> But if global warming is happening, and we do nothing, then what? This is the most important question to consider. If humans are influencing the climate and we do nothing, then we are screwed. On the other hand if humans are not the cause and we reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we put into the atmosphere we end up with cleaner air and more widespread use of alternative energy, which is a good thing given the growing population. Seems like we win either way by taking actions that should be taken if humans are the cause of the current warming trend.

Your diff doesn't have an option to ignore white space when comparing versions? That's lame.

This sounds like a very good idea! It would be good to pick a day with some historical significance. None springs to mind at the moment, but something that would make it very ironic (and maybe newsworthy) if someone got bothered by the police for taping them.

>It has no camera and no sensors...
Watch the video, it *does* have a camera. One of the potential uses is searching damaged buildings for survivors, it wouldn't be much good for that without a camera.

> Like the knight with no arms telling King Arthur "I'll bite you to death!" in the Knights of the Round Table.
The knight actually said, "I'll bite your legs off" and the line is from the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690

They knowingly allowed people to suffer permanent neurological damage and did nothing to try to warn anyone. The woman who filed the suit has had her life ruined, she cannot work, the drugs she needs to treat the problem caused cost thousands of dollar per month. The fucking company should pay. They could have stopped this and did nothing. They are morally responsible. "Actavis ignored scientific and medical literature establishing a higher risk of developing tardive dyskinesia, failed to request a labeling revision from the FDA, failed to change the label itself even though no prior FDA approval was required, and failed to report safety information directly to the medical community." THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Case No. 08-31204

Ironic that they call it free speech when it was bought and paid for by the drug companies. SCOTUS also ruled this week that makers of generic drugs cannot be sued, even in cases where there was a known problem they did nothing about[1]. They also upheld a limit on medical malpractice damages set by a West Virginia law[2]. See a pattern here?
1. http://www.wwltv.com/news/northshore/Local-shocked-US-Supreme-Court-ruled-against-her-124458214.html
2. http://www.wvmetronews.com/news.cfm?func=displayfullstory&storyid=46230
== the golden rule - those that have the gold make the rules

Anyone who can produce more electricity than they need should be able to easily sell it. It makes no sense at all to allow utility companies to put barriers in the way of this happening or for them to not pay a fair price for the power. The smart grid should abide by basic common sense.

If you really have prior art, let EFF know: https://w2.eff.org/patent/

"With this flight, we would like to encourage politicians to opt for more ambitious energy policies,"
The point of the project is to attract attention to solar power and they seem to be doing a good job of that.

If they combine this with rastafarianism, I'm in.

"Montoya quit the business in 2001 and wrote a tell-all book (Yesterday a Doctor, Today a Narco-Trafficker)."
I suspect the reason he had a price on his head was because they weren't too happy about the book he wrote.

The article said they'd been running it on water from the Charles River, so it doesn't have to be very clean.

My first programming lesson was with an acoustic coupler and a hard copy terminal connected to a DEC PDP 11 system. The first piece of computer hardware I owned was a VT-100 terminal, and the DEC 20 they had at Wesleyan was like HAL from 2001 to me at the time. The pacsal compiler was a nightmare, though. Ken Olsen and DEC taking on IBM was an inspiration. Cheers to Ken Olsen!