Put in back doors, and you can kiss any American "security" software goodbye. Let's not even bother with the whole issue that a backdoor will be found and opened, then all hell will break loose, and stick with the fact that nobody on the planet will knowingly buy or use "security" software that is known to have a backdoor.
If they get away with this backdoor crap, how long until they are demanding master keys to your house. (Yeah, that's a bit of hyperbole, but only because the physical expense would be huge.)

I just wanted to say Thank You, and no hard feelings. It seems we've found a couple of interns that will do your entire departments for a pepperoni pizza and 2 liter of coke per shift. You have 6 hours to train your replacements and will be expected to have vacated the premises or security will detain you until the police arrive and you will be prosecuted for trespassing.
Don't forget your NDA, you can't say anything about what this company does.
Thank you very much, and hit the road bud.

"...argue that the secret science legislation would force EPA to ignore numerous studies. They say that not only do many studies contain public health or industry-submitted data that are confidential, but the legislation provides too little funding for EPA to obtain all the necessary raw data. And many studies, such as longitudinal surveys, are not realistically “reproducible,” scientific organizations worry."
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As far as republican backed industry is concerned, anything like health and environmental issues that prevent them from doing whatever the hell they want is bad. The EPA is a big supplier of those things they hate, so if they can cripple the EPA, they get to do more things to make them money, despite it being dangerous to the public health and safety.
So yes, they are trying to pull a fast one by attempting to eliminate as much as they can.
It's kind of like a mafia lawyer trying to get the judge to throw out all witness testimony that is not 1st hand police testimony, or all evidence that has been touched or operated by someone other than a cop. So Uncle Johns being in the room and seeing Vinnie the Slasher cut up the victim gets thrown out, along with the fingerprints from the door because Uncle John used it to run out screaming for the cops, of which he is not one of. And forget witness protection also, you can't hide the names and address of Uncle Johns family either, since that kind of confidential information isn't "transparent" enough...

Again, yes, it's a scam attempting to cloak itself in respectability. (Or more like trying to sneak sarin into the theater by hiding it in an empty first aid kit wrapped in bandages.)

As security guards had been assigned, I doubt there was any form of "blind-siding" going on. Perhaps the administration were wearing blinders, but they certainly were aware that things were seriously out of whack.

Funny how so many people are assuming or asking about something like that.
Do you know nothing about how leadership "takes full responsibility" for anything people at least 2 management levels lower do?

Basically it means they'll yell at some underling to fix this, and actually check in on progress once a week or so as long as people keep bugging them about it. Also, they'll do the "sad face in public" thing to help with press releases and photo ops.

Doesn't matter if it's a politician or a corporation, it's all the same dance card. (One of these days I'm going to look up "dance card" and find out what that is, assuming someone bothered to wiki something that old.)

Lawyers don't care about them, most of the lawyers are concerned about getting paid and making a name for themselves in the shark tank, err, legal field.

Sure you could, but as their biology has a greater dissimilarity to human those results are fairly worthless for many things. So why do you want to do that again?

Only because they don't know how to build nuclear weapons.
Yet... ;)

Transparent aluminum was invented about a decade ago. The government has been looking in to using it for various things, including replacing the viewports in tanks with it as it's far more efficient for that kind of thing than glass.

It was about time for California to try and tell Oregon to divert one of it's rivers again. They attempt that on a regular basis. It's never going to happen, that water flow is important where it is even if nobody is drinking it.
Nobody is going to let California take their water resources, period. They need to find another solution, like reduce water needs, or build some desalination plants.
Besides, if a kickstarter doesn't reach funding, you don't get any of the money, and even if you did, wasting it on a politician would be really stupid.

There are other methods to store excess power, but I doubt one homes solar panels would make it feasible for the home owner to install.
One of the common methods is to pump water to a higher altitude (up a hill, or into a water tower), so when you need the power, let it run back down to the generator. (The pump is the generator, just running in reverse.)

Warning labels... Funny how those don't have to rely on science or even basic intelligence. For example, there is a bicycle manufacturer that has added the warning to their bikes of "Not to be consumed" all because some F-N moron apparently decided to try and eat one of their bikes, and then sued the company because they didn't tell him not to.
If you want to base whether or not something is safe based on the contents of a warning label, you might as well kill yourself now, you'll be a lot less freaked out.

You do realize don't you, that even the non-gmo stuff Monsanto sells is almost exclusively their own hybrids for which they already have Intellectual Property Rights. No genetic engineering needed for IP.
I have no problems with genetic engineering, though I may have issues with specific uses. Monsanto on the other hand, is just as bad and self serving as any other huge multinational corporation. They all suck.

War has pretty much always been a tradeoff and tech development to kill the other guy while not getting killed myself. That's why they started using armor, and ranged weapons, and landmines, and war elephants, and oh so many other things. This is really just a new twist on an old concept, but at least this time, it's controversial before it's been developed.

That would be great, but until there is nobody left that wants to hurt, dominate, exploit, or kill someone else, then it won't happen.