Actualy the MacBook Air seems pretty tough. When I had epilepsy I entered fugue states; my wife told me how I threw this thing across a room once. Another time I kicked it really hard and it slid right under the door to safety. I have also rolled on top of it during convulsions. The only reason I have it at all is that it used to be hers, until water got spilled on it last year and it immediately died, so I got her another one. A year later we were moving, and I dug it out of the closet. I was about to throw it out but tested it one last time- it booted right up again! I guess it needed a couple months to dry out. So now we have two of them. My "real" computer is running Win 7 in the other room. I use this thing for what it was designed- posting crap on the Internet while sitting around on a couch surrounded by empty beer bottles.

Tyrell was a moron. He got so distracted by that chess game that he let a replicant get into his house and crush his eyeballs! It was 2019! Why didn't he have a security camera in his elevator?

More and more innocent people in the U.S. are innocent because they have spent billions on hiring lobbyists.

My wife used to be a public defender in Pittsburgh. She got shitcanned for winning too many cases.

That works for most people, since they're white.

I'm so sick of being told to fear terrorism. Even the damn 9/11 attacks amounted to only four average months of gun deaths in the U.S.

I have to park my mine-resistant armor protected vehicle hidden inside my garage. If I leave the door open, they'll drive past, see it, start salivating over it, and I end up with a SWAT team crashing through my doors and windows trying to find a bong.

Actually, the Voight-Kampff test seemed to work pretty well in Blade Runner, but I wouldn't want to administer it.

What's really shocking is that fully half the population has below-average intelligence!

Hydrogen has high energy density per unit weight, not per volume, so it would require a fuel cell. It wouldn't be as cheap as hydrocarbons, that's pretty obvious.

Actually my biggest objection to fracking isn't benzene getting into well water in states I'll never live in, so much as the leakage of methane around the drill sites. The plumes of methane in these areas are beginning to show up in satellite imagery. Considering the greenhouse effect of methane, fracking might have a greater impact on climate change than burning oil or even coal.

Sure, I'll give you a call. You have a land line number?

Jets and ships are still reasonably compelling uses of carbon, since it's so easy to run around with as a concentrated source of energy. Transcontinental truck deliveries, eh, maybe, although there are other options like rail, and trucks can conceivably be powered by energy dense fuels like hydrogen that release comparable amounts of energy upon oxidation, even if producing them requires investments of electrical power as opposed to cheap mining. But things like stationary power generation facilities don't need to be carbon-based at all, and those are responsible for far greater emissions than vehicles.

In one single well in Western Pennsylvania. The Duke University scientist quoted in that article- that *you* posted the link to and are yelling at people to read- specifically notes that "the single study doesn't prove that fracking can't pollute, since geology and industry practices vary widely in Pennsylvania and across the nation," which proves you haven't read your own link yourself! See how easy it is to prove a negative?

Solar and wind weren't this far along in 2008.

The story you posted is about a single drilling site in Pennsylvania where fracking fluid didn't reach a specific water source that was nearby.

Here's a tip: if you post a URL to a story, read it first.