Opiates are far more purified than Cannabinoids and far more addictive. Russia is right above Afghanistan which is the world capital of Opium production. The US equivalent of this would be legalizing of Cocaine, not marijuana.
That is not true, women's cycle is disrupted by lack of light etc. Women living underground without sunlight mess up their sleep cycle and their menstrual cycle. Then there is the fact that the timing can be broken by events on earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClintock_effect) rather than in the moon.
It seems like women's body count 1-28 circadian cycles to form a pseudo-lunar cycle, rather than it being on an independent cycle.
Longer version of the story is this
The fed announces the decision at 2 pm (EST). But press people are taken to a safe room ten minutes in advance and told the contents of the Fed release. They have 10 minutes to prepare their brief. Them and the editors are banned from communicating this to the outside world before 2pm.
Probably what happened is that a press guy communicated the announcement with his editor with the understanding that the news will not be released until 2pm. The editor probably spread the news to multiple locations, again with the 2pm restriction. The editor held his side of the agreement, and released it at 2pm (EST) in Chicago.
The news was legally released at 2pm, but just location shifted. They probably did not break the letter of the agreement. Of course, the slobs on Wall Street got creamed, if they were hoping that they could trade faster than Chicago by a millisecond.
This is one rare case in real life where the agreement should have used the relativistic definition of time-space and have the agreement describe the time co-ords for release for each location. But then, since New York is closer to DC than Chicago (an Philly even more so), it would be advantaging some locations more than others.
All the interesting bits are in the end of the linked article. They should have put that up at the beginning instead of putting quotes from scientists up at the top.
The amplitudohedron is a n-dimensional object. Each interaction has an amplitudohedron of some sort. The volume of this amplitudohedron describes the output of the interaction. This simplifies calculation and does not need virtual particles etc. as intermediate steps. The mast amplitudohedron is a shape in infinite dimensions which describe the mass of the entire universe (or mass + energy, since it describes the amplitude.).
spying on citizens violates our constitutional rights, while non-citizens don't have constitutional rights
Hence the first few lines of the constitution saying "U.S. Government grants all citizens these following constitutional rights (not void where not applicable)." . NOT.
Don't confuse the negative enumeration of rights in US constitution with the constitution of many other countries (eg. India) which treats the government as the source of these protected rights (positive rights).
This is exactly how the case method used in many business schools (notably Harvard) works.
There is a case assigned for each class and students read/watch videos related to the class. They formulate a solution to the problem. In class the group discusses it or listens to a lecture from someone who actually worked in the company in the case or is involved directly with the issue.
Often the class arrives at a solution together which is very different from what they had thought before they came to the class.Some stick to their original opinion. etc.
This works great for problems in business or in engineering design where there is no single ideal solution. If you have to design a sailboat to race , you have multiple choices, catamaran, windsails, mutiple sails etc. If each student designs his/her own ideal boat and an actual boat designer who actually built a boat for racing tells you why this would/ would not work, it approximates on the job training.
You should read the grand parent post before getting angry at the parent post. The GP post bought in race and implied that (Black) Obama was out to oppress everyone, not just the black.
That was a very good flame bait/troll . It drifted the discussion off from surveillance to both partisan politics and race in one post.
Now you are just feeding him.
No it is not!
By doing something badly they
1) Lost a bunch of money
2) Lost opportunity (in terms of time) to spend all that money on something that would have succeeded, like say, make MS Office work properly on a touch-screen only device or even something simpler like make bing better.
3) Lost any chance that any one would trust the company when they exit and re-enter the market later on. MSFT made windows phones long before Apple did. The poorly executed design earlier on caused them to wait too long to come out with the new Windows Phone -- HP for example released a phone years before MSFT, which with MSFT's marketing muscle would have been a success. Same with Zune and its many DRM schemes.
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The investors are so happy Ballmer is leaving that the stock is up 10%. Last time this happened was when Carly was fired from HP and the stock rose.
It is funny that the value of MSFT with Ballmer in it is $20 Billion less than MSFT without Ballmer in it!
More important than that, those people are dead. The Germans today were not even alive for most part during 1945. Why blame the current generation when they only happened to be born in the same geographical location and share no beliefs with the older generation? Many were not even born in the same country (East / West Germany) or the same constitution.
The present Germans I know are mostly just ashamed that they and their country is associated with Hitler.
Salmon Rushdie moved to USA for freedom ? Sounds fishy to me Salman Rusdie lived UK from 1989 when to book was published and was in hiding there until 2000. It was only later that he moved to USA.
