Yep. Now imagine that everyone be required to have one of those in their car. There would be a huge backlash from the general law abiding populace.

â¦. and no one has more firepower than they do.

What to do about it is easy.

We have to replace coal fired power plants with nuclear ones. All other technological options are not ready to start solving the problem (at the scales needed) right now.

I am actually frustrated that there is not a nuclear plant being built now near my city. I live in a very sparsely populated area that is geologically stable. We already have much of the power infrastructure in place for windmills and a natural gas power plant. Nuclear would be a sensible addition and expansion.

If you say you want to solve global warming and you say that we can't build nuclear power plants, you're a hypocrite.

Ironically the same people the argue with "deniers" about the problem argue against nuclear as part of the solution. So switching to working on the solution actually doesn't end the argument, it just creates a reactionary hypocrisy that makes your head hurt.

While reading you post I imagined giving a lecture and then in the middle yelling "STOP. Hammer Time!"

I'll have to try that next semester, although the closest I came to teaching about hammers was explaining the $5 password security exploit.

Except we'd have to solve the OPPOSITE problem.

Population density in from the coastlines is much lower than it is on the coastlines. So yes as oceans rise there will be places for people to move to.

This line of reasoning always makes me fee a bit uneasy. What if we do all the hard work of fixing the climate, only to get hit by an asteroid and have it all go to shit anyway?

I mean really, it'd be global scale Murphy's law to fix the climate and then get hit.

But in all seriousness, it does bother me to see near Earth asteroid detection projects loose funding, IMHO they are as important as climate change projects.

Your claim that printing money to have the government spend doesn't affect the poor or middle class is ludicrous. The inflation this causes affects the poor and the middle class quite a bit. And if interest rates ever go up again this house of cards (debt) will come crashing down on us all.

Yes there has been stagnation in the rate of increase. The rate of change in not increasing. As the gp post states, increasing rate of change is the definition of a positive feedback loop. Right now warming due to carbon dioxide is being seen, but a positive feedback loop is not.

You got one thing right. The state is evil. And by state I mean the government itself, not Wyoming per se.

If, in order to solve this problem, the liberty and freedom of the people in Wyoming to run their own lives and government needs to be sacrificed, then I will never agree with your "solution" to this problem.

If we must give our liberty in order to survive, then count me as your enemy. What good is life without liberty?

Oh and your all powerful government you require to solve this problem, if it's at all like all the all powerful governments that have come before, it'll have to destroy the environment in order to save it.

I think its fun to watch a company that built its fortune on tiny margins move into a industry that has enormous customer hostile margins.

Google is going to fucking destroy the big ISPs everywhere they go. Its good to see them fearing for their survival, because the big ISPs are truly evil.

And here is the greatest irony. Self-driving cars, if widely adopted, will save THOUSANDS of lives, but its the edge cases like this that will slow our ability to have this new technology because lawyers are salivating at the potential to sue Google because a tiny number of their autonomous cars will face unavoidable crashes.

Wish I had some mod points. Well said.

No, they only have to say they're throttling their own services the same way they throttle dropbox.

Just like they say they're spending all those government fees they've taken in to improve their service, when they're really just pocketing them.

I'm guessing because half is better than none and that this fix addresses the evil that the big ISPs are doing right now.