I can't think of any disaster where a few hundred spinning habitats scattered about the solar system would be less survivable than a colony on Mars. Build an orbital ring, mass produce habitats and fill them, use nuclear thermal rockets to scatter them about.
You don't need to land humans, put them in orbit in a space station. That eliminates the massive biological contamination that would ruin your search for life on Mars as well as protecting humans from the nasty chemical soup on the planet, and eliminate the need for humans to travel all over the planet to explore. A basic comm sattellite system will allow a single space station to remote control stuff everywhere on the planet. Build the station in low Earth orbit, attach big booster rockets to get it to Mars.
Just passing a law making it Legal to import copyrighted or patented stuf from outside America would suffice. Selling new DVD's in China for $5 when the same sells for $30 here is barely above theft.
Fusion is dead. Even when they figure out how to make it work, it's going to cost at least 10x what solar or wind costs now and those are still getting cheaper. Fision can't produce power below 25 cents per KWH and it doesn't use massive cryogenically cooled super conducting magnets.
Self driving electric cars are going to squish the American car market like a bug on the highway. It'll be like having lots of cheap taxi's everywhere, nobody will need/want to own their own car.
The Republicans are planning on cutting medicare and social security to balance the budget, not more taxes. If anyone talks about tax increases they will eventually suggest raising taxes on the rich, and that must be avoided.
Because they already spent the money to lower emmisions, and expected to get that money back in car sales. Now their cars will cost more than cars from China that don't have those polution control costs.
The next step is removing the underlying OS from windows and loading in linux underneath a Windows command shell (kindof like what Apple did with MacOS and freebsd). That would give them a dominant share in the growing linux market at little cost, and offload most of the maintenance costs onto the open source groups.
Possibility: If Apple throws thousands of (temporary?) jobs to the USA then the American government will drop the tax on Apple imports from China. And the cities getting those (minimum wage) jobs will give tax breaks that pay for the jobs.
You know for a fact some of their coverage maps are lies. Therefore you can't trust ANY coverage map until you have independently verified ALL of them. Once you have done that you can claw back all the money paid for building out their networks with interest, plus the cost of the nation wide coverage map survey, plus fines for lying.
The Democrats are controlled by corrupt right wing politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. There is zero chance the Democrats will stand for anything before 2020, and given their inaction when Obama had control we can assume they will do nothing after.
They now have the power to prevent Trump from permanently ruining America before he leaves office in 2020. Anything he does by decree can be undone by decree by president Bernie Sanders in 2021.
Historically, the only action (most) States have managed is to ban community broadband. If you think weaker government means more power to the people history disagrees with you.
If you want NN, then join the Democrat party and primary the Republicans in sheeps clothing that are undermining the party. Once you HAVE a political opposition you'll start making progress.
The Republicans need the Democrats to pass their federal budget. Telling Trump no budget till we get network neutrality and healthcare for all should suffice. Sequestration means no money for the wall, budget cuts for the (republican) military industrial complex.
There is a concept of "Regulatory Capture". It means the industry takes control of the branch of government that regulates them. The Republican Supporters have discovered this also works with the political opposition in America. They have taken control of the Democrat party and use it as a sponge to soak up and quaranteen all ideas and ideologies they dislike, to prevent anything but the Republican Agenda from seeing the light of day. One example: Obama passed Romneycare to prevent Medicare for All.
There are 2 axis on the graph of political systems: left to right is Collective ownership / private ownership, the up/down direction is how much control the government has over people (Totalitarianism). Fascism is the merger of corporations with government (top right on graph), essentially the Republicans in a world where nobody tells Trump NO. As for economic ruin, are you suggesting Trump is a Socialist? He's certainly destroying the economy (think Argentina).
The ideal method of enforcing NN in America is for the government to own the network, and to have laws passed by Congress to define how they must run it. If a private company owns the network then the police/NSA/FBI/CIA will pay them to spy on you, just like they do now.
Ford attempted to prevent anyone but a Ford dealership from repairing the cars they sell. This was blocked by laws (actually the courts making rules...). The railroads blocked their competition, fixed by laws. It is impossible to have a free marketplace without rules.
Instead of permanently switching this gene, you have a drug that temporarily does it. Then you can adjust your body weight at will, without lasting effects.
Fascism = corporations own the government. Socialism = government own the corporations. For the poor and the middle class they look the same, for the rich and powerful it affects who to bribe.
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I can't think of any disaster where a few hundred spinning habitats scattered about the solar system would be less survivable than a colony on Mars. Build an orbital ring, mass produce habitats and fill them, use nuclear thermal rockets to scatter them about.
