I like most people, prefer my constitutionally guaranteed right to Privacy, and Freedom, to Slavery.

And as the founder of the Ice Rustlers of the Open Playa, who helped lead deputized hobby horse riding citizens (many kids) to defend the Ice Bank from the Ice Rustlers of the Open Playa riding their hobby animals (unicorns, giraffes, and other creatures) with their wild and crazy hats, I remember fondly the agonized death scenes (perhaps a bit too overly dramatic) as they were stopped from stealing ice.

Seriously, you guys are way too serious. Lines are part of the fun.

If you want convenience and order, what the heck are you doing in the desert, you spoiled brat?

sorry, had to mock fission reactor locations first, throw in a Pacific Rim 2 reference.

The vast majority of cheap solar is in fact passive solar, and solar heating/coooling, not solar panels per se.

Comparing construction accidents for anything done on top of buildings we find they're no more risky than roofing in general.

Same applies to fusion reactors. The main problems are with radiation shielding, which is the part that becomes radioactive over time. Because it's doing it's job.

You still have to dispose of it the same way you do with fission reactors, and the materials used in modern fusion have some "salts" that are very unpleasant if not kept separate, and the method to create them can be a bit controversial at times. But all forms of energy creation have negative consequences.

I'm sorry, you racist European, you forgot Japan.

You know, Japan where two of their fission reactors are too close to an active volcano that will probably make them explode within ten years.

I for one am not surprised that the former USSR state of Georgia, now a sovereign Communist Nation, thinks that. ... oh ... wait

The US State of Georgia.

Oh my fracking God!

Are they insane?

If all browsers in November will have SSL3 turned off by default, then he won.

All because the NSA wanted a crypto back door.

Note: fixing SSL won't fix the other methods, which involve spoofing cell and provider feeds and using the other computing devices inside your cell and network like your printers and GPUs and (long list).

oh and I'm almost done with the WOD For The Horde quest chain - will finish this weekend after homework, since I have a test tomorrow.

Remember: fun. If you're not doing fun, ask yourself which of your players are using the content. If most don't use it, you forgot to add fun.

You get together with a bunch of friends with drinks and snacks and play a game.

Fun to design.

Fun to play.

If you're more worried about your metrics, you're doing it wrong.

One should point out that Bill Gates lives in a state where we have zero state income tax, zero capital gains tax, and his dividends aren't taxed either when he donates them to his own charities.

The problem is that rich people already have massive assets that produce income - everyone else doesn't.

The median wealth of all African-Americans is about $200. Total.
The median wealth of all Hispanic-Americans is about $500. Total.
The median wealth of all rich corporate lawyer's sons whose mums served on charity boards and went to private schools and live in his house is $60 Billion.

Totally agree.

Oh, and if you're patenting business processes, take a leap off a short pier.

Exactly.

The stuff we (US) sold them.

But not WMD.

Remember, the current Iraq is pretty much a puppet state of Iran now, after we "trained" them, with the exception of the Kurds.

This is kind of sad, I've had two USB3 ports for the last 4 years on my eight core Win 7 machine, in addition to all the USB2 ones.

Have to agree. Still haven't heard of a single reason to "upgrade" from Windows 7 yet.

Just because it fixes the disaster that was Windows 8 doesn't mean it's better.