is a penny burned

You assume much, and the ignorance is on your part. I never said anything, much less advocated continued draining of the aquifers. Economics and politics are the only barriers to providing an abundant water/energy/food supply for everybody. The tech is comparatively trivial.

*sigh* The 'drought' is an economic/political issue.

if it leaks / breaks you get a ... water spill?

It would be disaster! Next thing you know, edible plants will proliferate!

Such needless suffering for the sole benefit of the 'quarterly report' in the portfolio.

I understood the typo

Your though is indistinguishable from a Möbius hooey strip, from my end.

Yes, that makes perfect sense. Your contradictions would preclude anything else. They take precedence, and are apparently intractable, even by you, as you refuse to even acknowledge their existence. Make that facade shine, my man.

I followed it perfectly. You're evading the issue, as usual.

Then I guess a bureaucracy is not individuals either. You could try to make up your mind you know.

this guy is a nut....the GP refers to TSA...

Ok, I get it...

Yeah, well, some kids never get over the desire to blow things up.

Sorry: when was the individual NOT the group?

Ahh, 1987...

Either did Charles Lindbergh's. I mean, it did, but not on that night.

For some people there are certain bragging rights, yes...