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Comment Re:Bad comparision (Score 1) 204

Given that both types exist, it seems odd to claim that that nuclear fusion reactions are orthogonal to break even energy production.

It wouldn't be odd at all... that's exactly what orthogonal means - breakeven energy production and fusion reactions are independent. You can get breakeven energy production without fusion, and fusion without breakeven energy production.... thus they're orthogonal.

Comment Re:Advanced Placement Calculus? Is that a joke? (Score 1) 467

I don't want to be mean, but if the submitter "took everything through AP Calculus in high school" and still "had [his] butt kicked by college calculus", then I can only conclude that the AP Calculus class he was in was a total joke.

I wonder WTF they taught the kids in the regular Calculus class...

Are all AP courses that crappy?

If you think of a 5 on an AP exam as an A (which it tries to model) in the college class, and a 3 as a C, it's clear that most people taking AP classes aren't doing well on the exam. It's not AP's problem that 40% of the students who even take the exam don't even get a C.

Comment Re:So, what now? (Score 1) 658

Corporations do not pay taxes. The customers of the corporations pay the tax.

Only when customers want to buy a fixed amount of the product irrespective of its price. When customers are price sensitive, increasing the price to offset the tax will cause some customers to decide not to buy the product, which reduces revenues and profits since the company isn't selling as much. This affects profits, so the shareholders pay for it, and they may eventually change their cost structure, causing the company's suppliers to pay for it. Who pays the tax is called the tax incidence (wikipedia), and it's easy to compute from the supply and demand curves.

Comment Re:and this will accomplish what? (Score 1) 776

You are wrong because you start from the false premise that one can and will get one's name on a target list for no reason.

And the constitution still provides for due process of law, where the only reason I can end up on a target list to be eligible for punishment of a crime is for a court of law to rule that I belong there, not merely for an intelligence agency or even the President to decide on their own.

Comment Re:Due Process, dot the i's cross the t's and kill (Score 1) 776

Ah! So if I take a vacation to Pakistan, where travel is not restricted, and then someone claims I'm one of "such people" who you claim "always carry a gun", then I can be shot, without due process? Drones regularly kill people who are driving in cars, not actively engaged in battle (even if they are at war), or providing an imminent threat. If I go outside the country and someone accuses me of murder, that doesn't give the FBI the right to track me down, find me unarmed, and kill me without a trial.

Comment Re:US Citizens (Score 1) 776

The ALCU is probably looking for "due process of law".

If these people wanted due process of law they should have remained on American soil and not enlisted in the service of foreign organizations that are trying to murder American soldiers and civilians.

You mean: "allegedly enlisted in the service of foreign organizations that are trying to murder American soldiers and civilians."

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