"It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the—if he—if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement"
Do you really want to trust politicians?

You're not thinking big enough, why pull out a bomb when the whole over-sized fucking carry on bag is a bomb filled with explosives and nails, its not like your final destination requires a clean set of cloths. Also this would work best when done in the middle of a security line, on the busiest travel day which would also be a good time to have a "winter" coat on for some extra punch.

Understandable, most people have moved on from film so I think the screeners just have no idea what they are looking at with a basically all mechanical camera. The bulb cable also seems to cause them a lot of confusion as well. I have been tempted to take my Pocket Kodak No. 1 series II to see their reaction.

Personally I would put coordinates of various Geo Caches on there, might as well actually have them go on a treasure hunt.

Was it a SLR or DSLR? The TSA can't seem to figure out my SLR and have asked me to turn it on because they couldn't figure it out. On numerous occasions they have also opened it up ruining the film (I no longer fly with film in it), removed the lens to what I presume was checking to see if it was a firearm, and have wiped everything down checking for explosives. I find to really perplex them bring a set of macro rings as well.

Give it about 2 weeks then it will be implemented TSA wide.

Same here but I have a relative who is a supplier of professional fireworks which really makes getting them easy. Also we go up to a buddies lake lot and shoot them off the end of the dock over the lake.

And even there you aren't maximizing the value. I end up making a fair amount of biochar every year in my smoker and BBQ, both are home made since I didn't like the ones available for sale. Put in some trimming from relatives' apple, pear, or cherry trees and use those to give a nice flavor, I have also been know to dispose of apples and pears that aren't fit for consumption in similar fashion which really adds flavor. I save up the char from these and it gets added to the garden every year which also is where lots of other things end up like fish remains and other organic composts. Basically this is making some terra preta.

Well from what I have read we could meet out existing energy needs by covering 1% of earth's surface with 1% efficient solar panels since the earth receives about 10,000 times the energy from the sun that humans consume daily. Now granted we probably couldn't extract all that energy, and we would need to have some surplus built in for times like cloudy days so something like 10x our current daily consumption should be plenty which is still doable since 5% efficient panels are the really cheap crap and that only would require covering 2% of earth's surface. Now jump up to 10% efficient panels and we are back at 1% coverage and these are common and the numbers only get better with something like the higher end but still fairly common 14% panels. Granted local storage would be needed to provide smoothing and having a large national grid with larger regional storage would also probably be needed (if you have huge local storage this becomes less important) but with more intermittent renewable entering the energy market things like this will be needed anyway.

This also doesn't even get into cutting down on wasted energy which we have a lot of in the US. I don't want to sacrifice my standard of living one bit and I wouldn't want anyone else to either but to say going green would require living a lifestyle comparable to that of a nomadic loner is just being stupid.

Only 30% I think you are forgetting the apathetic as well not just the cheerleaders of these actions. If it were only 30% with the rest being against it there would probably be blood in the streets.

Good thing the copyright has expired. Maybe that is why Monet isn't creating any more work.

Are you sure you're not talking about a a pretty fucking awesome rave?

Now that I have that out of the way I just assume that my government is just as bad as most when it comes to shady dealings but is just better at hiding it or convincing its citizens that it is needed (see Palin's baptism comment). I wish it were better and I try to make it better but too many of my fellow citizens think these things are perfectly A-OK.

I would even be willing to give up the BBQ portion if everyone's reaction to being spied upon by their own government was OMGWTF, but instead we get a bunch of if "you have nothing to hide" bullshit.

I don't know maybe he was just looking to redefine the word.

Hell it is practical even in cold northern states, but has a much larger payback time. I have been looking into getting 7 to 14KW of installed capacity on my roof and it looks like the payback time would be around 8 years for me here in Minnesota. I am lucky to have a huge south facing roof slope so that makes it more attractive, but there are other things that have a better pay back that I am looking into as well, like a ground source heat pump when either my AC or furnace needs replacing.