Except that it's the colonies used by commercial beekeepers that are among the hardest-hit by CCD, and their replenishment programs can't keep up with the loss. If a cure for CCD can't be found, in a few years the supply of hives will be lower than the demand for pollination services.

But a 200 page novella does?

I've always disliked the 'number of books read' metric. I could re-read all 38 Discworld books in about the same amount of time it took to read the Night's Dawn trilogy.

And even if the electricity did go up, the overall *energy* usage would be less than moving a ~4000 pound vehicle across ~50 miles (typical american commute).

Exactly. Although, I think maybe that was part of their 'this was in Britain, so YMMV' statement at the end.

If the average upper-middle-class British commute is much shorter, it could drive up transportation costs. If they originally lived two miles from the workplace when it was five days a week, and then when it became a once-a-week deal, they got a house 25 miles away, it might create more pollution than you saved. But most Americans who work jobs that can be telecommuted to already live quite a few miles away, so assuming they're going to move much further without some good evidence that is the case is silly.

The amount of gasoline consumed is directly proportional to the weight being carried.

It's more like directly proportional to the total vehicle weight. A 5400 lb delivery vehicle is going to use a lot of fuel even if it's nearly empty.

Not having the actual study, it's hard to say, but it seems like there's some big assumptions here.

For instance:

It also highlights that working from home can increase home energy use by as much as 30 per cent, and can lead to people moving further from the workplace, stretching urban sprawl and increasing pollution.

Sure, it's going to increase home electric usage. One would hope, though, that the employer doesn't keep all the equipment running - which means the majority of that is just being shifted, not created anew. As far as increasing pollution from transportation, that I don't get at all. Suppose I work from home three days a week. To spend the same amount on driving, I'd need to move two and a half times as far away. And even then, I probably wouldn't, since it would mean more highway miles and less downtown miles. How many people are going to move from a twenty-mile commute to a fifty-mile commute just because they're working from home Tuesday - Thursday this year?

And if the employer set up the work-from-home program permanently, they can get a smaller building since they know 60% or more or staff is home every non-meeting day. So then there's likely very little extra electric usage.

But who gets to classify 'ultraviolent' vs. 'violent' vs. 'comic violence'? If it's an industry body, then there's the same kinds of conflict of interest that leads to independent films getting 'worse' ratings than big studio releases. And the last thing we need is an Australia-style government run ratings board.

The obvious solution is to prevent children under 18 from buying any media at all. That way it's a content neutral restriction, and all the responsibility for what kids are playing, reading, or watching falls on the parent.

My Windows boot just has shortcuts for the two or three games I'm currently playing, and to the directories for .mod files for each of them.

My Linux boot is much the same as yours, with about three 'permanent' desktop residents, and the rest of the space used for things I am or should be working on right then.

Once it's hard to find something, I'll sort through them all and put them in appropriate filing locations, and then start filling it back up.

After several hair-pulling incidents where Windows ate my bootloader, I changed my dual-boot configuration to two separate bootable drives. So rather than using GRUB to decide which OS I'm booting into, the BIOS stops on boot-up to ask whether I want to boot off the Western Digital or the Seagate drive.

I think part of it is that KOL is very light on the PvP aspect, and it can be opted out of entirely without missing much. If PvP was a bigger part of the game, though, I think you'd see a much bigger gap between those who donate & those who don't.

It's not just the rovers. Despite some genuinely newsworthy fuckups, when NASA gets it right -- which is most of the time -- they usually do a stellar job, pun intended.

That's mostly a function of how they operate. When you're only going to produce one or two of a particularly complex device that you can't touch after it starts working, it's generally either going to work great (because you spent a whole lot of time making sure everything was perfect) or fail completely (because you missed that one important detail and turned it into a cloud of fine ash).

This, exactly. Many coffee shops in the vicinity of college campuses have had time limits on how long you could sit long before they had free wi-fi.

I remember several of my dorm-mates complaining when the Hillsboro street Cup-A-Joe started asking people to leave after about an hour if they didn't order anything else.

The only way that could have been closer is if he'd dropped the 'level'. And then it woulda been creepy.

Almost nobody refers to it as "the Xth decade of century Y", so being pedantic in this case just makes you wrong. They call it "the 80's" or "the 90's", which means it runs from Jan 1 YYX0 to Dec 31 YYX9.

I think everything I've got that's old than ten years is a save game file. I've got save games from almost all the old Sierra games. I've got The Bard's Tale and the SSI Gold Box games. But Apparently I messed up when I backed them all up in 1992, though, because dozens of them have the same date on them (August 11th, 1992). And suddenly I'm wondering. When is the last time I had a machine that could play the original King's Quest without some kind of emulation?

Still, one trade of 1 billion of those shares should be pretty suspicious. Is there any one investment bank that owns 40% of PG?