Will they play a recording, like: "Please wait there next to the mud hut. The next drone operator will be with you shortly."

If Google can build a self-driving car, why can't NorthropGrumman build an autonomous drone?

Actually this one gives even more information: http://www.dhmo.org/

Chemicals are dangerous. Especially DHMO. Thousands of people have DIED from it, but cities and towns keep pumping it out. Check out this site for more details: http://www.bandhmo.org/

We did solve the issue. It's called "Yucca Flats", and it's essentially complete. NIMBY politics killed it.

Banned monopoles?

Does that mean we're going to have more of those fake-tree cellular towers? I like the monopoles better.

Actually, a bus or public transit would be more like UPS. Both involve a central collection point and aggregation into a scheduled service. Car transit is more like a peer-to-peer service: on demand and point-to-point. Much faster than going UPS (or bus).

And there are millions of packets going by on the Internet. Just think, if every other packet were concatenated on the previous one, there would be half as many packets, and that would double the capacity of the routers.

Our model we've discussed at work is that PCs are for content creators and tablets are for content consumers.

Very few people program or develop complex spreadsheets on tablets. Those users typically use laptops or desktops (whether MacOS, Windows or Linux).

People on tablets review spreadsheets, read web pages and read/reply to email.

In my experience, very little content is created on tablets.

That may mean that 90% of the users will be fine with a tablet, but there will still be a place for the desktop/laptop. The downside for us content creators, if that happens, is the price will go up as we become a specialty market rather than a mass market.

I thought that's what xenu did according to Scientology...

The problem is: when WW II and the first part of the Cold War were going on, Hanford was underregulated. The goal was to beat the Soviets in the race to build bombs. They should never have put that waste in single-lined tanks with no plan to ever get it out. Now, the site is OVER regulated. The tanks are leaking, but no one will let them take it out of the tanks unless every part of the plan is 150% safe and they have a plan for storing the waste for ten million years. Meanwhile, the tanks are rusting and the waste is leaking. Why not do what we can to get the waste out and stabilized rather than awaiting perfection that will never come.

If I were going to die (or at least suffer harm) if I received my prescription drugs on Monday rather than Saturday, I'd have them sent FedEx Express or UPS Overnight. My experience is that even 1st class mail may be delayed a day or two (and I have no recourse).

If CO2 IS the issue then it's incumbent on EVERY producer, including China to cap and reduce emissions. All of the proposals I've seen put forward, including Kyoto and everything since, gives China and India a free pass to continue building coal plants, more automobiles and essentially outsourcing all the West's carbon-heavy production. I'm not saying the grass roots (you) aren't interested in reducing CO2 - just that all the proposals put forward ignore the physics that CO2 is a global problem, and needs a universal solution.

BS. If they were cheaper, industry would be doing them in a massive fashion.

Most of the Co2 crowd isn't really interested in reducing Co2 globally, or curing the problem. They're more interested in redistributing $trillions to the third-world and China. China has become the largest emitter of Co2 in the world. But most of the activists focus on the per-capita emission of the US and Western Europe. If China gets anywhere close to the West, it won't be AGW that bothers us - we will smother in Co2. China is building a coal-powered electric plant every week. The schemes for a carbon tax don't include China or India. Therefore, all the Western industry will move there and continue to export to the West. Then there's the transfer payments. The 1% won't see a difference if food and transportation (oil) go up 10x. The proposed transfer payments will take care of the very poor. China and India get a pass. The only ones cutting back are Americans and Europeans. No way.