But would they? To protest poisoning rhino horns is pretty much to support the people killing rhinos. I don't think the 'bleeding hearts' would protest much.

I'd put it something that both makes people puke their guts up and makes them unable to get it up (if such a thing exists).

Immoral? No, it's punishment, no more immoral than prison.

are revered for supposed medicinal qualities

Most materials will soak up another material of the right type afaik, so capture the rare rhino's and soak their horns in something poisonous.

Make anyone using rhino horn medicinally puke their guts up for a month, that'll teach the fuckers.

In fact, someone should take the confiscated rhino horn, poison them and then release them onto the market.

Pain is exactly the kind of thing that Homeopathy's placebo effect is suited to

When I was a teenager, I was having bad headaches 2-3 times a week. I went to a homoeopath at my mother's insistence, I knew at the time what the little pills were and didn't believe they would work but after the 2nd attempt the headaches stopped, even to this day I only get about 1 headache per year and only mild at that.

When conventional medicine doesn't have a cure, what harm is there to allow placebo effect when it works? I would rather have taken a few pills with no side-effects than have been prescribed some pills by a real doctor that may have been addictive or dangerous if too many are taken and wouldn't cure the problem anyway.

Placebo effect has value and shouldn't be dismissed off-hand. Homoeopathy worked for me, so no amount of childish screaming it can't work it's not science doesn't cut it.

Perhaps the reason we can't work it out is because we are artificial intelligences in a big computer simulation.

Don't think too hard, you might crash teh sim!

Don't you find Libre Office to be incredibly buggy?

Delete rows, crash, paste a table from the web, crash, click close, wait for save dialogue and it crashes instead!

And conditional formatting was very broken last time I tried to use it a lot. And the charts are very lacking and horrible to work with - a bizarre UI maze mess. And Macros are weird, vague and over complicated.

Maybe Open Office is better?

Now I have to figure out how to justify a $60 game.

Why on earth would you want to pay $60 for a game!?!?!, Games coming out now are no better than games which came out 3 years ago and you don't need super hardware to play 3-year old games.

Gog, Humble Bundle, Steam, Amazon etc sales and simple price drops, plenty of top games for 5 to 10 US/EU.

GOG.com - summer sale on right now! DRM Free

The Humble Store: Great games. Fantastic prices. Support charity.

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I disagree - I don't watch TV ads, ghostery and noscript kill internet ads. I'm more concerned with the corporate stalking, like any stalking it's creepy and wrong.

In the UK trading standards and ofcom govern 'truth in advertising' already. But advertising overall is a lie, it sells a false reality - that endless consumption is ok, that the dream is to be able to consume more than anyone else. The whole advertising message is 10% anti-sustainable.

Funny because Tesla's home batteries come with a ten year guarantee extendible for another ten years.

Tesla's batteries are sold out for the next year. There are bug competitors about to enter the market roughly within the next 12 months. I'd expect battery prices to continue to fall quickly - it's potentially a multi-trillion dollar market.

The current limit on the number of charge cycles is definitely not a problem.

The other tech that is dropping in cost and improving in efficiency is battery tech, it won't be long before solar+battery is cheaper than grid electricity in 90% of the world - they are already cheaper in some places.

And?

If I stick a tower pc in the back of a truck and drive across the border, should the pc have a passport? No, of course not, so why should a robot have a passport?

Robots are not intelligent.

Robot definition:
'A machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer.'

Over the last 10 to 15 years installed solar capacity increased 100-fold.

It will grow another 100-fold, long before 2050.