What you say would have more merit if there was free choice for these Bangladeshi people to come and go. Why have their passports been confiscated? Why is there not a viable means (steerage in low cost cargo ships) for them to return home if they wish? The arrangement as it stands amounts to what is called 'Indentured Servitute' which is a fancy name for slavery.

Extra points, though, for trying to turn the issue into something 'dirty and sexual' by using the term fetishise. Tell your masters to give you an extra bonus for your effort, because you've written some excellent propaganda.

To simplify things a bit, visualize a light bulb. It needs power to remain illuminated. That power can come from a large bank of solar cells...

Hmmm.... Out in the open air the light doesn't do much. But I suppose if you enclose the light, it could have some impact on darkness, and the big array of solar panels can be positioned over the enclosure.

What's wrong with this picture, though.

Does it need to be fresh water? There's plenty of sea water around Dubai.

Highrise Apartment Complexes on Mass Transit Corridors.

It's been a utopian dream for decades. Look at the plans for cities like Minneapolis/St. Paul.

A lot of people forget that the other great cities had their founding in geographical advantages that are no longer essential to their operation. The harbors around New York are still viable, but they are no longer the main focus of the city. It's the fact that a critical mass was established to foster social/cultural/economic centers which once established, became self-supporting. Festering, one might even say.

It's complex. There's a whole scripture, and a priesthood to interpret it for us.

Yeah, but who the f wants to live in a place like that?

It has great appeal to statists, because they want to crowd the entire population into highrise apartments along mass transit corridors... but I like having a yard (not a manicured one, there are enough people at work nuts about crabgrass and shit like that.) We have what is essentially a 100 year old yard. It has a fairy ring in it (a fairly ancient ring of mushrooms) and rabbits and there are coyotes singing in the distance out across the pasture in the evening and sometimes the morning... And the scree of the red-tailed hawk (plus all his singing food.)

If you live in an area where AC is mandatory and cannot be overcome with proper architecture (earth sheltering, big shaded porches, fans, etc.) then you're living in a place not viable and should relocate. Not because 'I say so' but because economics should be telling you that. The days when we can subsidize kentucky bluegrass lawns in suburban tracts in any environment anywhere are over.

In other words, it only works as an illusion, a fantasy.

Nobody is going to want to live there 24/7 where they can't change the channel and/or go upstairs to see how mom is doing.

If it makes a comeback, please don't use Adobe Flash. I think I barely have it installed anymore in Seamonkey. I get very satisfying little windows on my browser page sometimes scolding me that my 'version is too old' that please me.

'Information wants to be free' is just a badly constructed wannabe-meme similar in quality to Apple's 'Think Different' slogan. Basically, it's the kind of drivel marketing types who dropped too much acid in college come up with.

Why would anybody claim that the people who point this out have 'bad language skills'?

The way pro-AGW fanatics present arguments often stinks of conspiracy theories. (Those evile brothers, Big Oil, etc.)

Let's face it. A good percentage of slashbots are non-scientific ranting nutters. It's fun to approach all issues in a big adventurous way when you'e young and being all idealistic.

Actually, this year it's Big Data, capitalizing on GPS tracking on cellphones, and the Internet of Things is starting to fit in as well.

I'm not sure what Sputnik and dental fillings fit in, tho. Sounds expensive and unreliable. The other stuff is working out great though.

Or, heaven help us, a sitting US president with a long history of sexual harassment of subordinates in the workplace.

That could never happen, and if it did the feminists would surely take the guy down, right?

Maybe we can ask Google to do a grayscale scan of it all. (then since everything had to be slit out of it's bindings it can all be pulped.)

That is completely garbage. The Underwriter's Laboratory is a private for-profit organization and does a very good job of assuring fire and electrical safety for a huge sector of industry. When something is UL listed you can be certain it meets stringent safety standards.