Still, from the outside it's pretty simple - there's a governing body that has power to make decisions within its sovereign rights. The way this body is formed is of no interest to the public outside of it.

It's not the case with this group.

Which 'Hawaiians'? This group most certainly does not represent the majority of Hawaiians, nobody has elected them. They don't even represent the majority of natives, since they are not organized in a simple hierarchical way (unlike continental Native American tribes). I predict that the case will be dismissed for the lack of standing, eventually.

So yeah, these 'prote$ter$' can go and fuck themselves with a genetically modified papaya.

There's EVERYTHING wrong with this model. Apple uses its dominant position to undercut competition which can't just strong-arm musicians into allowing them to provide a 'free 3-month trial'. This is kind of behavior which is called 'damping' and is illegal.

Yes, they retrieve a special page or DNS name to verify that you actually control the domain. In essence, they do a three-way handshake using HTTP web pages instead of TCP packets.

However, once you establish the domain ownership, you don't need these special pages anymore - instead you'll use a self-signed certificate to authenticate to the "Let's Encrypt" servers for all operations (which include certificate revocation). No need for them to poll anything.

As far as I understand, the authentication should last for several months and certificates will be issued for a fairly short period (months to 1 year), so you'll have to periodically re-authenticate yourself to renew your certificates. But again, in this case you personally initiate the exchange - EFF won't simply do polling on their own.

Yes. And they most definitely DO NOT need continuous access. The 'software' you're speaking about is simply a set of scripts to handle the domain ownership verification and certificate issue. It doesn't need access to anything but your HTTPD configuration files and/or DNS.

Uhm.. So I guess the medallions didn't help, seeing the way cabbies drive these days.

Except that now medallions cost more than a taxicub driver can earn in 5 years and there are not enough taxis. Try to catch a cab in Brooklyn, for example.

Yes, you were an employee. Your employer simply moved tax responsibility off to you, which might have been illegal.

Bullshit. Total bullshit. The amount of water diverted to delta is less than 10% of the required to compensate for the shortfall. Even if all the water were to be diverted to agricultural megacorps, starving salmon fisheries and other ecosystems - it still won't stop the drought.

Fructose is directly absorbed into the blood stream. It's not metabolized exclusively by liver.

Which studies? Care to provide a link? I kinda always thought that all sugars are metabolized by 'normalizing' them to glucose and fructose. In case of sucrose it involves hydrolysis of one weak chemical bond, that produces glucose and fructose. HFCS simply skips that step.

No, it's not cheaper if you need a reliable stable energy source for non-trivial amount of power. It's even more expensive than wind power.

PS: I own stock at several solar companies (public and non-public) and worked professionally in the area of green energy.

Wow. Just wow. Your assurances that the world can be powered fully by solar, rely on a study that projects 35 years into the future?

So? If people still have a modern-ish civilization in 10000 years then they will be able to detect the contamination. If humankind devolves into barbarians riding with ISIS flags, then they will be endangered by lots of other industrial byproducts. Remember, plutonium decays but arsenic is for forever!

Sub-critical reactors are a stupid idea. There's no _sense_ in using them except if you want them purely as a net-energy-negative neutron source.

If you want to use them for commercial energy production, then you'll have all the same issues as regular reactors. I.e. while it's easy to stop the chain reaction (just drop the rods or turn off the neutron source) short-lived daughter products will keep producing lots of thermal energy for weeks.