You must not have met any Germans
I had a German teacher years ago. She walked into the class and asked what the first thing that came to our minds when Germany was mentioned was. I jumped in with Rammstein (the band) a microsecond before the rest of the class jumped in with Hitler. I was on her favorites list for the rest of the year.
The Germans don't put out flags outside their houses, don't send armies off to strange lands, don't do national anthems or celebrate Germany (except in soccer games). Spanish are rather smug about Columbus etc. but at least they let the South Americans into their country far more easily than US does. All of Eastern Europe is full of un-smug countries too -- if anything their pride sounds like pride a Philadelphian might take in their city than a nationalistic one. Dutch are easygoing, Nordic countries are rather welcoming (if you eat their food). OK, The French are a bit smug (or don't speak English very well - can't say for sure), and the British are rather proud of their colonial past but otherwise most of Europe is rather quiet.
That is not too bad if you combine with "camperdave"s comment that interviews work better.
Suppose interviews with family etc. work at 86% accuracy and the errors in that are independent of errors in polygraph. In that case interviews + polygraph give you a combined 2% error rate (for false negatives, which are the dangerous ones in case of terrorists). False positives do go up a lot to about quarter of the initial population, but if you have a large enough population to work with, you do not suffer in terms of quality when it comes to the final selected population of spooks.
People who fail polygraph tests, who are too short or look ugly are not a protected class - so you can legally discriminate against them. Is it justified? I am not too sure.
Indeed one would think so.
But the document cites at least a few court cases where the items "relevant" to the investigation are interpreted very broadly.(Ctrl-F for Oppenheimer or Shell in the document to get the case info)
It seems the government has released the legal justification http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/08/10/us/politics/10obama-surveillance-documents.html?hp&_r=0
It seems to go like this
1) The Feds cannot legally read letters
2) But metadata collection is legal (by court rulings). i.e. addresses written on the letters are fair game. Stretching this, collecting metadata on calls (from:, to:, length of call) is legal. Same goes for emails.
3) But it is not easy to just collect metadata. So they collect everything and then delete all the "data" and retain metadata on every call.
4) Some section of patriot act authorized collection of even more data using secret courts when the issue is foreign intelligence or terrorism related. So as long as calls are cross border or of a suspected terrorist, the calls can be recorded.The broad scope of the warrant ensures this. Since there is a secret warrant backing this, this is not unconstitutional.
5) The same secret warrant covers compelling private businesses to monitor users etc.
6) Once intelligence is collected, FBI etc. can be notified.
Not saying all this is right, but this is my reading of the document.
I wasn't trying to claim anything about absolute privacy of letters. Just trying to explain the issue of how there was a law that said letters are private (meaning government is by constitution prevented from reading it) which was later interpreted by courts to mean contents of the letter are private, which, in the manner I pointed out above affects the topic under discussion.
This privacy has not been held to mean that a letter sent through Fedex is private under the constitution. It may be private by the contract with Fedex (such that Fedex cannot tell ebay what Amazon items are being sold the most etc.). Traditionally what it has meant is that the Government is restricted from opening and reading letters. Courts have sometimes ruled the "letters" to include packages and some forms of electronic communications.
Again, Constitution restricts only the government, not the private companies. Private companies generally do not have armies and they are not immune to prosecution (unlike the Federal Government as an entity).
They are right when they make a decision (because our constitution pretty much pronounces that to be the case) and
they are just as right when they overturn their prior decisions, as they frequently do.
They are just a bunch of people. They make mistakes too , better that they correct it rather than sticking to their (or their predecessors) wrong view point.
Anyway, all the courts really do is to ensure that laws are interpreted and applied consistently. They cannot ensure that the laws are correct or that they are always mutually consistent. i.e. if the congress made a law that says 1+1=3, the court says that it is OK and that the country has to interpret it as such. Later if the congress says 1+1=5, then the court has to either invalidate both laws or find one to be wrong.
Good example is the metadata issue. Courts ruled earlier on that addresses on the envelope were not secret and could be searched by the government. But everything inside the envelope was obviously private. It seems like the executive branch has stretched that interpretation to mean that metadata of emails are public (i.e. from:, to: etc.) even if the email never left a service provider (an email from hotmail to hotmail never goes through any public server, but government collects it anyway). Now the court has to either re-interpret the law or provide more detail on what the court meant earlier in the 1800s when they said that addresses are not private.
