If the area has a drought then priority for water should be given to human consumption and hygene usages.

If the area has a drought, water should be priced at market prices.

Industrial users will be more sensitive to price increases and will decrease use faster than people who just need a few gallons to take a bath.

And if the price goes up high enough, expensive water reclamation and desalination plants will become economically effective. Or people may start driving in trucks full of water. Free market FTW!

Yes, but not at the time needed... Power generation and power use need to match, unless you have massive storage.

Remove all tax subsidies then redo the math. It isn't nearly as pretty.

The best part about Slashdot for me was really the people who visited it. This site had one of the most intelligent communities around. This is how the site was successful IMO. Really good people massed together behind it. Finding and promoting articles was one thing but the commentary was where it really took off. Almost every time I viewed a story what I found more interesting was the story that developed below it. I really didn't know of another site where I could have attempted to follow a debate about nuclear fusion, and found a debate about Apple only a page apart. This was taken away as the best and brightest around here left when they were fed up with these beta changes, and Slashdot as a quality site died. The new site took away from the comments and the user driven atmosphere and plastered it with pictures and wasted space. This protest may have seemed futile at first to the bigwigs at the top here, but like I said the best part about this site was the comments. Therefore, if the only comments left were ones complaining about beta, it was going to be a very accurate view of the future of Slashdot from here onward when the beta continued.

Ftfy.

What I think is hilarious is that they can spend resources building the betabomination, but we still use markup from like 1991. Hey guys, there's better forum code out there, where you can even EDIT POSTS! /noveltyshock.

BETA SUCKS

I'll copy-paste a section from another of my comments in another thread and article that addresses this point.

http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

Strat

I was amazed because I thought this issue had been settled long ago as a free speech issue (warning others of a speed trap, etc) back in the 1970s when practically everyone who drove and many who never drove had CB radios, and "bear" warnings were standard road etiquette.

I remember it went through almost the same thing when officers actually entrapped a few CB'ers by getting on the radio and asking for a "bear report", and attempting to locate & arrest whoever responded. That shit didn't fly with folks of any political stripe back then.

Do we have to keep re-deciding every civil right for every single medium and situation? You have freedom of speech on foot, but we have to go through crap to decide that you also do when driving as well? WTF?

Sounds more like a way to attack civil rights by retrying and retrying the same rights and their principles under every situation possible until something sticks, and that can then be used to disassemble the rest of that right, and then on to others, rinse & repeat.

And now there are secret courts and secret rulings, mass domestic surveillance and data-mining, "Halt! Ihre papiere, bitte! Vhere are you goingk, vhere haf you been?" ICE/BP roadblock checkpoints 80 miles from a border, and nobody has 4A rights anymore? Again, WTF??

The US doesn't have a Left/Right, (R)/(D) problem as much as it simply has grave, ongoing, massive and broad civil rights violations being committed by the government against the entire population under both major political parties.

If the government can be reined-in and brought back under the people's control and end the massive corruption, then corporations and banks, etc would also be brought under control, once you have a government that will actually prosecute corporations/banks/financial institutions and their heads who violate the law, and without any favoritism.

I believe that two of the things that *must* be included in any proposed solution for it to have any credibility whatsoever are term limits for all in Congress to end "career politicians" and strict rules with criminal penalties for going from a government post/office/position into a private sector job/position for any entity over which/whom you had power/influence, in order to stop the revolving-door corruption in D.C.

"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason." - Mark Twain

Strat

Beta is just recognizing our value as cherished site readers, by giving us more of that delicious empty space, tasty thumbnail images, and comforting large-type fonts, for the consumer on the go who doesn't have time for focusing on tiny letters in today's busy world.

Fair enough... Just make sure that you're ok if they decide not to make the patches at all if they are unable to charge for them beyond a given point.

Do you want paid patches at 5 years, or no patches at all? Assuming those are your only two options of course...

Simple, Microsoft is by far the largest and most well known target. XP is by far the most used example of an old OS. 10 years from now, XP likely will still have more users than Linux does today.

And frankly, does Linux really support the old kernals for so long? Is what was released in 2001 still getting active support and monthly patches?

The requirement to support a car for 10 years is enshrined in law. Are you suggesting you'd do the same for computers? If so, fair enough, but keep in mind that it will raise the price a bit for all electronics, someone has to pay the cost of it and that is always the end customer.

It is also worth considering that something called the NTSB exists for cars, no such agency exists for computers, so it is one thing to say "you must support your computers for 10 years", it is another to actually make HP put out patches for 10 years. Maybe they say, "yea, we found and fixed all the problems, anything left is minor".

I said the same thing. I have no idea what drug the people were on when they considered redesigning nbcnews.com, but if ever there was a drug that needed to be outlawed, that is the one.

Who in their right mind could possibly think that making a web site look like Windows 8 was a good idea?