Fast, cheap and safe are all still relative terms, and it is not possible, using those relative terms coherently, to be fast, cheap and safe when viewing all the options for speed, cost and safety. I… (View Post)

The worst mutations seem to have come from individuals with chronic infections due to compromised immune systems. I am not sure that greater general community spread necessarily makes a significant i… (View Post)

I am actually a believer that, when governing parties get kicked out, it is mostly because the government lost the election as opposed to the opposition winning it. (View Post)

Transport systems are natural monopolies because they are networks. Hence you don't get competition for the entire network of routes, just the most profitable routes. It was what Freddy Laker and Ric… (View Post)

I want safest, fastest, cheapest. What do you mean, I can't have all three? Ask NASA, you say? (View Post)