I think MythBusters might have done something on this? Would be interesting to see how the aerodynamics of the cover impacted what sort of force was necessary to get it to escape velocity.
Spiegel turned down Facebook already and they have tens of millions of cash with a license to burn. A buddy of mine that went to Stanford with him recently quit his Wall St job to help them work on monetization schemes. No chance they sell in the foreseeable future.
Definitely. However the concern here is that people ignore the individual mandate's penalty. Precisely nobody wants that, and the hope was that the ease of signing up and looking for insurance via exchanges would provide a carrot or at least a smooth road to go along with the stick of the penalty. Whoopfail.
/b/ is like any different language/culture. totally nonsensical and absurd at first but there's good stuff going on when you get across the language barrier.
Lots of companies that are required to do business with each other (eg. utilities and the rest of the private sector or large retailers and large consumer goods companies) are able to do it, why would a statutory requirement be any different?