Islam didn't always forbid alcohol. Only drunkenness.
http://www.economist.com/node/...

The fact that the cure has been lost for two thousand years suggest that it is already been tried and found wanting.

Who would forget a cure for a hang over for Pete sake? Especially after writing it down!

I'm guessing that ten minutes after this is possible, it will be mandatory.

You might not get a choice. Especially if you get arrested.

Almost never the case?!?

Jesus Johnson, put your iPhone down and look around sometime.

There are cameras everywhere. Parks schools streets, stores, neighborhoods. Outside your own home, there is scarcely any place in a city you can avoid surveillance.

The summary and TFA are carefully choosing their words to make it look like a land slide sized change in energy production, when all they are really talking about is subtle rates of change. But even these twists can't disguise the fact that 23% new energy is still done with coal.

In fact, the solar and wind aren't even meeting replacement needs for coal and gas plants taken out of production due to failure to meet environmental standards, and being too costly to upgrade. Old Coal plants are more often replaced with New Coal plants than they are with wind or solar.

Missing from those figures (because they don't represent New Production), is the number of coal and gas plants upgraded to meet environmental standards.

Its not all bad news. The best wind and solar sites are being heavily developed, cherry picking the most promising sites. And the arid south west is sprouting lots f solar farms. But we need to ramp up both wind and solar many fold before we can even think of retiring coal.

If I never see the word hivemind again, it will be too soon. Grow up.

It doesn't matter how the government is structured. You will never find one agency working at cross purposes with another for very long. Not if someone can play the security theater card.

Why did NIST use lame random number generators? They aren't even vaguely related to any three letter spy agency! Where was your government fire walls then?

Those who will not learn from history are bound to repeat it.

But offsetting that is most of the ACs stayed here, in the cesspool they created while running away from their reputation. You are what you wallow in.

There is always http://soylentnews.org/ Formed by people sick of the nonsense that goes on here.

If it were that simple, the small player would have an equal chance.

The problem is there are some courts where the jury pool is populated by patent friendly people, some of which are not above going to great lengths to hide these facts during Voir dire. The Eastern District of Texas

Point is, they aren't licensed by cities.
You are a barber or a nurse, you can practice in any city without the city's permission. Worst case, you might need a business license, but even that is a state license in most places.

Cities don't license plumbers, painter, interior decorators, electricians, doctors, lawyers, nannies, or nurses. Even though these people need much more training.

Cities license taxi's to control entry to the profession, create artificial scarcity, engender private car ownership and collect revenue. But in most cities, licensing cabs doesn't even pay back the cost of doing so.

So it's all about protecting car dealers, and creating a false scarcity. The only people protected are cab drivers.

I would think the drivers should be licensed the same as taxi drivers, as far drivers licence is concerned.
And insurance sounds like a good idea too.
Maybe even a criminal background check.

But I find it rather amazing how every municipality around the world is rushing to the defense of existing taxicab services.
I wonder about the sheer amount of money that must be changing hands to induce all city governments to sing the same song from the same hymnal in perfect unison. How does that happen? You can't get two city governments in the same state to agree about much of anything. But these cab companies have cities cowed all over the world.

The funny thing, is if cab companies adopted some digital hailing and hiring tools, they could compete on price and availability.

Can't see people buying in to a life where they get a stipend from the government to sit around and do nothing.

Oh, wait.. /Looks at neighbors....

Hmmm. I can't think of a single thing they are qualified to do, except breed.

TFA:

Let me guess, was this an all expense paid Tour of the Netherlands that Drinkman's email address Won?

Pffffft. The twin engine mosquito in Alaska eat those Florida skeeters for lunch. By the dozen.