Nope, not mellowed. Just as focused and evangelical on privcay. Just the public eye has moved on a bit.

Zimmermann's one of those hyper-idealists who will defend his position to his own detriment and the detriment of anyone close to him. If you have to trust someone for privacy, its him.

Considering Zimmermann's track record of not including backdoors and that he was investigated for several years much to his personal detriment for several years in the 90s for his release of PGP I think this particular protocol is pretty safe. Lastly and business case is based 100% on total security. If ever it leaked that there's any kind of backdoor it would all be for naught. I highly doubt the core team (there are 4 of them, including Zimmermann, 2 ex seals, and Callas) would risk their reputations on including a backdoor. In addition any real backdoors would flag an interference.

Just located this article, starts sounds more and more like fraud to me

Upcoding

Doesn't sound like electronic records is the problem. Fraud seems to be the problem.

Oh I'm not so sure. I was smiling when I saw that nutcase lost most of his seats.

No... busdrivers are the busculture.

I'm not sure that means what you think it means.

There is not great public support for this. Outside of that podunk village there's plenty of people, me included, who would go tell the authorities to go fuck themselves. Slippery slope this is. Destroy data? yeah right. They've also said, only after the case has been solved. What if its not solved? And is data ever really destroyed?

On the radio and in the media they're just not playing the sound bites of people who refuse, they're only playing clips of people who say "what's the big deal if you have nothing to hide". The old line secret police everywhere like to use.

I for one will tell the justice department to shove it if they ask me for this.

Were you using vendors wholly staffed by construction workers?!

Not different problems since they all contribute to the same effect that we're trying to prevent. The problem being externalized costs not being accounted for as mentioned earlier in the thread. Where they differ is in the engineering, or more specifical in the end use of the resulting energy (being conversion into motion, or into electricity [let's ignore electric engines for a moment]. Also, they can both be addressed by regulating the fuel input, whether that's coal or gasoline, heavy fuel oil, or jet fuel.

*regulating and taxing

That's right. Its the same problem that we're all facing in the airline industry: China, Russia and US oppose European airline CO2 tax.

I'd say tackle the problems in power generation, airlines, passenger cars, land and sea-freight and you've tackled pretty much the whole problem. This can be accomplished by regulating and the input (fuel). Of course the income made from these taxes should go to actually solving the problem then instead of random pet projects from politicians. Regardless, none of this solves India's current problem.

This argument also counts for developed countries in a lot of cases as well:

Power is a commodity. This makes the cheapest provider of it the winner. Current technologies are such that coal is still (often by far) the cheapest source of power. In addition it is one of the few base-load options out there (others being biofuel, nuclear, hydoelectric). With these two features of coal, wind is often times too expensive an option for a country such as India and with an aging grid, the power fluctuations from other sources like wind and solar will often overwhelm the infrastructure.

Technology adoption is rarely the only barrier to a solution. Cost plays a major role and when you're subsistence-living you don't give a shit about whether coal will pollute your environment because you're more worried about where your next meal will come from.

Some will also argue that local power like wind requires less infrastructure. This isn't entirely true. You still need to run the wires from the local power station to the residences. You can save on long-distance transmission lines but considering you need those anyways for the base-load... that's a bit of a non argument.

In general, solar, wind etc are first world solutions where we have the option of paying a bit more to make up for the difference in costs involved in producing the cleaner and more local power and even then... these projects have a pretty high fail rate (Solar fields in Spain, Wind farms in Hawai'i).

Drivers behind spending under presidents and congresses

Taxation and spending clause

Dems not to blame