You'd want a plan to quickly get as close to self-sufficiency as possible, and then ideally something relatively light that was valuable enough to send back in trade. Perhaps Martian gemstones? (View Post)

I'm not likely to be able to afford to have the choice to escape wage slavery before I'm 70 - a mixture of a first marriage ending in divorce, a period of severe depression, and a (dearly b… (View Post)

Everything is impossible until it happens. I don't see a more practical end-state. The two-state solution certainly isn't. We're only going to end up with something different to the st… (View Post)

I always worried that a two-state solution would effectively act as a way of formalizing apartheid. I didn't think Israel would allow an independent Palestinian state that could potentially be h… (View Post)

My wife remembers a lot more of her dreams then I do of mine, but she somehow doesn't remember the ones in which she wakes me up due to some in-dream emergency that she expresses out loud. "… (View Post)