You don't need to land humans, put them in orbit in a space station. That eliminates the massive biological contamination that would ruin your search for life on Mars as well as protecting humans from the nasty chemical soup on the planet, and eliminate the need for humans to travel all over the planet to explore. A basic comm sattellite system will allow a single space station to remote control stuff everywhere on the planet. Build the station in low Earth orbit, attach big booster rockets to get it to Mars.
Just passing a law making it Legal to import copyrighted or patented stuf from outside America would suffice. Selling new DVD's in China for $5 when the same sells for $30 here is barely above theft.
Fusion is dead. Even when they figure out how to make it work, it's going to cost at least 10x what solar or wind costs now and those are still getting cheaper. Fision can't produce power below 25 cents per KWH and it doesn't use massive cryogenically cooled super conducting magnets.
Self driving electric cars are going to squish the American car market like a bug on the highway. It'll be like having lots of cheap taxi's everywhere, nobody will need/want to own their own car.
The Republicans are planning on cutting medicare and social security to balance the budget, not more taxes. If anyone talks about tax increases they will eventually suggest raising taxes on the rich, and that must be avoided.
Because they already spent the money to lower emmisions, and expected to get that money back in car sales. Now their cars will cost more than cars from China that don't have those polution control costs.
The next step is removing the underlying OS from windows and loading in linux underneath a Windows command shell (kindof like what Apple did with MacOS and freebsd). That would give them a dominant share in the growing linux market at little cost, and offload most of the maintenance costs onto the open source groups.
People who attempt to do that get branded as criminal caravans attacking , and probably members of a scary criminal gang and terrorists too.
Possibility: If Apple throws thousands of (temporary?) jobs to the USA then the American government will drop the tax on Apple imports from China. And the cities getting those (minimum wage) jobs will give tax breaks that pay for the jobs.
Or have the government build out the internet everywhere the corporations didn't, using that money.
Europe has universal healthcare, national daycare, welfare etc. Capitalism and Socialism are like fire: A little bit keeps you warm, a lot kills you.
I don't know how much the steel tarrif was responsible for GM closing those factories, but it must have been considered.
You know for a fact some of their coverage maps are lies. Therefore you can't trust ANY coverage map until you have independently verified ALL of them. Once you have done that you can claw back all the money paid for building out their networks with interest, plus the cost of the nation wide coverage map survey, plus fines for lying.
The Democrats are controlled by corrupt right wing politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. There is zero chance the Democrats will stand for anything before 2020, and given their inaction when Obama had control we can assume they will do nothing after.
They now have the power to prevent Trump from permanently ruining America before he leaves office in 2020. Anything he does by decree can be undone by decree by president Bernie Sanders in 2021.
Historically, the only action (most) States have managed is to ban community broadband. If you think weaker government means more power to the people history disagrees with you.
If you want NN, then join the Democrat party and primary the Republicans in sheeps clothing that are undermining the party. Once you HAVE a political opposition you'll start making progress.
The Republicans need the Democrats to pass their federal budget. Telling Trump no budget till we get network neutrality and healthcare for all should suffice. Sequestration means no money for the wall, budget cuts for the (republican) military industrial complex.
There is a concept of "Regulatory Capture". It means the industry takes control of the branch of government that regulates them. The Republican Supporters have discovered this also works with the political opposition in America. They have taken control of the Democrat party and use it as a sponge to soak up and quaranteen all ideas and ideologies they dislike, to prevent anything but the Republican Agenda from seeing the light of day. One example: Obama passed Romneycare to prevent Medicare for All.
There are 2 axis on the graph of political systems: left to right is Collective ownership / private ownership, the up/down direction is how much control the government has over people (Totalitarianism). Fascism is the merger of corporations with government (top right on graph), essentially the Republicans in a world where nobody tells Trump NO. As for economic ruin, are you suggesting Trump is a Socialist? He's certainly destroying the economy (think Argentina).
The ideal method of enforcing NN in America is for the government to own the network, and to have laws passed by Congress to define how they must run it. If a private company owns the network then the police/NSA/FBI/CIA will pay them to spy on you, just like they do now.
Ford attempted to prevent anyone but a Ford dealership from repairing the cars they sell. This was blocked by laws (actually the courts making rules...). The railroads blocked their competition, fixed by laws. It is impossible to have a free marketplace without rules.
Instead of permanently switching this gene, you have a drug that temporarily does it. Then you can adjust your body weight at will, without lasting effects.
Fascism = corporations own the government. Socialism = government own the corporations. For the poor and the middle class they look the same, for the rich and powerful it affects who to bribe.