Humanpedia deletionists are fine with that.

And Julian Knight quite possibly the most reviled.

it's incredibly expensive to deploy that last mile. You need to run cable through and over dozens of people's land. It's cost prohibitive. Yes, there's money to be made, but anyone who has the money to enter the market also has the money to invest in much less risky and more profitable ventures. That's where the monopoly came from in the first place. The gov't steps in to make sure the lines are run (and largely pays for them either directly or indirectly in the form of tax breaks and free services) then hands it all over to a private company in the name of "the incredible efficiency of the free market"... We did it with the railways too. Damn, but we never learn do we?

I assume you will be happy to take the hit on not being able to sell your property without suing anyone? Zoning laws are mostly about protecting property value through assuring amenity of neighbouring properties.

Means for identifying is a marriage is real:

Step 1 - is the bride Brittany Spears?

There is no Step 2.

I think it was in reference to this.

GenCon is possibly the longest running roleplaying convention - mostly D&D.

That's the best dice.com performance-and-features slugfest I've read all week. Thanks and keep up the good work.

The "three laws of robotics" (please note the quotes) were nothing more than a plot device invented by I. Asimov to make a point regarding humanity and inflexible laws - even laws which are seemingly 'perfect'. Non-sentient devices (that is, robots and computers as we know them now) are not complex enough to accept the three laws as such - nor do they need them. Non-sentient devices will always behave in a predictable, controllable fashion. I suspect that sentient devices will determine for themselves if they should keep or discard the three laws, although this may or may not forever be an academic question.

There may be the issue of demand. PV cells apparently require a lot of material compared to a lot of other potential applications of GaAs (RF? Optoelectronics?). If you really started mass-producing them from GaAs, you'd start straining the global supply (200 tonnes per year or so?) long before you'd reach anything close to current global production of silicon-based PV cells.

So, does that mean that blasphemy has also been retracted as an Indian legal concept?

There will always be demand for hydrocarbons and fertilizers, for example. And as a high-current, low-voltage application, hydrogen generation is much better suited for at least somewhat centralized production. You probably don't want to haul very thick and expensive cables over large distances. So, yes, it's quite plausible that in the future, most people will be at least partially self-sufficient, but there will always be need for industrial levels of power. Especially with ever-cheaper PV modules and increasing energy needs for advanced resource extraction and manufacturing .

That's obvious from the fact that you forgot to mention the scale used and the test. ;)

That has been shown to be increasingly difficult.

What does that have to do with a private taxi service collecting data on your movements? That's a matter for the municipal administration to solve.

The thing is, secrets regarding physics and engineering aren't secrets. Secrets regarding politics, treaties, negotiations, trade, yes, those exist. But those don't have anything to do with laws of nature working for everyone in the same way, though.