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Well Cargo ships seem to operate profitably. I think small boats are expensive to their contents, but with large vessels economies of scale are employed to make unit cargo shipped to be cheaper. Waterways are important because it is more expensive to ship bulk quantities over land or through the air. People on the other hand don't often have time for a week long sea voyage, so they prefer air travel. On the other hand if you don't design a water vessel to go somewhere but just to stay in one place, then you have a place where people can live.

Take this apartment building for instance, suppose we wanted to build it on water and not on land? We would need an ocean platform for that.

Get rid of the oil rig and replace it with an apartment building such as the one above.
I think the first application would be a hotel. We have cruise ships already which are basically floating hotels. Suppose we built a floating hotel off the coast of Florida, and there was a ferry to take guests to and from this hotel, the hotel sits off the shore and doesn't go anywhere, so unlike a cruise ship you don't have to wait until it is in port before you can board. If a hurricane threatens, the hotel can be towed to safety, but otherwise it stays in place, serving guests.

Where would you rather live, in Antarctica or on the surface of an ocean where it is nice and warm, where it rains often enough to get fresh water to meet your needs, so unlike in a desert, you won't be dying of thirst. Seems to me there is a lot of evaporation going on above the ocean surface, so even if it doesn't rain, you just pump ocean air through a refrigerator and the water just condenses right out, you got reverse osmosis as well to provide fresh water, but mostly you can just walk outside onto the deck and enjoy the nie ocean sun, no frostbite to worry about.

Do you think Osama Bin Laden was innocent? Well if Osama Bin Laden was innocent, then Obama sent in Seal Team Six and murdered him. Osama Bin Laden never did get a trial, but the person who was responsible for his death was Barack Obama. I think Osama Bin Laden was guilty, but the first step to putting him on trial would have been to apprehend him, instead Obama sent a Seal Team in to kill him, thus he got no trial! I suspect Obama didn't want to capture him alive, because then he would have to incarcerate him, and he was trying to empty out Guantanamo, not fill it up! But you know, this was all in the past, one could just as easily have said, "Someone should have shot Hitler during World War I. There were a lot of bullets flying at the time, so why didn't they? Are you going to blame the man who could have shot Hitler but didn't, for World War II? When we examine history, there is a lot of 20/20 hindsight. We have information that people at the time did not have. For instance, we know a lot of the life story of Adolf Hitler, with that information we could do something, if we went back in time, that other people who lived during that time could not! You think you could be a better President than George W. Bush with knowledge of the future, which he did not have? So could a lot of people.

You want to know what a martyr is, that is a martyr, not some scumbag terrorist who murders people! I think the Muslim definition of martyr is different from the Christian one.

That is because we haven't killed enough! How many "new recruits" did the Japanese have after we bombed Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki? The Japanese started its war with us by bombing Pearl Harbor, just as Al Qaeda did by crashing airplanes into he World Trade Center. The Japanese had a lot of suicide bombers just like Al Qaeda did, was General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz afraid of making martyrs of the Japanese, when they bomb them? Did FDR hold them back or give them rules of engagement which was as restrictive as the ones faced by our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan? You know one of the reasons I voted for Trump was that he reminded me of FDR during World War II. FDR did not hold back, he fought a total war against both the Germans and the Japanese, we need that sort of attitude if we are going to beat the terrorists!

These two presidents have a lot in common.
1. They were both rich
2. They were both from the state of New York
3. They were both wartime presidents.

Obama Diplomats that have handed us a New Cold War with Russia and a continuation of the Jihad against the West that they have not solved! What they have tried as not worked, so why shouldn't they let Donald Trump try something else?

And they get to attack us in our home country! Do you know what's in Iraq now? ISIS, there objective is to kill Americans if we don't convert to their form of Islam! How exactly do we "go home" from a global war waged against us? Why should I care about 100,000+ Iraqi civilians if they are trying to kill Americans? If they are paying taxes to ISIS, then that money is going towards killing Americans, if they put on a uniform and fight for ISIS, then they are trying to kill Americans. Isolationism only works if there is some place we can withdraw to, but there is not! The War ISIS is fighting is not a regional one but a global one, and we're part of that globe. The advice your giving us about foreign policy does not work because 314 million Americans can't fly off to Mars! That is not practical nor possible for the foreseeable future, and even if we could be chased off the planet, ISIS would probably come after us still even then! So running away with our tails tucked between our legs I not going to work, so the question is what will. Trying to assign blame to the United States of American for supposedly causing our own problem with Islamic terrorism doesn't point to a solution to our problems. The CIA didn't invent Islam by the way, if we did invent a religion I don't think it would be Islam. The only way to stop this global war is to destroy the enemy, that is those who wage this war against us. These people will not compromise, and what they ask of us is not reasonable. Are you a Muslim Robert? Are you prepared to meet ISIS's conditions for peace with us, that means you convert to their definition of Islam, you grow a beard, and remember to pray five times a day while facing in the direction of Mecca, and by the way eat no pork and shave your arm pits! Are you willing to do all that for peace? If the Islamacists weren't so full of themselves, then maybe this war could have a negotitated end, but unfortunately they are.

What does this chart show you?
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Why it shows Defense spending reaching a peak in 2008, the last year of the Bush Administration and then dropping after that. Didn't think I'd pull a chart on you, did you!

Not really, Russian and US airplanes might shoot each other down, but I doubt Russia would risk the destruction of its cities over Syria. Russia would only react with a nuclear attack if the US were to invade Russia, and Syria is not Russia! The thing to remember is that if Russia gets destroyed, then Putin loses power, and Putin does not want that! I don't think the US would start a nuclear war over Syria either. Russia has not announced that it was extending its nuclear shield over Syria, and I would not see the value in doing that. Russia is playing for points, it don't want to risk its existence over this!

