But will our new robotic overlords already know the punch lines of earths old jokes? Their weakness is revealed.

Granted these technologies can be accomplished on the various places described; but. It is still very hard to do it if one does not go there.

And how will I swallow a pill stuck in in the back of my throat? XD

Sounds like your neighbores are in Ag? Good luck.

Has anyone noticed that the only region that has not been grossly affected by this current economic nightmare is from Texas to Montana? Isn't that the path of the XL Pipeline? Amazing coincidence, isn't it?

85 percent of the water consumed is for agriculture. I don't know the amount that gets shipped out to China, but it's enough to affect the prices of feed nation wide. Maybe it's time for those that "use water" to start paying for desalination costs; or "let the field rest."

I RTFA, big mistake. Nobody knows, and all arguments are counterdictory to each other. In other words, an article about we don't know why, and we are saying we don't know why. I find myself not breathless waiting for the next article from Captain Obvious.

One cannot help but wonder how many will be harvested using H1B visa method.

We had those same concepts in the 1960's; then some dumb ass said, "feed the poor, first." Then some other dumb asses said, "we'll start some wars." If the same amount of money spent on these projects were spent on Space, we'd be disucssing this issue; in space.

Administrative Note: Giving a person a job results in that person being able to obtain food. As more Solar, Wind, and Fuel Cell systems go up, even with post production problems, the cost of obtaining energy is going down.

Was Win8 the reason for their violence?

Fire the Police Chief; assuming the Mayor wants to be Mayor. Recall Election is such a messy term.

Memo to Stanford, "hire Walter Lewin before some ass clown at another university does!"

Which ever ass clown at the department of homeland insecurity didn't do any homework in the area of actually getting the bad guys to talk is a bad guy. Any civilian survivor of the Korean War capturing by the Chinese army were subjected to the same brutal treatment, only then to become the bad guys they were being accused of. I think those involved should be indited and sent to Nuremberg for processing. They are the same people that allowed the events of 2008 to occur, and beat the tambourine for those "to big to fail". I want their asses in GITMO, swinging from a rope sounds good also.

Well, these enlighted CEO's have been telling the rank and file to train in other fields of work. May I suggest to Edison International types to consider becoming a massage therapist?

You have tried to work with them, now work for yourself. Stop talking about prison life, no one cares. Offer your services as a software contractor. No applications to fill out; just your ablility to do the job. Do the job, get paid, pay your straight time taxes. Move on. There's plenty of work, but no jobs. Keep the paper work, do the paper work; then see what happens next.