Hydrogen lobby is anything but letting the market decide. Transportation is actually kind of tricky to leave to the market as transportation requires large infrastructure investments. Such as distributing gas, diesel, laying down train tracks, installing charging stations and so on.
Governments will inevitably meddle, and meddle they will. Corn ethanol was/is a perfect example of government meddling gone wrong. Hydrogen is another disaster waiting in the winds.

Well to wheels, hydrogen is probably the most polluting fuel cycle imagined. At present like 95% of the hydrogen supply comes from fossil fuels, and end to end cycle efficiency is even lower than an average gas guzzling SUV.

Rather than trying to push this into passenger cars, working on hydrogen based long haul trucks and airliners makes a lot more sense. But even then the theorethical "green" benefits are not clear cut.

There was an amazing XCOM or Ufo - the enemy unknown port on one of these, with reworked controls that matched stylus screen perfectly. Available on sourceforge or some place. There was a decent chess proggy too.

Zuck , it took you what 11 years to learn that FaceMash was probably not the best idea ?

http://dublindigital.ie/origin...

What is awesome about the Chinese efforts right now is that you know there is a followup for everything in the works. Slow, meticulous, but it is happening.

Change'2 was built as a backup to Chang'e-1. After the first one succeeded, the second one was upgraded and launched on a more ambitious mission. Chang'e-3 had a backup built. Reentry vehicle test flew. Tiangong-2 is in the works. There is gradual engineering capability build-up happening, sort of similar to early era US/USSR spacecraft series. Except that the success rates now are much higher than they were 40 years ago.

Remember Mariner, Pioneer, Venera , Ranger, Surveyor, Luna .. all of these were kind of similar in that they were steady improvements in what could be achieved.

Android, and Chromebooks.

His comments have been on the level of "it looks like most 100m sprint finalists are black, i think they might have a genetic advantage to run faster"
Apparently this is a crime.

Thats exactly it. Drama is hostile, doesnt matter over what exactly. SJW or something else.
I choose to work somewhere to build a particular product, idea or service - thats what im there for, if it comes with a truckload of drama and emotion i will simply go elsewhere. Which is what the devs here did.

You completely missed the point. Rate of drain is CRITICAL when the phone is on standby, i.e. in my pocket. When the screen is on with a bunch of foregrounded apps, the equation is completely different and rate of drain is not the primary issue.
For example, in screen active mode most of the time clocking down the CPU is about the stupidest thing you can do from battery saving perspective, as short bursts of high activity with long deep sleep cycles are more efficient than dragged out activity cycles on lower clock.
Saving battery is an active fight, and operating systems are always going to be fighting a losing battle against the apps - but by no means should they give up, there are myriad of untapped ways how to make the current situation much better for an average user.

The idea of having a 10% dumb phone in my pocket that cannot do anything does not match with any of my use cases. I simply dont send texts and rarely have to do phone calls. However, it is often critical that i can still open email and maps, for my wife it is critical to take this one last photo for which she has been saving for, and for someone else it is that one last foursquare checkin. Your pattern is not my pattern and vice versa, and there is a lot of improvement room for mobile operating systems to get much much smarter about that.

Yelling panic at 10% is something that my laptop did in 90ies.

more hardware and fuel could be lofted any day, there are plenty of operational launch vehicles all around the world.
if you add up the actual launch capacity of all the operational rockets and pads you could put like thousand tons or more to orbit every year.
to get to mars, you will need to launch more than once in any case. to get to moon in a useful capacity with more than flags and footprints, you will also need to launch more.

what exactly is the point of spending another decade, tens of billions and building yet another launcher to actually start going anywhere?
orion is dumb because it is not actually designed to go anywhere, SLS is dumb because it is redundant.

rate of drain is obviously a critical variable when the screen is off and the thing is in my pocket. I.e after I have not actively used it for a minute or so. and even then instantaneous draw doesn't matter, but average draw over a minute or 5 matters a lot

as long as I'm holding it and doing something I know full well I am burning power - including doing things like playing games

I actually want it to warn me even if it is 99% full and draining fast, because i was planning to hike around all day in a city that i am visiting and will have no opportunity to charge. I know i will need every drop of charge for photos, google maps etc, but all of it needs to go into useful activities, not into background drain with some obscure rarely used app trying to randomly download updates or some BS like that.

so, I have had this annoyance with android forever.
there are multiple battery saver things that trigger saving features when I'm below percentage - but its obviously too late then!!

the trigger needs to activate when the RATE OF DRAIN exceeds a particular threshold

For a vehicle that is literally planned to be in development for about two decades, this is a rounding error anyway. The world is not going to stop turning or even much of a notice if it doesnt launch tomorrow, the next week or in the next couple of years.
First of all, it is an engineering test article that is very far from what the final product is supposed to be, and the flight really mostly exist because nobody would otherwise believe the program exists and does anything. Ares-1X , anyone ?
Second, it is not really a deep space craft that could really go anywhere on its own even after its supposedly ready. Moon ? No, need at least a lander and a service module. Mars ? Not even with addons, as it wont survive for 6 months on the outward journey, 2 years in orbit and then 6 months coming back.
Why is it being even built absent any plans to actually go anywhere ? Well, all these people have to have jobs ..