Come on, the Star Wars prequels were bad but that's going a bit too far even for me.

So does his Dad.

No-one else will ever be able to hold the respect Linus has, so the community wouldn't put up with that behaviour. Building something yourself and spending twenty years in charge of it gives you a fair amount of leeway.

Isn't there a difference between a fool and an asshole? Or are they both just synonyms for "someone I don't like".

I bet "Austerity Empowers" is the baddest mofo on the block.

So we are going to not only going to fail to expand existing solar but we're actually going to shut them down? I'm not sure about the wisdom of that plan.

85,000 wind turbines would produce about 465 000 000 MWH, anout 30% more than total annual UK consumption. As mentioned above that many could fit in a square 11 miles on each side. Do you pull your numbers out personally or have your proctologist do it?

Start off in the Philippines.

Why full employment? Why aren't we all working half time and spending more time living our lives?

They are good when we are making use of the additional labour we are freeing up to reduce the workload on the rest of the workforce and making sure the benefits spread to all of humanity. If it's just an excuse for Amazon to fire the only people that work for them, hoover up more cash from shops (also firing workers), then skip out on paying any tax on income then I don't see it as a benefit to humanity.

I bet those stupid kids haven't even been to Mars!

How many AU is that?

But only because the government told them to with the weight and measures act.

Interestingly that probably depends how fast you're going and how it averages the mileage, if you've been driving a long time at significantly above optimum speed (say 90mph) then you are sitting in traffic for a while you will likely see your "miles remaining" increase as you are now using very little fuel but you have still travelled a lot of miles in the "average window" the car is using to calculate your current average consumption. I have actually seen this happen though I suppose it depends how your car works out the miles remaining, and as always - YMMV.

Arguments like yours are a pretty good example of misleading information as well, he clearly meant "to bring water to the boil" not "to boil water away", that is what most people would understand by his statement.

Just like if I was to say "the climate is warming due to the addition of billions of tons of CO2 to the atmosphere" you would start talking about apples in your grandparents day being bigger.