Why the parent post isn't moderated into oblivion, I have no idea. It's stupid and offensive.

The cause of diabetes is not eating too much. Get that through your head. Any random person will not automatically become diabetic by eating like a pig. Period.

Then, consider that part of the reason people eat badly is the endocrine system misfiring and causing them to be hungry when they shouldn't be. But that's their fault according to you. Asshole.

You'll have to let me know about some condition you or someone in your family suffers from so I can make a similarly uninformed and offensive post about it.

I don't think insurrection was as grim as you let on, except inasmuch as vassal/lord relationships assured that there was a fire department which would correct any local rebellion in the interest of restoring the 'correct' kind of leadership.

The medieval lord performed a service to the serf - protecting him against bandits and other lords. The church performed a service for the serf: they tended to his soul and also kept records and such. The bottom line, though, was that getting enough to eat was a struggle. The lord and church were fully conscious that there were more serfs than they. While their guards were better armed, it was a matter of degree rather than a huge difference. A sword might be a better arm than a farm implement, but both can kill you. 100 men armed with farm implements are going to fare rather well against 10 who have good arms. Therefore, things were kept reasonable by fear of insurrection.

The technocrats and corporate overlords of today need to rediscover this fear.

Well, your $3/watt and falling solar is useful on average 12 hours a day. Also, in the latitudes that North America is in, the actual power delivered is going to be considerably less than 1 watt for each theoretical max output watt. Seems to me that if you want to use solar to replace these nuclear plants, you'll have to double the size of the solar install to 4.4GW.

Then, you'll have to find a way to store half of the daily output of the install. I would think that 2.2GW * 12h worth of batteries would pretty much break the bank. Never mind the losses associated with charging/discharging chemical batteries. Even the water pumping scheme discussed in the past would have some losses associated with it - evaporation, less than 100% efficiency of the electricity used to pump water.

Note we haven't even considered the latitude issue. It's not worth considering. We already know solar will be much more expensive.

Rove worked for the elder Bush as well. His 1978 and 1980 campaigns were primarily Rove's work. Rove was engaged in Texas to shepherd Bush's son and keep him out of trouble after the elder Bush went to Washington as the Vice-President.

I never felt much need to procreate.

Yes, I have three. (22, 17 and 14)

No, it wasn't by choice.

Yes, I got fixed at earliest opportunity. Urologists have all kinds of liability-induced rules about this.

Yes, with an option to go back, I would have either avoided sex in those instances or used more effective birth control.

No, it has not brought me any more fulfillment.

Yes, I choose to warn others against what I believe to be a mistake. Let me serve as your bad example.

It won't be a waste of time. I have heard that said too many times about too many things to believe it for a moment. I heard it about Wine in the 90s.

Who wants kids? They're an investment in nothing nowadays. Agricultural societies could justify having families. You had children to assure a possibility of retirement and also to increase your prosperity in your middle years. Now kids are just a drain.

The depressed birth rates in industrialized nations should tell you all you need to know.

After thinking a lot about it, the only reason a man should marry after 30 is to not be alone when you die. Truthfully, it is the only reason to marry. But everyone seems to have the need to make that mistaken first marriage. After the divorce is over, one must truly 'man up' and look at real priorities. Why would you want to be an enabler and emotional sponge for some woman? If you avoid that, you keep the vast majority of your earnings and you get more sex on the open market.

You can execute on the marriage plan when you have 2 years to live, if you like. The women won't know the difference.

There will be a repository beyond the reach of Microsoft's software patents.