"The integrity of this once-complicated ecosystem has been slowly breaking down, which is what happens when you try to grow coffee like corn."
This sentence is wrong in so many ways. Coffee is an old world plant, originally from Africa. Dutch took it to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) and planted it (on the way to Indonesia). It was there that Rust started infecting Coffee plants and this started in the early 1900s or before.
Later on Robusta was discovered as a plant that was resistant to rust and fruits faster but produces slightly more acidic tasting coffee. This avoided the destruction of Coffee plantation, but Rust had spread all throughout Asia by WW2. By 1960s it was found in Latin America. Brazil mostly made Robusta, so they were never affected by Rust as much as others - which is the reason for all the bad mouthing they get. They do make inferior coffee (unless you want an espresso) but the real reason they are hated is that they do well when others do badly.
There was no complicated Coffee ecosystem in Latin America. The birds have learned to nest in between coffee shrubs instead of trees and some have learned to eat coffee beans, but that is not a complex ecosystem. And an ecosystem is supposed to have a few predators. In this case an Asian disease attacking an African plant grown in Latin America is pretty complex, AFAIK.
Then there is the issue of Corn. Corn is a South American plant and has been grown there for millennia.Growing a native plant should form a more complex ecosystem than an imported one.
Yes sure they can make an exception, but where would you then get the gas from ? You probably have to mix in lead directly in at the carb or something...
One thing that is known about Google is that it always keeps a record of the location an account was created in. If you created a Google account in Pakistan and moved to US for 10 years and then deleted all your emails at end of 10 years and then logged in to the account from UK, Google still will remember that this account was tied to a Pakistani user.
Maybe they use it to determine nationality ? Or maybe they assume you are an alien unless proved otherwise (credit cards, mobile numbers etc.?)
The issue is not with airlines (which use Jet fuel) or with Commercial operations (mostly using newer engines). It is with the flight schools and other General Aviation users.
The problem with leaded fuels is not really that technology to use unleaded is not available, but that most of the General Aviation Fleet that is flying is older technology. Majority of the GA fleet are from 1970's or 80's when Cessna and Piper dominated the market. Then came lawsuits (frivolous and otherwise) and most of the manufacturers filed for bankruptcy. The airplanes from the 90s tend to be mostly homebuilt. Post 2000s a lot of the companies came back from bankruptcy and started making airplanes again. The only problem is that a new Piper costs about $200K while a perfectly usable 1970s Piper with overhauled engine and modern avionics is only about $30K. Airplanes last a lot longer than cars if regularly maintained. So most flying crafts tend to be old.
So these older planes which were designed for leaded gas get recertified for low lead gas, but can never use unleaded.
Newer aircrafts tend to do two things, 1) Run on motor gas (mostly involves certifying for unleaded gasoline) . This has the nice side effect that the gas tends to be about 30% cheaper.
2) Run on Diesel/Jet Fuel / Kerosine - In this case it sidesteps the entire lead problem and also avoids using spark plugs (depending on the design). Fuel availability is a lot better, though not always cheaper.
One easy solution is to make unleaded mandatory for any Light Sport aircraft (which tend to be the newer airplanes built) and to increase a fee imposed while overhauling older engines (which get done every 1000 hours).
That said, this move would permanently ground the WW2 display fleet that is currently flyable and a bunch of old Piper Cubs and Ercoupes. But they are all pre-ww2, so not a big loss I guess.
This sort of thing routinely gets tried and often enough ends up in disaster.
When India got independence, (some) muslims decided they needed a new country. That ended up forming an east and west pakistan out of India. That resulted in millions being killed in the movement of people and riots that broke out. Later when East and West Pakistan split into differing countries, that killed a few millions.
Similar thing with break-up of soviet union. Czechoslovakia broke-up and a few thousands were killed.
Some people didn't want others in Sudan and in the movement out a few thousands were killed.
Heck, even the voluntary movement of immigrants from Southern America to USA and from Africa to Europe routinely kills people. What makes you think a few million people picking up and leaving will be any good for USA?
And if it turns out you are in the minority (majority wants USA to be like Europe), where will you go ? Mexico?
Looks like a cigarette disposal unit you would find at a European airport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ash_Trash_Receptacle.tif).
Maybe they are hoping that a subliminal addiction would kick in, now that the reality distortion field does not work as well?
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Opiates are far more purified than Cannabinoids and far more addictive. Russia is right above Afghanistan which is the world capital of Opium production. The US equivalent of this would be legalizing of Cocaine, not marijuana.
