NIMBY's suck farts off dead chickens in August. And if you've ever smelt a rotting chicken in the August heat, you know how revolting that is.

The job of a NIMBY is to do whatever they can to obstruct progress. Whether they do it to "protect property values", "save the children", or "stand up for our (religious) rights", they all do the same thing in the end: Say "No" without providing any options.

Every nation in this world is full of conquered peoples. There are more "sacred places" than you can shake a stick at, and I challenge you to pick a direction and walk twenty miles without running into someone's "sacred" place. Yet when is the last time you ever saw them worshipping there?

Yeah. Right.

Never.

Says the helium-voiced AC at the top of his tiny lungs.

I've been there too. What most people don't appreciate about Mauna Kea is its staggeringly large size. As a shield volcano made of lava that came out with the consistency of oatmeal, its spread exceeds its height far more than any other mountain. And since that height had to reach 19,000' just to break the ocean surface, at its present height above water this single peak is larger than the whole Rocky Mountain range.

What this means is that of all the world's high mountains, Mauna Kea is the easiest to access. On this gentle slope, a simple graded road is all it takes to get the largest assemblies up there. The smooth dome in an island location not in any storm belt makes for better weather, and more cloud-free nights, than anywhere else in the world. And it's roomy: the University of Hawaii administers an 11,000-acre nature preserve at the summit, with 52 acres in the middle dedicated to astronomy. Seen from above, everything we can put up there just disappears into the landscape.

The "Empire 101" overview of Hawaii-British relations is here:
http://www.britishempire.co.uk...
After al, just look at the state flag.

For a much more detailed and personal view, I recommend "Captive Paradise" by James Haley.

Be more explicit... your righted infringe on my rights so your rights must be denied.

"The reason why these whackjobs's opinions matter is the US is an invading and occupying colonial power"

And if the Sandwich Islands had remained in the British Empire, or had become part of China or Japan, would the status of Native claims have been handled differently? How would one say, "F*cking haole" in Chinese?

Legalize pot in Hawaii!

Seriously, I know this whole campaign is a scam whipped up by the Greens. How do I know this? Because not that many years ago they engineered an identical campaign here in Arizona, when University of Arizona, which is a powerhouse in astronomy, first proposed siting large telescopes on Mt Graham in the southeastern corner of the state.

First they tried the endangered species ploy, claiming that the pine, or red, squirrel populating the peak would be endangered by the presence of astronomers. This fell flat on two grounds: the pine squirrel is common throughout the northern hemisphere, and it is a robust species that thrives in contact with humanity to such an extent that campgrounds often consider it a pest. Then they found someone to claim Native American sacredness for the peak. This proved even less credible than the squirrel argument, because none of our numerous tribes had ever claimed sacred status for Mt Graham when the hunting lodge, state campground and federal prison were all built on the mountain.

The story of Mt Graham ended happily for science. Though the flat-earth lobby actually used the argument "Send the scopes to Mauna Kea, where there is no opposition and where a 50-acre dedicated astronomy reserve has existed since 1960," several of the world's most prestigious instruments were completed on Mt Graham, and the sky did not fall. In fact, as with all other large observatories, astronomical use has extended a huge umbrella of environmental protection over the region. If the air isn't kept clean, astronomy can't function. Smelter smoke that used to be commonplace is now banned.

Hawaiians, don't fall for this scam! Now that Greens have clubbed major infrastructure projects to a halt all over the US and Europe, they are moving beyond opposing the applications of science and are starting on science itself. This movement needs to be exposed for what it is before we lose what's left of civilization.

Considering that FFXIV began as a project to put a new graphics engine on FFXI, the answer won't just be no, but "they'll start to do it, but end just up making FFXVI with it instead".

You are talking about a company that made two MMOs for aging console platforms on their way out: FFXI on PS2+hard drive and later X360, then FFXIV on PS3, though that time they wisely did it for PC first. Locking themselves into ecosystems is a way of life. Also, someone over there has a hard-on for flashy graphics as a priority over gameplay. All the graphics in the world didn't save them from having to literally re-make FFXIV after it flopped hard.

Also, use the difference of the current time minus the start time, instead of computing the end time and using a simple less than/greater than comparison. This properly handles wraparounds, and only has a problem with differences more than half of the full range. (so don't keep comparing the time after it's ended!)

At least that's better than Window 98 crashing after 7 weeks! (because 1ms instead of 10ms)

Keyword leeches are the worst. I have (or at least had, not sure if I aged it out) some assembly language experience in my resume. One recruitard send me an offer for what I think was an IBM 360 assembly language job because of the way Assembler was used like a holy word in the description, and another time I got an offer for PC board assembly at the nearby university tech labs. Not that I couldn't have done that, and the pay was pretty good for what the work was, and the commute would have been great too, but I was already making $50+/hr as an embedded systems programmer.

There's nothing wrong with testing geoengineering techniques so long as there is no possible runaway state. We might spread nutrients to seed blooms of alga and seaweed that will pull carbon from the air and, after incorporating it into their own growth, sink to abyssal depths and then stay out of circulation for long periods of time. Such a process would run only in the presence of the added nutrient.

And nothing requires geoengineering to occupy the whole planet. There are all sorts of local processes that could be exploited, such as spraying seawater into the air off a dry coast to produce a cloud street blowing over land. You would get increased precipitation for the dry area as son as the could hit mountains, at the same time as having a cloud that raises the local albedo ("makes that part of the Earth white"). Again, this is not a runaway process; turn off the spraying, and the cloud street disappears.

But he's not doing what SpaceX is already doing.

SpaceX is going into orbit, while Bezos is staying in the sub-orbital tourist ghetto with the likes of Virgin and XCOR.

- there is absolutely 0 wrong with providing a company with a promise to buy scheduled services on the clock without interruptions and to pay for the service whether or not you can use 100% of its capacity that day.

If I want to start a shipping business I can talk to an import/export broker and work out a schedule, where regardless of my circumstances I will ship 1 container every 2 days with him on a clock and because of that certainty of payment he will give me a much better price than he could anybody else.

As to Rockefeller's 'secret deal to prevent shipping for others' - baloney. The so called 'secret deal' was no such thing, it was a discount that Rockefeller was getting that nobody else could get because they would not ship a supply of that much oil on the clock, whether they have it or not that time and pay for a prearranged amount of delivery as promised.

Rockefeller was absolutely right and the reason that oil never went below 7 cents was exactly because government destroyed his company and did not allow him to find new ways to increase demand by lowering prices even further. Nobody was finding any better way of doing business in that time, otherwise they would have won against Rockefeller and that is all there is to it.

Microsoft had a temporary monopoly for a very good reason: they provided the computing platform that nobody else could provide at the price and just because you can't accept that doesn't change that fact. Microsoft and others also pushed hard enough in the market that competitors actually had to innovate to become competitive in that market, which is how free and open source software came to existence.

As to me being 'religious' about free market - I cannot stand hypocrisy of the modern society that will vilify the individual and promote the collective and use the force of the collective to oppress the individual. If I am 'religious' about anything that would be the belief that individual freedom tramps every so called 'societal good' that you can come up with that is based on lies, oppression, destruction of the individual, theft from the individual, slavery of the individual by the collective.