Ok, who took away the edit button?

Anyway Thanks for the idea

See edit above. Now that I think about it, Give a Hoot, buy Local and don't Pollute, is a pretty nifty slogan.

I used to think about it, but my raging homophobia now prevents me from being electable, apparently. Because I notice little things like the fact that filing lawsuits is now the most romantic thing a gay couple can do to proclaim their love.

There's a difference between surveillance and transparency.

People have a basic, animal need to be left alone sometimes. If there is "omnipresent surveillance", and you can't possibly know who's watching, how can you ever say "no"?

I don't think "decorum" is something that is decided democratically. It is almost imposed on us by the powerful, and that means that it will be beneficial to a few and less so to everyone else.

But again, it's good that smart people like you are talking about this.

These days, if you're not a political dissident, you are not paying attention.

Details, details, details... (The ISS is 495 short tons, for just 6 people.)

I know what I meant. Apparently I didn't do as good a job of explaining it as I thought I did.

It appears that you think I know that I meant something like "chemistry will be different on Mars".

This is the crucial sentence: Handwavium to convert chemical transformation formulas into actual non-laboratory processes.

Electrolysis systems for 6 people on the ISS are going to be radically different in scale than those for a bunch of colonists.

That's the key word: scale.

The Handwavium comes in the paragraphs in and around this sentence:

The equipment (and spare parts, and maintenance, and assembly and repair, etc) needed to do all that stuff will be much more complicated on Mars than you think.

On Earth, we can send out some geologists or a surveying crew, rent or buy heavy machinery, parts, drilling mud, explosives, etc of a variety of forms from a jillion different sources.

OTOH, every bit of every kind of stuff needed on Mars will have to be sent at the beginning (whether on one ship or multiple doesn't matter), and that will drive up the cost of the expedition to absurd heights.

Which is, if you think about it, is rather evil.

I think the bar for being "evil" seems to have been lowered quite remarkably in that case. It used to involve, at the very least, cruelty and malice. Now, apparently, it's posting some terms and conditions about the use of your services when those services are pretty much optional and when the terms and conditions are more about protecting consumers from brand confusion ("Oh, I'll just buy this Google Play tablet. (One hour later, at home, after cash spent) Wait, it doesn't run half my apps because it's actually just a "compatible" Android-like operating system rather than the real deal?") than they are about Google making money.

Points to note:

- Android is still FOSS
- Google Play is optional. Sure, Google are doing everything they can to encourage you to use it and encourage developers to build stuff on it, but it's not necessary
- Google does not sell Google Mobile Services. And the chump-change it makes in terms of compatibility testing barely pays for the services it covers.
- While Google makes some money from the various stores they sell, between bandwidth costs, transaction processing, etc, nobody out there believes it's a significant source of revenue.
- Finally, until GMS, people were screaming at Google about "Fragmentation". Even today, Android bashers still insist on posting highly misleading pie-charts showing how many different versions of Android are still in use vs iOS.

We can scream at Google when they insist that versions of Android bundled with GMS must no longer allow users to install apps via third parties. Until then, faced with a choice between "Google are doing this because they want control of teh users", and "Google are doing this because they want manufacturers to stop fucking up", we'll go with the former.

Amazing creatures, some of their less well known abilities - They can communicate over long distances (several km) using ultra low frequencies, they pick up the vibrations through their feet, not their ears. In the Congo they dig "post holes" with one foot to mark the correct route where forest paths branch. They can drink stagnant water that would kill most other large mammals, they know the difference from fresh water and no matter how hot and thirsty they cautiously wad in and gently sip the later of fresh water off the surface with their trunk, the older ones restrain the young and teach them how to do it without stirring up the toxic crap on the bottom.

Oh, wait: your comment title does explicitly accuse me of plagiarism. I wrote every word of it myself, you liar.

Well, if it's an outburst of Bidenism, then you should be able to come up with a source URL using any substantial piece of text from it as Google search criteria, should you not?
The only thing that came from The Onion is the four face pictures, which link back to The Onion itself.

Does phrasing an accusation, say, that you're into child porn, as a question somehow render it less than a full accusation?

There are also the founding principles of the country, to which the GOP occasionally lays claim, and the party platform.
But we really do need a second major party in this country.

But I'm not sure /. can deliver the needed votes.

I've also not tried homosexuality, heroin, and eating a bullet. Strangely lacking motivation.

Apparently not, according to the codpiece media.