Additionally to pump gas one need to dig tanks, permissions, certificates, etc., on the contrary to charge,... well you need to be plugged to the power grid, and who is not.
So people can charge at the malls, coffee shops, work, homes, virtually anywhere they stop. There are even projects to charge at the stop lights via induction.
Most people for most of their life will never have to bother about visiting any special stations with just the today's technology of more then 200 miles range.
For me it is a game changer - no more spilled oil in the oceans, no more wars for oil, much less CO2 in the atmosphere - well almost, but at least much less, but anyway much better, not to mention the noise pollution. A dream world. If only... the cars were not so expensive, but hopefully it will get better.
As for the review, well, we all know journalists have to make a living, controversial stories sells better, bla, bla bla, but there is a difference between facts interpretation, and a blatant lie, for me NYT is not a news source anymore, if I want entertainment I watch "The Daily Show".
I used to be a big fan of digital books, great convenience, until once the google book reader for iPad upgrade came and I was informed that my book is also on another device (I have a reader and an iPad), and the book disappeared. Sorry, but at this moment all the convenience was gone.
I am still a fan, but only not DRMed e-books, fortunately there is enough to read, and mostly much better, well if a book is still being read after a few hundred of years it means it is worth it.
Well it is pity, because I have time to read mainly when I travel, and there are books, which are worth reading, but could not have been written long time ago.
If you buy music produced in the US you buy it under the terms of the license. Don't like those terms? Buy music produced elsewhere.
It is actually a very interesting comment. Tells a lot about the mentality, and explains much all the conflicts in the world we witness, kind of surprising assumption that certain laws, even though locally agreed, should be enforced all over the world.
In this case it is sort of like every product labeled US has a statue of a US embassy, ergo within its realm the only applicable law is the US one, which is (unfortunately for some, luckily for others) not the case - it is as simple as this, going to another country you are bound by the law of this country, unless you are an ambassador or an invader.
I always thought the the whole purpose of the law is to make lives easier, decent, and respected, well ideally, at least I would expect this from US "the best country in the world" as they say. It so happens that people do travel, not only from suburbs to downtown, but also from a continent to continent, also not just as tourists. Lets imagine someone lived in the US for a while, collected a nice set of DVDs, and then moved to another continent, with a different regional code. So do you want the person to keep multiple playing devices just to be able to use what he has paid for, or to abandon his collection?
Do not answer, it was a rhetorical question, I know the answer.
Kennedy wanted a moon landing, and his successors honored his memory by following through.
The Moon landing had nothing to do with honoring Kennedy, it was about beating Russians, who had the first 'satellite', the first man orbit flight, and so on.
Bush II liked space and authorized new missions.
But he never gave money for this, it was just political talking.
That brings us down to Obama who is the first president in my memory to shut down a manned space project.
Not the first president to shut down a manned space project, but the first president since the space area with such a huge budget deficit.
incomplete efforts such as the Shuttle and some of the planetary probes
Shuttle has flows, no doubts, but it is also a manned space vehicle with many 'firsts', and also many 'only' (in a positive meaning).
Also not 'some planetary probes' - most of what we (as human race) know about the Solar System, and the Universe is thanks to NASA space exploration. NASA has done a heck more than all the rest of the world together in robotic space exploration. I am not an American, but can honestly say it.
Some day, we will sit in our yards and watch them through our Chinese-made telescopes. Look, Dad, there's the China Station! There's the European Station! There goes another Russian moon shot! And we can look back on this pivotal time in our history when we turned our back on the future and technological leadership.
But there is also another scenario possible: one day, when in other countries only a highly selected few will see the dunes of the Moon, an average American can fly for his vacation to see the Apollo 11 landing site. What I mean is that there is not enough reasoning to say that shutting down the Ares program equals the end of the US manned space flight. AFAIK NASA does not produce anything, they order they hardware from the industry anyway.
