4. He threatened with violence, which is actually illegal, and he didn't use an Anonymous account either.
5. Nothing secret about the camera.

I was about to say something like that. Only less diplomatic.

People are remembering how previous, highly publicised breakouts turned out to be minor. At least globally.
They forget the immense effort by WHO and similar to prevent the outbreaks from becoming pandemics. SARS and N1H1 both were contained. Partially because they weren't as deadly as first thought, but definitely also due to enforced measures.

This new one, by all indications is no spring flu. This one kills, and if it does start spreading between humans directly, we are in trouble.

At least it'll probably help solve the global overpopulation problem rather efficiently.

a less than 2 hour flight, on a plane scheduled for 12+ hours, and where most battery incidents happened at the end of the flights?

No. I'm not reassured at all, either.

There are, but there is no way we can produce enough electricity to replace Nuclear and coal.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see that increase in demand still outstrip added renewable sources.

Then there is the electric cars everyone is touting. They need power, and they need a LOT of it.

The long term waste is a known quantity, and needs to be addressed. But it is nowhere nearly as pressing a concern as the global CO2 levels are.

We have to bring down the CO2 emissions dramatically, and fast. Doing this through renewable energies would be nice, but it is a pipe dream at best. At least for now. We have to go nuclear, and do so on an far more aggressive scale than we are using it now, if we are to survive long enough, to be able to harness the still elusive fusion and renewable energy bonanza, the greens and the lawmakers are still clinging to.

Isn't a fake impersonator, really the person being impersonated?

I agree, Parent definitely need the 5 score.

The EU are in the same boat, and right now they are fighting about allowing Greenland to mine their deposits. IIRC some idiot even suggested that since the Chinese are so good at mining the stuff, they should sell the mining rights to them...

Looking at the smaller European countries, their politicians and decisions makers are also having a severe hard-on for the F-35, despite the abundant criticism of it, and it's budget, as well as doubt over it's actual capabilities.
It is odd really. What is it that Lockheed have, that keep the greedy little bastards (Politicians) so focused on their design, while ignoring all the faults, and defects?

if you have a 300 ms latency?

All the key does is telling the cars computer that the one having it is allowed to start it. The computer seized up, and the key was probably pulled to no effect. I doubt anyone capable of getting into a car would be dumb enough to not try that.
As for gears. There is probably no mechanical connection between the gear shift and the gearbox. The driver tells the computer what he would like to do, this time the computer had a lobotomy.

Like this? http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2012/11/video-tesla-model-s-drive---the-electric-car-that-shatters-every-myth.html

Exactly.

I really, REALLY hate these cases, because you can't really oppose them without being labelled as a pervert, this is why lawmakers love to bundle their censorship laws with provisions like these.

Outlaw and block child porn. No one in their right mind can find fault in that.
Protect the children, implements blocks to do that.
Outlaw animal porn, it is after all filthy, right?
Outlaw porn altogether.
Outlaw writings about porn.
Outlaw religious satire
Outlaw religious criticism
Outlaw criticism
Outlaw free speech.

All of these have been seen before in various countries, It is a slope lawmakers won't admit, but it is invariably the end result.

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Which is why stars tend to blow up when they star fusing Iron. They can no longer sustain their mass.

I agree.

At present we dig up vast amounts of thorium as waste from regular mines, especially when digging up rare earths.

Uranium is in very short supply, and 99% of it in nature is useless for power generation, and when that 1% is used for power, we only extract about 0.5% of the power in it.
Thorium on the other hand is about 10 times more abundant then uranium, and 100% of it is usable for power, and nearly 100% of the thorium used will be converted.