I believe they would actually be called Sodomites, which is already funny enough.

That most people already have a smartphone.

The data plan issue is a bigger one, I think.

But it'll be interesting to see if this goes anywhere.

Oh, so the French regularly use their armed forces against their own populace? That's even better.

The biggest criminals run banks... or governments

Nope. Just me and my wife. Usually have enough spare room in the dishwasher for a pan or two which often is all we need for a meal though I do end up washing many pans by hand, particular if they get stuck on crusty gunk. I don't mind washing them by hand but what's the point of having a dishwasher if you aren't going to use it? Plus the dishwasher can sterilize pans better than I can by hand which is necessary on occasion. Think of it like a low rent autoclave.

If they can grow it on Aluminum foil, perhaps they can grow it on an Aluminum block, with cooling passages.

I dunno. Has Obama come out in favor of it yet?

If we required accounting of emissions, and not simply of currency units, then there would be no need for tariffs to address the issue of the hidden environmental costs. They can eventually be translated into economic costs, but they also affect quality of life — you can assign economic costs to that as well, but you'll hardly tell the whole story.

When you buy goods made somewhere with inadequate pollution controls, many others have to pay part of your bill. My only problem with the whole idea is that any tariffs should be used specifically for bioremediation, and my prediction is that they largely won't be.

My favorite thing about free to pay games is that so many games (FtP or otherwise) are only really fun during the buildup phase, and then they get a bit samey. You can go through all that without actually spending any money. You lose the time either way. Then you move on to the next game. Along the way, if you're feeling generous, you might file some bug reports. That is an awful lot like actual work, however.

Not trying, and not me. It's not my invention, and it's already been done. It's what you're normally meant to do when you build a rocket stove, for example.