Playing strategic games taught me, that focusing on domestic problems (only), made me always being conquered by barbarians sooner or later.;-)
Human nature is to explore, also social life and responsibility for each other (despite what some claim, people are altruistic by nature, and it is proven). We are doomed to perish if we step up against either of them. They may seem to contradict, but they do not, except the need for resources, i.e. the golden center is always the best way.
Possibly will be marked as a troll, but the level of hatred and misinformation about China surprises me. The cultural revolution is a history now, the only things which are left are one party ruling system and a separate government in Taiwan. Any Chinese can start his business and make a fortune, and many indeed did so, the president of China is elected every few years (except that only party members can vote). Architecture of many Chinese cities overshadows many western ones. They have the fastest train, they sent people into space, they can openly criticize their government, they enjoy western culture: music and movies, they are very humorous people, and they do love their country. There were bad things the government did, but I see change, and a big progress. And at the end, please try to reach the sources, learn the history, also the history of your own country, before you throw a stone.
A perfect example!
Lets require them to show that they actually had lost income from the very songs during the period, i.e. before she uploaded them the income should be X higher from the very 24 songs (corrected with regard to the natural income curve from selling songs). I believe the records companies know which songs are selling, which are not. It should be very easy to show the loss of income form your hypothetical restaurant. This way a judge can decide about the reasonable penalty.
The statistics are correct, the only difference is that all 2 catastrophes happened withing the first 10 flights of Soyuz. To put it in another perspective Soyuz has 94 safe landings in a row.
Space flights indeed are dangerous and for some time to come will remain in the domain of exploration rather than tourism, but your claim that NASA has no faults in the disasters which happened is not true. Space shuttle, although an awesome looking vehicle, is inherently not safe:
it is the only man space vehicle with heat shield not protected, where any foam isolation debrees (or any other object, which happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time) can easily damage it (all other vehicles are put on top of a rocket), if it followed proven concept Columbia accident would not happen
it is the only man space vehicle without launch escape system (all other vehicles have small rockets, which take the man capsule away from a rocked in case of any early flight failures), if it followed this basic safety guidelines the astronauts from Challenger most likely would survive the catastrophe (they were still alive after the explosion)
I hear this "argument" over and over again, but I wonder whether you considered in your calculations the number of people involved in road (or eating) vs air traffic daily, and that we have already had flight checks and restrictions. Of course freedom is important, but what kind of importance "freedom" to board a plane carrying whatever you wish has to die for? How about freedom to reach your destination, to see your family?
I heard/read some people doubt the safety increase based on the screening, well, this is something we can argue about, but you literally say to give up any checks, because... "one can die anyway is so many different ways"??? Are you really advising to give up any flight check in the name of "freedom"?
It is a curiosity for me that a post with such a frivolous statement, which is not supported by any scientific data was modded as +5 insightful. Indeed we are in the age of Aquarius, when feelings and believes overshadows reason.
I would just add, that in most EU countries, one also pays royalties to the music industry buying any kind of storage (HDD, CD-R*/DVD-R*, or flash).
So My advice is to stop giving them excuse to lobby for more draconian law: do not copy illegally any content, use alternatives, use your voting power, also the money voting power. Fortunately we live in democracies, lets embrace it and use it, because slowly the law becomes insane. I moved to another DVD region, and now I cannot play my new and old movies on the same device. I cannot play movies on my computer (because the system I use is "too" user oriented). I cannot make a home movie and play it on a TV when using a computer with not too user oriented OS without HDMI. To see some movies during traveling I have to either buy another version, or carry all the DVDs I would potentially like to see. And all of these restrictions are not because of technology limits, not because I did not pay for the content, but because even though all the content I have is legal, I am still treated as a thief.
It is pity, that the wish for fame overshadows scientific correctness. Calling this "device" a black hole is like calling a bicycle a space shuttle, because both have wheels. If something is black in certain wavelength, does not mean it is a black-hole.
