If I give a lecture, it's easy to record and distribute my face, voice, and slides, but the pointer position is lost. And that's half the drama!

by keeping a lot of information secret. Transparency is more powerful than regulation.

Easy: One child family for 5 generations, population drops a factor of 32. Revert to burning wood.

Go to Wikipedia and search for "lobbying by industry".
You'll see the "communications industry" spends more money on politicians than the energy industry (which adds together all of oil, nuclear, and coal). Darn right he doesn't want to battle with them!

Their editors consider valid sources to be paper media, not the web itself, not my free on-line text books, so I stopped contributing.
I thought I'd provide a few obscure lines of freshman calculus often used in predicting "peak oil" but they didn't want "original research".

Would be nice if Silverlight didn't break Hotmail's attachment handling on my wife's Mac Firefox.