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Privatized spaceflight is flowering in the sense asparagus is growing in Death Valley with massive and unsustainable infusions of Shasta water, and new industries are being birthed in the sense cloning can produce one compromised live specimen from 200+ failed inseminations. My initial point...

Mizrahi exile proves this is not the case. Moses' claims were exclusive to Eretz Israel. The Torah also promises Ishmael, father of the Arabs, "a great nation". The logical conclusion is that it says that we should have our country and they should have their much bigger country, and each...

So, you have no practical examples of citizens of an enemy power demanding to become citizens of the country they claim did them wrong... Population of Pakistan is 180 million. Population of Lebanon is a little under five million. The combined population of all Western Europe is about the same...

I'm not contesting that EVs/FCVs are the future, simply whether Tesla will dominate that future or even have a place in it. My point was and is that their approach is wrong and that the company is nothing more than the cult of Musk and a heavily subsidized scam.

"Don't blame me. Blame yourself or God." Islam spread through military conquest fueled by the promise of booty during that period. Any claim to the contrary is revisionism. Aristotle would disagree. So would the history of the Byzantine Empire. You don't know anything about Judaism or...

In regards to the contrast between the Christian Reformation and the challenge of contemporary Islam: The Christian Reformation was built on two basic trends: the development of the printing press, mass printings of Bibles, mass literacy and ultimately mass religious enlightenment, and the...

The status quo is driven by political economy and nothing else. The Gerard Bull Supergun, or something based on the idea, could render launches obsolete in a few years of marginal R&D. The basic problem is that government agencies are disempowered by the general identity crisis of governments...

Harsh truth: A good car is a reliable car, not a safe car. Teslas are notoriously unreliable. How safe was the VW Bug or so many best-selling American cars? Did people buy older Volvos because they were super-safe or because you could run the odometer into the millions? Don't you? Your entire...

Are you referring to orbital launches or privatized spaceflight?

Oh, it would have been much more painful than implied by my laconic remark, no question about it. Obama decided it wasn't worth it. You can call that prudent or cowardly or whatever you like, but for now, the US (and also Japan) don't have the stomach for that kind of upheaval. The tangibles...

Unproven and unlikely. It's like Communists boasting about "first socialist society". Privatized spaceflight is an ideological prejudice in motion.

The Arab states get an economic return that they could not generate domestically. They bring nothing to the table except the oil they export which the US chooses not to take by force outright. It's funny how all these arguments about Islamists valiantly fighting the West (which is why they all...

They do that for the same reason their citizens live in the West. Whether it's an individual or an entire nation, one must make his own bread or bend his knee to the man who bakes it for him. All these topics inevitably come back to issues entirely internal to the Islamic world that have nothing...

Knowing how to build a decent car in the first place is more substantial than the electric drive system. Novice hobbyists convert ICVs to electric all the time. It's far easier to do than to build a car from scratch. For this reason, BMV EVs are functionally superior to Tesla vehicles (and...

You can't deny that the Pakistani military and ISI have been doing whatever they please in a country with no statutory power for decades now. Yes, being a neighbor or not makes a difference. If my neighbor's house burns down, or I torched his lawn, it's my moral or legal responsibility to give...

Afghans and "internally displaced people" (neighbor-on-neighbor violence in regions within Pakistani domain, which de facto includes Afghanistan) are not comparable to the West and other countries being the Good Samaritan and taking in people from far away. Fwiw, Lebanon is about 5% the size and...

Most Americans believe that the Syrians are victims of nothing but the violence that they themselves are responsible for, and that they will bring this violence with them wherever they go. We think that the whole business of wanting to live in countries one hates is unique to the Islamic world...

I didn't say anything about the US and its claim to be pro-democracy. I simply asked you if you believe that these people should become citizens of the country you apparently think is out to do them harm. Yes or no?

So your claim is that these people should become citizens of the country that you think is conspiring to destroy them?

Do you disagree with the basic claim being made? Why not drop these people in Pakistan?