Not that it is not significant, it surely is, but it is more like a black microwave paint discovery.
The only problem is that we still have no protection against solar flares - ergo any long stay of humans either deep in Moon's craters or inside the Earth's protective magnetic field.
You know, there are plenty of successful space missions propelled by chemical jets, and using already proven technology for human missions has a lot of sense.
But I agree, that anything serious regarding space exploration can start with a more efficient propulsion, e.g. an operational VASIMR, which I would welcome with a great joy.
I think a much better way is to use technology to reduce the negative impact on the environment. EU leads in this matter and have noticeable results. There are technologies for clean energy change for our needs, and the most advanced countries have rather problems with shrinking population, so everything regulates itself. What is needed is the "green" culture, and education. Education because there are too many people in the news expressing opinions on topics they have little knowledge about, with arguments on the level as "I go outside and it is cold, so global warming is a hoax" - unfortunately one can hear such nonsenses on TV several times a day.
Reduced population certainly will not solve war or other conflicts (history), but education and understanding of a human nature can. Reduced population certainly will make our species more vulnerable and will slow down progress in all areas, also the very important ones.
Instead of worrying, that the horses poo will flood the cities it is better to find another mean of mass transportation.
R2 is an astromech droid - he was designed to assist in the operation of small spacecraft. He is well suited for trundling around flight decks - he was not meant to go up and down stairs, and it's a credit to his character that he performed his duty in desert and swamp. He doesn't speak english because he speaks astromech - sentients who fly or work with spacecraft will understand astromech. Speech synthesis is unnecessary to his function... are you unhappy that your perl compiler doesn't speak in plain english?
I would add that for sure its memory was limited, and as being astro-robot for sure it is better to store astro data (for which there is never enough memory) than "Yes sir" in 6 millions forms of communication.
Stormtrooper Uniforms
Yeah, OK, storm trooper armor is useless.
Not necessarily. The stormtroopers where not only to fight with another army, but also to keep order, kind of police, and the armor for sure was helpful when taking control over riots. Also helpful when establishing posts in not very friendly places (with a lot of predators).
On the other hand having helmet and armor had a psychological effect for both their enemies (not necessarily soldiers), and themselves (have you ever heard of the Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment?) - they were genetically modified clones, but still humans.
Sarlaac
Doodle-bugs (antlions) and sea anenomes rely on this same technique, and as the skeleton from ANH illustrates, Tatooine has megafauna prey.
There was nothing in the movie about living for thousand years, just about being digested for thousand years.
Plus, how do you get around the fact that Luke killed way more people by destroying the Death Star I than Vader ever did?
So what you are saying is, that in case of an imminent holocaust of your country, you would say: "No, lets not destroy this battle ship, there are thousands of people there. They came to destroy us, but we cannot be like them, let them destroy us".
Maybe because on the planet full of smugglers, thieves, etc. the only parts he could have get for free were protocol droid parts.
Do you remember whose slave he was? Do you think the guy like him would throw out a not broken robot part not from a protocol droid?
Or maybe being born as a slave he dreamed about being powerful someday, maybe it was the part of his dream he could afford to have. After all he became one of the most ruthless dictators one can imagine, so it had to have some roots, it is pity it was not shown in the movie.
You hit the nail.
In the Star Wars universe things are built for purpose, without bells and whistles. Things get broken, rusty, look creepy, sometimes are not finished, or have some design flaws. Poor people wear simple closes, have simple equipment, and robots with visible cables. Floors get dirty and have to be cleaned. One great SF writer would have said that in SW universe people go to restrooms. That is why it is so realistic. Realistic in the sense of portraying a civilization, where people are still people just using advanced technology, a technology which is still limited.
