JaKiri

You're just copying that from dictionary.com. an·ar·chy P Pronunciation Key (nr-k) n. pl. an·ar·chies Absence of any form of political authority. Political disorder and confusion. Absence of any cohesive principle, such as a common standard or purpose. The latter pair aren't technical definitions, and don't apply. Anarchy isn't necessarily disordered.

What's it powered by? Because it sounds... inefficient.

It's not the laws that keep things ordered, it's indoctrination, backed up with a gun, metaphorically speaking. Also, anarchy isn't inherently disordered, any more than, say, democracy is. It's just there isn't a higher structure of governance.

Erm...

Make sure it works first.

Are you saying the plague isn't an infectious disease?

In your face, people without christmas avatars.

Damn communists.

Yeah, you'd have to do it in a shielded area, otherwise the solar wind will wreak havoc. I don't think yourdad considered that.

You've missed off how a relates to b and c.

Hence, I didn't reply to him with that comment, but leave it floating in its own disconnected aether of sense.

There's the whole 'tension' issue.

Everyone loves nuclear giant ants. [edit] That reminds me of Boo, the Minature Giant Space Hamster. GO FOR THE EYES BOO! What have you got against JC's The Thing?

Social Law almost universally fails to render justice.

It depends how thick you want the sphere to be.

THEM? What about IT? Or THE THING.

Of course, all talk of space combat is fairly premature, because currently the ships are such that you could throw a rock through the side and kill everyone. Well, not quite that bad, but the point remains. Space vessels are really fragile because we couldn't get them into orbit otherwise.

I think you're forgetting the main problem of projectile weapons in space. Newton's Third.

Building something large enough to warrant the kind of engineering we'd need would have to use dyson-tech anyway, even if it wasn't around the sun.

Perhaps it just passed through, since it's some kind of crazy macroatom. Also, the electrons are in constant motion, so it'd be just shaken off.

Replace 'ships' with 'planes' and divide the distances by 100, and realise how silly this objection is. If you want a hint, it's called 'homing weapons'.

Yes it is. 'If one impossible thing happens, is some other impossible thing possible?'

ET has punkbuster, thus it loses by default.

Nothing can go past lightspeed, so the question is invalid.

Bear in mind that that post was geared towards the kind of argument in which the 'objection' to abortion is based around the baby coming from the choice of the mother, and it's logical that any counterarguments should reflect this.