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The answer to both of those issues ("green" fuels for aviation and trucking) is biofuel or synthetic (hydrocarbon) fuel. (FYI, we had an article here about the latter just a few days ago.)

Nobody said we need to be "carbon-less;" it's sufficient to be "carbon-neutral."

in the real world everyone is expendable except for the CEO

And that's why when Steve Jobs died, he was entombed along with all of his employees to care for him in his next life.

Or maybe he, too, was replaced.

Excuse me; let me clarify: I'm talking about laws restricting people's ability to get on the ballot as a candidate (especially when said candidate lacks affiliation with the Democrat or Republican Party).

Having laws restricting who can vote is a different issue.

Pick almost ANY topic and the parties are going to take polar opposite views of it.

Only the ones that don't matter, but make for good sound bites. On the actual important topics, both halves of our oligarchic regime enthusiastically agree:

1. Both parties love the PATRIOT Act, warrantless wiretapping and Gitmo.
2. Both parties think corporate "rights" -- particularly "imaginary property" -- are more important than the real property rights of actual people.
3. Both parties love pork and wealth redistribution (albeit not necessarily to the same groups).
4. Both parties love Federal control, and hate Federalism (i.e., separation of powers between the Federal government and the States).
5. Both parties abuse the Commerce Clause and the Elastic Clause.
6. Both parties feel free to ignore various parts of the Bill of Rights.
7. Both parties are big fans of restrictive ballot access laws, gerrymandering and first-past-the-post voting systems (to hamstring third parties).

And that's just off the top of my head, not anywhere close to a complete list.

If you type your Google password into some other website with this feature enabled, it automatically turns it into asterisks like this: *******

What were you doing you could be replaced that easily?

What the hell are you doing that you can't? News flash for you: we replace our President every 4 to 8 years and the sun still rises the next day. If you can't be replaced tomorrow, then someone done fucked up.

If the science can be discredited, should the federal government really be using it to impose burdensome regulations onto the public?

There's a difference between "actually discredited, according to a reasonable person's opinion" and "'discredited' as an excuse for a biased person to ignore it." With this law, we're talking about the latter situation.

In particular, the Republican goal is to make the burden of proof for climate change so high -- by eliminating consideration of "non-reproducible" data, like all historical climate records -- that in order to be allowed to regulate greenhouse gas emissions the EPA would have to construct two full-scale artificial Earths, build a civilization's worth of polluting industry on one, and wait 100 years to see what happens.

You are right, but my -rhetoric- question was about this "transition from a hardware-dependent business to [...] services" - i am almost sure that IBM has stoped being a "hardware-dependent business" a long time ago!

They did, but they're not "agile" enough to have realized it yet!

That's why such groups used to be called "special interest groups," to highlight the fact that their point of view is distinct and different from the general interest of society.

My complex straight up stopped signing for packages. You have a job to pay your rent? Tough tits, pay up for FedEx Saturday (or buy from amazon and time it for USPS Sunday delivery) .

Glass... is made from the most abundant stuff on earth.

Okay, so you're right: silica (SiO2) is made from the #1 (Oxygen) and #2 (Silicon) most common elements in Earth's crust. But spinel (MgAl2O4) is made from #1, #3 (Aluminum) and #8 (Magnesium), which isn't bad either.

Of course, given that a big sheet of something like Sodium (#6) would probably be pretty damn expensive, I suspect that the abundance of the material's constituent elements is not necessarily the biggest factor in its price.

The comments on that article are pretty interesting, most of them supporting the professor are along the lines of "These students absolutely are unprofessional! Who expects to keep their job after calling their boss a fucking moron?!"

They seem to miss the point that as a management class, these students expect to BE the boss, and they expect that there will be no repercussions when they tell their employee that they're a fucking moron.

Furthermore, now that these people will pass and become managers, I wouldn't be surprised if one of these people texts an employee telling them he is firing her because she wouldn't sleep with him, then when he loses his lawsuit and his money he'll go around telling everyone how an ugly bitch ruined his life.

Really, hmm so you think the need to send boats out to the turbines to service them on a regular basis will have [an insignificant] effect ?

Yes. Moreover, any effect it did have would be worth it compared to the benefit of avoiding coal.

To make an analogy, coal emits more radiation per megawatt during its normal operation than nuclear power plants have released cumulatively, even including the worst disasters. Similarly, fossil fuel power (coal, oil, and natural gas) pollutes more in its normal operation than wind power would even during the biggest disaster possible.

Even if the concern is about other ships and the fuel they're using for propulsion, it's still not reasonable. After all, the ships can just go around the same way they avoid any other fixed obstacle (reefs, islands, whatever). It's certainly not a big enough issue to make it worth continuing to use a polluting form of power generation instead!