... to report the issue objectively. It seems to be a rather religious/right-wing kind of a place. That said, could be something here...

"Another Global Warming Wankfest"

Because we all know that Vladimir Putin is a tree-hugging environmental wacko, right?

If he's talking about developing the northern coasts of Russia to facilitate this sea route, he obviously thinks this is a permanent trend.

I suppose he might be wrong, but whatever he is, he's not a Global Warming wanker.

One of my neighbors when I was a kid had a couple of big mulberry trees that put out enormous quantities of fruit. When it was all ripe and overripe, it would fall to the ground and ferment - just walking by you could smell alcohol. The blue jays used to binge on this stuff and get quite loaded. First, they'd get very very noisy. A while later you'd see them just walking down the sidewalk, not even thinking about flying anywhere. Pretty funny (except the hangover when they woke up the next day, I suppose).

... and I'm bloody well not delighted.

"Neither rusty nor slow moving in this case, the glassy and streamlined building will combine a high performance facade with lush gardens and foliage that spills over terraces, resulting in a highly efficient commercial space. "

WTF is a high performance facade?

"when we start colonising other planets on a large scale"

I.e., never.

Remember that?

http://www.swatch.com/zz_en/internettime/itime_howitworks.html

"Privatization is the best thing we can do for space; government involvement has gotten to big, bloated, and stupid for real innovation."

Is this some kind of religious mantra with people? Privatization might be fine for launching communications satellites, but other than that, any possible business model surely relies on government contracts. Sort of like it is now. Where is the profit motive in going to the Moon or Mars or anywhere else outside of LEO? There isn't one.

"And what exactly do they expect to do when Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones need to get into orbit to save the earth from a disabled soviet nuclear satellite?"

You simply buy a couple of seats on a Soyuz, obviously.

... that Web access is going to continue to be cheap, fast, and always-on, then web apps and the whole cloud thing makes some sort of sense. Though there are still privacy and security issues.

But I don't assume that Web access is going to continue to be cheap, fast, and always-on. I sincerely hope that I'm wrong.