The majority of input energy would be solar, growing the plants. the machinery used to harvest and transport it wouild run on electriciy and fuel cells just like everything else. It is just a matter of A) generating enough plant matter, and B) getting the infrastructure to critical mass to become sel sustaining.

Sure, it sounds far fetched. But hey, you have to start some where some time. Right?

No it isn't, but you have conveniently missed part of the equation. How many human lives has uncontrolled drug use claimed?

I completely agree that there are a number of recreational drugs that should have no more control and oversight than cigarettes and alcohol (which are also deadly), but some should. I could care less if someone I know and care about smokes marijuana, but I feel much differently about methamphetamines. I may be wrong but doesn't it seem likely that if the less harmful drugs were more available then the more harmful ones would be less prevalent?

It IS incompetence; It is incompetence of the employer.

I thought educational use was exempt from copyright restrictions.

When any version of a truth is used to deceive it is nothing more than a lie.

For residential I like solar produced hydrogen powered mini-turbines. Individual or neighborhood sized units.

Alas I am not a physicist or an engineer.

They want to negotiate terms and fees for the use of scare tactics like "The Red Menace is among us!"

I saw this discussion on another site and someone asked 'Why can they make rock solid tamper proof slot machines but not voting machines?' I realize they are not the same animal but the concepts of security and tampering must be very similar.

I prefer to tell them what I actually charge for services; if they still want my help then its worth my time. I've gotten to the point where I don't do "free" work, if I do any pro-bono work there is some other significant compensation for me.

I don't care if anyone tracks my preferences or shopping history. What I care about is; 'Is that information "Personally Identifiable"?' In other words its not that they know what I do, its do they know, specifically, who I am.

I am all for research and marketing to tune products and advertising, but they don't need to know my name or various identifiers to do it.

I thought they determined that this was about more than shifting floor mats; that there is a legitimate problem with the software. You could experience this problem WITHOUT floormats in your car.

I don't drive a Toyota and if I did I could not afford one new enough to have this problem anyway.

http://www.vbulletin.com/

Its not an easy sell but IT and more so security is an insurance policy. If you can demonstrate the cost of a failure or loss due to lack of IT and or security it is a lot easier for bean counter to swallow. I have always wanted to ask the guy who is trying to cut my budget if he carries health insurance. Because if he really follows his logic he could not possibly justify the cost.