Actually, that could be a BRILLIANT idea. Wave power pushes it down, cork pops it back up, rinse, repeat.

They could double their output.

I'm certain Penny Arcade already covered this somewhere.

KeePass. With the encrypted datafile in dropbox.

It's all about the money.

I'm certain that the plan is to produce something similar to, but almost entirely unlike real eggs, but at a far lower price point per kg for industrial baking and food preparation. When they can achieve that, they will recoup their investment many times over, and the general public will be none the wiser.

You can throw The Novelist into that bin too. The only trouble with The Novelist was that it touched too true to life a few times.

Why are you so sadistic that you want to force people to work as garbage men? Especially when it would be much more efficient, clean, and environmentally friendly to automate the entire process? Already the number of garbage men needed is far less than those willing to work for it. My municipality never has a shortage of people applying for the job when a position becomes open, and most of the folks that start in those positions either promote up out of the job, or retire after 25 years. Very few leave because they found "a better position".

In your example, what to do with the billions of people for which there is no useful "1) a job" available? If/when we get to the point that 100,000 people can operate and maintain the machinery to provide all the needs and wants of the other 8 billion people on the planet, is it honestly your suggestion that the 8 billion should live in squalor and poverty, and the entire production of the planet only be distributed among the 100,000 who have the needed skills?

Better hope you're one of the 100,000, but the odds are against it.

As least it wasn't:

Dumb abusive cart barista abuses nouveau caloric gimmick chocolates.

On the back of all my cards, in the "signature" line I always write, "Please check ID".

I always thank the 1 in 100 clerks that actually ask for my ID, though half of those seem to do it as company policy, not because I had it on my card.

We don't flush our toilets in Texas.

We gather the contents into big bags, then elect them to congress.

How about you actually study some real Paleoclimatology instead of pulling neo-liberal statements out of your ass?

The truth is, the earth, as a whole, is currently at about the lowest average temperature that can be inferred from the all sources of ancient data. Normally, we should be about 2-3 C higher, globally, given the historical record.

"Global Warming" is just a return to trend and should be expected whether humans are walking around or not.

By using their device, connected to their proprietary smartphone app, you are granting consent (I'm certain it'll be in the EULA) for Google to use the information for their purposes. HIPAA will keep them from sharing your specific medical information, but it wouldn't in any way, restrict them from using your most recent blood sugar readings to determine what ads to put at the top of your gmail inbox or beside your google searches.

As I diabetic, I can definitely say that low blood sugar makes me grumpy and irritable.

4 out of 5 fights with my fiance, a nurse, end before they begin with her telling me to not say anything else until she gets me a glass of fruit juice.

So you are saying that, somehow, the FDA would force Google to keep selling the product? And that the FDA won't ever allow a useful product to be discontinued by it's manufacturer due to lack of desired profitability? Really?

Also, these will be designed to transmit the collected data, undoubtedly to a proprietary smartphone app (available for both iPhone and Android), which couldn't possibly send that data to Google for their marketing and tracking purchases?

Hmmm...blood sugar a little low? Suddenly all your adwords beside your google searches are for candy bars. Email "offers" start showing up at the top of your gmail inbox, etc. ad naseam.

And, as I mentioned in my first post, if it turns out not to be as profitable as Google desires, away it will go.

I can't buy groceries with BTC.
I can't take a friend out and pay for lunch with BTC.
I can't... most of your list is Wrong

$23M in Bitcoins is less than 2 normal trading days worth of sales on the global market. It would be a noticed, but extremely transient blip. Nothing more. And wouldn't come anywhere NEAR "blocking exchanges".

30,000 BtC is about the total traded volume of two days on just MtGox.

If the Treasury spreads is out with daily sales over 2 weeks, it would barely affect the price.