No. Go stand in the corner.

Both ISIL and Boko Haram believe they have a mandate to spread Islam by the means their Quaran told them to.

They are doing very well so far.

Interesting page.

A minor nitpick:

You present the equation E = R x I x L x T

with T being the loss in transmission between the supply and demand.

I don't believe transmission loss is usually reversed to mean efficiency, so your formula would have the energy delivered increase as the transmission loss increases. Perhaps you mean:

E = R x I x L x (1.0-T)

or

E = R x I x L x F

Where F is the normalised efficiency of the transmission between the supply and demand.

Also, I assume you have allowed for the fact that more distant geostationary solar arrays spend less time in Earth's shadow so have more illumination per year.

China uses imperial units?

Your position is idiotic for any functioning society.

This argument reduces to the assertion that any dress code is immoral, and that people should be able to wear anything they like, including nothing. You then use the absurd leap to liken such a society that has a dress code to an oppressive muslim regime.

I hope the next person who sits beside you on a bus thinks like you do.

I can't tell if you're joking or not.

Short answer: no.

A Fitbit, on the other hand...

I invoke most graphical programs at the command line in a terminal.

Doesn't make them command line programs.

Yes.

That has to be the silliest comment I have read on Slashdot this week. Are you actively trying to redefine the term "perv"?

Good point. How long, though, before RenderMan becomes another option in the renderer selection drop-down box in Blender?

That's a boldface lie and you know it. You clearly have no understanding of the Mars One project and should refrain from further participation in this discussion.

The prop will be styrofoam.

Make politics not about who has the most money for their campaign.

In this day and age of social networking, why is it that voters still only consider Kodos or Kang, and then grizzle when they end up on a serving platter?

This.

many, many times this

GP is probably referring to the continuous spectrum of a black-body emitter.

Try putting a spectrometer (eg a CD) on an LED or CFL bulb and compare that with the spectrum of an incandescent. Now, that awful banding you see on the former applies to actual objects as well, which leads to things looking "unnatural".

That said, phosphors have improved a bit lately so the problem isn't quite as bad as it used to be.