Of course there are funny or not logical things, there are mistakes Lukas made, but far from most he is accused for. Even more, most of the stuff is explained in the movies. But when people just do not listen carefully plus do not have to much idea about engineering than it results in wasted electrons, e.g.:
a robot designed to repair and control other machines, looks like one, and has equipment to e.g. grease a joint if needed.
they still have to convert fission heat to electricity somehow, if they use steam generators (why not) they still have to face emergency situations with too high pressures, so still they need some vents to let it go to space in case, and considering the size of the Death-Star, the reactor, and the same the needed vents have to have their capacity, please read the description of the Chernobyl catastrophe - it was steam which exploded
as for the protection of Death-Star with these "too big vents", it is said explicitly in the movie, that the commander of the station was so keen to report to the emperor about his victory over rebellion, that he decided to leave behind the major protecting fleet (i.e. not waiting for it), I believe that the Death-Star, as modern cruisers was designed to operate in battle groups, when it is supported by smaller ships
Someone can say that because the Titanic, which supposed to be unsinkable, did sink, or World War II bombers had "blind" spots, or our TVs do not have a GPS embedded, than our Universe has major design flows, because who would design a bomber which can be shot down - it makes no sense. I would say that the need for a protocol droid to win a 100m sprint run is the same as having a GPS in my TV.
Seems like no one have noticed that there is no fission reactor yet. So far just supporting technologies were tested, i.e. they build the Stirling engine with a heat exchanger.
So cool down, and spread a good word about the nuclear energy, so that when the time comes there will be no misinformation and too high blood pressure on neither of sides.
As far as I see no one forbids Murdoch charging for its news, people just say that he will not do any money out of it.
Everyone is free to create any business model one wishes, unless he expects people to be forced to use his business model to guarantee his profit. The government should take care, that the playground is equal for everybody, and that the consumers have a choice, I mean the real choice. Of course no one should be taxed for the fact that one exists and breaths.
If you want to charge for the air you can try, but you cannot forbid people breath, if you want to charge for news, you can do it, but people are free to communicate, since the events which happen are nobody's property. The history belongs to everyone, so nobody can claim exclusive rights to it. One can claim rights to the media, delivery, etc. but not the history.
Stone-tool makers and blacksmiths also went out of business, maybe some day also programmers (who knows).
BTW. If someone wants to give something for free, it is also his very right to do this.
In my opinion the analogy with mart or gas station is biased. It is more like one wrote his own book then went to a book store and asked "is it yours?", and got an answer "of course, you have to pay, and cannot use it in other way as to read silently for yourself". The point was to show that their, so called "software" is a one line code "isOurs() { return true; }".
One cannot build a sane legal system on the idea that one entity claims by default the ownership of all the goods, and if by chance one owns something, it is his responsibility to prove they are wrong. Of course it has not happened yet, but the presented story shows it is the way it goes.
Slashdot Mirror
Additionally to pump gas one need to dig tanks, permissions, certificates, etc., on the contrary to charge, ... well you need to be plugged to the power grid, and who is not.
... the cars were not so expensive, but hopefully it will get better.
So people can charge at the malls, coffee shops, work, homes, virtually anywhere they stop. There are even projects to charge at the stop lights via induction.
Most people for most of their life will never have to bother about visiting any special stations with just the today's technology of more then 200 miles range.
For me it is a game changer - no more spilled oil in the oceans, no more wars for oil, much less CO2 in the atmosphere - well almost, but at least much less, but anyway much better, not to mention the noise pollution. A dream world. If only
As for the review, well, we all know journalists have to make a living, controversial stories sells better, bla, bla bla, but there is a difference between facts interpretation, and a blatant lie, for me NYT is not a news source anymore, if I want entertainment I watch "The Daily Show".
I used to be a big fan of digital books, great convenience, until once the google book reader for iPad upgrade came and I was informed that my book is also on another device (I have a reader and an iPad), and the book disappeared. Sorry, but at this moment all the convenience was gone.
I am still a fan, but only not DRMed e-books, fortunately there is enough to read, and mostly much better, well if a book is still being read after a few hundred of years it means it is worth it.
