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The penalty is for all revenue made, not all profit made. So they still lost money on this product with R&D, production, etc. expenses.

While he was in politics he also dropped some insanely good political ads. All around legend.

One of the key reasons for Israeli airport security efficiency is racial profiling though (see the Ben Gurion airport section of This page for details).

The law allows you to shoot anyone who is trespassing on your property (which is absolutely terrifying). It's not specific to illegal immigrants and couldn't be used on someone else's property. So shooting a rancher on their property would still be illegal.

Plastic is polyethylene, which is a long chain of repeating ethylene molecules. To make it biodegradable they just put starch molecules in the chain every so often.

A lot of plastic is polyethylene, but nowhere near all of it. There are plenty of polymers that can break down naturally, mostly polyesters like PLA (which breaks down into lactic acid, the same naturally produced compound that causes muscle soreness after workouts). A lot of work is being put into making PLA have better material properties so it can replace more of the conventional plastics. It's also generally made from corn and can be pretty close to carbon-neutral. So long story short some biodegradable plastics are worse, but some have legitimate applications and are genuinely better than current options.

In addition to what the other commenter said, this case took place in California where abortion is fully legal and constitutionally protected. Not to minimize what's going on in other states of course, but you're comparing apples to oranges with that statement.

Interestingly, a Mexican cartel did something very similar for their comms network about 13 years ago (source)

Soldiers seized 167 antennas, more than 150 repeaters and thousands of cellphones and radios that operated on the system. Some of the remote antennas and relay stations were powered with solar panels.

The accounts, which were restored within hours,

Yes, they will and they did

GIS might be Google Image Search in this case, though I haven't seen it abbreviated like that before.

Btw your 20% figure includes those at Level 1 literacy, only 8% are below level 1 (from your source)

Doesn't the fluorine make them both effective and forever? Isn't it difficult to create a lower energy state molecule than a compound of fluorine.

For many applications, yes. Fluorinated compounds tend to be quite inert. There are definitely some applications where the compounds don't need to be resistant to every type of chemical attack and you could use a more specialized compound that is generally less inert but performs similarly in whatever conditions you put it under.

Is "forever" the problem?

Forever is a big part of the problem, but it's worth noting that if a compound is completely nontoxic then bioaccumulation doesn't matter as much (though some nontoxic chemicals can increase the potency of other, toxic chemicals and cause problems that way: see this article)

The points you have brought up seem to be an issue with responsibile manufacturing more than the nature of the chemicals themselves. Seems like that should be addressed on a much wider discussion than just these particular compounds.

Yes. We need increased strictness on regulations and enforcement for these compounds and others because that's the only way to make companies comply.