Yet, Mann & Hansen & Jones & Trenberth et al would expect you to believe their models are close to 100% accurate to predict inevitable catastrophe in the "future of a vastly complex system like the Earth", and even worse, you actually believe it.

ARGH!!! If I see Clippy popping up on the screens at Staples Center, I'm gonna walk out immediately.

I wonder if I can go dig out one of my old C=64 application dongles to use... of course it will be disconcerting if I heard the read/write heads slamming against the side of my disk drives

Except Hamilton brings a very keen perspective from an unexpected source, and 2012 is not that far in the past as solar cell efficiency hasn't made an exponential increase in the past year and a half so his points remain quite valid.

How many 'streamers' will they have at Solar Two? Could it surpass Ivanpah to take the number one spot as bird fryer champion of CA?

it would depend on your mpl, correct?

Just waiting for the EU food activists to decry these girls creating Frankenfood and hound them for their evil work

Flat shovel and piece of charcoal

Please do tell the name of this university so that we may avoid sending our kids to this place.

7. Every opthamalogist that I know hasn't had Lasik done on themselves, they still wear glasses.

Indeed, this is really hilarious that an AOL guy has trouble discontinuing service with a provider... I'm betting that AOL was much tougher than Comcast back in the day

Really???? I thought the President said that all needs to make law he has in his hands : a pen and a phone.

Several posts have alluded to high-availability, mirrored, load balanced, etc etc as being the solution to simply updating systems. The problem from a management point of view is to remain on guard when a patch or upgrade goes bad. Having turned into one of those 'old-guys', I'm quite sobered by the bad maintenance windows I've been a party to and will never consider unattended maintenance windows for my teams. It's better for me to schedule the work and let my folks adjust their work days to get to the maintenance fully alert and aware, and in full attendance for that time when things don't go as planned.

That's where those flexible OLED screens will come in handy

Indeed you are very correct, this government is become a dictatorship, abetted by a feckless Congress. It matters not whether you're lib/con or dem/repub, this is dangerous when the next changeover of power occurs, and it will occur. What the President has loosed now will be used against his party in the future.

Too bad my mod points are all gone now, you deserve +3.