Hah! Best smack-down on /. ever (tied with when NYCountryLawyer used to reply to stories about himself).
That is not true, women's cycle is disrupted by lack of light etc. Women living underground without sunlight mess up their sleep cycle and their menstrual cycle. Then there is the fact that the timing can be broken by events on earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClintock_effect) rather than in the moon.
It seems like women's body count 1-28 circadian cycles to form a pseudo-lunar cycle, rather than it being on an independent cycle.
Longer version of the story is this
The fed announces the decision at 2 pm (EST). But press people are taken to a safe room ten minutes in advance and told the contents of the Fed release. They have 10 minutes to prepare their brief. Them and the editors are banned from communicating this to the outside world before 2pm.
Probably what happened is that a press guy communicated the announcement with his editor with the understanding that the news will not be released until 2pm. The editor probably spread the news to multiple locations, again with the 2pm restriction. The editor held his side of the agreement, and released it at 2pm (EST) in Chicago.
The news was legally released at 2pm, but just location shifted. They probably did not break the letter of the agreement. Of course, the slobs on Wall Street got creamed, if they were hoping that they could trade faster than Chicago by a millisecond.
This is one rare case in real life where the agreement should have used the relativistic definition of time-space and have the agreement describe the time co-ords for release for each location. But then, since New York is closer to DC than Chicago (an Philly even more so), it would be advantaging some locations more than others.
All the interesting bits are in the end of the linked article. They should have put that up at the beginning instead of putting quotes from scientists up at the top.
The amplitudohedron is a n-dimensional object. Each interaction has an amplitudohedron of some sort. The volume of this amplitudohedron describes the output of the interaction. This simplifies calculation and does not need virtual particles etc. as intermediate steps. The mast amplitudohedron is a shape in infinite dimensions which describe the mass of the entire universe (or mass + energy, since it describes the amplitude.).
spying on citizens violates our constitutional rights, while non-citizens don't have constitutional rights
Hence the first few lines of the constitution saying "U.S. Government grants all citizens these following constitutional rights (not void where not applicable)." . NOT.
Don't confuse the negative enumeration of rights in US constitution with the constitution of many other countries (eg. India) which treats the government as the source of these protected rights (positive rights).
This is exactly how the case method used in many business schools (notably Harvard) works.
There is a case assigned for each class and students read/watch videos related to the class. They formulate a solution to the problem. In class the group discusses it or listens to a lecture from someone who actually worked in the company in the case or is involved directly with the issue.
Often the class arrives at a solution together which is very different from what they had thought before they came to the class.Some stick to their original opinion. etc.
This works great for problems in business or in engineering design where there is no single ideal solution. If you have to design a sailboat to race , you have multiple choices, catamaran, windsails, mutiple sails etc. If each student designs his/her own ideal boat and an actual boat designer who actually built a boat for racing tells you why this would/ would not work, it approximates on the job training.
OK. What about
All absolute statements about security are false
If the above is a statement about security, it is false.Hence it is true.
You should read the grand parent post before getting angry at the parent post. The GP post bought in race and implied that (Black) Obama was out to oppress everyone, not just the black.
That was a very good flame bait/troll . It drifted the discussion off from surveillance to both partisan politics and race in one post.
Now you are just feeding him.
No it is not!
By doing something badly they
1) Lost a bunch of money
2) Lost opportunity (in terms of time) to spend all that money on something that would have succeeded, like say, make MS Office work properly on a touch-screen only device or even something simpler like make bing better.
3) Lost any chance that any one would trust the company when they exit and re-enter the market later on. MSFT made windows phones long before Apple did. The poorly executed design earlier on caused them to wait too long to come out with the new Windows Phone -- HP for example released a phone years before MSFT, which with MSFT's marketing muscle would have been a success. Same with Zune and its many DRM schemes.
The investors are so happy Ballmer is leaving that the stock is up 10%. Last time this happened was when Carly was fired from HP and the stock rose.
It is funny that the value of MSFT with Ballmer in it is $20 Billion less than MSFT without Ballmer in it!
More important than that, those people are dead. The Germans today were not even alive for most part during 1945. Why blame the current generation when they only happened to be born in the same geographical location and share no beliefs with the older generation? Many were not even born in the same country (East / West Germany) or the same constitution.
The present Germans I know are mostly just ashamed that they and their country is associated with Hitler.
