But many people obviously want to make a Balmer poke.

Of course, we're talking about the Fta Tei. But they will still play to be the Universe Police.

A domain controller or an Exchange server is not likely to exhibit these issues unless you start doing things that are affected by this problem. Running programs that take a chunk of disk space and use it for reading and writing data in their own database format using their own code while responding to network queries for weeks is probably one of the least likely activities to get affected. (Unlike, say, the performance of the bookkeeping when installing updates etc.) It's similar to how even older versions of binary-translating virtualization packages weren't any slower at running user-mode code at full throttle: that's the part that's *not* being slowed down, it was the emulated peripherals that were.

Some optimists argue that he had whole 33% or so of an environmentalist in him and that it was not a bad start and stuff, but realists point out that he was just mental.

Hugo, boy!

If ETs have enough energy at their disposal to get here, certainly they have enough energy to deal with anything that this world's religions can throw at them.

If he was indeed "one of the 10 smartest kids in the world", I wonder how he fared compared to, say, Terrence Tao.

Houston: "ISS, we've had a problem."

Jim Lovell: "Hey, that's my line!"

We already do. My back pain is of the same kind as their back pain, and I'm pretty sure I'm not immortal either.

Nope, that's software for helicopter-training your dog.

Apparently, your guy was actually pretty smart! He avoided the misfeature by instinct. "Practicing it wrong", my ass.

You still have a 60Hz grid? I'm waiting for the 0Hz grid.

In fifty years, that's how things will probably work anyway. Right now, we just have to use more batteries (or pumped storage of some kind) than strictly necessary.

If off-peak energy grows more expensive, it will mean that 1) people will try to use it as little as possible, for example by using AC with heat (cold?) accumulators, or by running such appliances as dishwashers or washing machines when the energy is cheapest, and 2) solar thermal power plants with significant heat accumulation will eventually get built to cover for the periods without sunlight, as well as power plants capable of rapid start-up (biogas-powered gas turbines?).

How is this different from an American going to a foreign country, buying a stuff that's perfectly legal over there, and illegally importing it back to the US? Is the seller at fault here? Your examples feel quite contrived to me - by your logic, people offering software with strong crypto to download are wanted criminals in countries where strong crypto is illegal unless they do everything they can to prevent people from those countries from downloading it.