Yea, I remember those. Was thinking of getting some when I was young, I may have even contacted you back then. They'd look awesome on my recumbent, but for safety's sake, I think I shouldn't :)

Yea, I seem to remember that. You were the guy making pipe engines, which were inefficient but interesting...

looked it up. gun owners are twice as likely to be murdered and 5 times likely to get shot. Perhaps time to protect gun owners from themselves? Source: papers linked to in this comment:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3009849&cid=40793137

... and much more likely to accidentally or deliberately shoot themselves. (slashdot a few weeks ago).

Or at least it completely obliterated 10-ish years of her life, now spent in courthouses and stress.

Well, we are producing enough to feed the world and then some, the trouble is transporting it to the people who need it.

Sure, oil is a finite resource. But if you compare the amount of oil used to fuel combustion engines to the amount of oil used for ALL OTHER PURPOSES, the latter turns out to be quite negligible. So save oil by driving less, and you have plenty for all other oily goodness like plastics and medicine.

Except, of course, that "organic" is not synonymous for "no pesticides". On the contrary, organic food has also been sprayed with pesticides, just different ones.

nope, it is because you (along with a significant fraction of the people around me) continually think kilocalories are calories. There is a factor 1000 difference in there, you know! That coke bottle you are talking about? that's 0.28 megacalories!

Are you a Samsung lawyer?

OT, but this is the first time I have seen "veneer" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_veneer spelled as "vernier" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernier_scale
Other than that, your message came across fine :).

You forgot one more aspect:
Imagine if the Dutch government would send drones into the US to kill bad Americans...