Selling all of our information to the NSA?

This is what doesn't make sense to me logically, but makes sense to me emotionally. The President doesn't really have any power to affect the climate. The real legislative power lies with the House and Congress (you know the legislative branch). But he always gets blamed when shit hits the fan. Bush, Clinton, Obama. The only power they have over laws is veto. They can suggest actions that Congress can take, but let's face it, Congress usually tells the Pres to take a flying leap.

If you want to address climate change, you need to contact your reps on a regular basis, and get everybody else you know to do the same thing.

Ok i thought you might think the democratic and republican parties were actually different when they are actually really the same.

The US has 100% of the seats in parliament reserved for one party. I think you're confusion is over the fact that that party goes by two different names.

The raspberry pi is great because you can rake leaves for an afternoon, and buy one for home use, instead of needing to work for whole month at an afterschool job like I had to to buy a shiny new compaq many years ago. Yes desktops are considerably cheaper now, but still more expensive than $35.

Dividing both by 1000 gives 1.23 Ah/g and 3.06 Ah/g respectively then multiply by the voltage to get Wh/g. So if you have ~11 volts, you get the density of gas for sulfur, and ~5 volts gives you better than gas for silicon.

Well put. That was the gist of my argument, only well thought out and written.

It's probably a little more complicated than that. Even if the British did storm the Embassy, what could Ecuador really do about it? Declare war, doubtful. Even if they did, what hope would they have of winning against the might of the British and the US? Really all the British are doing is humoring the Ecuadorians. I could be wrong, though.

While I don't disagree with that statement, you'd think by now that all the security holes would be fixed on XP. I mean they've had what 11 years to get it right.

Maybe the can security through obscurity?

We elect new Congress members every 2 years. Not all new, and sometimes the same idiots get elected over and over again.

When was the last time you contacted your Congress members about these issues?

That's the real problem. USian's pretend they are too busy to keep in contact with their reps. (And yes, I write to my congress people at least once a week on issues that are important to me, Gun Control, Sequestration, PRISM...)

In Soviet Russia, YOU watch the NSA?

This is the big thing. Whatever features are added, just make they damn well work. Almost two years to fix the damn podcast app is two years too many.

Sometimes de-normalizing is better than normalization. It all depends on what you're requirements are. If you love normalization, then go work fro DMSI. They take normalization to the highest level.

Now that makes even more sense than my original un-thought out plan.

Only 200k? My offer was much higher.