Which has about as much chance of working. Any plans as to what to do with the 6 billion plus likely to starve while making this grand transition? Self solving problem, I guess.

People will indulge in homeopathy, chiropractery and crystal healing. OK, they're not the sharpest knives in the drawer, but do you think banning these things will help? How's that worked out for drugs? Or cigarettes? Those have disappeared. Right? Oh, wait, they haven't.

For all these things, put the warnings on the label and let Darwin take care of the rest.

It will be back. A little more time. A few more congressmen will be investigated and blackmailed. Small slips of paper with a string of offshore bank account numbers and a dollar figure will mysteriously appear on the desks of some wavering legislators, who know the money will be theirs if they cast a vote for TPP. It's all standard operating procedure in DC.

The oligarchs want this, and by hook or by crook, they'll get it.

A government that does this:

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

is simply no longer interested in the rule of law other than to further their handler's interests.

So, request away! Ask for a pony while you're at it.

Actually, we have a pretty good idea about gas reserves. Energetically, they're about equivalent to known conventional oil reserves. This sounds good and will extend us to the end of the century, despite the rapid increase in consumption rates and the energy penalty for trying to liquefy it into a petroleum substitute (i.e. take 30% of the top, energetically)

Coal? Hard to say. It's *there* but using it economically is doubtful. Moreover, the same rules apply. We've long since mined out the easy, very "net-energy-positive" stuff. What's left is a lot of brown coal and bituminous coal that's not so easy, or cheap to get.

The bottom line, however, is cost. Supplying globe spanning "just-in-time" supply chains requires *cheap* transportation fuel. The "cheap" part is what goes away long before we run out of hydrocarbons.

The casualty is an integrated worldwide industrial civilization (and about 6+ billion people who starve). Local areas with access to hydrocarbons and technology to use it survive. Everyone else? Not so much.

Since there's virtually no chance that we have enough energy positive, affordable oil to run an industrial civilization by that time anyway.

You GO guys.

Even though they missed these obvious connections, and even though the TSA misses 95% of all threatening bottles of liquid over 3 oz.

Nothing happened.

Meanwhile, over 30,000 people died in traffic accidents in 2014.

Something is wrong here.

A law so secret that you can't even view it unless you're a congressperson, and even then you have to go to a locked room without recording equipment.

But how could that be suspicious at all?

And now we find out it's written and conceived by multinational corporations.

And we all know how benevolent and caring *they* are.

More seriously, anyone who votes for this has been bribed or blackmailed. It's an obvious takeover of nation-states by a globe spanning elite corporate-state.

But probably not the guy obviously dressed as a storm trooper with a fake blaster. What was he doing to do in that costume? Shoot someone and run away. Because it's so easy to be inconspicuous running in a storm trooper outfit....

Pretty much. The NSA stops and so the surveillance shifts to some other obscure agency that does exactly the same thing, but without the NSA's charter. The internet is a two edged sword. It makes corruption and incompetence harder to hide, but guarantees almost universal surveillance.

Ya' know, when we were watching Star Trek or Babylon 5 as kids, we kind of assumed universal surveillance, a global government and that all money was electronic. Not that it's starting to happen, it's scary as crap. I think it's because we don't have aliens as a common enemy. It's not us against them. It's us against us.

Aside from scheduling repairs at a time convenient only for the repair guy, the last "technician" they sent out had obvious gang tattoos and seemed more interested in casing my house than repairing my cable, which he was unable to do (I ended up fixing the cable break in the attic later that day. Damn squirrels).

So, I turned off the cable. Still have U-Verse for Netflix, which is similarly awful (They tend to not tell you anything), but at least they've never sent anyone who I or my family might have to be scared of.

I agree, however, I see no reason to give them any more courtesy than I receive. Moreover, there isn't any real solution to the problem as long as the world is moving to it's final form (i.e. transnational oligarchy), prior to the world's inevitable resource collapse (hydrocarbons, phosphates, water). This will "solve* the problem, but not in a good way.

A subtle mistake in a script. A few well placed words in some documentation that nobody will read for a few months to a few years and POP goes the server security. (*Cough* SONY *Cough, cough*).

Plausible deniability. It's what's for breakfast!

I've heard rumors of this device and it's claims of a bright future. Ridiculous! Why, such a device would have to be millions of times larger than Earth to be sustainable. It would also have to output energy 24/7 with no more than 5% variation. It would probably even be dangerous to look at without eye protection and the simulated output models indicate that it would significantly increase rates of skin cancer in certain vulnerable individuals. Such a dangerous, impossible to build device is just more blue-sky thinking by those "head-in-the-clouds" environmentalists.

So, you think the junior flunky in India that this was outsourced to is making big bucks? Somehow, I doubt it. What I don't doubt is that the dweebs with MBAs couldn't make a coherent decision to save their lives. Cost savings on a spreadsheet do not equal a viable business that makes money. You have to get "dirty" and get into the business details, or you will be in for a series of epic fails.