A lot of HTML limitations is also due to the fact that it will need to render on many different platforms. The goal for a correct web app is not to copy your PC app, but stay in the browsers rules and limitations.

Back in the good old days. We had a data format that was in essence a memory dump of the system. So the data will only work with one application and sometimes on the same OS and hardware (Endianness).
Then we started to get some open format solutions such as Postscript, LaTex which allowed for cross platform and software sharing of data. HTML got popular mostly due to it compatibility with flat text. Simple commands and the fact that you could link to an other document. This linking feature ment you could dig further in a document.
They added more features including images more formatting then JavaScript was a bit of a hack added in for client side processing.
So now we have apps that we access online and we really don't care if you are using windows, macs, tablets, phones, or plan9. The browser follows the standard and gives you the output.

Java was an attempt at this concept too, hovever many apps that we call webpages today would be too much work to code in Java.

Ironically, the MPAA you cite possesses no power that the public doesn't give it voluntarily. The MPAA puts ratings on its movies. Movie theaters show these movies to the public. These theaters are under no obligation to ban unrated movies. That they have collectively decided to do so is a social phenomenon, not a regulatory one.

In this sense, the MPAA has no more power than, say, Consumer Reports Magazine. If I decide to open a theater chain showing any movie, regardless of rating, nobody can stop me. But my success will depend upon the public's willingness to ignore that lack of rating. Honestly, it might make a fun social experiment to see what would happen, but I lack the funds and time to do it. I suspect the results would surprise the MPAA, as social and moral attitudes have changed markedly in the last several decades. I don't think many people really care all that much about ratings anymore. It should be enough to note if a movie contains "adult content" or is "suitable for children" and that's about it.

Consider that any successful experience in cloning anything adds to our knowledge base about cloning. By perfecting cloning, we can do a lot more than just bring back extinct species. We could, for example, grow entirely new organs cloned from your body to replace damaged or failing ones, organs that could be transplanted into you without fear of tissue rejection. Further, the practice of being able to reliably modify cells at the genetic level can lead to all sorts of other benefits in medicine, biology, and even far-flung fields as nanotechnology when you consider the scale you have to work in.

The whole "can't you spend your time/money better" argument is pretty short-sighted when you consider the enormous ancillary benefits. It's like saying why bother going to the moon when you can spend money on Earth. But without that impetus, we might not have the very computers and Internet you're currently using to read this post, or lasers to correct your vision, or lightweight, strong materials used to make the planes you fly on, or the fuel cells used to power zero-emission vehicles, or...you get the idea.

Stop thinking in checkers. Think chess. It's not the current move that matters; it's the move you make three moves from now that wins the game.

If you like to use sample sizes that are too small, then I would like to interest you in another useful technique.

Correlation is causation.

For example:

The tides cause the moon. The correlation proves it.

Similarly, murder rates are higher in the summer, and ice cream sales are higher in summer months. Therefore ice cream causes murder.

I hope that was helpful.

That was my thinking. Maybe we have giant silos of cacao, and those are dwindling, although I lack the imagination to think this is literally true. The whole premise looks like a reason to raise prices and profits.

If the world is eating more chocolate, it means the world is getting richer. Not many in China would be eating chocolate regularly 20 years ago, Same could be said of other areas.

Regardless, the math doesn't add up, particularly the future estimations of us consuming a million tons more than we make. The only place you see that kind of math is typically in the Ministry of Truth.

Considering that many of the sat images come directly from google...in the year 2010, yeah they're fake.

Well forgetting that commercial trucks are already taxed. They pay fuel taxes when they hit the pump, they may if part of a company have to repay those taxes again when they cross state lines. They may have to pay certification taxes on the truck itself every year as well. And considering that the vast majority of our products come by truck from distribution points, I'm sure taxing them even more won't have an increase on your food/energy/domestic/medium or high end goods either.

Brilliant. So you want to tax them even more, when they're already taxed. Here's a plan: Slap your government up side the head for taking money that was meant for road repair, and putting it into the general revenue fund.

There tends to be a commonality with Europeans to ignore problems of their own. If this was an American project, they will be in full flame on stating how this mission was a complete failure.

Oh you mean the senators who have been effectively against most of what the PM has been doing? I won't say everything that the senators do is right, but you seem to have a grudge against anyone who doesn't share your particular ideology on an issue. Rather than the merits of the problem when someone brings it up.

Considering that we know that there are environmental and civil liberty groups already breaking the political advertising limits, and in several cases we also know that they're illegally receiving funding from the US. You might have missed that when it was covered in the senate before the CRA started the investigations.

Chances are it's the PSU causing it. That seems to be in at least my experience over the last 20 years, that if you're experiencing some type of coil whine it's related to the PSU--usually a weak rail, or a rail that's failing. This is especially true under heavy load, there are rare cases as mentioned in a lower post of other issues causing it but the majority of the time it's something you can fix on your own. Especially if it happened after a strike.

Sorry, you can't even trust things coming from a trusted and vetted supply chain unless there are massive oversight controls. I've seen knockoffs and other crap come though ingram micro...that was in the 90's.

I guess that's why according to public records, all of the left-leaning groups who applied for the same thing except one group were approved in under 30 days.