Well it is pity, because I have time to read mainly when I travel, and there are books, which are worth reading, but could not have been written long time ago.
If you buy music produced in the US you buy it under the terms of the license. Don't like those terms? Buy music produced elsewhere.
It is actually a very interesting comment. Tells a lot about the mentality, and explains much all the conflicts in the world we witness, kind of surprising assumption that certain laws, even though locally agreed, should be enforced all over the world.
In this case it is sort of like every product labeled US has a statue of a US embassy, ergo within its realm the only applicable law is the US one, which is (unfortunately for some, luckily for others) not the case - it is as simple as this, going to another country you are bound by the law of this country, unless you are an ambassador or an invader.
I always thought the the whole purpose of the law is to make lives easier, decent, and respected, well ideally, at least I would expect this from US "the best country in the world" as they say. It so happens that people do travel, not only from suburbs to downtown, but also from a continent to continent, also not just as tourists. Lets imagine someone lived in the US for a while, collected a nice set of DVDs, and then moved to another continent, with a different regional code. So do you want the person to keep multiple playing devices just to be able to use what he has paid for, or to abandon his collection?
Do not answer, it was a rhetorical question, I know the answer.
Kennedy wanted a moon landing, and his successors honored his memory by following through.
The Moon landing had nothing to do with honoring Kennedy, it was about beating Russians, who had the first 'satellite', the first man orbit flight, and so on.
Bush II liked space and authorized new missions.
But he never gave money for this, it was just political talking.
That brings us down to Obama who is the first president in my memory to shut down a manned space project.
Not the first president to shut down a manned space project, but the first president since the space area with such a huge budget deficit.
incomplete efforts such as the Shuttle and some of the planetary probes
Shuttle has flows, no doubts, but it is also a manned space vehicle with many 'firsts', and also many 'only' (in a positive meaning). Also not 'some planetary probes' - most of what we (as human race) know about the Solar System, and the Universe is thanks to NASA space exploration. NASA has done a heck more than all the rest of the world together in robotic space exploration. I am not an American, but can honestly say it.
Some day, we will sit in our yards and watch them through our Chinese-made telescopes. Look, Dad, there's the China Station! There's the European Station! There goes another Russian moon shot! And we can look back on this pivotal time in our history when we turned our back on the future and technological leadership.
But there is also another scenario possible: one day, when in other countries only a highly selected few will see the dunes of the Moon, an average American can fly for his vacation to see the Apollo 11 landing site. What I mean is that there is not enough reasoning to say that shutting down the Ares program equals the end of the US manned space flight. AFAIK NASA does not produce anything, they order they hardware from the industry anyway.
Do you know what is the difference between 'The Daily Show' and 'The Fox News' - the former is much more funny.
Playing strategic games taught me, that focusing on domestic problems (only), made me always being conquered by barbarians sooner or later. ;-)
Human nature is to explore, also social life and responsibility for each other (despite what some claim, people are altruistic by nature, and it is proven). We are doomed to perish if we step up against either of them. They may seem to contradict, but they do not, except the need for resources, i.e. the golden center is always the best way.
Possibly will be marked as a troll, but the level of hatred and misinformation about China surprises me. The cultural revolution is a history now, the only things which are left are one party ruling system and a separate government in Taiwan. Any Chinese can start his business and make a fortune, and many indeed did so, the president of China is elected every few years (except that only party members can vote). Architecture of many Chinese cities overshadows many western ones. They have the fastest train, they sent people into space, they can openly criticize their government, they enjoy western culture: music and movies, they are very humorous people, and they do love their country. There were bad things the government did, but I see change, and a big progress. And at the end, please try to reach the sources, learn the history, also the history of your own country, before you throw a stone.
A perfect example! Lets require them to show that they actually had lost income from the very songs during the period, i.e. before she uploaded them the income should be X higher from the very 24 songs (corrected with regard to the natural income curve from selling songs). I believe the records companies know which songs are selling, which are not. It should be very easy to show the loss of income form your hypothetical restaurant. This way a judge can decide about the reasonable penalty.
