We have the minutes of the Constitutional Congresses, where in discussion of the 2nd, they debated self-defense and specifically and intentionally left self-defense out of the Bill of Rights. IOW, it is clear historically that the 2nd has nothing whatsoever to do with self-defense (or violent crime, property crime, hunting, target practice, shooting competition nor gun collecting). The 2nd concerns militia. Right of self-defense is far more fundamental and existed long before the Constitution. The Founders were not superfluous when enumerating rights.

First of all, Fukushima is not a new design, but more or less the same old design all fission reactors use. The reason the fission plants used were chosen when nuclear energy was developed is because, even as outrageously astronomically expensive as nuclear fission power plants are, they are the least expensive of all nuclear power plant designs. The only problem with nuclear power, yesterday's and today's fission reactors, is they are far too expensive, always have been, always require massive government funding to be built, and therefore can not attract investors because they do not turn a profit, and never have. When you straw man the new nuclear power designs, the breeder reactors and Thorium plants, what you are doing is suggesting a far more expensive solution for power generation. That's not a solution.

The market will kill commercial nuclear. Solar has already passed parity with nuclear produced electricity cost, and all the other electricity generation methods (clean or otherwise) have always cost less than nuclear. Nuclear fission will still have a place in special circumstances, for military and portable civilian generators, and humans may sink a few more mind-boggling fortunes into maybe a dozen more commercial fission plants, but none of the awesome clever new nuclear power designs will ever be built because they would cost far more than the already unaffordable old timey fission plants.

The 16th Amendment was not passed to allow an income tax. An income tax is merely a tax like any other, and Congress could always legally tax income.

US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Cause 1:

The purpose of the 16th Amendment was to allow Congress to tax ("income" is incidental) without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.

And fwiw the 16th is not the most misunderstood Amendment... that would be the 2nd. Everyone seems to think they have a right to carry derived from the 2nd, when in fact all the 2nd provides them is the right to selflessly die protecting their neighbor from tyranny. Their rights to carry comes from their stare laws, not the US Constitution.. The NRA is collapsing under financial scandal, but their lies will persist forever.

Opiate crises killed 47,000 Americans in 2017. Compare J&J to VW, who killed no one with Dieselgate, being fined $14.7B and counting. Amount J&J ordered paid is insulting.. $0.05B is a tiny fraction of what it ought to be, considering more than half a million US dead from aggressive marketing since 2000. Fines for J&J and related organizations intentionally pushing opiate addiction here should start at half a billion dollars.

The punishment of VW was insane. It was like blaming VW cars for all air pollution, and if true might have been just. I think if you took every VW ever made and calculated all the air pollution they produced, it would be less than a single glass factory, cement factory, or supertanker produces in a week. Cars really hardly contribute next to the actual producers of air pollution.

VW probably produced the best diesels ever made, and they got screwed, and many of their customers got screwed. Whomever deemed the difference between the settings actually germane to actual air pollution are morons, and whomever decided the fines were in any way related to the severity of the infraction beyond merely failing the design is cruel and unfair. No one died. No one lost their life-savings. Generally cheating a test is failing the test, and that is also its common just punishment.

Compare the fines VW was forced to pay to what other companies payed with similar fines, and pay attention to why they were fined. VW did not cause ecological disaster, yet they were punished as though they were.

In fact there are countless ways to calculate pretty much anything. In this case, there are so many groups of variables with such vast possible fluctuations that final total product run cost might have a range into the millions of dollars. But one should see pretty quickly that, presuming say total cost of $500K for viable product, 10000 units, and 150k, it really tells you nothing of any actionable value to know that it cost you 3.33333 ten thousandths of a cent per byte. Maybe the memory chip is different between 50K and 250K, that one is smaller or something, or cheaper, but I can imagine there might be only one choice, and it likely does not matter nor is there a figure of importance to consider.

tl;dr your code does not matter.

This is true for all coders, and though there are programmers that matter, it has nothing to do with their code, and there is cod that matters, but it has nothing to do with the coder. May I respectfully suggest you delay your capital ambitions for a half a year of therapy to identify and correct your personality disorder before trying again without inappropriately inquiring from... such an elite resource that is limited and has little time for questions that are so obviously wrongheaded. But don't worry or be concerned, someone will likely help you, but where will it end? Better deal with it sooner than later. I studied computer scientist, so do not take my lousy opinion too seriously, as I know little of programming, and nothing about computers. I know, instead, why you won't win the lottery, and most likely your business will fail (as is true of all new business). But I can also wish you luck. Keep at it and good luck.

I say Bill Pullman is the living gold standard for Hollywood actors. There are actors with finer skill, say, Laurence Olivier, Orson Wells, Daniel Day Lewis, Christian Bale, but saying so says little. How much better can they be than Bill Pullman? Some, but not too much. IOW if an actor is as good an actor as Bill Pullman, they are then a quality actor, worthy of their career.

The timing of the release of Zero Effect was Pullman's bad luck or he would have had his own golden era of staring roles in blockbusters. I really hope there is a sequel someday for Zero Effect. I also want to see new Bill Pullman movies, sleepers or supporting roles or whatever. He is my very favorite actor and a consummate professional.

Vaping and even smoking nearly always exists hand in hand with larger than ordinary ego. Address the ego issues, and the compulsion to breath out plumes like a devil or dragon subsides immensely. Ego is greatly inflated in individuals that mod vapes from safe amperages to absurd and inherently dangerous levels. Safe usages of Li–ion cells takes education and the adoption of best practices. Otherwise the occasion of poof becomes inevitable. Pulling 50A out of a cell rated for 20A (which will already be a higher quality cell) is asking for thermal runaway and close proximity chemical explosion resulting in facial lacerations, burns and shattered glass and metal and burns in the mouth, throat and lungs. "But it looks so cool! Look everybody, my dragon breath is so much thicker than yours!" Abuse a Li-ion cell, and it will abuse, maim and kill you. They bring down airliners.

blindseer, it is not a matter of want, it is a matter of economics. Long before the cost of building a nuclear power plant was $10B, it has never been possible to build even one without the massive resources of a nation state like the US, USSR, Russia, China, India or Pakistan. Nuclear power has never been profitable once all costs are considered, and now with $10B in upfront capital, the investors interested are nowhere. And fission heavy water was chosen because it is the least expensive method of nuclear power. Nuclear power will remain in special circumstances, but otherwise, every other method of generating electricity will remain far cheaper. But don't take my word for it, pay attention to nuclear interests from now on... no group of investors will ever build one, only nation states, and all will be boondoggles without any ability to cover their costs.

Longtime AC, made this account just to school you. Should you really be so facetious about something you have never heard of? Remember your Wittgenstein, whereof one does not know, thereof one cannot speak. I won't list names of universities with legitimate graduate programs, but I will tell you, absolutely, the curriculum exists and it is valid and has 2 basic tracts, MA and MS, the first being along the lines of detailed history of technology (often combined with history and/or philosophy of science) and the other being a jack-of-all-existing-tech, the wide-ranging scientific knowledge of technology or specialized technology. This program would cap undergraduate degrees in either humanities, the history of inventions, HoS, or any BA whatsoever, and/or undergrad degree in engineering, physics, biology, computer science, math, whatever BS you got. Though not massively popular, it is a rather important study, because otherwise our modern society would be doomed to be users of tech with no knowledge of it's origin or the underlying science that allows it to work. So laugh it up, fuzzball.