There are people called race hustlers, they stay in business by aggravating racial tensions and Obama is one of those, he likes to handcuff police and take the side of rioters, and criminals who get in a fire fight with police. For instance if a black thug pulls a knife on a cop and the cop shoots him, then that is self-defense. If a black thug charges a cop, trying to grab his gun, and the cop shoots him, that is self-defense, Obama calls it racism. I have a real problem if Obama expects me to live in dangerous crime ridden neighborhoods as the price for living in the same country with black people. Obama thinks e need to tolerate high crime, and he wants to legalize dangerous drugs that blacks are fond of using, such as crack cocaine, because he thinks it is racism to blacks to be arrested for using those drugs, as it I assumed they can't help themselves, they are "only black" after all!

If racism gets solved, then the race hustlers, who make a living from it, are out of business! They don't want to go out of business, so they keep on reminding people that whites are racist, and all the terrible things about slavery, and they try to get blacks angry about that so they support the race hustlers, it is a vicious cycle.

He couldn't end the war in 100 days because he couldn't or wouldn't win the war in 100 days. The only way to end the war is by winning it, you forget we didn't start this war, the terrorists did, and so long as they keep thinking they can win, they will keep on fighting and attacking. If we want to end this war, we need to destroy them! Obama just doesn't get that, he thinks we can turn our back on them and they will disappear.

Not as simple as that, the truth is it depends on the demand curve, there is a certain range of tariffs that will produce the maximum revenue, go above that and revenue will drop due to decreased imports, go below that and revenue will drop due to less revenue collected. A tariff can do one of two things, it can be used to discourage imports from Mexico, or it can be used to raise revenue. If you want to maximize revenue, you don't want to discourage imports by raising the tariffs too high, but if you want to discourage imports, you are not going to get much revenue our of a tariff designed to do that. So Trump is going to have to decide what to do, does he want to pay for the wall or does he want to discourage trade with Mexico, a tariff would efficiently do both at the same time, as there is a trade off between one and the other.

What about them, does adding to that a number of people killed by terrorist attacks help? Some of that misuse of firearms was the attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, a terrorist attack involving firearms is a misuse!

And what about banning people from misogynistic cultures? If we bring in people that believe women are property belonging to their nearest male relative or to their husbands, what does that do to women's rights if they become citizens and vote? Do you want Islamic Law in our country? Do you want Muslim ghettos of no go zones for non-muslims existing within our country as they do in Europe?

It wouldn't happen if Muslims weren't there in the first place, and the fact that some of them were supporters of terrorism or were even terrorists themselves! It I easier to tolerate Muslims when they live on the other side of an ocean and they kill mosly Muslims in their own countries, rather than your friends and relatives here. Part of the attacks on Muslims is motivated by revenge for previous Muslim attacks on non-Muslims. If we don't allow Muslims to come here in the first place we don't have this problem of terrorism or of some people wanting to get revenge for that terrorism. By letting in some people who may be terrorists, you are increasing the risk to American citizens that they may be subject to terrorist attacks by Muslims, and where there is fear there is also hatred. Islamic culture has some problems, namely that much of it tolerates terrorism or even justifies it! By bringing such people here, you are also fanning the flames of intolerance back at them. Not every American is a stoic, willing to take the slings, arrows, bombs and bullets the Arab terrorist wants to shoot at them! Where there is fear, there are some people willing to act on it. I'd like Islamic terrorism to remain mostly a middle east problem and notmakeit an American problem as well.

Maybe if they weren't Muslims, they wouldn't be targets for people seeking revenge for previous Islamic terrorist attacks against Americans. People see so many news stories about terrorism, and some don't want to tolerate new Muslims moving into their neighborhood and giving them something to worry about.  Isolatonism also means keeping the bad people out as well as not meddling in their affairs. If we bring them into out country, we are then involved, and so we might as well send out soldiers out to bomb the heck out of those countries that are sending terrorists our way. the idea of America was the get away from religious intolerance, and that means keeping out those people that want to wage a religious war on us.

Well billionaires have their own private security guards, they are not taking the same risks we are when our country lets in people with a higher chance of being Islamic terrorists. Charles Koch is quite safe, because the Islamic terrorists won't be able to reach him, but we have to rely on the police, the government, and the state department and border patrol to protect us!

Why else would people want to colonize space? Mostly its to get away from the Old World where dangerous religious fanatics that want to kill us live. It would be nice to live in a space colony where "Jonnie Jihad" wasn't allowed to visit and blow things up! We have enough problems with the hazards of space without introducing an unstable human element into it!

No one asked the illegal immigrants to sneak across the border, and if they want to take back California, we'll just boot them back across the border into Mexico without it! You know what happened to Ukraine with all of those Russian Immigrants, You heard of what happened to those Germans in Czechoslovakia, when Hitler used them as an excuse to invade. I would like to keep all 50 states thank you very much, and maybe add a few more in the 21st century. That Federal Judge wasn't the final word on this, he was an Obama Judge, and Trump has yet to make his Supreme Court pick.

You would need thousands or robots per person to make the necessary land cheap enough, and I'm talking artificial hills, soil trees and everything like that, not some sorry rusty boats tossing in the waves!

Well the global warming people want a sense of urgency, they want to portray global warming as big a disaster as they can, that way they get the government crash programs that they want! They want us to panic, they want us to be running bck and forth yelling that they "sky is falling" they want us demanding of our congressmen that they increase taxes and begin a massive spending program to save the human race from extinction, a typical sci fi plot.