As a (not completely seriously) Hegelian I believe that logical positivism had some good (or at least interesting) points, the critique was quite relevant and the synthesis of this process is a progress of philosophy ...

We already have that thing in Europe - it's called night trains. Depart in the evening instead of taking a screamingly early morning flight, have some food and nice vistas in the restaurant, work a bit in your room. Arrive in the city center next morning. No hotel cost.

I like it at least. Granted, I can work from my laptop so I can travel a bit longer than strict overnight without losing "efficiency", but I've been traveling this way when I have had some business or vacation in continental Europe (middle Sweden to Paris, Amsterdam, Italy, southern Spain ...). I really hope we get more, instead of less of this. With some modernization, and utilizing the high-speed rail network, we could do many even longer relations strictly overnight (departing 19-23-something, arriving at 7-8 in the morning).

80.000 windmills sounds pretty reasonable. To compare, how many power line towers are there in Germany already? (and we probably don't need that many wind mills. Wind turbines come in larger and larger sizes. And then there is solar ...)

CPU opcode "HCF" meaning "halt and catch fire". Could affect user.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/htm...

Or - of course, just including the control character "EOU" in any message sent:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/htm...

Interesting. Could you elaborate on the non-need for russian gas?

Actually, I think (as en European living in a city) that the automobile is an old-fashioned piece of technology that most urban dwellers would do better without.

Drop them? How, and where? What will they be testing? Aren't they usually using dummies for such?

Larry Nive. Of course.

Solar plants? We got the deadly sunflowers on our planet now? They sure set birds - or anything the dislike - on fire :-)

I first read the headline word "plants" as "that kind of organism with roots and leaves", and well, if they start reflecting solar power in a co-ordinated way for self-defense like in the David Niven "Ringworld" series, it would be an interesting development.

Have you checked the Greens? They tend not be as involved in corporate welfare and - coincidentally(?) not really take much financing from such corporate entities ...

What about making it as wide-spread as possible organization policy to alway *sign* your e-mail with pgp / gpg?
That would at least increase the effort needed (ie, actual access to someones computer) to send "genuine" e-mail from a coworker ...

Ah, nice to learn :-)

There are already quite many bikes of the concept tandem-with-captain in the rear. Several quite successfull ones, too.

There are several home-built tandems with individual handlebars, like this one I saw in Amsterdam : https://rosnix.net/~per/album/...

Also this child seat for the Brompton folding bike works quite like the original post : http://documentally.com/2011/0...

Last but not least, the german Hase Pino semi-recumbent bike. The captain sit in the rear in an upright position, the stoker is seated in a comfy recumbent seat in the front. The bike is selling quite well in Germany. It's used like normal tandem bikes for couples going on vacation and errands together, but also for transportation of kids and people with various disabilities - the bike is very adaptable to various capabilities of the riders. http://hasebikes.com/84-1-Tand...

Price? About 3000 Euro for the Pino. Probably out of range for people considering bikes a toy or something to hang on the rear of your RV / SUV. But quite OK for a vehicle that can meet a lot of your mobility needs. Bicycles can pretty successfully do much of the same city transportation done by cars (40-50% of all trips in Copenhagen and Netherlands are made by bike), and if you save on gas (or even more - many people don't bother getting a motor vehicle at all, actually) you can afford much better bikes than the walmart bike-like objects (yes, we have that in Europe too).

Why a water cooled when you can have an actually water-powered computer :-) http://www.catb.org/jargon/htm...

Only lack of water-proofness made me stop using my N900. In a very concrete fashion, alas. I actually miss the software, too. What you could find in the repos (some 10,000:s of packages?) was imho way better than the 500,000+ packages availible for Android. For example the "mappero" map app beat what you could find on android (which probably would be orux), at least back in the days. And most of it was free-as-in-speech software. No ads, no spying, much less risk trusting the software. And quite well inviting you to participate hacking too ...