Salmon Rushdie moved to USA for freedom ? Sounds fishy to me
Salman Rusdie lived UK from 1989 when to book was published and was in hiding there until 2000. It was only later that he moved to USA.
You must not have met any Germans
I had a German teacher years ago. She walked into the class and asked what the first thing that came to our minds when Germany was mentioned was. I jumped in with Rammstein (the band) a microsecond before the rest of the class jumped in with Hitler. I was on her favorites list for the rest of the year.
The Germans don't put out flags outside their houses, don't send armies off to strange lands, don't do national anthems or celebrate Germany (except in soccer games). Spanish are rather smug about Columbus etc. but at least they let the South Americans into their country far more easily than US does. All of Eastern Europe is full of un-smug countries too -- if anything their pride sounds like pride a Philadelphian might take in their city than a nationalistic one. Dutch are easygoing, Nordic countries are rather welcoming (if you eat their food).
OK, The French are a bit smug (or don't speak English very well - can't say for sure), and the British are rather proud of their colonial past but otherwise most of Europe is rather quiet.
That is not too bad if you combine with "camperdave"s comment that interviews work better.
Suppose interviews with family etc. work at 86% accuracy and the errors in that are independent of errors in polygraph. In that case interviews + polygraph give you a combined 2% error rate (for false negatives, which are the dangerous ones in case of terrorists). False positives do go up a lot to about quarter of the initial population, but if you have a large enough population to work with, you do not suffer in terms of quality when it comes to the final selected population of spooks.
People who fail polygraph tests, who are too short or look ugly are not a protected class - so you can legally discriminate against them. Is it justified? I am not too sure.
Indeed one would think so. But the document cites at least a few court cases where the items "relevant" to the investigation are interpreted very broadly.(Ctrl-F for Oppenheimer or Shell in the document to get the case info)
It seems the government has released the legal justification http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/08/10/us/politics/10obama-surveillance-documents.html?hp&_r=0
It seems to go like this
1) The Feds cannot legally read letters
2) But metadata collection is legal (by court rulings). i.e. addresses written on the letters are fair game. Stretching this, collecting metadata on calls (from:, to:, length of call) is legal. Same goes for emails.
3) But it is not easy to just collect metadata. So they collect everything and then delete all the "data" and retain metadata on every call.
4) Some section of patriot act authorized collection of even more data using secret courts when the issue is foreign intelligence or terrorism related. So as long as calls are cross border or of a suspected terrorist, the calls can be recorded.The broad scope of the warrant ensures this. Since there is a secret warrant backing this, this is not unconstitutional.
5) The same secret warrant covers compelling private businesses to monitor users etc.
6) Once intelligence is collected, FBI etc. can be notified.
Not saying all this is right, but this is my reading of the document.
I wasn't trying to claim anything about absolute privacy of letters.
Just trying to explain the issue of how there was a law that said letters are private (meaning government is by constitution prevented from reading it) which was later interpreted by courts to mean contents of the letter are private, which, in the manner I pointed out above affects the topic under discussion.
This privacy has not been held to mean that a letter sent through Fedex is private under the constitution. It may be private by the contract with Fedex (such that Fedex cannot tell ebay what Amazon items are being sold the most etc.). Traditionally what it has meant is that the Government is restricted from opening and reading letters. Courts have sometimes ruled the "letters" to include packages and some forms of electronic communications.
Again, Constitution restricts only the government, not the private companies. Private companies generally do not have armies and they are not immune to prosecution (unlike the Federal Government as an entity).
They are right when they make a decision (because our constitution pretty much pronounces that to be the case) and they are just as right when they overturn their prior decisions, as they frequently do.
They are just a bunch of people. They make mistakes too , better that they correct it rather than sticking to their (or their predecessors) wrong view point.
Anyway, all the courts really do is to ensure that laws are interpreted and applied consistently. They cannot ensure that the laws are correct or that they are always mutually consistent. i.e. if the congress made a law that says 1+1=3, the court says that it is OK and that the country has to interpret it as such. Later if the congress says 1+1=5, then the court has to either invalidate both laws or find one to be wrong.
Good example is the metadata issue. Courts ruled earlier on that addresses on the envelope were not secret and could be searched by the government. But everything inside the envelope was obviously private. It seems like the executive branch has stretched that interpretation to mean that metadata of emails are public (i.e. from:, to: etc.) even if the email never left a service provider (an email from hotmail to hotmail never goes through any public server, but government collects it anyway). Now the court has to either re-interpret the law or provide more detail on what the court meant earlier in the 1800s when they said that addresses are not private.
