So you're suggesting that the pumps are adding enough energy to move millions of tons of earth and rock? Really?

That's nonsense. All they're doing is breaking loose enormous energies that were already there.

The fact that we were recently wrong about the stability of the area isn't really relevant. The drilling couldn't add enormous amounts of energy to the substrata, in the form of stresses that required shifting enormous amounts of rock to release, so you have to assume that the stresses were already present. When or how would they have been released without the drilling is an important question, but they would have been released eventually. Is this way of releasing them better or worse? I don't think we know that.

I don't see anyone claiming that they didn't. What would you expect?

FYI, my G Watch R regularly gets better than 24 hours on a charge. I mean, the battery is at like 5% the next morning if I forgot to put it on the charger the night before, which means it's useless until it's charged a bit, but it does last a full day.

Fraud she certainly is, but the fraud was so transparent that clearly she's not right in her head.

While the financial aspect of this makes her culpable, building an outrageous fraud around readily disprovable details of your personal biography is a very bad idea in the long run if you're simply a con artist. Doing that suggests that there are short term needs that trump simple financial considerations. Perhaps she felt she deserved more sympathy, nurturance and nurturance than she'd gotten in life. That's common enough that there's name for it: Factitious Disorder.

Over the years I've read many stories of people who assumed false biographies. Most often this took obvious forms -- passing for white before the Civil Rights Era. But in some cases people chose to assume minority identities, particularly as American Indians in the early 20th C. Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance was (by the terminology of the age) a negro with some Cherokee ancestry. He ran away to join a wild west show where he learned from Cherokee language from other performers, used that to get into Carlisle Indian School and later traded up his "Cherokee" identity for a Plains Indian one. Wenjiganooshiinh -- "Grey Owl" -- was an Englishman who was abandoned by his father in childhood then later adopted an Apache/Ojibwe identity.

What makes these two men relevant to this case is that they were both advocates of Indian rights. As outsiders, they understood what sympathetic outsiders wanted Indians to be better than an Indian would. And they would't have been able to pull it off if they weren't a little off their nut; if they didn't want to escape who they were for a more glamorous alternative.

If involves breaking the law -- not just some kind of namby-pamby administrative regulation but the basic stuff of civilization like like the prohibitions on assault or murder -- then I'll sure as hell tell what not to do.

If you're a veteran I'll gladly shake your hand and thank you for your service. I'd be honored to buy you a drink. But I won't hand you a get out of jail free card.

Have a little perspective. Yes it's wrong to impersonate a veteran, but it doesn't impugn the character of veterans. But claiming that all veterans will and should overreact to a breach of propriety with violence *does* impugn their character. Which is worse?

Is it the new Google phone system?

Also, Google doesn't have access to Amazon,

maybe perhaps, they don't. I sure would not bet on it. What does Google do? Searches, you say. Well, I never. They search, they find. Finders keepers.

You are damn right the government has access to everything. The real lesson from Snowdon is, anything the government knows, will leak out sooner or later. (Probably sooner than you think).

Snowdon told us what he found. The other few thousand leakers kept their traps shut so we dont know who they sold the data to.

it's just that pot smoking is very very often an introduction to other, more harmful drugs

Research done in the 60's showed that almost 100% of heroin addicts ate cornflakes for breakfast as children. You could probably repeat the research today with Kinder Eggs in place of cornflakes.

If you are unhappy and turn to pot, it probably won't solve the problem. So you try something harder. obviously, it aint gonna work, so you take more and harder stuff, and it ends badly. If you start young, your judgement was probably worse too.

Correlation does not imply causation.

No. You are doing it wrong. You need to upgrade your tin foil hat. If there is no scientific evidence, then it means "Big Pharma" has hidden the evidence under the carpet, and bribed even more congressmen than normal. There is always scientific evidence. Some of it is complete rubbish, that is all.

If you can't find evidence to support a theory, then it is like in CSI when they cant find fingerprints - someone must have wiped them off!

I think the two are complementary. Google's reverse lookups often don't find matches for personal numbers, but do a great job with businesses -- it's particularly cool if the business has actually set up their Google page; you get not just the business name, but imagery chosen by the business. For personal numbers, I think Google only finds people who have their number in the Google profile. Given that most people don't bother to configure their Google profile, there are a lot of misses.

FB, of course, is the dominant social network and thus it's much more likely that their lookup for any person that calls you will find a match.

Of course, in both cases you have to balance the convenience of the feature against the privacy implications. Personally, I trust Google far more than I do Facebook to behave responsibly with my data, and for that reason I'm heavily invested in the Google ecosystem (I also work for Google) while I deleted my Facebook account years ago after they unilaterally changed my privacy settings without informing me. In fairness to Facebook, I think they've gotten somewhat better about such things, but I still don't use them. Others feel the same way about Google, and if so they should disable Caller ID by Google.

Have you actually used an Android Wear device, rather than just reading the docs? If not, your comments about battery life also have to be called into question -- particularly since you have to be comparing against Apple's claims, which are almost certainly optimistic. Most everything else in your list is of subjective value. The two factual complaints are incorrect.

FWIW, I have used a Moto 360, and have an LG G Watch and an LG G Watch R. The G Watch R is what I'm currently wearing.

I should also point out that I'd actually like to see the Apple Watch succeed. I'm an Android engineer, but I'm a big fan of competition, and I think Google is far more effective when it's being challenged. But at least so far what I see in the Apple Watch is a few differences which are irrelevant, and a few which appear to be bad ideas.

I have no doubt that Apple will sell a fair number of watches on the strength of their brand, but that sort of competition doesn't benefit consumers. Good ideas, well-executed, that make the device better than the competition in important practical ways are what we need... and I don't see them in the first generation Apple Watch. I don't think Jobs would have launched this device as it is were he alive.

I hope I'm proved wrong.

The Pebble Time, however, really does look interesting. I guess that's my biggest complaint about the Apple Watch... it's eating market and mind share that could go to more interesting and innovative devices that really could push Google.

Nope, you can mute any app. There are two ways to do it. If you swipe left on the notification you get a screen (possibly after a couple of swipes; depends on the type of notification) that offers to mute app. Tap that. Alternatively, if you open the Android Wear app on your phone, go into settings and tap "Block app notifications", you can add apps to block.. and remove blocks, too.

Are you sure?

Sure. The same is true in many places in the western US, and some much more so than Texas. But if that's your normal driving routine, that sucks, and not being able to use an EV is the least of your problems. Unless you're a professional driver, that is. In that case spending all day driving isn't a waste of time, it's a living.

For the vast majority of people in the US who own two or more vehicles, choosing an EV for one of them works very well. Whether or not it's more economical depends on many factors. I'll tell you, though, once you get used to the way an EV drives, it's hard to go back. When I bought mine, it made perfect sense financially. I moved and things changed so that it may no longer be such a great deal... but I really don't like it when I have to drive the ICEV.

It's not so bad. I paid $75 to rent a car carrier to tow behind the moving truck. Frankly, I'd have had to do the same if my car could drive that far, because we had three vehicles to move (including the moving truck) and only two drivers.

They often drive for 4+ hours per day? That's gotta suck.