While that was a good video, it needed the Blade Runner enhance scene to be complete.

First place the moon far away.
Next introduce a large gravity well around earth. Then make sure there is a vacuum on the moon and the only source of power is the sun.

That will avoid a scramble for a long time.

You would be in a very unusual spot to use electricity burned vs through a heat pump or fossil fuel. In most of those spots they use wood or oil.

It is much more challenging to do tele-operated rovers on Mars and manned missions to the moon. The west has done both. Nobody else has. I do think the Chinese could beat the US back to the moon, and I hope they go full throttle towards the goal of a manned base on the moon. We need a space race to get us off this rock.

There are plenty of firsts and (in my opinion) more interesting places to go in the solar system, like Europa and other potentially life and or liquid water containing moons. It would be great to see China or India attempt missions on that level.

In Baltimore city in parts it was still alive in 2013. Wires from the house all the way to the CO 5 blocks away, all unswitched until it gets into that building. Phone service still locally active even without power. My parents gave up their landline this year and have had problems with VOIP ever since.

Then it was not POTS. POTS has no batteries on poles or boxes, just at the central office. The batteries at the central office run for days.

I do not think she should have been denied entry but I doubt it was due to some database sharing issue. She has a website with this information listed below so any agent checking on her manually could have found it.

http://ellenrichardson.ca/bio/index.html

The ceiling is not electronic.

Exactly. If this were to happen it would kill more people in a month then what we have lost to terrorism* in all time. It is far more important then terrorism.

*bombers, suicide planes etc, not despots

From wikipedia:
"A currency (from Middle English curraunt, meaning in circulation) in the most specific use of the word refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation, as a medium of exchange, especially circulating paper money. This use is synonymous with banknotes, or (sometimes) with banknotes plus coins, meaning the physical tokens used for money by a government.[1][2]

A much more general use of the word currency is anything that is used in any circumstances, as a medium of exchange. In this use, "currency" is a synonym for the concept of money.[3]"

Seems to meet the definition for me, under the second paragraph.

Except that you cannot send your old iPad through the computer to another person on the other side of the planet within 10 minutes. That is what gives Bitcoin it's value.

Shirts for milibitcoins at cryptoanarchy.com

In the CONTEXT of automobile collisions and accidents it certainly is high speed.

A simple Slashdot solution:

Use Bitcoin generation as your dump load. Mining for bitcoins or alt coins can be a breakeven situation but you'll be paid more for your power then wholesale. Could be easily set up with some of the older FPGA miners and a raspberry pi that automatically starts mining when powered up.

This 'little choice' thing is untrue and bullshit yet it keeps being repeated. Ubuntu's lawyers can explicitly offer licensed use of their trademark to anyone they please with or WITHOUT fee. They could easily allow use of the shirts with an email. They could attach conditions as needed and even set it up so they can ask the user of the logo to stop at any time.

One Hitachi 42" plasma. Going for 6 years. Makes too much heat though.