By this logic, US firms are doing a great disservice to themselves by limiting the availability of exceptional talent in the fields of executive managment and even public office positions. What's good for the goose, after all...

Steve Hoffman compares masterings of cd, vinyl, sacd, open reel to reel to the original master tape.

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/...

Indeed, one day archeologists will dig up a pile of line printer output from some long lost CS lab as the only remains of The Second Age of Light. The secrets contained will fuel the legendary Search For The Rosetta.h file where all those confounded macros are defined.

C was obviously invented to fill a niche - SkyNet will need a language to develop their self-aware minions.

Otherwise, don't try this at home, kids.

A Shit Ton of them, and see them through to establishment.
We've decimated one of the largest moderators of climate on this planet in the past couple of centuries and until we start reversing this trend in a serious way, I wouldn't expect much progress on the climate front.

Why dance around the issues with the security facade? If the U.S. would just flat out block all incoming traffic it would be a win-win for everyone involved, as the rest of us can plan accordingly and get on with our lives.

Spoken like a true industrial ag shrill, hence the AC.

GMO != selective breeding

Please, for the love of god, don't let this opportunity go to waste. :)

I theorize that if you remove ego and ignorance from the equation, the flow of traffic would improve exponentially.

You're not wrong - something may very well happen to keep the technology from being mass produced. EV production and advancement has been stalled many times in an effort to maintain the status quo. Here's a story from Steve Hekeroth, an individual who knows all too well.

http://www.ai-online.com/Adv/Q...

Unsurprisingly, it has taken a billionaire entrepreneur, Elon Musk, to disrupt the market. Let's hope the trend continues.

Kinda crazy how detached people are from natural systems.

Which seems more sustainable to you?

this?
http://climatevoices.files.wor...

or this?
http://www.savannainstitute.or...
http://citygrownurbanagricultu...
http://www.permaculturenews.or...

The dustbowl wasn't a one-time event - soil erosion on a massive scale continues to this day, and is a world wide problem:
http://www.globalchange.umich....

You want sustainable efficiency?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

This is a design system that is not only sustainable, but improves fertility and efficiency over time. Rather than design a system based on multiple inputs and a single yield, you design it based on the interaction of a complex web of natural systems and the yield is the surplus.

"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system." - Bill Mollison [4]

Want actual references to working systems? Here's the best example: Sepp Holzer
http://www.celsias.com/article...

Want more? See my original post.

Scalability? "If anybody ever suggests that permaculture does not scale, just
point to Willie Smits." - Paul Wheaton

It's nothing more than a theoretical discussion, anyhow, but putting aside all of the various arguments for and against gun ownership, if the primary concern here is whether a "smart gun" is a compromise between safety of the gun owner over safety of everyone else, I would prefer if a gun owner had two smart guns over one conventional gun.

I don't think the technology is there yet anyhow, but if it could guarantee a gun could only ever be fired by a legally registered gun owner, then I think that's a good thing. If you don't trust the gun to misfire in a critical situation, carry 2 of them.

This preserves the right for legal gun ownership, whether it's for hunting, sport or civil/self defence, while vastly reducing the consequences of unintended and unauthorized use of the weapon.

Realistically, It won't do dick to limit the manufacture and illicit sale and trade of non-smart guns, or to limit sociopathic use of a legally registered weapon, so it's a moot point.