It's whoever we say and whoever doesn't have the means to buy us.

If it's not fun for the Chinese, it's not fun for all the developers & maintenance programmers who have to fix, support & enhance all that shit.

Ah, I'm not sure.
Some of it is fascinating but a lot of it smacks of "deus ex machina". And I don't like that he incorporated time travel although one of the ways that it was done was interesting. If the 2 Chronicles trilogies are all that you've read of his work, I'd sooner recommend his Gap series, which is sci-fi, not fantasy, the 2 Mordant books or even his short stories collection Daughter of Regals, which includes a story he deleted from the Illearth War called Gilden-fire that features the Bloodguard.

Did you read all of them? I enjoyed them far more than I ever did any of the Dune books but I have mixed feelings about the way he ended it.

The "hiatus" isn't what people think - " this century has so far seen surprisingly little increase in the average temperature at the Earth's surface"
Note that the average temp is still rising even if more slowly than expected. But the entire planet doesn't warm or cool all at once.
During that "hiatus" the loss of ice cover, especially in the Arctic has been tremendous and that's noteworthy for 2 reasons.

The first is that the number of temperature monitoring stations in the Arctic is very poor. The other is that it takes a LOT of heat to melt ice - turning it to water at zero deg requires as much as raising room temp water to the boiling point.

Hmm, that was typed as sq rt 2 x i electrons but Slashdot made it a 3.

Oh, c'mon, everyone knows that the ultimate power source will be an element with pi protons, e neutrons & 3i electrons

And convert barely 1/3rd to electricity while putting out tonnes of soot, slurry, radiation, mercury.
I'm willing to pay the higher cost for solar thermal and leave the fucking coal deep underground and the mountains above them standing intact.

How efficient is the average US coal plant? Those supply 40% of US electricity.

Thanks for explaining why you showed up; but we already knew that.

I've been hearing about the CA-to-TX exodus for 20+ years. And Texas is awash with oil while Cali has to import 70% of what is uses.
Yet the Texas economy is only 14th largest while California is 8th.

What makes you think they don't have "skin in the game"? A huge number of people below the poverty line have jobs, which means they pay payroll taxes.

Which of those are precedents? Almost every president has done or tried to do the same or worse.
Isn't that the point of the checks & balances system?

If he didn't undo what Bush did, which couldn't have been done anyway, with the filibuster being pulled out for every Senate proposal, then he still hasn't established precedent.

Last time I heard that joke, I thought it was so funny, I fell off my dinosaur.