Nature already does that. We only have to collect and harvest it. There is no technical reason to suffer any kind of water shortage.

These people will become the 'federal government' of the internet.

There is an order of magnitude of difference in the corruption in question.

No, there isn't, regardless of your insistence otherwise. We can all trace equal and worse corruption going back 30 years. And there's plenty more before all that. Sorry, your 'epiphany' is still as phony as a three dollar bill. A 'progressive ruling class' is certainly no worse than any other type of ruling class.

The pope swims in the same ocean of finance as everybody else.

Sure is fun to watch.

I doubt the tyrants who control them will like that very much.

Does Dice own reddit too?

...on the date 11/12/13 his heart is going to stop.

That's only if he's late on the payments.

Safety systems, communication pathways, etc. also have to be maintained with sizable capacity margins, as having a UAV fall on a house in the US would be a political nightmare.

You mean they would have to make the thing as safe as a manned vehicle? I say, pull the plug now.

It amazes me that he was still allowed to work on law enforcement.

The universe rewards the big and strong.

Policy is set by the Vatican Bank. The pope, like many other national 'leaders', is a charismatic figurehead, a designated distraction.

Yeah, we're supposed to get two days off!

What?

Oh, c'mon you guys.. Any place where an article about GNU/Hurd can still draw a crowd can't be all bad...