"The integrity of this once-complicated ecosystem has been slowly breaking down, which is what happens when you try to grow coffee like corn."
This sentence is wrong in so many ways. Coffee is an old world plant, originally from Africa. Dutch took it to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) and planted it (on the way to Indonesia). It was there that Rust started infecting Coffee plants and this started in the early 1900s or before.
Later on Robusta was discovered as a plant that was resistant to rust and fruits faster but produces slightly more acidic tasting coffee. This avoided the destruction of Coffee plantation, but Rust had spread all throughout Asia by WW2. By 1960s it was found in Latin America. Brazil mostly made Robusta, so they were never affected by Rust as much as others - which is the reason for all the bad mouthing they get. They do make inferior coffee (unless you want an espresso) but the real reason they are hated is that they do well when others do badly.
There was no complicated Coffee ecosystem in Latin America. The birds have learned to nest in between coffee shrubs instead of trees and some have learned to eat coffee beans, but that is not a complex ecosystem. And an ecosystem is supposed to have a few predators. In this case an Asian disease attacking an African plant grown in Latin America is pretty complex, AFAIK.
Then there is the issue of Corn. Corn is a South American plant and has been grown there for millennia.Growing a native plant should form a more complex ecosystem than an imported one.
Yes sure they can make an exception, but where would you then get the gas from ? You probably have to mix in lead directly in at the carb or something...
One thing that is known about Google is that it always keeps a record of the location an account was created in. If you created a Google account in Pakistan and moved to US for 10 years and then deleted all your emails at end of 10 years and then logged in to the account from UK, Google still will remember that this account was tied to a Pakistani user.
Maybe they use it to determine nationality ? Or maybe they assume you are an alien unless proved otherwise (credit cards, mobile numbers etc.?)
The issue is not with airlines (which use Jet fuel) or with Commercial operations (mostly using newer engines). It is with the flight schools and other General Aviation users.
The problem with leaded fuels is not really that technology to use unleaded is not available, but that most of the General Aviation Fleet that is flying is older technology. Majority of the GA fleet are from 1970's or 80's when Cessna and Piper dominated the market.
Then came lawsuits (frivolous and otherwise) and most of the manufacturers filed for bankruptcy. The airplanes from the 90s tend to be mostly homebuilt. Post 2000s a lot of the companies came back from bankruptcy and started making airplanes again. The only problem is that a new Piper costs about $200K while a perfectly usable 1970s Piper with overhauled engine and modern avionics is only about $30K. Airplanes last a lot longer than cars if regularly maintained. So most flying crafts tend to be old.
So these older planes which were designed for leaded gas get recertified for low lead gas, but can never use unleaded.
Newer aircrafts tend to do two things,
1) Run on motor gas (mostly involves certifying for unleaded gasoline) . This has the nice side effect that the gas tends to be about 30% cheaper.
2) Run on Diesel/Jet Fuel / Kerosine - In this case it sidesteps the entire lead problem and also avoids using spark plugs (depending on the design). Fuel availability is a lot better, though not always cheaper.
One easy solution is to make unleaded mandatory for any Light Sport aircraft (which tend to be the newer airplanes built) and to increase a fee imposed while overhauling older engines (which get done every 1000 hours).
That said, this move would permanently ground the WW2 display fleet that is currently flyable and a bunch of old Piper Cubs and Ercoupes. But they are all pre-ww2, so not a big loss I guess.
This sort of thing routinely gets tried and often enough ends up in disaster.
When India got independence, (some) muslims decided they needed a new country. That ended up forming an east and west pakistan out of India. That resulted in millions being killed in the movement of people and riots that broke out. Later when East and West Pakistan split into differing countries, that killed a few millions.
Similar thing with break-up of soviet union. Czechoslovakia broke-up and a few thousands were killed.
Some people didn't want others in Sudan and in the movement out a few thousands were killed.
Heck, even the voluntary movement of immigrants from Southern America to USA and from Africa to Europe routinely kills people. What makes you think a few million people picking up and leaving will be any good for USA?
And if it turns out you are in the minority (majority wants USA to be like Europe), where will you go ? Mexico?
Looks like a cigarette disposal unit you would find at a European airport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ash_Trash_Receptacle.tif).
Maybe they are hoping that a subliminal addiction would kick in, now that the reality distortion field does not work as well?