Yeah, almost all of those are examples of things that are easily remembered by pretty much everybody in the western world, so I guess we can add to the list:
"Everything that annoys me is inherently wrong"

You are easily entertained.

Are you trying to fool intelligence agencies by proving that you know absolutely nothing about this subject?

I don't think I've ever seen a DVDrip that isn't about CD-sized (or multiples thereof).

True, but if you're going to talk about the consumption of potable water you have to talk about the production of potable water, which rain is an essential part of.

I'm all for a (discussion about a) nuanced overview of the actual issues concerning potable water instead of some alarmist bullshit that implies that water is simply 'used up'.

To be honest, the 'potable water shortage' issue is more an issue of energy than of matter. There is plenty of H2O on this planet, it just needs to be filtered and/or desalinated. If you've got a constant and 'renewable' shitload of usable energy coming in, your water problems disappear. Potable water produced in such a way is and will be more expensive than sucking aquifiers dry, but apparently not prohibitively so:

"Solar-powered desalination currently averages about $1.52-$2.05 per cubic metre of water produced, depending on technology, energy costs and location, according to the World Bank. Conventionally, alternatives typically cost half that or less. The cubic-metre costs of desalinised water in Israel's traditional Hadera and (newer) Sorek plants, for example, are $0.65 and $0.52 respectively."
( http://www.theguardian.com/sus... )

"Energy consumption of sea water desalination can be as low as 3 kWh/m^3"
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... )

Rain.

"a laptop-tablet hybrid that can instantly switch between Android and Windows 8.1"

So C is not that useful for modern platforms, after all?

Yeah, right. Because home users regularly say: "Oh, wow, that is a sweet PCI-E SSD; too bad it doesn't support TRIM or I would have bought the shit out of it!"

Yes, that is much more probable than "home users can't tell the difference between different SSD experiences."

You jest, but programs where drug abusers are allowed to do a free, limited, government funded amount of drugs in a safe environment actually decrease criminality, and costs to society, and generally improve the situation of the users and the environment where they would normally roam:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

So, while doing away with Medicare isn't a very good idea, 'free [strictly regulated] meth' is probably a very good one.

Only if you are interested in what they are saying.

I can happily program away with somebody sitting right next to me and addressing me directly. Also, listening to music with intelligible lyrics is no problem at all. Having the a video playing while programming is also no problem whatsoever.

The key here is that I can only focus on one stream at the same time and will not process the words of the other stream at all. If I focus on my programming, you could say to me that a beautiful and sexually skilled nymfomaniac is waiting for me in the next room and I would have no recollection of that a minute later. I might have a subconsciously induced boner, but I would probably attribute that to looking at my sexy, sexy code.

Stop it. Read the initial post you responded to again. You obviously haven't tried to visualize what was going on there and nevertheless felt the necessity to comment on something you have no knowledge of.

You are what's wrong with the web.

Go pollute facebook with your mindless nonsense. The SNR can't get any lower there anyway.

Sounds like you haven't actually used Win8, or have failed to read GP's post.

Go ahead. Try what GP described on Win8.

I was only engaging in this 'discussion' because you were modded +4.
To be honest, I don't give a shit about what you believe to be true and I sure as hell am not going to do your googling for you on a subject that is completely irrelevant to my original point.

"Energy is becoming rapidly less expensive because of modern technologies."
This remains true, as you have said nothing that refutes it.

I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were blind and slightly retarded. Otherwise, you would have clearly seen the bit where I said 'and that is without subsidies' and you would have understood the concept of [fingerquotes]making money[/fingerquotes].

My apologies.