Google takes over coal powerplant, converts to data center and installs a bunch of renewables?

That's...not irony.

I'm curious how you'd actually inject these into the supply chain.

At the minimum it seems like you'd need some undercover work, and to be really effective the best way would probably be to catch and turn some of the actual dealers. Conversely, I suppose it wouldn't take more then 1 or 2 deals-cut in order to seriously undermine and devalue the entire trade.

String theory has in no way become dogma, except to those who keep looking for drama where there is none.

No one's going to be rejecting LHC results which explicitly refute large chunks of string theory (and lets be clear: every particle accelerator has been setting some fairly rigorous bounds on all sorts of hypotheses over the years). Just as people were plenty interested in a possible confirmation of neutrinos moving faster then light in a major experiment.

I guess all those computers in offices are just for show? All the people who schedule and calendar with their cellphones are faking it? My friends laptops at home which absolutely have to have Office and a VPN aren't real?

You know where Windows 8 and all the other UI mis-steps of the last few years have come from? This exact, elitist, "I'm an IT Guy" sentiment.

And here I am about to ditch Chrome for Firefox because the 4+gb of memory usage on desktop with a bunch of inactive tabs open is meaning I can't really do work properly anymore because my machine is liable to lock up from running out of memory. And this isn't hundreds of tabs - it's like, 30-40 tops.

Worry about the complex problem once we solve the simple one with the obvious solution? Semi's aren't used to get around city deliveries.

You might want to think about your numbers there.

Presumably this benefit is accurately measured by the revenue generated by operating that vehicle. Invisible hand of the market and all that, isn't that what the US is all about?

Also every single place with a complicated password policy ends up with users choosing the most similar types of simple password that are allowed. They then write them down because they can't remember them. You can always tell when some jackass has got in charge of password security because a long keyphrase like "Goats jumping over the martian plains!" gets rejected, but "abc123!@#" gets accepted because it has a number in it.

Also every wireless signalling system I've ever seen for data tends to introduce a ton more latency with all the processing necessary for high throughput than any wired equivalents. This is even becoming a problem with high speed ethernet since past 10Gbps it's essentially RF modulation schemes again.

HL3 is any day now...

Seriously? I have a DK2 sitting on my desk right now. I was plaing Elite Dangerous with it a couple of hours ago.

I think that all those MacBook's cab run Windows, and that most CAD software is Windows-based.

I remembering being fine with the Oculus till I walked backwards in an FPS. Turns out that entire movement is extremely unnatural to how you move in the real world. Never had a problem with Elite Dangerous.

What are you even talking about? journalctl -a -f will output the logs straight from memory.

Plants also aerobically respirate O2 and emit CO2 at night. They are not pure CO2 sucking machines.