Indeed - that was my first reaction. How dare the price of things go down over time! If you care about the poor, you should make everything more expensive by giving (certain) people more free money to spend.

What do you think will be the inception date for the Nexus-6 Android, and will it come with a built-in expiration date of a few years? Will you be able to jailbreak it, or is it not possible for the coding sequence to be revised once it's been established?

Hmm?

How do you figure? The global mean temperature has been flat for 17 years now. Where is this "whole lot faster" of which you speak?

That's the key, once again: the government - including the courts - have become skewed toward favoring massive numbers of lobbyists and legal teams. So even though the neighbor might have a case, he could never win. The government has become the enforcer of rights violations.

So long as you believe that, or that another law is going to stop pollution on public grounds, politicians and their cronies will continue to laugh at you. So long as there exists public property and the potential for government to violate the rights of one group to benefit another, there will always be lobbyists buying politicians. The solution is not to pretend that another law against companies is going to fix the problem. The solution is to prohibit government violation of individual rights: privatize all property, and restrict government to the minimal role of police, courts, and military, to only uphold and protect individual rights. Such a system, so long as it existed, would offer no incentive for lobbyism as an industry to exist.

Why does the corporation have no incentive to minimize pollution? Because the open waterways have been deemed "public" property by the government. Whereas if you dumped your waste on your neighbor's property, he could sue you for contamination, with public property - such as rivers, lakes, even oceans - there is the potential for corruption and political pull to override all legal deterrents.

Answering my own question:

"U.S. Army says it does not provide hormones or sex-reassignment surgery after Wikileaks convict Bradley Manning says he wants to live as a woman"

Will they really provide that in prison?

See the graph here. Global mean temperature has been flat for 17 years now.

Another article in Forbes with more information here.

No, see the graph here.

Our CO2 emissions have increased significantly these last couple decades, yet warming has been flat for 15+ years. What is the explanation? How can claim to be so certain of this causal link yet have no explanation for the last 15+ years?

Indeed! Who needs innovators or entrepreneurs?!

So you openly admit that you still subscribe to the lipid hypothesis?

More news coverage about the whistleblower, not about the crimes he uncovered. Journalism is dead.

And that's demonstrably a Good Thing for us.