I worked for a small upstart software company where they decided to mandate that everyone work half day Saturdays. Over time most of the best developers left, including myself. I honestly don't know how well they are doing now, I'm not sure why companies sometimes feel compelled to drive away anyone who has the skills to get a job elsewhere.

Obviously, this shows that their country wide cloaking device works very well.

Environmentalism is a byproduct of prosperity. If people were living at a sustenance level they would not care about the environment at all. There is a nearly direct coloration between prosperity and economic freedom. A more socialist type system (less economic freedom) will tend to lead to less prosperity which will eventually lead to less concern for environmental stewardship. A balance must be found as regulation is certainly needed to keep the BPs of the world under control, but sway to far the other direction and you end up with far worse.

If we factor the devastation of the gulf into every gallon of gasoline purchased from BP gas stations, it suddenly becomes worth driving down the street and even paying more to buy from someone else. Someone could also do some research to determine what refineries buy oil from BP and what gas stations get gas from those refineries. I'm envisioning a Google maps app to help distribute this info in a useful fashion. Granted most likely other oil companies are not being much more responsible than BP, but this could be an opportunity to effect the market and make safety and environmental stewardship more economically appealing to those in the industry.

In about 100 years the effects of global warming will start to become inconvenient for humans. During which time we will likely have made the technological innovations we need to solve this problem without giving up our way of life or stifling our progress and ability to make such innovations.

Where do you get 50,000 barrels a day? I have seen many estimates, those that are backed up by any credible facts/math range between 5000 and 30,000 barrels a day.

No matter what the EPA is able to achieve, China, India and others will continue to pump out greenhouse gasses like there's no tomorrow. Meanwhile back here in the US I won't be able to afford air conditioning because we will have eliminated all the cheap sources of electricity.

So a minor with a naked picture of another minor on their phone is a sex offender, but an adult in a position of power who forces a minor to strip is not.

I used PHP for the first couple years of my career and I honestly like the language. PHP has its place, and that is rapidly creating dynamic web sites and simple web apps. The company I worked for absolutely smoked the competition when it came to development time and therefore cost.

If your project is complicated enough that you are thinking about paying for a framework that can provide a clean separation of logic and presentation, it's time to move on to bigger and better things. A Java/Tomcat/Struts solution using Eclipse for development is free. A .NET solution is not free but still a good choice also.