Any particular recommendations for further reading/research?

The solar may be helpful in some respects (like providing the power for the life-support systems on the ship), but I'm talking about a return to classic sail cargo ships like used for all shipping before motorized ships became popular.

I did a quick search and was glad to find some articles confirming that many people are indeed thinking about exactly these things:

https://www.machinedesign.com/...
https://www.popularmechanics.c...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...

That would be one way to help partially address some of the sources of climate change, and at the same time address any possible future where fossil fuels aren't as cheap to obtain reliably. That would be more forward-looking. Too bad.

I'm a little behind in reading slashdot, but I'm flabbergasted that this comment was modded up to 5 and has stood that way for this long. One look at this graph should be enough to tell you what's really going on: https://goo.gl/images/X13u8h

If you don't want to click on the link, essentially it shows that from 1979-2007, income for the bottom quintile has increased by 10% over that entire time span, not per year, while income for the top 1% has increased nearly 300% over the same period. In other words, the vast majority of the additional wealth that's been generated in the economy since Reagan started in office has been sucked up by the ultra-wealthy in this country.

By the way, this info comes from the Congressional Budget Office via The Economist magazine, hardly some left-wing crackpot source.

The parent poster appears to favor measures to help them suck the wealth up even more, and faster.

I do something similar, but with my own domain, using the domain name where I'm registering in the part before the @. No need to create a new mailbox or forwarder for each site, as it's a global forwarder. You can be more selective in the forwarding by requiring a specific string as part of the address in order to forward, so you don't get messages sent to random addresses in your domain.

It would end up something like this (obviously much shorter - this is just for explanation): DomainNameWhereI'mRegistering.com.customstring@myowndomain.com

You can do this either if you have domain hosting that also offers email forwarding, or I believe that there are also dedicated email forwarding services dedicated to this kind of use. I've done this for several years (through a website hosting service) and have caught a few major domains that either sold my email address or had their customer data hacked:

dropbox.com
adobe.com (known to have customer data exfiltrated)
equifax.com (back in 2011, years before their big security meltdown a couple of years ago)

Yes, and here's a previous Slashdot story about the apparent discovery of what made Roman concrete so durable, just a few years ago: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

Like an AC mentioned above, over the air TV is the answer to the issue of someone with a bandwidth cap who wants to watch 16 hours of TV a day. In fact OTA should be a major component of most cord cutting solutions, if it's available to you.

Some over the air broadcast TV benefits (some are dependent on your location and/or type/location of antenna):

- Unlimited free programming
- All the major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CW) usually in HD
- Better picture quality than cable or satellite
- A lot more channel options than one would expect. I get about 160
- Some programming that you can't find elsewhere (many sub-channels, niche networks, foreign language channels, etc)
- More and more channels are being introduced as people cut the cord

Thanks for taking the time to respond. That makes sense and goes along with what you said in your initial post.

Given your expertise, I would love to hear your opinion on this other news story from a few days ago (about the use of graphene for filtering water): https://news.google.com/news/s...

You may want to check your information on the Orlando gay nightclub shooting. I recently learned that there is no(?) evidence that the shooter had anything against gays in particular, or that he picked Pulse nightclub because it had gays in it. For reference, check Glenn Greenwald's recent articles in the Intercept regarding the recent prosecution of his wife. It seems that it was just an untruth that spread like wildfire.

As far as I know, insurance companies also get to see all the evidence of accidents that involve their insureds.

About a year or so ago California ran a largeish pilot program testing various ways of addressing this coming change to cars that don't use gas and thus don't pay gas taxes.

I participated in this pilot, and just had to report my mileage periodically by taking a photo of my odometer with a smartphone app. and then pretend to pay a fake bill. They had several other reporting and payment methods available, including GPS devices, bringing your car in to have the odometer read, etc. It's definitely a workable problem.

You can read the final report, FAQs, etc, of this pilot here: https://www.californiaroadchar...

Ok, so if it's not illegal to doxx that's fine. However, like I said, no business that wants to stay in business will want to seem complicit in doxxing, because otherwise they may end up liable for someone's injury or death.

What you say makes some sense, as long as people are only talking smack. The only problem is that TFS says that the pizzagate reddit was banned for repeated doxxing of people. Should that be allowed anywhere, even segregated fringe groups? I would imagine that any US-based business would never allow this, as the potential liability is insane. Refer to the recent mistaken identity SWATting death.

Thanks for the additional details on the cake case. I have a feeling that the supreme court will come down on the side of the baker, because of the reasons you stated and because it actually makes sense not to compel the baker's speech. I say that even though I support people's right to same-sex marriage.

I will definitely read them to learn more. I too wish we had better politicians across the spectrum, and it would be interesting to read about when they were much better.

You have, and I hope I have done the same. Please feel free to do that on my posts too. I enjoy discussing things with people who are willing to do so in an honest and civil manner, even if we disagree on some values.

Thanks and good luck too!