Hubris was also invented in Europe.
History has general lessons over what happens when it starts to pervade an empire.
Watch yourselves there.

So why not simply make workahol an illegal substance, or at least license it's production and distribution?

Aided and abetted by Private Parts, Corporal Punishment and Sergeant Rock.

How often do you hear / read something like this:

" Company XYZ bleh bleh Cloud bleh bleh revenue bleh bleh billion dolloars bleh bleh."

Reeks of bubble.

Whaaa thaaa.... ffuuuu..?
That's some tight, tight code going on there. Or not.

I agree that the journalist writing the article seems to lack even the most fundamental knowledge of electricity.
I simply had to stop reading after: "...4 volts of power..." which caused me to eat my own head.

"The true paranoid is just someone in posession of all the facts".

+1 point for the splendid reference, I bow my head in solemn deference.

I was dismayed by the article referring to "entrepreneurs" as though they are distinct from the rest of humanity.

My advice, for what it's worth: Read Marcus Aurelius.

The loneliness of command is certainly not a new thing.

Have you seen that excellent documentary The Bourne Legacy? Strictly, the option should have stated "military grade" not "weapons grade" Peformance Enhancing Drugs. MGPEDs currently only be used by elite black ops agents or other military type folks with a shorter than average life expectancy such that long term effects are either neglected or never found out about owing to other things prematurely curbing their enjoyment of oxygen. As such, they don't need normal regulatory approval. I suppose an "all drugs allowed" athletics tournament would have a kind of macabre spectator appeal to see just how much some people are willing to fuck themselves up to gain a little bubble-reputation and a little cash, much like X-factor or similar car-crash TV.

Cold beer, warm pizza and watchable TV. Public outrage is only genuinely piqued by a restriction in supply or enjoyment of at least two of the above commodities (or their provincial equivalent).

The synopsis states that the facility was... "creating enough energy to power 70,000 homes". This is, as every physics 101 student knows, fundamentally incorrect. The facility may have converted or even harvested enough energy to power 70,000 homes, but it did NOT create that energy. Even the sun, from which the converted energy came, merely converted some of its mass into the heat and light which eventually reached the facility. Yours etc, Viscount Pedantic Bastard.

Given the number of servers, gateways, routers, switches any average email gets routed through, it would generally be imprudent to assume that the information contained therein is any more secure than if it were written on a postcard and sent through the mail, with the addition that a copy of the postcard is retained each time it is handled. I can't comment technically on chat messages, but I would assume the same (or similar) to be true. It is illegal for anyone, including government, to open physical mail not addressed to them without judicial oversight, but to read a postcard? I don't think that requires a warrant, does it? It might require some degree of legalisation for the information gleaned to be admissible in a court of law, but even Mr Postman can do the gleaning without getting knuckles rapped. I would imagine that a similar principle applies to emails / chats etc. If I intended to communicate anything I believe could get me in trouble with the authorities, I definitely absolutely positively would NOT do so over email or chat. I imagine that anyone else with even a third of a brain would find other methods too, so governments intercepting emails will likely achieve nothing more than: 1) Creating a hell of a lot more work for already overworked analysts and 2) Seriously pissing off civil liberties groups and the citizenry in general. So, okay Govt.com go ahead and read all of our postcards to each other, see where it gets you. F#ckin' nowhere except closer to a revolution, I'll warrant.

Try here: http://www.change.org/petitions/the-bartow-police-and-bartow-high-school-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot Not yet sure if they're accepting donations, but possible to add ones voice to the already loud throng.