According to environmentalists, we have already accidentally engineered the climate a few times completely accidentally. I'd say have a pretty good chance of doing it *intentionally*.

even if its as simple as stopping the massive amounts of emissions

In what way would deindustrialization and the attendant five-billions deaths be considered "simple". Heck, I'd bet there'd be some political push-back on your idea after as few as one-billion deaths.

Considering that climate engineering would cost us only a tiny fraction of cost of deindustrialization -- and has a chance in hell of actually working -- it's the approach we should be taking the most seriously.

I believe the ultimate assertion from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" was "You are God". And not just as an idea from a new perspective, but as a studied examination of the underlying spiritual lessons from all human religions.

The real irony is that you've confused Iran and Israel.

Then why aren't you buying your own modem for less than $50 and saving yourself the money every month? I mean, I get it, I think Comcast is for the birds too but honestly bitching about something you can buy yourself and they'll absolutely allow you to take on all the risk for is not something to choose to complain about.

Nope. If you're seeing anything on the Windows GUI called "OneDrive", then you must have the update released today. I'm still waiting for the update to finish installing, but it definitely has always been called "SkyDrive" except on the web site.

And here I thought the use case for it was pretty obvious.

Good luck finding the change log from Microsoft.

I'm assuming they've updated all the "SkyDrive" stuff to "OneDrive", since they lost the trademark lawsuit on that one.

tl;dr

Thankfully I don't live in the Peoples' Republic of San Fransisco. I get the feeling that there is almost no normal day-to-day activity that a person can engage in there without "likely breaking" some rule or ordinance or bureaucratic policy that the busybodies in government have decided to impose.

No, Mr. Hannity, I would have no problem if the law were limited to enforcing contracts, like it is supposed to do, instead of trying to control every aspect of everyone's lives to the point that no one can make a move without banging on the City Council's doors demanding recognition of their group's desires.

You completely missed my point. Your sense of self-entitlement is at least as great as mine. SF's government is interfering in both party's ability to engage in the free market. Note they're hinting they'll go ahead and allow the Airbnb rentals to happen as long as they can get their 14% tax out of the renter. You won't see any of that revenue.

Your slum-lord profit entitlement outrage is clearly misplaced.

The way I see it, you can eliminate the advantages of HFT while keeping the markets highly responsive by imposing a "clocking" scheme on exchanges. When an order is received by an exchange, it is not executed immediately but stored in a queue to wait for the next clock tick. When that comes, the order queue is shuffled into random order and then executed sequentially. Make the clock ticks wait a random period between 40ms and 50ms and any timing advantage of HFT or geography is nullified. The exchanges are still highly responsive; they just do randomized batch processing. All of the requests they receive in the previous clock period ought to be processed within the new clock period (with perhaps some occasional spill-over, in which case the new clock tick is stretched).

"Illegal activity" in this case, being that the little people aren't allowed to engage in free enterprise without greasing some palms.

This is what we used to call corruption. Or, before that, "tribute to the king."

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