I can't help wondering if buying a saw with better safety features would have been a wiser investment though.

Why does it keep getting modded up in the firehose instead of thrown down the memory hole? Why don't the editors summarise his 2000+ word summary into, you know, an actual summary? Why are we even asking these questions when clearly neither of us is new here?

Even TFS was tl;dr. It's completely obvious too - the time you waste messing around with the app, which requires foreknowledge of when you will finish your shopping/eating to work, is not worth it. Most people would rather just park, maybe pay a fraction more but not have to wait in a queue or walk further, and get on with their lives.

Depends if you include car fires in Hollywood movies or not. Their cars seem to catch fire and explode at the slightest provocation.

The original intent was to encourage companies to invest in staff training with the knowledge that they wouldn't simply be helping competitors who then offer a slightly higher salary. There were also concerns over poaching of employees known to be working on research projects so that the other company could basically get free R&D. The problem is that it quickly became "we own your brain, you can't use it for anything else remotely related to what we do" and then finally "we own every thought you have at any time".

Give it a few years and you will start seeing mandatory thought recording devices fitted into employee's brains, complete with remote wipe capability in case they try to get a better job.

Nice try, but the fact that you felt it necessary to deny being a fanboy, referred to others as "Apple-haters" and were factually incorrect (see jklovanc's reply) kinda suggests that you are and Apple fanboy after all.

So Russia is pretty much the same as the US then, that has been going back to the Moon and then on to Mars since the mid 70s.

Russia managed to commercialize space far earlier than the US did, which is kinda ironic. It's a shame because the US has the money and the skill to do so much, but does so little and uses the whole thing as a political football. Back in the 70s it managed to hook up with the Russians in orbit, now it won't even let the Chinese join the ISS project.

This paint isn't retroreflective, it actually emits light. Good to see the road layout as it enters a bend from some distance away, and the exit to the bend where you headlights aren't pointing.

There is a lot of important stuff you can't see by moonlight alone. Animals, for example, tend to evolve to be hard to see. At least with headlights there is a chance you will see the light reflecting from their eyes, or their shape against the background.

So what you are saying is that both coal and nuclear suck and that the US construction industry isn't very safe. In any case PV is often installed when buildings are being built or roofs are being repaired anyway, so the actual increase in danger due to poor working practices and inadequate on-site safety is minimal.

No single person "put the kibosh" on US nuclear, it just turned out to be too expensive. In the 50s and 60s it was thought that nuclear would be extremely cheap, to the point of being too cheap to bother metering. By the 70s and certainly by the early 80s it was clear that nuclear was actually always going to be very costly to run and maintain, and the early commercial reactors were reaching the point where they had to be dismantled at great expense too.

Nuke-fans like to blame NIMBYs and enviromentalists for nuclear's problems, but at the core it's all commercial considerations. Governments are not willing to just keep pouring money into the technology like they did in the 60s. Back then they expected it to get much cheaper and become fully commercial, but by the late 70s it was obvious that it would never be self sufficient and always reliant on government subsidy (particularly for insurance). The UK had to pay people to take its government owned reactors off its hands in the 80s, they literally couldn't give them away.

Real life isn't like Sim City. You have to build stuff where it is practical. Where adequate cooling is available, with adequate transport links, connection to the grid, geological stability etc. Some countries have it far worse than others, but none has a free choice of placement.

Even the third world has mostly ceased excessive breeding. The fertility rate in Bangladesh has fallen from over 6 in the 1960s to 2.2 today, and the same is true in other countries. Contraception and family planning schemes have worked pretty well. The focus is now on Africa, and a lot of progress is being made.

The world population will continue to rise due to the large number of children and child-baring age people we have now, but is looking like it will level off at about 11 billion later this century. That sounds like an unsustainable amount but it really isn't. Most of the growth will be in Africa, where there is also great opportunity to improve agriculture and feed all those people. The critical part will be getting them to do it cleanly, not like how the already developed nations did. Fortunately they have massive renewable resources like geothermal and solar, and little existing infrastructure which means they can build a distributed grid from the start.

Pebble bed reactors have their own problems. So far no-one has managed to demonstrate one that didn't have some severe issue or other. Decommissioning at the end of life is a particularly difficult problem. That's why no-one is willing to invest in commercial scale ones, except for the Chinese government.

The legitimately elected pro-Russia government in Ukraine was overthrown in a coup. From Russia's point of view they came in to help those people who had had their democratic government taken away from them by force. Since there is no legitimate Ukrainian government now (elections in May) prior agreements with that government no longer stand.

I'm not saying I agree completely with all that, but people seem to forget that there was a coup and the people of Crimea asked for Russian assistance. The country was broken before Russia came in.