I took my heavily loaded Crosstrek last year on a 6 week camping roadtrip through the Rockies and Utah with my partner. In addition to having every inch of storage behind the front two seats filled with gear and a fully stocked tiki bar, I had a trailer hitch basket with about another 150 pounds of gear in it.

Thank you comrade, for at least having the most basic understanding of marxist theory and the history of the Russian Revolution.

Who is responsible when an airplane falls apart in the air? Usually the owner, who made the knowing risk of putting the plane in the air.

What about self-driving flying cars? The insurance costs would basically be attributable to mechanical failures only. If they were light enough and with some sort of parachute-type safety features, that doesn’t seem like an unreasonable cost to manage. Certainly beyond our current technology, but not entirely…

Wouldn’t that require us to rule out the possibility of a self-sustaining, slower than light vessel or fleet ever making first contact many generations from now? Unless we extirpate ourselves from the planet before intra-solar flight becomes commonplace, I would imagine some efforts to leave will occur.

any links on this for someone unfamiliar with the concept, and with a relatively weak grasp of the science that is assuredly involved?

This really just sounds like a religious argument, based on assumptions of what it means to exist. If two objects are molecularly identical in content and composition, how are they distinguishable? It really sounds like your inserting some content of a ‘soul’ or some intrinsic aspect of self to differentiate the two…

If I remember correctly, the news says there’s somebody doing a head transplant these days.

“When they start selling guns, a bunch of 38 year old neckbeards don’t come climbing out of their parents’ basements to buy them and start firing them indiscriminately while waving them around.”
Never been to the South, have you?

Peter F. Hamilton’s Pandora Star books use the idea of a Dyson Sphere as a means of containing a hostile population. Also, it was formed using a series of field projectors set around the system in an interlocking system. Still incredibly unlikely, but a bit less implausible than actually crafting a matter-based…

You're conflating a flat numerical statistic with a rate of occurrence. Maybe take a high school statistics class? Per 100,000 cops, a smaller number will die on the job than per 100,000 garbage men, roofers, or farmers.

"How many landscapers are frequently put in situations where they are dealing with people who may be violent, may be criminals, may be armed, may have intent to harm, etc.?"

That's irrelevant. It's irrelevant where the risk of death comes from. If a farmer or roofer or garbage man is statistically more likely to die…

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Capitalism as such did not exist in Feudal Europe. Despite recent trends to paint "capitalism" as "anything involving commerce", or even "anything involving commerce and markets", that is not the definition of the economic system known as capitalism.

To borrow from wikipedia, "Capitalism is an economic system in which…

This article relates to white privilege, but is still useful in helping to explain how a gamer nerd can be privileged, even if they don't feel it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gina-crosleyco…

The majority of conservative latinos are cubanos, whose community leaders going back decades either were or had direct ties to wealthy businessmen who lost power when Fidel took Havana. Puerto Ricans and many of those from Central and South American countries tend to have strong ties to their community, and care…

The US government has always been a terrorist. Now it terrorizes its own citizens as well.

This looks a lot nicer than Pictures of Pittsburgh from the 1960's.

Yes.