Considering we the West and Asia have collapsed basically every decent fishery, do we need to add every native Fish to the list living in the rivers? CA already has issues like this, we can't kill fish and expect there to be any. Silly how that works.

In the end its not the power generation that is the issue, we can do that, its the storage of that energy for when its not abundant, such as Night time in the winter months. Wind isn't consistent enough to guarantee this, so figure out the storage issues and we can move along with clean energy.

Figure out how to transport/store Hydrogen economically and safely. The rest will solve itself.

Until you have to return or repair that appliance, you'll be happy enough. I'm batting about 50% on appliances having issues in the first year. But I've only been buying them for 20 years, could be wrong.
Of course you could have gone to Lowe's and talked to the sales guy and probably got it cheaper with a little haggling and a picture on your smart phone. Free pickup and with delivery install, go figure. If you time your purchase with sales you can get say all the blinds in the house installed for free during a sale.

I do not understand how paying someone to drive something in 30 minutes to your location makes them any money on the sale. Unless your paying 30 for the drivers time and the vehicle/fuel/insurance in your purchase somehow. Its not magic they still have to make money or they too will go out of business in this race to the bottom.
UPS does it by bundling a whole days worth of stuff in a truck and creating an optimized route via server software for that purpose then giving it to the driver. How is Amazon going to do this 30 minutes at a pop in say SF or Boston traffic down town. Drones do not do it, and they wont do it in the rain/wind/snow. Even if Drones somehow become cost effective and not a hype for stock purchasers.

This isn't anything new, Amiga in the 90's had a CMOS happy virus that used the battery power to stay in memory. It wasn't in the clock but rewrote that area of the working bios to stay resident. I remember having to take the battery out of my A500 to get rid of it, as it survived reboots and power offs.
UEFI bio is going to be a real hassle going forward, its going to be much easier to write something for this vs the older bios with all of its limitations. USB controller firmware, Bridge firmware, controller firmware, soon to be memory controller firmware like Power8, ethernet, ssd/hd firmware, and sound card firmware. There are a lot of places if you can inject your version during the download update to the customer where harm can be done.

I recommend a rubber enclosure such as a very large Rubermaid tub or 55 gallon plastic drum, adjust the top so it fits to the floor line where you will have to put a low cost venting system to keep the temp consistent with dry air. You can use a modified vent fan and just have it watch the enclosure if needed pump air in from the house.
I recommend a rubber/plastic tub because I've had basements flood a few times now, and everything stored in that type of tub was untouched by the water line and moisture. I've even had them float one time, oddest thing ever.
55 gallon blue plastic tub modified for access to the top would be best I think.
I'd have mirrored USB-3 based drive sets or a raid5 soho storage device for the dvd's/media.
I would also suggest a 3rd set of drives/mirrored that you can take offsite every so often in case of housefire/massive issues where you lose all your work, 300$ bucks is chump change compared to losing all the family pictures/movies. This you would bring back to the network, resync, then take back to the bank or grandma's house for safe keeping, off prem.
Otherwise, good cabling and UPS with network management is the final part and your all set.

Because my kids goto war and die to protect the rich persons money. You know the one that has an untaxed Trust fund, no tax on inherited wealth, hidden accounts around the world, and never really pay's their fair share while telling me, I didn't pay enough.

Flat tax is a fail, consumption tax is a fail, not taxing inherited wealth is a fail. When you get drafted to protect their money, let me know how you feel in the trenches, and when you get out and can't find a job.
Perhaps your one of the many that believe you will be filthy rich someday so you dont want to be taxed. Good luck, go back and learn some math in school, because you forgot how to do percentage chances.

Food for Thought: Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was that "plagiarism" farce! As if there was much of anything in any human utterance, oral or written, except plagiarism! The kernal, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances'- is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing. When a great orator makes a great speech you are listening to ten centuries and ten thousand men - but we call it his speech, and really some exceedingly smail portion of it is his. But not enough to signify. It is merely a Waterloo. It is Wellington's battle, in some degree, and we call it his; but there are others that contributed. It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

Letter to Helen Keller, after she had been accused of plagiarism for one of her early stories (17 March 1903), published in Mark Twain's Letters, Vol. 1 (1917) edited by Albert Bigelow Paine, p. 731.
Mark Twain 1903-03-17

or

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein

Einstein is more humorous of the 2 once you consider this in-depth look at it which infers Einstein plagiarized by rewording the quote.

I had to remove optimus on my laptop to make the graphics work. I hard set 2 monitors, the laptop and one external on the replicator. Optimus has never worked correctly in X with GL enabled. KDE did make the non xrandx version work for me, I can undock and use the gl parts with very little problem.
Now if vmware player would quit going to 365% cpu load I'd be happy.

If you look at the Wheel of time, it generally had 3-5 story lines running along the same time line. Just like Game of Thrones does now. This is not a new idea and its already improved on and successful for authors. The issue is how many authors can do a complex time lined parallel story without making crap?

I personally liked the kronos amiga virus that installed itself in the clockbios, so it survived reboots.

Kind of like a PHD student security programmer, accidentally putting in heartbleed in the middle of Xmas when it was automagically accepted in to ssh code, because we do not teach bounds checking to PHD students.
Hope and Belief.

No, just hope a believe. HOPE you know this guy, documented here; Belief is just the nicest of fellows. Just like I hope and believe the NSA isn't doing something they shouldn't, until someone outed them we had never heard of before.

I do not think bringing Snowden into the example really works on this one, as he did actually steal classified info and post it to the internet/news, no belief needed. I do hope he gets a fair and public trial though, but I believe he will never make it to court.

I expect some chechen rebels to confess to helping the NSA very soon. Smoking gun, a snow plow, and a pretty girl.

Because we believe Putin does not own that company in Moscow or is using it to own anyone running the antivirus tools on their machines. Lets hear it for the Belief and hope system.

You forgot Gonzalas and the preescutors, and people being labeled enemy combatants in new york then jailed 5 years. Or the 18,000 americans, the injuries, blackwater, people dead going to testify, and the patriot act itself.

Please go on about a person that didn't know terrorists were going to attack an consulate in a foreign country, then blame them for email.
Wait its just a political attack, people hate to much, and think their team is better than the other team every time.
It is football for grown-ups that didn't realize the NFL doesn't pay taxes, and the home owner get the 2k a year bill for the stadiums. Football makes you smarter after a few blows to the head you'll follow anyone, its the perfect tool afterall.