I'm talking of the new HVDC interconnects being built for this purpose.

Except it's not the case that "the industry now uses '4K' to measure horizonal resolution" - the industry has always used "4K" to measure horizontal resolution. It never did anything else! The same with 2K etc. That's the issue here. ;-)

And will that happen before, or after we find out how much the environment change will have cost us by then? That's the one skeleton in the closet that's being addressed by this, which many people seem to be constantly ignoring.

"4K" has historically been used in digital motion picture post-production as a measure of vertical size of the frames in pixels. "4K" meant that the scanned film frames had 4K pixels horizontally, regardless of the aspect ratio (and, consequently, the vertical resolution). Sice "4320p" should presumably refer to vertical resolution, I have no idea how you managed to confuse the two together.

I'm not sure playing music games is such a serious medical condition as you make it sound...

Why do you assume that energy costs of materials are being ignored anywhere? For example, in PV manufacturing, they're one of the major components of the PV module cost. Of course people care about them, even if some of them only in financial terms.

Sooner or later, a transmission infrastructure upgrade will be cheaper than dealing with the rising fuel prices and external costs. I don't see how this could be possibly a matter of "if" rather than "when".

Germany, for example, went into agreements with Norway to build links between the two countries to allow them to use German wind when it's available, and Norwegian hydro when it isn't.

Even the high voltage wires used to transport the energy away from the power plants probably kill more birds than the turbines themselves.

Just EMP the drone from a microwave dish.

OTOH, fixing the small arms so that they wouldn't jam after a hundred shots anywhere slightly rougher than the Mid-West would probably be a great idea. (Perhaps Colt could learn from HK?)

In that case, I must be you if you're the only one using it. :D Nope, the problem of full-text search is that is doesn't go deep enough. Especially in technical fields, it would be great to have search engines with greater level of text comprehension than genetic FTS (for example, what if the text uses a synonym instead of exactly the term you're looking for?)

Precisely! I was looking for a decent open-source missile guidance system, but alas, to no avail.

I think that the author of that "rebuttal" completely missed the point of Munroe's idea:

To me, it always seemed that Munroe's method was designed for (already security-conscious) people who want a secure password, and to be more specific, who want the most secure password with the minimum memory load necessary. That seems like a completely different issue from what he's addressing. Plus, I have yet to see an OS or device login that allows you to use a password manager. :-p That alone creates a market for password schemes that allow you to remember the password in your head.