You could propose that as a geoengineering experiment.

But the short term costs are horrendous. Billions dead. Unlikely to be a good tradeoff.

Online poker? No, I don't play. No psych. No way of knowing they aren't blatantly cheating. etc etc.

Why anybody would trust an online casino when every city has a local illegal game available is beyond me. Comparisons between state lotteries and numbers rackets are apt. (the illegal numbers rackets games are much much better bets).

The alternative is to give kingmaker power to fringe parties. It's not like Italian politics are to be emulated.

Rainforests are CO2 neutral.

It is often quoted that rain forests absorb buttloads of CO2, but they give off equal amounts. Unless a swamp/jungle is laying down geological CO2 (there are a very few left, Okefenokee is the example that springs to mind) it is just absorbing it, short term. While the rot at the base of the tree is giving off an equal amount.

It's not female solidarity. It's hot chicks taking men for chumps...kickstarter, no equity... requirements for supplying funding for nothing is chumpdum.

Can you effectively program the device _with the device_. e.g. if you need a mac to develop an iPhone app the iPhone is _not_ a general purpose computer. If you need someone else to authorize a local install the device is _not_ a general purpose computer.

Because there is no way to structure a lease to include an extra 500SL for the decision maker, knowing that nobody would ever read the fine print.

He gets a company car, that the company knows nothing about. Of course he gives it back at the end of the lease.

It's a very common attitude among American leftests with no knowledge of history.

John is an idiot for not reading his piled up email in reverse chron.

Because your just dumping snail mail. You could also just dump e-mail, but apparently there is a chance some of it is useful to you.

If only there was a way of sorting email. Perhaps by sender or send date.

To be fair. Ford Europe isn't as bad as Ford America.

Culture isn't that different. My cousin was in charge of purchasing 500 MB trucks for his business/employer (he owns a big chunk of stock). They _gave_ him a 500SL to close the deal, completely off the books. That would be criminal in the USA.

Deals in Germany are often closed on a handshake. Binding or not, so long as the people involved are not from the former east, people are trusted and your word is important.

2 parties suck, but n parties; coalition governments and regular reformations of coalitions also suck. Too much power in the hands of small parties that end up holding the balance.

I'm in favor of no political parties. But accept it's untested IRL and could continue politics being only affordable to the rich.

What? An idiot can always reach around safety gates. A slightly less stupid one can disable the gate switch and get himself killed.

The entire business model of facebook depends on people who need someone to pay attention to them.