It seems to me that you could do a p2p certificate authority where a certificates trust is based on the number of people who trust the cert as well as a past history of your trusts.

So, if historically you trust certs that are frauds then the trust in you is reduced and all certs you trusted are reduced.
If the opposite is true than the trust in you is higher as is the trust in the certs you have trusted.

How about all of them?

We de-fund all of them, then each program has to come back to congress and justify it's continued existence. It has to provide supporting data that the job it is doing is needed and accomplishes the goals it was created for.

Farm Subsidies and WIC are easy things picked by most people as an example. Take a look at The U.S. Agency for International Development, Or the federal grant for $765,828 that was given to bring an International House of Pancakes franchise to Washington, D.C, and there are thousands more. The number of wasteful programs outweigh the number of good ones.

First, the biggest reason that business does not look at changing is the cost of retooling. Most businesses are soo tied into windows that they can not even consider an alternative. They have thousands of not hundreds of thousands tied up in the windows infrastructure that would, for the most part have to be scrapped and replaced. From communicator, exchange, Antivirus, share point, you name it and if it is a Microsoft product then it is designed to work with windows. I have known several large companies that looked at moving to Linux desktops, once you worked out the cost of retooling, retraining, and the disruption to the end user, it was cost prohibitive.

Now to home use, I think Linux as a home desktop is far more prevalent that most people think. I know quite a few non-tech people now running linux as a home desktop. I have noticed that almost every software provider has listed in there FAQ "Do you provide a version for Linux?" If it is a frequently asked question then, IMHO, it is far more prevalent than many believe. The issue here is proof, with windows it is sales but buying a Linux desktop is not as easy as going to Walmart and buying a windows one. Top that off with the fact that all systems sold with windows count towards windows numbers even when they are wiped and Linux is installed. So the real question is how many linux desktops are there and what is the best way to identify them. Until those questions are answered we really have no way of knowing how big the population is.

I predicted that one a few years ago. You can not take energy out of a system with out impacting the overall performance of the system.

I would say it is more along the line of the question of gravity being a wave or a particle.

We may understand gravity in general, just as we understand the generalizations of climate.

Every time I hear how IT is a cost center and does not make money for the company I love to point out that accounting is also a cost center and does not make money for the company.

Guess it is time to save the company money and lay off accountants.

That is easily fixed. Absolutely everything can be done. In 20 years of IT I have never said "that's not possible"

It all boils down to

How much do you want to spend?

When they ask for something that is not possible with the existing equipment or man power, I simple work up what it will take. New equipment, number of people, how long to build/deploy/develop, etc. And send them the price and a high level overview of the project.

They want everything but , there is always a budget and it boils down to what they can get for the amount they want to pay.

Your options are always
1) Good
2) Fast
3) Cheep

You only get to pick 2 of the three.

Fine, break it down further there are 2 acres of arable land per person. However, arable land is land that can be farmed There is plenty of Forest, swamp land, and areas that are non-arable but still sequester carbon.

However, if you want to be fair to the numbers there are 1285 acres water per person on the planet and plankton sequesters more carbon that grass.

I can dispute it.

It takes 1 acre of forest or 2 acres of grass to sequester the gas produced by 1 American adult. It takes 1/8th acre to produce the vegetables needed to feed a family of 4.

So, what is the global population density and how many acres are there per person in the world? 10 acres per man, woman, and child on the planet!

That means that an average American family would have 45 acres (2 adults and 2.5 children on average) and only need a max of 4 acres to sequester the carbon they produce.

That is just the land mass and it is 1/3 of the planet and the other 2/3rds can sequester carbon as well due to plankton content.

Prior to 1970 all airline pilots were armed, there was little to no airport security and no hijackings of airlines.

So, the whole TSA could be replaced by providing every pilot with a $395 revolver. Billions saved and no violation of the constitution.