"the closest thing to a true sequel to the Verhoeven film — and it's the nearest thing we've seen yet to Heinlein's original vision."

Where is there an inner city w/o at least decent mass transit? I'm not saying it doesn't exist, it just hasn't been my experience. It's certainly a hell of a lot harder to own a car now than it was 20 or 30 years ago.

We could sure use some of those aerial firemen.

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Oddly enough, if you reduce your caloric intake below your caloric usage, you will lose weight. It isn't rocket science. I agree the pushy TV commercials aren't tyranny, but they are probably useless. Maybe spending money uselessly isn't the best thing to do while broke and hugely in debt.

That would be a better use of government effort, though I strongly dispute the idea that any significant number of poor Americans don't have affordable access to healthy food.

Everything anyone does affects everyone else in some tiny way. This is no justification for tyranny. If everyone has to make only good decisions, then why shouldn't everyone only make whatever the single best decision? How much freedom does that leave room for? Should we determine what the absolute safest car is, and…

How does any of this make trucking "unsustainable"?

I just can't bring myself to believe that this is any of the CDC's (or the rest of the government's) business. Nobody's holding a gun to my head making me gorge myself. I understand that being fat is bad for me. By now, everyone must understand this, it's getting hammered into us constantly in every medium. Seems to…

Generally speaking, it seems vastly preferable nowadays to have a menial labor job, if you can possibly afford it. Working in an office is THE MADNESS. They really just couldn't pay me enough. Or, they could - but it would have to be so much that I could work for a year or two, and then just retire.

Geeze. Seems to me what would happen if electricity stopped working is that everyone would die instantly, since life runs on electricity.

The proper way to make a house flood proof is to not build it in a flood plain. Very simple, really.

These people are complete imbeciles.

I strongly doubt that it would be boring.

So is this an actual real thing, that is actually happening, or was this local news station merely duped?

If you have a heart attack or need emergency surgery in the US, in you go, too. It's the law.

E-books are late to the party, but are also killing these stores.

Why would anyone buy a flying vehicle that neither flies, nor is a vehicle?

Oh, and I forgot to mention - they have a backlog basically because they can;t deliver their product in a timely manner, not because there are millions of orders on the books.

If SpaceX maintains business operations in the US, what the US can do is shut them down, and send many of them to jail. It seems unlikely that they could build everything they need for the project, then FedEx it to Baikonur and launch before anyone noticed.