from players go to licensing deals, not to actually making the games good or even just better. You often see up coming game companies creating similar games that are much better, since they actually have to care about gameplay and content. Sometimes they then get the licensing deal afterwards. (Example is cyanide studios who created a knock off blood bowl game, and then later created the real game)

They generally have multiple different skills and can have varying levels of them. This goes for both the fifa game as well as NFL and basketball. Probably also ice hockey. The skills are like speed, acceleration, passing skills and so on. I cannot recall the exact scale, but something like 0-100.

There are probably more rocket scientists in California than in most of the rest of the world. Also, the closer you are to the equator, the cheaper your launch becomes....in that way California is pretty neat. Most other places close to the equator does not contain major cities and industrial Center's...

As I understand it, of the total matter in our sun is around 99,8% of all the matter in the solar system.
Extrapolating that, the total amount of matter in planets, in the entire galaxy would be less than 1%.

As I recall it, the estimates for the "missing" dark matter is around 30% of all matter...That seems above the ability of a couple of planets to explain...

I have posted arithmetics on this previously and it is simply not true that it doesn't scale up.
The point is to introduce a tax that matches with your UBI breaking point.
You look at the average income in the country. Then you look at the amount of UBI you wish. Then you calculate what tax would cover it. And then you apply.

The result is that people on the breaking line will pay as much in tax as they receive in UBI. The ones below see an income increase, and the ones a bove an income decrease.
The arithmetics are very simply. And yes, if you look at abolute numbers, the large figures may scare you. But there is really no difference in doing this in Luxembourg, versus China. Except that the inherent cost will (as a percentage) be smaller in China, since more people will pay for the "single" bureaucrat who will run the system.

Now, I am not into the current US tax system. But in my EU country this would simply be an additional tax (put in "subtractive" percentage) and an added additive lump sum. The computer systems handling taxes already exists. Simply add as needed.

Why do you think there is a shortage?

As far as I can see the newest Hyundai Ioniq 5 (and maybe the tesla superchargers?) they recharge around 400km/250 miles in around 15 minutes. That is roughly 80% charge. As far as I understand they adivse that you don't charge up to 100% unless you do it slowly. The supercharging on the road is where you only fill up part of the battery, and then recharge more often....

It may be better in the sense that you can "treat" any disease, but you definitely pay through the nose for it.
There were recently some articles in the newspapers here in Denmark that talked a lot about people collecting a lot of money through donations to go to the US to get some obscure treatment for some more or less unknown disease. So some variations of "welfare tourists" definitely exists.
The problem is of course that our own healthcare system has not seen any proof that the medicine actually works. So yes, you can get anything in the US (and pay), but often it is not proven to be effective at all.

Also an important point is that the US is one of the most populous countries in the world. And it is definitely the most populous western nation. As such it will see a larger share of rare and obscure diseases.

Denmark does the same. Also imports from Brazil. Any guesses where some of the wood comes from? Also I seriously doubt that biomass is fully scaleable. If more countries start doing it, even Canada and the US cannot keep up with production. And then you have the same situation as in Brazil, where they chop more wood, than they plant. And then it definitely isn't sustainable...

It IS a right wing/left wing thing. But since the US doesn't really have a left wing (as compared to Europe) all US politics is basically based on right wing politics. So the left wing policy of inheritance tax, is not as visible...

No, I'm from europe. We see things pretty differently over here....

And there IS a big difference in not earning as much, and actually spending stuff. It's much much much more difficult to actually hand out cash, than to give some "free" money away. Which is what monopolies often do, where they "give away for free!!!!" and cut the margins in one part of the business, in order to make more money in another part of the business. The classical example is obviously the old TANSTAFL - There aint no such thing as free lunch. If you get something for free, they obviously make the money somewhere else.

Stupid auto correct. Meant k-mart

I think you are looking at it from the wrong perspective.

First up they will not be spending money, they will just not be making as much, if they give free stuff.

Secondly, if we look at it like a house, you have to look at it like what if Wal-Mart owns your house, and you are renting it.
If you go out the South door, which happens to lead directly to a local Wal-Mart, that door is free to exit.
But if you use the north door, which goes to I-mate, or the east door, which goes to quicky-mart, then you have to pay 10 dollars extra...