3) Break local laws and flee home before they arrest you

MS agreed to purchase X amount of electricity and pay a penalty if they don't. It's no different than an ETF on a cell contract, or any other ordinary contractual agreement.

Nothing to see here, except MS negotiated badly.

You obviously don't like the Great Firewall, and presumably don't support China's totalitarian government. So, don't support China's economy and government by visiting China.

The internet is a part of life now, and large data centers are part of the modern world. They use energy. That is not a problem. Like everything else, it would be good to develop more energy-efficient servers, but it's not the end of the world, or a 'dirty little secret'.

This seems to be just another case of someone who doesn't want real work being done in the U.S. First they chase out all the factories, because they're too 'icky' and low-class, now guys like this want to eliminate all the data centers, and live in a world where all industrial facilities are off-shore in the third-world, and someone else's problem.

Tabasco, and nothing but Tabasco. No RedHot bullshit.

This was the plot of a very good book I read.

Probably violates wiretapping laws.

I just read through the patent and I can't make head or tail of what exactly is being patented. The best I can tell is some sort of system that has multiple identities that it shows to different people depending on your relationship.

And if it's difficult to tell what is being patented should it really be patented?

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"(Note: I have enough money to defend thus suit all the way through trial without it being a severe financial hardship, so please do not give if it is a hardship for you. But, if you would like to make a contribution to help with the cause because you want to help stop people like this, then it will surely be appreciated!)"

Form follows function. You build your visual and aesthetic design around the functionality you want, and work from there, not the other way around. That's pretty much the first rule of designing anything. Form follows function.

I made that joke too, no one noticed ):

Tough kid, but it's life.

What 4Ghz barrier? I have an Intel i7 3700k at 4.6Ghz, and before that I had a Bulldozer at 4.5Ghz(which I promptly returned due to it's horribleness.)

"Correlation is Not Causation"

You're not going to wind up smoking four times a week without some bad shit going on in your life. It's perfectly possible to be a healthy person and smoke roughly once or twice a week, but once you get much more than that, common sense will tell you other things are going on. Perhaps depression? Maybe personal issues that weed provides an escape from?

This study isn't that meaningful. Socioeconomic background needs to be discussed, as does home environment, and other areas of mental and physical health.

Saying that smoking weed four times or more a week is correlated with a drop in IQ is meaningless, because we don't know the concept. I will say that from my personal anecdotal evidence, when people smoke that much, there is something else going on.

Or, here's a possibility. You're a pissed off kid. Your crazy parents are making you take an IQ test. The type of guy who smokes a lot of weed is also the type to fill out random bubbles and generally not give a fuck about an IQ test.

This needs to be studied with well-funded, open-minded research.