From the article

Probably by sending a SWAT team to the editor's house.

And this went down about 2 months ago. One fuckup we can forgive as long as they learn their lesson. Two blatant abuses of power in 2 months. Of course the City Manager takes the chief of police to task over something like this, she doesn't want to get shot during a routine traffic investigation. How the fuck do we let assholes like them run our cities?

I had Prey installed on my son's laptop, which was stolen along with a bunch of other things. After I told Prey it was stolen, we got a geolocation hit in a nearby town with the name of the hotel in the WiFi. The local police went out at midnight and collected it all for us. We drove over in the morning and brought them brownies.

Wait, phones make a log of the conversation!? Ban those too!

Yeah the good artists are at least good in their medium. A Sci-Fi author that can't think of the ramifications of something as absurdly draconian as this?

Oh no, its more like a multiplicative effect.

Dare = 1
Double Dare = 2
Triple Dare = 3
Dog Dare = 2
Double Dog Dare = 4
Triple Dog Dare = 6

Except by even proposing something like this or stating something akin to "in fiction it would work" she is showing she has less cognitive reasoning capacity than an average teenager. "in fiction it would work"... Yeah, in badly written chock-full-o'-plot-holes fiction it would work. Seriously this goes beyond "did not do the research" and into willful ignorance.

And far further ahead of where NASA is today, considering SpaceX is close to putting people into orbit, where NASA is decades away if it will ever be able to do so again.

Actually I take back some of what I said, the lake is higher now than it was in the last 2 years (since the article I linked was written).

Levels are pretty good now, though that link doesnt show the outflow amount, and so doesnt say how much more water we use today.

While GP's "not much water" is an exaggeration, water use of the dam has been outpacing the rate it gets filled for decades now.

Soon it may not be able to produce power.

Basically irrigation and water use has grown quite a bit since the thing was built, and as the article suggests, a lot of this water ends up in the ocean.