That's a false premise. You can build large cisterns that store excess energy by pumping in water, then using that during peak periods to meet demand. It's 100% solar. These could be built on the coast or even slightly in the sea, so there's no shortage of water until we run out of sea water. It also serves to level demand, since all excess demand can always go to the cisterns, even if they're full, since they'd just overflow and form a nice waterfall or similar water feature. The same could be used to store excess wind generated power, completing removing the need for fossil fuel or nuclear energy. Maybe keep one plant as a museum piece.

I have a 2013 plasma, and can pause a picture for an hour without a problem. Yes, sometimes people leave something on pause instead of turning it off when leaving for a while. No burn in issues at all, and I checked. Again, this is not a problem with new modern plasmas. Cheap or old, yes, they probably have problems. So do LCD/LED/OLEDS. CRTs do too. So it's not a unique problem for plasmas.

That said, as CRTs are dead, I do love the plasma's picture. In comparison, my 2010 top rated LED looks cheap, flat, lacking in depth, the criticisms could go on. As soon as you scale up to larger screens, the flaws for each become more obvious. The plasma generates more heat. I'll accept that for a picture I can actually watch.

So it is a myth, for a new modern screen. If you look for the cheapest you can buy, you'll succeed in getting less than you want. Or, you get what you pay for, really.

This is a myth. I have a plasma, and there's no issue with burn-in during anything approximating normal use. Maybe if you leave a static image on the TV for days. But who does that?

And take a look at how many of those were "big" by today's standards. None.

Note that copyright has nothing to do with established industries. When copyright was placed into the Constitution, it was frequently common for authors to self-publish. Copyright protected these authors from unscrupulous printers who might print out a few extra (thousand) copies to sell on the side, or from some individual in another part of the country from grabbing your work and selling it elsewhere. Note that this was mostly on the individual level, since companies that were involved in publishing were few and quite small.

I'm pretty sure Aero can get around the antenna issue. The DVR in the cloud is a different issue, and may be fixable by streaming from antenna to home located device to cloud device. The ISPs will scream at the increased load, which could also be solved technically, by having the stream done via multicast. The only problem here are the broadcasters like FOX that don't want you to have this control.

Hmmm, my current car cruises comfortably at 130+ mph and a past one topped out around 180 mph. Not sure a 1909 vehicle even makes 100 mph reliably, although they did exist, as the top speed set in 1909 was roughly 120mph. Wonder what the gas mileage was, not to mention the teeth loosening adrenaline rush.

TBH, there's not much you can do to increase the efficiency of the most efficient simple chemical fuel combo in existence. In a thrust based concept, if you're using all the energy available as thrust, you're done.

The problem with judge's discretion in sentencing is that it is applied so subjectively. Take a drunk driver for instance - one hits and kills a (drunk) bum and goes to prison for 20 years, another kills 4 people and severely injures 2 with no remorse and gets sent to "rehab" for 6 months. Those are hugely different outcomes and were based on judges discretion for sentencing. (The second case is being reviewed, btw, because it did fall so far out of the norm) Having strict guidelines for some actions is good, IMHO. That said, the level of offense admittedly needs some tweaking to at least be more than 'x' level of offense, such as violence or certain age thresholds being met with discretion below those levels.

Perhaps because it was a comedy?

The problem in Africa is that there is no semi-stable large state. Until a stable and large enough state exists to support the infrastructure and provide security for shipping goods internationally, I doubt you'll see a flocking of businesses to Africa. And then there's the political aspects.

Own a cellphone, leave it in random locations, share it with friends, make things really confusing.

which is why blacklisting both google and facebook locally is a good practice, just like washing your hands.

Untrue - Taser's can still be lethal.

Barring Anguirel's post, this is not true for everyone. I've seen people drift while chewing gum, talking to people, looking in the rearview mirror, etc. Some people literally cannot do 2 things at once, with one of those being breathing.

For these types of people, a conversation with a passenger is no different than talking on the phone, or even having kids in the car. They will be distracted in all cases if there's anything at all that can catch their attention.

Other people, however, will tune a conversation out when driving conditions warrant it. They fall outside that distracted group. Part of this is realizing that no phone conversation requires catching everything the first time, and that asking for clarification or repetition is valid, since you're taking the call while driving in the first place.