The magma is so close to the surface that there won't be the usual layer after deeper layer of hydrocarbons to go after.

Better yet: Here's hoping they find oil near the surface, extract it, and then turn the oil deposit wells into geothermal loops.

What an opportunity! We can extract high quality geothermal energy from the site AND cool the rock near the surface to prevent an eruption.

Disclaimer: I am not a geologist so this probably makes no sense at all

IRDA is back. Hey I have an idea, why not just have an access point that, for each user, drops a little cord out of the ceiling (where all access points are, right) and you plug it in for GIGABIT SPEEEDZZZS!!!1.

No but seriously why are we doing this when channels in the 5 Ghz spectrum are easy to come by.

Simple, an elementary school will have, at best, half of the school-aged children (ages 5 through 11). So based on your guess, of the 309 kids aged 0-18, only 100 or so will be at the elementary school. You might be able to make a small school out of that (it puts less than 20 in each grade) but more than likely, there is already a few elems in the area that can absorb the kids. And if not? Less than 20 kids/grade means a lot of attention.

To get at your guesstimate on how many kids are there to begin with, let's look at Marin county specifically: average household of 2.39 people (parents+kids) and 15% of those are between 5 and 18. So if you assume the units will be filled "on average" (which is prone to error but we are just guesstimating) you end up with 80 school aged kids. That's about 40 elementary aged kids.

TL;DR: Your guess is way high.

And farmers indeed are the ones cutting usage by the most. The point isn't that they use more of it, it's that the difference between water at the tap in LA or SD costing the same during the drought is everyone just not wasting it on green grass. No one is dying of thirst but prices are going to get pretty ridiculous here soon, as some munis run out of water entirely (having not managed to get price hikes through) and all the residents rely on bottled water which is far more expensive.

224 units is not enough to build even an elementary school around, so don't worry. This is definitely "mixed in" with the other residents compared to most income-gap boundaries. However, at this level the indigenous population will almost certainly be sending their kids to high pricetag private school even from kindergarten. However, I have a feeling that all the property taxes in the coffers from the dozens of multi-million dollar homes will be enough to afford the "poor" residents of Lucas' Groundwalker Ranch (still workshopping the name) who are still almost all in the upper 50% of income nationwide, a decent place to send their kids.

I can only hope that the "poor people" (no doubt average people to you and me) are such good residents that they make the property value jump for Lucas and drop for all his nose-up neighbors (because you don't have to spend several million just to live in Nicasio any more).

200 units on 54 acres is a breeze, really. 1/4 acre per unit is a TON of room, you won't have any problem telling who the good neighbors are and who the shitheads are. 800 units on 54 acres? Then you are into some downward spiral trouble unless you pour a lot of money into managing it.

Yeah $900,000 per unit is pretty steep nationally, but it's average for the area.

Especially when selling 0-days isn't actually illegal in most circumstances, only rather shady. Researchers do deals all the time. Total anonymity on one or both sides doesn't really help anyone. Hell, it's so commonplace they have discussed it on NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...

If anything this is just a new way to scam people out of money or to ferret out security researchers for further recruitment/waterboarding by the CIA.

That, and you completely destabilize/devalue the very thing you are demanding. Your $100B USD won't go far if the US government collapses. Better ask for Gold or Bitcoins.

Desalinated water is ready to drink, so you would effectively be taking all the normal purification plants offline and freeing up all the water that went through them for agri use. That being said, SoCal could solve the "water crisis" today if they stopped watering all their fucking lawns.

The market decides by way of water rights on certain parcels (that drives up/down land value). The landowners then get to decide which crops (i.e. ones that are the most valuable per gallon) to grow with their water. If water were truly scarce the farmers would be just bottling the water and selling it (some already are, but most are just growing almonds like always). The market is working nicely, thanks. And if poor people can't afford to live in SoCal? (its already really really hard unless you are OK being a homeless bum) Let them move to a cheaper place to live and maybe they will enjoy their minimum wage a little. Then, prices on everything in SoCal will go up (even more) and the market will kick in and force some of the rich people to move out too. This is Adam Smith's plan at work, why disrupt it?

"Just fucking take it all"

Or how about

"What taxes? I'm MC Hammer"

There (should be) a paper trail of payouts to any winner from any casino, for tax purposes. The distinction that a mechanical vs electronic device was "rigged" is totally secondary to that fact. If this was skirted, then several other laws were also broken that day.

How would you know if there were, and they were getting away with it?