I agree, this is troubling. I see so much potential for abuse here. I’m not even sure the Apple/Google thing with local data is safe with regards to your privacy and data.

I suppose there is a larger question here and at what point is your privacy and/or data less important than public safety? And, how do you put that…

I’m not here to debate Roe v Wade, but I’ll say this. First, I highly doubt you’ll see that overturned. Second, you’re concerned about the attack on RvW but not so much the attack on the Second Amendment. Seems a bit biased. Shouldn’t all Constitutionally protected rights be protected equally?

Actually I don’t see our…

Laws should not be about “politics”. Laws should be unbiased and fair regardless of the political philosophy you follow. In other words Judges should not represent one political philosophy or the other.

Have fun waiting, it’s going to be a long time. 

Rights have boundaries but they are not contingent upon you being a member of a Government controlled organization in order to exercise them. Those would not be rights, those would be privileges granted to you by the government. Gun ownership also has boundaries like background checks and limitations on where you can…

If you read the story of the invention of the light bulb it wasn’t just some guy in his garage making lights. It was a competition between Edison and others to produce a viable, cost-effective bulb. It translated into quite a bit of wealth for Edison. Salk chose not to patent his vaccine but you can bet the notoriety…

I don’t think these 2 “missions” are mutually exclusive are they? The only problem with a sustainable earth is that it’s all good until something comes along that we can’t handle, like a world-wide pandemic or some random asteroid crashing into the planet.

In a way a sustainable earth is complementary to space…

Heller was correct. The Bill of Rights are all individual rights. It would not make sense to have a “right” that was constrained by requiring permission from the government. Oh, you can have a firearm as long as you’re in a militia, but we aren’t going to let you be in the militia. Sort of like saying you can speak…

A Tesla is hardly a “luxury” car of any note. It’s not like it was a $300K Bentley. Pyramids and Cathedrals are a bit different, don’t you think? Neither of those contributed to the betterment of mankind unlike say the polio vaccine or even the humble light bulb.

No idea. I have since read that some of the protesters were part of the Proud Boys. I have no clue why they do what they do but simply carrying a firearm doesn’t make you a bad person. Maybe some people heard the PB would be there and thought that trouble might break out?

I’d advise you to read up on the SCOTUS ruling on Heller so you can learn that the right to keep and bear arms has nothing to do with militias.

You have the right to be as snarky as you want, they have the right to carry their dumb guns. Ain’t that nice?

I’m glad you are tapped into the minds of Bezos and Musk. They both have publicly stated otherwise but I’m sure you really know what they are up to.

I’m pretty sure they weren’t carrying because of the virus. 

I don’t think it’s up to you to decide when it’s appropriate for someone to exercise their Constitutional rights, do you?

We own a small restaurant and will ask for a doctor’s note if we feel someone is abusing the sick day policy. The reason is we have limited staff and when someone calls out sick someone else has to cover for them. In our busy season, which is generally summer time, it’s hard to find someone who hasn’t already worked…

Kind of hard to do for warehouse workers. Amazon does allow people to work from home in other areas of the company, like their Cloud services groups. But some jobs you have to be there.

I agree with your analysis which is why I think private money will win the day. My biggest concern is that there doesn’t seem to be any good way to monetize space. Musk will get a few bucks from governments but hardly enough to sustain the development for exploration beyond our galaxy. Tourism will help too but also,…

I don’t disagree but to steal a phrase, a long journey begins with a first step. The technology to build a sustainable colony off-earth won’t just magically come to us in a dream. It has to be developed and putting a semi-permanent station on the moon seems like a good start. We may never get there, I don’t know, but…

Hence why the email has to be traceable back to something. A legit phone number, a verifiable address or something that makes it somewhat harder for someone to spoof a registered user. Nothing is fool proof just like locking your doors at night won’t prevent someone from taking a sledge hammer to your door and…

The bottom line is that you can’t print your way out of bankruptcy.