Their coffee is famously bad as it is traditionally robusta from their former colonial possession Vietnam.

No, that fundamentally misunderstands our political system. It is virtually impossible to have more than two parties. At best you would end up with a coalition that basically emulates the current two party structure, and would be even more dysfunctional.

Which was awesome and completely validated the fan’s beliefs.

Most of the taxpayers are in cities. Urban areas subsidize rural areas, that is just how it works. For things to actually be equitable, rural areas would have a larger tax burden just due to higher infrastructure costs.

They fought busing tooth and claw.

Detail for me how he was “Sabotaged.”

Thank you for better articulating my thoughts. I don’t particularly like what she did, but her treatment was inexcusable.

So he is a conman?

You do realize that putting shrimp on treadmills was actually pretty important? Figuring out their energy expenditure allows us to better understand their place in marine ecosystems.

Though honestly that would be a pretty shitty Trek. $800 is where the components start getting decent and $1600 is where the law of diminishing returns hits.

I don’t think it requires devs to support it.

An autonomous vehicle could do this better. This just a geometry and traction problem. Doing physics calculations is something that computers can do very fast. Autonomous vehicles have vision issues.

Considering I accidently went through two checkpoints while carrying a boxcutter in my messenger bag over thanksgiving...

No they did not. They were muzzle loaders. One of the Monitor’s inovations was an auto return system that allowed easier loading.

Japanese graphic design sensibilities are terrible across the board. Going to Japanese web sites makes my eyes bleed.

Google for project pluto.

Oh, thats a good one! Closed door murder, with full surveillance.

I think one of the more interesting subplots has to do with the person who originally designed the society. Basically she used the political fanaticism and scientific ignorance of the original population to design a stable low technology society.