We're at the point that we can actually have solar powered grow lights for our plants and still have greater energy efficiency than just plain sunlight (because you can have the LEDs at peak plant absorption wavelengths). Plus it's easier to transport, easier to deal with climate variability, easier to deal with insects or pests, plants can be fed extra CO2, and you can have more usable light with less heat stress, uses less water, easier to harvest, doesn't contain dirt, and arrives at the market fresher. And on top of all that, you can trick the plant into thinking it is any season you want or even go with 24 hr lighting.

Minuses: It costs more, at least for now.

But don't be too surprised if the future has all farmland converted to solar panels and all farming under grow lights. It'll be great practice for space colonization too.

Presumably it uses a closed loop cooler, rather than evaporative cooling. Evaporative cooling is very energy efficient, but sacrifices water for those energy savings.

Presumably another benefit is that due to the improved heat transfer from components to the cooling oil, not only are the components cooler but you can run the cooling system at a much higher temperature and skip the fans besides.

Maybe they should have refused to allow countries who didn't follow the rules into the Eurozone.

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The ISPs don't care about their clients' privacy -- what they're objecting to is all the expensive hardware to gather and store all those records.

It works like this: Say the banks are allowed to lend 90% of the money that is deposited, and have to keep 10% of it. Then Alice deposits $1,000. This means that the banks lend out $10,000 since they had to keep 10% of the money. If the government wanted to create money, rather than bothering with silly printing presses at the mint, they could declare that banks could lend 95% of the money deposited. Then if Alice deposits $1,000, the banks could lend out $20,000.

Now, you might have noticed my numbers aren't quite what you expected. Well, it works like this (when the banks lend 90% of a deposit). Alice deposits $1,000. Then Bob borrows $900, and deposits it in a bank. Then Charlie borrows $810, and deposits it. Then Dylan borrows $729, and deposits it... By the time everyone is done borrowing, depositing, and lending, 10 dollars have been lent for every 1 deposited. Of course, in reality only some of the borrowed money gets deposited immediately -- some of the money gets spent and put in a bank, and some gets kept around in wallets or under a mattress. But yeah, most of the money people "have" is in fact created out of thin air, not even paper.

Just don't ask what happens when too many people want to withdraw their money from the bank.

Most money is created out of thin air (by adjusting the percentage of deposited money banks are required to keep).

What do you think the Virtual Reality version of Frogger would be classified as?

Can it tag a switch to Beta (either all at once or feature by feature over a year) as suicidal behavior?

Yeah, America's founding fathers thought they were above the law too, and look where it got them.

You mean, a troll might do something *specifically* to draw out a reaction, like suggesting laws against harassment shouldn't protect personal choices/preferences in general nor religion in particular?

DMCA notices come to mind.

I know I'd like my rocket to be safe from trolls.

some Freedom Fries with that?

No -- copyright trolls are doing us a very important service. The people who need to have their guts ripped out by demons etc are the assholes who wrote the laws that have these horrible abusive provisions which the intellectual property trolls are so elegantly demonstrating.