Not to mention that trying to reduce the birth rate would address overpopulation, an issue I consider to be a far greater threat to civilization than climate change.

War is a good start on reducing overpopulation. Add in a bit of famine, unchecked disease, and destroyed housing, and the problem is solved. Read history, and you will see that this is an old and proven solution.

As resources dwindle, there will be more war and more destruction. Sic transit in aeternitas.

Precision gauges are designed to work within a specific temperature range. My granite register plates are flat within .0001 between 70 and 80 degrees f. Higher or lower temperatures cause distortion. Fortunately, these are bench tools and are not moved about, much less taken outdoors.

Contact these people. I have woodworking tools that are this precise. My register plate and Starrett tools are used to gauge my other tools.

Urban Terror proves the existence of intelligent life in the world of online gaming. About 1300 servers hosted by the players themselves and always new maps. A very large and vibrant community.

Sadly, the Jerk with the knee was in the White House at that time.

Polyester work clothes are avoided by welders and anyone else who works around a fire or burn hazard. This is the subject of many safety lectures and bulletins given on job sites.

In the past, this act was known as "prostration. In ancient times, this act was considered so abasing to an individual, that Greek and Romans used it to differentiate themselves from eastern "barbarians" such as the Persians. Like silken robes, it was considered a sign of deep degeneracy. However, both were adopted by the courts of the eastern Roman empire. The robes are still with us via the catholic church. Grovelling on the floor is still practiced by politicians seeking campaign "donations."

The signals transmitted from each subject's brain to the computer were derived from just a handful of brain cells."

AKA: Posting

In times gone bye, summed up as: "Rich man's war, poor man's fight".

What unmitigated crap. Business like Comcast do not reform, they just lie more and hire shills. Shills are cheaper than actual customer service reps.

private cars are no longer a viable solution to our transport needs

Sho nuff, bring back horses. Fodder can be grown locally, no oil derivatives used to provide locomotion, and if worse comes to worse, you can eat them. Hides make good shoes and sports equipment. Best part: idle youth can be put to work shoveling horse shit instead of posting it on slashdot.

Proposals have been made in the past to pipeline water from the Yukon to California. Both overland and underwater pipelines have been considered. Water from the Columbia River has also been eyed as a water source for California. Local opposition killed both proposals, but the dream of all that water still brings out the pipeline builders and irrigation farmers.

Always nice to hear from those marvels of technological information and advanced reviewing over at 4 Chan. It is informative to see them doing something more useful than posting pix of their penises and of women they'll never get near to. I suspect they think a hex key is something to photograph after it has been inserted into someone's pooper. Right next to the sharpie. There are dozens of reviews available, both tech sites and in blogs from users for those who seek reliable information. The main drawback is price. This thing is built like a tank. It is durable, and has more adjustments than a 4 chan b/tard has perversions. If you don't really know why you continue to visit slashdot, you can spend more time at /b/ until something occurs to you, or whats left of your brains finish rotting away.

The weight is nice when you are playing at 3000 dpi or better. It prevents inadvertent vibration from spoiling aim or movement. I can play my Rat 7 at a much higher dpi than any other mouse I've owned. Once you get used to the weight, a lighter mouse feels like a balloon, all shape and no mass. The easy dpi shift allows me to sufficiently lower the sensitivity so that my wife can use my computer without having a fit. She never got used to my Logitech G9.

The main issue to me is that this is really the Ferrari of computer mice. A small change in configuration can cause a large change in sensitivity or handling. A N D . . . since the Rat7 is almost infinitely configurable, the urge to make a "small" change now and then is considerable. For FPS games, it is a real asset. The sniper button is a masterstroke, which I expect to see copied by other manufacturers. I usually play between 3 and 4000 dpi and the sniper button is set to lower this to just 10%, making scope shots almost unmissable. The first time I went online to one of my haunts, I was warned off by the server for using an aimbot. Had to explain my new toy to a mod. It is truly said that once you get used to a gaming mouse, regular ones feel like a piece of inert whatever, and you will not want to go back to a regular mouse. I have agreed with this for years, though I usually stuck with Logitech products.

I gave more than a bit of thought to the purchase of my Rat7, but I realized I'd spent almost as much on my Cyborg Steel Series Merc Stealth hybrid gaming keyboard. I play enough online FPS games to make them worth my while. They don't really give me a large competitive advantage. Afterward though, I can still feel my fingers, wrist and move them freely.

What about the medical profession, prescriptions exist for good reason, far more than just limiting supply to drug users.

The "good reason" was part of the AMA's campaign to eliminate competition during the early 1900's.

This long effort eliminated midwife home birthing in many states, prescriptions by pharmacists everywhere, and any other potential competition. Nothing like a monopoly to insure income.

Medicine in a business like any other and their lobbyists in the AMA delivered.

All under the guise of "professionalism" and think-of-the-lives-that-could-be-saved.

Control of all drugs through prescriptions was just part of the campaign. What became Big Pharma was one of their major allies.