The statistics are correct, the only difference is that all 2 catastrophes happened withing the first 10 flights of Soyuz. To put it in another perspective Soyuz has 94 safe landings in a row.
I hear this "argument" over and over again, but I wonder whether you considered in your calculations the number of people involved in road (or eating) vs air traffic daily, and that we have already had flight checks and restrictions. Of course freedom is important, but what kind of importance "freedom" to board a plane carrying whatever you wish has to die for? How about freedom to reach your destination, to see your family? I heard/read some people doubt the safety increase based on the screening, well, this is something we can argue about, but you literally say to give up any checks, because ... "one can die anyway is so many different ways"??? Are you really advising to give up any flight check in the name of "freedom"?
It is a curiosity for me that a post with such a frivolous statement, which is not supported by any scientific data was modded as +5 insightful. Indeed we are in the age of Aquarius, when feelings and believes overshadows reason.
I would say we should hurry-up with this Europa ice driller, because soon we will not have any testing places on Earth.
So My advice is to stop giving them excuse to lobby for more draconian law: do not copy illegally any content, use alternatives, use your voting power, also the money voting power. Fortunately we live in democracies, lets embrace it and use it, because slowly the law becomes insane. I moved to another DVD region, and now I cannot play my new and old movies on the same device. I cannot play movies on my computer (because the system I use is "too" user oriented). I cannot make a home movie and play it on a TV when using a computer with not too user oriented OS without HDMI. To see some movies during traveling I have to either buy another version, or carry all the DVDs I would potentially like to see. And all of these restrictions are not because of technology limits, not because I did not pay for the content, but because even though all the content I have is legal, I am still treated as a thief.
It is pity, that the wish for fame overshadows scientific correctness. Calling this "device" a black hole is like calling a bicycle a space shuttle, because both have wheels. If something is black in certain wavelength, does not mean it is a black-hole.
Not that it is not significant, it surely is, but it is more like a black microwave paint discovery.
Maybe it happened long before, I just have not noticed.
The only problem is that we still have no protection against solar flares - ergo any long stay of humans either deep in Moon's craters or inside the Earth's protective magnetic field.
You know, there are plenty of successful space missions propelled by chemical jets, and using already proven technology for human missions has a lot of sense.
But I agree, that anything serious regarding space exploration can start with a more efficient propulsion, e.g. an operational VASIMR, which I would welcome with a great joy.
I think a much better way is to use technology to reduce the negative impact on the environment. EU leads in this matter and have noticeable results. There are technologies for clean energy change for our needs, and the most advanced countries have rather problems with shrinking population, so everything regulates itself. What is needed is the "green" culture, and education. Education because there are too many people in the news expressing opinions on topics they have little knowledge about, with arguments on the level as "I go outside and it is cold, so global warming is a hoax" - unfortunately one can hear such nonsenses on TV several times a day.
Reduced population certainly will not solve war or other conflicts (history), but education and understanding of a human nature can. Reduced population certainly will make our species more vulnerable and will slow down progress in all areas, also the very important ones.
Instead of worrying, that the horses poo will flood the cities it is better to find another mean of mass transportation.
R2-D2
R2 is an astromech droid - he was designed to assist in the operation of small spacecraft. He is well suited for trundling around flight decks - he was not meant to go up and down stairs, and it's a credit to his character that he performed his duty in desert and swamp. He doesn't speak english because he speaks astromech - sentients who fly or work with spacecraft will understand astromech. Speech synthesis is unnecessary to his function... are you unhappy that your perl compiler doesn't speak in plain english?
I would add that for sure its memory was limited, and as being astro-robot for sure it is better to store astro data (for which there is never enough memory) than "Yes sir" in 6 millions forms of communication.
Stormtrooper Uniforms
Yeah, OK, storm trooper armor is useless.
