And best of all, natural selection will swiftly favor people with your attitude. Those who celebrate death and suffering will go the way of the Neanderthal. Good riddance.

Environmentalists really opposed this kind of mining, especially in such a green place and for such a dirty material, except when it promotes their most current fashion.

From your link:
"Mining in the 48.0 km Garzweiler II sector started in 2006 and it will take until around 2045 to fully exploit both sectors. The lignite is used for power generation at nearby power plants such as Neurath."

This is the "new" part of the mine, used for power requirements from 2008 forward.

As of this moment, half of Germany's nuclear plants are still in operation. Merkel plans to phase them out by 2022. The phased-out plants have been replaced by the world's largest strip mine, Tagebau Garzweiler. The full phase-out will require a new, much larger lignite pit, Tagebau Hambach. When fully developed, it will cover 85 sq km.

The largest renewable energy installation in my state was also the one most bitterly opposed by environmentalists. It was built before renewables became fashionable: http://www.nps.gov/glca/index....

Unfortunately those ARE the goals of environmentalists. Real-world environmental problems, including anthropogenic warming if the science validates it, must be solved by a new breed of pro-human activists.

It would also take come changes in the laws of physics and astronomy. I'm really impressed that Germany has beeb able to do that through subsidies and by using the power of EU's mighty bureaucracy.

I live in a northern Arizona town populated by high-end retirees. I know three (3) people who have installed residential solar to take advantage of our 350 days a year of hard clean sunlight. These people have zeroed out their electricity bills not by going off grid, because the sun sets even in Arizona and July and August have cloudy afternoons. They use the grid as a battery to store excess daytime generated power and draw power at night. I'm sure that Musk Must is not going to disconnect the grid either.

I thought the capitalized HAM was supposed to an idiot newbie mistake. Doesn't every ham like to explain that the word is not an acronym for anything?

How much is this flare in Carringtons, anyway?

You'll be able to chat about oxygen tanks and mobility scooters with people all over the world!

I did get my cat to eat the beans, but now she won't come down out of the A/C ductwork.

I have always wondered who the first person to try a lobster must have been. Was that person (a) French or (b) Japanese?

Which would include a function to "Send next part of rant to Apple Watch." This would serve as an unobtrusive teleprompter for being annoying at HOA meetings.

But who would want to peer at a navigation map on a watch? You want to bring up the map in your familiar GPS app, select a destination and route, and start up navigation. With the phone back in your pocket, you can then follow route directions on your watch, with the only interaction being a tap for 'next part of the route.'

Most people in IT would really appreciate any tech that would allow them to keep working into their fifties.

Here's a tidbit about that 'culture' that does not come from Fox News:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/st...