Came here for the clippy joke, was not disappointed.

Yes, fanatics of all stripes are problematic. It's really not unique to cannabis.

Salamanders are amphibians, not reptiles.

(cf. Skitt's Law)

Real account is ArchieBunker, not ArchieBumker. This motherfucker is OMBad, who thinks it is the height of cleverness to impersonate other Slashdot users.

1) "They make money selling new stuff, but not new stuff that is to replace old, broke stuff, just new stuff! And so they are doing repairs for their reputation." This is fucking nonsensical, can you even explain it yourself?

2) Wait, I thought Apple made it's money selling shiny new stuff? So why would they care if people repair things with a third party? Oh, they want to sell you more new stuff while they inconvenience you by requiring you to go to one of their stores. And this point is posited as a benign thing?

3) Come on. You can't possibly buy this. Every other laptop company can make thin, lightweight laptops where you can replace a battery in five minutes. The idea that you have to design in such a repair unfriendly way in order to make things lightweight is just fucking dumb.

Only an Apple fanboy could have come up with an argument that dumb, and only an Apple fanboy would think it's a good argument.

Can you get that tongue any further up Apple's asshole? I think you missed a spot.

I'm sorry but that brain damaged benzo addict and his grifter daughter only prove that following the bible leads to misery.

Oh don't worry, there's no way a brain-eating amoeba could possibly hurt you.

Nah man, you set up a custom modifier. For the rest of us, funny is +1.

I vaguely remember a short sci fi story where most food production is done in orbit, but they put a carbonaceous asteroid into orbit and used some sort of alien factory to directly convert inorganic materials into food.

With the right technology, food production in orbit would certainly be possible. But you do realize, every pound of food that comes down from orbit must be replaced by a pound of something going to orbit, right? You can't create matter from nothing.

The only technology that makes that feasible is an orbital elevator. With that, every pound of food going down acts as a counterweight for a pound of water, oxygen and fertilizer coming up. Orbital elevators necessarily run up to geosynchronous orbit (how else would they stay in the same position over their base station?) and that far out, there is a LOT of room. Even considering that the only viable orbit is equatorial. Given that sunlight is so much more intense in orbit, you could grow a lot more food in less area. Like, enough food for trillions of people.

One way to do that would be to take metallic asteroids, drill out the core, fill it with water, plug up the ends and use big mirrors to heat the thing up. Once the metal turns plastic from heat and the water turns to steam, the whole thing inflates like a balloon. Spin it up, put some mirrors on the ends and light tube in the middle to distribute the light, and you've got a nice amount of space to grow food.

And yeah, it would help reduce insolation of the earth and lower the temperature. Plus you could do solar power generation and send the excess power down the elevator cables. Heck, you could easily move all industry off Earth at that point and turn the Earth into a beautiful garden. I'd bet the wealthy would stay groundside, and billions of poor people would move into orbitals.

That was my first thought as well. But my second thought was "But those places don't have microgravity."

This is a research initiative, it is not a production farm! And the end goal is sustainable agriculture in space, to support an orbital population without having to ship all food from Earth.

Surely you did not think this was some sort of orbital farm designed to deliver food to Earth? That just doesn't pass the logical sniff test. If something sounds completely ridiculous, but people have invested money in it, there are two possible explanations. People might be getting conned somehow. But the far more likely explanation is, you simply do not understand the concept.

But you're a liar, and admitted as much in your own post. You said California's laws mandate hiring PoC over more meritorious candidates, but then say the law was struck down. And the link you post is not about jobs, it is about board members. Those are almost always unpaid positions. The law does not say you have to repalce white men with women and people of color. You can simply add a new seat on the board for those positions.

Note that this law only applies to boards of publicly traded companies based in California. So even if the law was not struck down as you claim it was, it does not do what you claim it does. Why do you lie and then post links that prove you are a liar? Is your dumb brain being fucked by stupid?

You know exactly who I mean, people in the top .1% of wealth. Don't play stupid.

No. The blame lies with the elites, as it always does. The poor working class just trying to scrape by as the 1% steals more and more of their money and manipulates them with billions dollars of advertising and propaganda are not the ones to blame. It's the ones with power, as it always is.

And, as always, there will be cowardly lickspittle toady motherfuckers defending those rich assholes.

Show me any new technology that will increase engine efficiency more than 1 or 2%. You can't, because it doesn't exist. Most automakers have plans to phase out ICEs, whether you like it or not.

The increases in battery life, efficiency, and decreases in cost for EVs are well known, and quite remarkable. And we are only getting started with this technology.

I don't vote based on cliques, or what letter someone has after their name. I vote based on who will push for the policies I prefer.

Given that red states have such piss poor child mortality rates, I wouldn't think simply banning abortions is going to help you guys.

This isn't geographical, or at least not by state. This is about productive and multicultural cities versus unproductive, poorly educated rural areas. Right now, those rural areas have MORE of a say than they should, thanks to the way the electoral college works. Conservativism is deeply unpopular with American voters, and without dirty tricks, its days as a major driving force of politics are numbered.

I mean, unless you guys pull of the coup you so obviously desire. But that requires more than you are capable of.