Not necessarily. The stormtroopers where not only to fight with another army, but also to keep order, kind of police, and the armor for sure was helpful when taking control over riots. Also helpful when establishing posts in not very friendly places (with a lot of predators).
On the other hand having helmet and armor had a psychological effect for both their enemies (not necessarily soldiers), and themselves (have you ever heard of the Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment?) - they were genetically modified clones, but still humans.
Sarlaac
Doodle-bugs (antlions) and sea anenomes rely on this same technique, and as the skeleton from ANH illustrates, Tatooine has megafauna prey.
There was nothing in the movie about living for thousand years, just about being digested for thousand years.
Plus, how do you get around the fact that Luke killed way more people by destroying the Death Star I than Vader ever did?
So what you are saying is, that in case of an imminent holocaust of your country, you would say: "No, lets not destroy this battle ship, there are thousands of people there. They came to destroy us, but we cannot be like them, let them destroy us".
?
Maybe because on the planet full of smugglers, thieves, etc. the only parts he could have get for free were protocol droid parts.
Do you remember whose slave he was? Do you think the guy like him would throw out a not broken robot part not from a protocol droid?
Or maybe being born as a slave he dreamed about being powerful someday, maybe it was the part of his dream he could afford to have. After all he became one of the most ruthless dictators one can imagine, so it had to have some roots, it is pity it was not shown in the movie.
In the Star Wars universe things are built for purpose, without bells and whistles. Things get broken, rusty, look creepy, sometimes are not finished, or have some design flaws. Poor people wear simple closes, have simple equipment, and robots with visible cables. Floors get dirty and have to be cleaned. One great SF writer would have said that in SW universe people go to restrooms. That is why it is so realistic. Realistic in the sense of portraying a civilization, where people are still people just using advanced technology, a technology which is still limited.
Of course there are funny or not logical things, there are mistakes Lukas made, but far from most he is accused for. Even more, most of the stuff is explained in the movies. But when people just do not listen carefully plus do not have to much idea about engineering than it results in wasted electrons, e.g.:
Someone can say that because the Titanic, which supposed to be unsinkable, did sink, or World War II bombers had "blind" spots, or our TVs do not have a GPS embedded, than our Universe has major design flows, because who would design a bomber which can be shot down - it makes no sense. I would say that the need for a protocol droid to win a 100m sprint run is the same as having a GPS in my TV.
Seems like no one have noticed that there is no fission reactor yet. So far just supporting technologies were tested, i.e. they build the Stirling engine with a heat exchanger.
So cool down, and spread a good word about the nuclear energy, so that when the time comes there will be no misinformation and too high blood pressure on neither of sides.
As far as I see no one forbids Murdoch charging for its news, people just say that he will not do any money out of it.
Everyone is free to create any business model one wishes, unless he expects people to be forced to use his business model to guarantee his profit. The government should take care, that the playground is equal for everybody, and that the consumers have a choice, I mean the real choice. Of course no one should be taxed for the fact that one exists and breaths.
If you want to charge for the air you can try, but you cannot forbid people breath, if you want to charge for news, you can do it, but people are free to communicate, since the events which happen are nobody's property. The history belongs to everyone, so nobody can claim exclusive rights to it. One can claim rights to the media, delivery, etc. but not the history.
Stone-tool makers and blacksmiths also went out of business, maybe some day also programmers (who knows).
BTW. If someone wants to give something for free, it is also his very right to do this.
In my opinion the analogy with mart or gas station is biased. It is more like one wrote his own book then went to a book store and asked "is it yours?", and got an answer "of course, you have to pay, and cannot use it in other way as to read silently for yourself". The point was to show that their, so called "software" is a one line code "isOurs() { return true; }".
One cannot build a sane legal system on the idea that one entity claims by default the ownership of all the goods, and if by chance one owns something, it is his responsibility to prove they are wrong. Of course it has not happened yet, but the presented story shows it is the way it goes.