You completely missed out on the fact that Politicians tend to be horrible psychopaths who lie to gain power. Why do you think that our Constitution and all of the Federalist papers leading up to the founding of the country wanted minimum Government at a Federal level?

Nothing new here, you can read the same thing from Plato written more than 2,300 years _before_ the founding of the US.

If you believe a politician, shame on you!

You are still attempting to conflate a condition on earth (related mostly to pollution) which we know exists, with a natural disaster which we have no ability to predict. That is a completely irrational comparison.

Further down you attempt to conflate discussing the two remedies to be the same thing, which is impossible if the events are not even close to similar.

At least you were honest about attempting to karma whore...

I have lived in California for about 5 years now. Since I have been here I have heard about how poor the water infrastructure is and how California has needed to build to handle capacity. The Bay area systems were built to handle a million people, and we have well over 8 million living hear.

Also since I have been here, we have been required by law to have low use toilets, shower heads, and sink spigots. The idiotic Government demanding everyone reduce by 25% assumes that everyone was wasting water. Many were not, and there is no way I can cut by 25% because I currently do laundry once a week to ensure full loads, use a low use dishwasher/toilet/shower and generally shower 1 time per day (2 is sometimes needed if I work out at night instead of morning).

Our re-use and grey water treatment could surely improve but I don't believe that the majority of people in CA are as wasteful as the article makes it appear. As TFA states, over 80% of our water goes to Agriculture. 25% of that means California loses a ton of money so we know that probably won't happen. Can't afford that dumbass train to nowhere if we lose tax revenue...

If you are not trolling then you are confusing dwelling on something you can't change with something we can change. The sarcasm and snark can only be justified if you were correct in your analogy but since it's bananas to orangutangs your statements are just being a prick.

To bring in AGW which is not any where near what I or TFA were discussing. Yet somehow you got modded insightful.. go figure

Sure, the chances of getting hit by an asteroid were probably over blown. That people panic about non-threats or believe they can win the lottery is not normal, and not because of the person as much as the hype other people put on these things.

Advertisement, people wanting power and your stuff, those are the big problems. The pressure to keep people in the cave has not changed since the allegory was first written.

A dick is the person who does not care who gets a medal as long as they hand them out, not the guy making sure the right people receive them.

Do you think that the Military should launch medals up in the air so they rain down somewhere in a city, and whoever finds it deserves it? That analogy is exactly what rewarding ACs is.

I see this and am disappointed that people do this so frequently. Yup, on some occasions I have seen AC posts that are deserving of being up modded or down. Those posts are very rare, and points would be better spent on named accounts. If I see two posts with similar messages posted closely in time, I spend the mod points on the named account even if their post shows 2nd by wall clock.

I don't have any issues with people posting as AC, but it's called a coward for a reason. All anonymous people are the same account with no accountability and no ability for anyone else to know if they are having a conversation or trading off between multiple people. The guy posting an informative link looks identical to the guy posting the racist crap.

I don't receive mod points often enough to squander them.

As to the person above you not wanting a history of postings, I find it sad that people are afraid to express their opinions, and refuse to debate their positions.

If you can not make sense of the comments (yes, it is plural) that is because you are choosing to comprehend only the parts of the writing you like. That is exactly what I am referring to where people can not communicate effectively by the way. If you want a Baseball analogy, here ya go. You don't teach a kid to run the bases for a home run without teaching how to bat, and you don't teach kids to just yell "You're Out!", you teach them to catch, throw, and rules of the game.

Programming without the ability to communicate is good for whom exactly? Programming without the logic, ethics, math skills, and other world knowledge makes a poor programmer. Poor in both potential meanings.

And to your "an app for that" have you ever seen what code.org is? It's drag and drop, it's not coding. It is an application that writes code for people and uses proprietary APIs, graphics, etc.. to do so. Sure, you can manually write things outside of the APIs, but as with my comment about the few people strong enough with calculus the numbers don't jive with "everyone" learning. The overwhelming majority of people learning to "program" in school are learning how to use an application.

While I appreciate the gesture, I don't agree that high school students should be doing anything more than using technology. There is an immense amount of knowledge they are missing out on because people are pushing tech down their throats.

Here are a couple examples: How many kids today can communicate effectively to an audience outside of their friends? Not too many, because we no longer teach people how to write and communicate. How many kids can tell fact from opinion? Again, not too many because we no longer teach people to investigate and question. We teach them that if a person in authority said it, it has to be true.

So if I teach Bill and Mary how to code in 6th grade, what can they code? Not too much, because they don't have the other knowledge to make good use of programming. The few kids in high school with enough math skills to be performing calculus based physics are not justification for everyone to be learning them.

The push is to industrialize coding so that we have good little workers that know enough to program what someone tells them to program. This in turn keeps the rich rich, and everyone else gets screwed.

The check sums are already published, anyone that wants to check can check.

To the other half, I can modify any Windows binary to have malware and keep the version the same. Check sums can fix that almost all of the time. The build information is as reliable as the binary's name, in that it has very little use.

People pushing this gunk are not going after knowledgeable users that check sources (obviously), they are going after the low hanging fruit which could be "got" any number of ways. The latest craze of pushing STEM and IT Security has created a huge set of wanna-bes who know enough to be dangerous while thinking they are intelligent.

Both your position and TFA's to be perfectly clear. Members of the House, Military, and all of the various intelligence agencies are masses of people with a huge amount of collective knowledge. That "Bob" didn't know something is complete crap, because last time US Security relied on one person was... well, absolutely NEVER!

Saddam had no Nuclear weapons, and the whole story about yellow cake was fabricated by various intelligence agencies to fit an agenda. Everyone in politics and the Military knew it was bullshit, and everyone knew why it was invented by the Italian version of the CIA (which is why they attempted to hide the source). Bush was going to go to war no matter what. It was sold to the public by lots of politicians using every method imaginable (free oil, those damn terrorists, that evil dictator, etc...). The point in the propaganda game is not to convince other politicians of an action, it is to convince the public that the action is justified. That is right, the war was going to happen regardless of public opinion so it was purely justification.

Why do some people that believe politicians are stupid, do things from complete ignorance, and do things without understanding all of the possible outcomes? Well, those same people are quite frankly batshit crazy.