To be fair, a lot of console gamers are console gamers, not computer gamers so outside of a potential leaning towards MS if they're Xbox fanboys there's not going to be much Windows love there.

Close enough.

I missed that part, that would indeed be an issue.

Can you explain why the breeders are a handwave?

1. How much of that is natural cost and how much of it is paranoid over-regulation? How many subsidies do the existing power companies get for things like "clean" coal?

2. There's several designs that either leave very little spent fuel or leave the fuel in contained chunks that are easily disposed of, additionally there's reactor designs that eat the spent fuel from other reactors and spit out less dangerous waste. The problem with waste is not a technical issue from what I've seen, it's a political one.

3. I'm not really even talking about increasing output, that would be simply a nice side-effect, we need to build new reactors because the old ones are crappy, less-safe designs that are near or past their projected lifespans. Replacing them will allow us to improve safety, reduce waste production and increase output all at once.

I'm not sure where you're getting your information from, but we don't have much trouble with that here either. Our biggest issue in that regard is that we still use power poles, which I understand are rare in Europe.

The problem is that energy consumption may be flat, but our population is still growing. I've heard claims that we'll max out at around 9 billion and then decline as more and more countries develop and the tendency of developed nations to have lower birth rates takes hold, but in the meantime we still need power and while renewable is great nuclear is more reliable and simpler to meet the demands with.

It's going to be pretty ugly in a couple decades. It would be nice if people could be rational and let us build newer reactors.

I know mutton because I'm a fan of fantasy, without that I probably wouldn't have heard of it. I know hoggett because I went to the wiki page for mutton a few days ago when I was bored.

One problem, you're most likely harassing his secretary, not him.

I'm not certain what the problem is. If someone holds extremist beliefs then it doesn't matter if their a veteran or not, they're as much of a risk as anyone else who holds their beliefs. In fact if anything they're more of a risk since they have training and experience. Would you argue that someone heading an anti-government militia agitating for revolution shouldn't be watched solely because they were in the military? If so, why?

That's actually a somewhat amusing thought, a vast, worldwide conspiracy to oppress and control, the reason they do it is because that's what they were trained to do when they joined the conspiracy, but no one remembers why, it's just what they've ALWAYS done. I can see a movie where the hero confronts the head of the conspiracy and demands to know why and the villain explains how, then the hero demands to know WHY again, and the villain looks confused "I'm not certain what you mean, there always needs to someone in control of the government, I mean, how ELSE would things be?"

How do you know it's on a larger scale? In China most likely everything is monitored all the time and has been since before PRISM and PRISM supposedly requires a warrant for domestic use, most likely the Chinese programs can watch domestically all they want.

They're already suspending kids for gun-shaped pop-tarts, it seems like bullies should be higher on their lists than that.

Are you in the States? If so anything not labeled lamb probably doesn't sell well and most people likely don't have any idea what "Hoggett" is. Hell most people here probably only vaguely know what Mutton is.