so we're going to file the discussion in a FIFO stack?

I would stop doing business in countries that don't seem to understand the difference between a search engine that indexes the internet and the original site that hosted the material. Screw them.

oxygen production. plankton are the foundation of the ocean ecosystem. i'm a lefty, but this seems like a win win. change will happen. but no more than when we make hydroelectric dams that drastically change the water temperature so all of the indigenous fish die and have to be replaced with colder water species. and these types of changes are justified every day. I really don't see a problem with this. let's do a study to see what happens when we offer fish more food. you get more fish.

Um, a kid shouldn't be able to walk in and see a spent fuel pool. Not cool.

I was there. I saw it.

Having been an avid scifi fan since 5th grade, Ray Bradbury was up there with my favorites of Heinlein, Herbert, and Asimov. Everytime I hear "Major Tom", I think of a short story by Ray Bradbury.

Not sure this is any better. If someone can guess the password, they can read the captcha. That is, unless the captcha is somehow stored on the local machine, which makes the file inaccessible except from that terminal.

Here's a solution. Once this passes, everyone cancel their internet service. All of it. Use work internet because we don't pay for it, but cancel all of our residential internet. Instead of blacking out the internet, we just quit the internet. An internet not worth browsing is marginally different than no internet.

HE IS AN ASTROPHYSICIST. That's a good start. Second, he's not the only, he's only the most celebrated on the Internet. Hence all the "We've got a badass here..." memes.

There are 100 planets within 30 light years of us. That is an achievable goal. We are getting close to figuring out fusion technology. Then we'll have the energy to travel to the stars. A lot of barriers to entry still exist, but if we really want to, we can overcome them.

Lots of places have a north.

we live in a world where the west's material goods are supplied by slave labor, figuratively speaking of course, and many times, those jobs are the best ones around. this says a lot about the countries that we get our material goods from.

like the alphanumeric passcode on the iPhone

until our computer systems are sophisticated enough to *accurately* model the effects on humans, we're going to continue to do animal testing. that's just the reality we live in.

If I post something to an online site and I allow them to save cookies, then it's my fault if they find out demographic information on me. That I can handle. If I subscribe to a free email account and they mine that information for demographic information, I guess I'm okay with that. It's free. If either of those companies sell that information to the government to keep better tabs on me, it's my fault for using free online services. If they tap my phones or spy in my residence, that is a breach of privacy. The other is a breach of private non-critical data.