There is another solution. We don't worry about it. In the morning everyone gets up early. If you stayed up late reading or something you still get up early in the morning for chores and breakfast. We also have rules of respect. Being quiet in the evening is one of those rules because other people are sleeping so they can get up in the morning to work. If kids are raised this way it rather solves the issue.

Back to the smart bulbs - too much technology. Wasteful. Expensive.

I realize you city dudes have a hard time with this idea but there are large swaths of the USA, and world, where there is no cell phone service. POTS is all we have and I had to lay a mile and a half of my own cable to get that. There is something called mountains that make radio, TV, cellular, WiFi and such not work so well.

"In the end it will also not matter, because when these people reach the distant location, there will be no compatible civilization on earth left."

The point isn't to come back. The point is to go out.

"There is no point in deep space travel as long as we are not able to go faster than light or at least close to light speed."

No point that you understand. There is a point for those of us who would like to seed our planet's life and culture out to the stars. Maybe we'll develop faster than light which will over take those ships, or maybe we won't. But if we don't send out seed ships then we won't have and someday when the rock with our name on it hits Earth we'll be wiped out. This is a very big reason for sending out seed ships.

Personally, I think they should be live ships, not just storage of corpsicles.

http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehicl...

So:
30% Alcohol related
25% Cellphone related
  5% Texting (separate?)
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60% of accidents could be eliminated if people would stop using cellphones, texting and driving drunk.

That would be really nice.

If you send me $30,000 (a pittance compared with $3 million) I'll supply you with pork for life. Real food in the real world which you can really eat. You can also trade your real pork for other real goods with other real people or just serve it up as a delicious meal with real friends in the real world.

Hundreds of real people have send me real money like the above and smaller amounts to get their real pork CSA Pre-Buys. It's real. This money helps us finish building our on-farm USDA/State inspected butcher shop. That's creating real infrastructure in the real world funded by real people at a real farm producing real food.

Be a part of something real and get real benefits.

-Walter Jeffries
a Real Pig Farmer
on a Real Mountain
in the Real State of Vermont
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/

"They current generate 7,000 â" 8,000 Bitcoins per month, which, at current rates, would be worth over $4 million." ...and at tomorrow's rates will be worth $0. Oops. Virtual evaporation leaving no trace behind, not even a ring around the bathtub.

Not everyone has the high bandwidth connections. Streaming doesn't work in much of the USA and much of the world for that matter. There are many places where a DVD is much more convient to watch than to have the video streamed.

Another issue is that the streamed video from Amazon Prime for example does not include the extras like deleted scenes that are on DVDs.

If you want the exact opposite effect, homeschool your kids. This makes you far more involved in their education and lives plus they do far better than public school kids. One of the big benefits of homeschooling is that we don't have to have any arguments about what we're going to teach, no creationism vs evolution. We teach real science. We do real research. Homeschooling has been great, for us.

YMMV so do what you please.

Unfortunately he has a point though. The Media and Public are not science yet they create madness and hysteria. FUD rules them in an evolving cyclic swirling mess that ignores what might be really going on. This distracts from the real science and real understanding.

Much of the problem is that the Alarmists and the Deniers both like to cherry pick the data to prove their favorite theory. What they do is choose a span of time that proves their point.

If you look at the last 17 years then you come to one conclusion. If you look at the last 34 years you get another conclusion. That sort of thing.

This is classic bad science and both sides are doing it. It's annoying.

Much of the problem is that the Alarmists and the Deniers like to cherry pick the data. What they do is pick a span of time that proves their point. If you look at the last 17 years then you come to one conclusion. If you look at the last 34 years you get another conclusion. That sort of thing. This is classic bad science and both sides are doing it. It's annoying.

Statistically speaking some conspiracies are true.

Free is too expensive since I don't trust Microsoft to continue to offer the product. One of the big problems is we need to continue having access to our legacy data. When Apple, Google, Microsoft or other companies decide a project is no longer worth supporting we lose access to our data going forward. They are not good about providing legacy support or data conversion.

What about delivery vehicles? They normally have one driver so they don't get the three people exemption. Guess you won't be getting your food.