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Boca Chica is not the Southernmost point in the US. One if the Florida Keys is.

The main reason that area was a wildlife sanctuary was that nobody wanted it for anything else, so it was a cheap political move to make it "protected."

A launch site needs more than latitude. It needs possible launch trajectories that star by going over water to avoid possible debis falling in people or property.

Launch sites at higher altitude are better than those at lower altitude.

> I do have to question disabling ICMP/ping

Ping is a tool I love, but it also allows a bad guy to discover your router with tracert. Disabling icmp/ping responses prevents that.

Texas Cops do not care about causing a few heart attacks and a few traffic accidents when they are mad about someone hurting a cop.

Source: I live in Texas.

Nonsense.

The minivan and the hatchback are the 2 most popular styles of automobile in the USA right now, but people call them "crossovers."

Look at crossovers. They are all minivans or hatchbacks.

I had hoped Robert Heinlein's hypothesis (in his fiction books) about zero-G lessening the demands on the hyman body and therefore increasing out lifespans would pan out.

Maybe science will come up with something.

But it costs $500 to $1,000 per GB?

The only thing worse than a VISA monopoly is a government monopoly.

The parasite who wrote this article wants payments when people train AIs. SMH.

There are hundreds of standards for the pinout, then there are dozens of standards for the bus, then there are hundreds of standards for the display commands.

Could this argument extend to all punishment?

Fining the conceivably guilty is theft?

Arresting the conceivably guilty is kidnapping?

Should we go totally anarchist and get rid of all law enforcement?

I'd support getting rid of LE, but we can not let them become gangsters. That happened in the former Soviet Union after they fell apart.

Name names.

Never forget.

Do environmentalists fall into the Nirvana Fallacy when they demand an end to wind farms because they kill some birds?

I wish someone would measure the bang-for-the-buck without considering politically correct metrics.

I need to buy a vowel, Pat.

I can't solve the article.

Waterfall makes sense if contracts and lawyers are involved.

Waterfall makes sense if national security is at stake.

Waterfall's downsides are reduced by having competent people write fewer errors into the specification.

There are defense contractors that once used waterfall.

I wonder if there are military applications to seeing fires almost instantly from space?

Could you track the front lines in a war?

I wonder if someone could mass-produce a BD-R type media, but the size of a laser-disc, and resistant to almost all scratching. Maybe put it in a case like the old 3.5" floppy disks had?

Yes, it does.

Old Sierra Online games helped me learn some social skills and how to deal with life.

When your Internet-site-based business can no longer afford to pay its bills, start charing and lock out everyone who does not pay.

Maybe you can reopen a free tier later, but for now you are in panic mode.

German U-Boats sank many more ships in the Gulf of Mexico that was reported.

The FDR administration lied about it then, and I see from the map in the article that they have never corrected those lies.

Scratch, Alice or MIT App Inventor

Then move him to Java with the book Beginning Java SE 6 Game Programming

I hope I got the names right. It's been a while.

Source: I taught classes using these tools.

Excellent web site/tool!

I wish there was a similar site for Xeon-processor based systems.

Why not make a mostly-empty mesh from mined metals?

Someone talked about 3D printing mostly hollow golf balls in outer space and dropping them onto a desert where they could be picked up .

Let me explain this to those who are not familiar with the American system of kleptocracy: Banks freeze account to steal the money, not because they suspect wrongdoing. The protagonist in the article finally showed Chase it would be more expensive to keep the money than to give it back, so they gave it back.

If the term that accurately describes my group is now an insult, I need to reconsider how my group affects society.

Nonsense.

If you hear a loud crack and are near trees, look up and get out if the way.

This idiot is going to get people killed.

Is this a chance to strike down click-wrap TOS once and for all?

I did not see a mention of how Bank of America murdered people who were behind on their credit cards to make examples of them.

BofA needs to be shut down.

Let the free market decide.

If people want a grocery stor or restaurant, one will appear.

If people tolerate criminals that destroy businesses, the businesses will go away and the people will suffer. This is as it should be.

Not 16,000 mph. A very lightweight tether (thing tie down straps) will drift down and land softly.