Californians are sending their alfalfa, and thus their water, to Asia.' Alfalfa growers are now exporting some 100 billion gallons of water a year from this drought-ridden region to the other side of the world in the form of alfalfa. "

Yes, and changing Asian rang habits will not be any rather than changing Californian eating habits.

I'm a little tired of this.

Is there a difference between someone using their camcorder and someone outfitting a fleet of vehicles with cameras to record your license plate, location, and time/date? Yes - the fleet is able to track you without alerting you so easily.

Should I expect that the government be permitted to track my activities in public without a warrant? No.

Why should I expect a business to be permitted to do the same thing?

And why should I permit such a business to do this for profit? I should not. While this considered to be 'in public', most parking lots are actually private property.

This seems wrong a level that trouble me greatly.

You offered the examples. You can defend them, or not.

Yes, it is complex. We have representatives who should be seeking advice, and let the process work. And yes, the lobbyists arr a problem. Citizen involvement is critical, and we are largely not involved.

We shouldn't be intruding in other people's business"

Ok, make your case. Why should we not be involved in those regions?

And don't try and frame my challenge as a defense of any of this. You imply that we have no business on those regions. Explain please. If you can.

How about we stick to the script. Or you make your own reality. And not on my lawn.

Typically liberal fallacy. You claim, because I want lower taxes, that I want NO taxes. Wrong. I want necessary taxes, minimum waste, minimum government intrusion where it should not intrude.

Hey, I would support NASA spending the money, if only for the scientific exercise of figuring this out. Though they may want to enlist the ham community to help - maybe help design a SDR?

Whoosh.

A little more work with the jammer and the police will not easily figure out who it was, nor find the device.

I'm intrigued. Low power radar ain't that hard to defeat. Lidar isn't either, and you don't need flares.

In the absence of rules against it, best available is the choice - the criteria being most important. I suspect all other software is not as 'good'. And if the crashing IS caused a DNF or lost places, it would be changed out. F1 has a low tolerance for failure.

So by your logic Formula One teams use Windows Embedded because it introduces one more small vulnerability.

No. They. Do. Not.

Every component on a Formula One car is chosen to win with. Even the driver.

"selector fork forcibly readjusted my spine"

Stop sitting on the gearshift lever.

You're welcome.

There is so much wrong with this.

If rising tuition is the problem, subsidies don't fix it.

If financing tuition is the problem, where is the pressure to reduce tuition?

If taxation is the solution, why not a generall tax again?

My libertarian friends are nearly combusting over this, and I understand why. I'm not convinced that a degree is necessary to find a good job, and perpetuating that belief aids the institutions primarily, not the students.

For some US universities, it is "pay for some of it with taxes". Such as state or land grant institutions.

There is no point in discussing relative service levels, customer service, blah blah blah. None of that is the significant issue at stake.

First, Net Neutrality. A 'TimeCast' conglomerate will wield immense power and be able to enforce selective access and performance. If Netflix is your favorite video provider, you will be left at the mercy of a much larger and much more motivated ISP. This is an opportunity for the FCC to join Justice and require neutrality of access and routing as a condition. Let the court fights begin... Here, consumers have little hope that the government will act in their best interest, or even be allowed to.

Channel selection will become more interesting as this is an entity that could challenge content providers such as Disney and ESPN, and we'll see the battle between cable systems too big to ignore and content too valuable to refuse. I doubt consumers will benefit from this in any way.

Pricing will go up, count on it. Municipalities will take advantage of that and hang increased fees on these price changes, and consumers will pay more. Period.

There is nothing good about this. And there need not be, since corporations are not motivated to act in the best interest of their customers, merely to earn profits. that should, in a perfect world, result in serving customers, but it need not, and we are not in a perfect market or world. Oligopolies like this will not operate int eh customer's best interest.

Which is the current state of our government, not serving its citizens well at all. And that is why limited and constrained government is essential, and abdicating power to a central federal government is a bad idea. Corporations need also to be restrained. Same problem.