Nope! Just plain and simple "nope !"
There is not enough water in the oceans to provide us with "clean" water... And I'm not even talking of desalinization here ( which by the way costs a FORTUNE! )

I'm talking about all the micro-plastics which are polluting the seawater and which we simply don't KNOW ( yet? ) how to clean the water from...
The same micro-plastics which can be found in most of the fish fished ( ?!? ) in the same seas (remember the 5 continents of plastic? ).
Can we also talk about all the chemicals we can find in the water at the moment? And I'm not talking pesticides here. But medicines, hormones, poisons, etc.
Some we can "clean" the water from, to an extent. Others, we simply can't, we don't have the technology.

So... YES we can survive without energy. WE will lose our ciivilization as we know it but we can survive it! We CAN'T survive without drinkable water.

So please, ride your energy Pokemon Unicorn wave and drink your "hyped" cleaned water ++ :-)

Why India? Simply look at Spain...
They pushed agrofarming to such an extent capitalizing on the sun they had and forgot the need of water. They developped farming in the south of Spain, dried up their wells and their groundwater table in an already dry land, then they diverted part of one of their largest river in order to provide fresh drinkable water for their fields (not the people, mind you! The people can buy bottled water, please! ) which provoked serious droughts and water shortages all along the path of the river and... guess what? Is drying up the same diverted river!
You'd think that they would understand and adapt their policiy to that when looking at the danger of drought right in the eyes.

Well... Not so much! You see, they need to grow the vegetables and fruits quicker, and use the natural ressource of the sun... So... they just continue pumping!

And that is known since early 2010 ( https://www.euractiv.com/secti... ). People don't have enough drinkable water, they need to pay orrendous water bills, buy their own bottled water (and in thge process put money in the big agro-industry companies) and... the agroindustry just goes on pumping the water for free...

You know what? We totally deserve what is coming at us! :-)

Could you please explain to me what you mean by "real money"?

Asking as... the paper with numbers on it you h ave in your wallet is not "real money" as it's value is decided and dependant on what we decide to give to it on a daily basis.

If it's the numbers you can see when you check your bank account, then that is even less "real" as it's totally virtual.

So, please, explain to me what you mean by "real money"... Thank you ^o^

What on earth are you talking about??? o_O

Since the Galaxy 5 all the new Samsung phones have the wireless charging mode available. (More than 110 phones with that option listed on Samsung US website).
At least you still have the possibility of plugging some ear buds in the phone.

The one (and only) point I agree with you is about the SD card slot.

Not even so...

It's just a blog post written by a lady who doesn't understand a thing about how things work in France (I've read the original post from this person).

Here is a link from "le Monde", another French newspaper, debunking this crazy idea: http://www.lemonde.fr/les-deco...

I'm simply amazed by the amount of people actually "believing" or giving credit to this. Just one question though: HOW ON EARTH would they actually enforce this so-called "law"?
It would seem that what is said of the "majority" of US citizens is actually true... How sad to have have such a shining proof.

Well... Maybe a good way to reach that goal - enticing women to be interested in Open Source - would be to STOP this kind of sexist, stupid and openly misogynistic comments ?

These problem in not "getting women into Open Source", it's "getting women into Computer Sciences where they will safe enough against stupid, sexist comments".

It's really a shame to still see this kind of attitude, but it would seem that some men don't see any other way to fell safe about their manhood that making stupid jokes/comments/remarks.
Of course, not all "males" in CS are like that - luckily enough - but there are still too much of them. Some would have thought that they would be like dinosaurs: extinct. But it would seem they are more like viruses: only the worst survive.

This coming from a woman who is into Computer Science AND Open Source and who had to suffer (and still has to...) from this kind of "superior male behavior"...

So, if I understand you well : "It's ok to spy on other countries, to do some economic spying and pass the information on american companies so that they can get contracts even though their products are a danger on the public (i.e. Boeing, Petroleum and Nuclear consortiums), but it is not ok to spy on our dear fellow american citizen" ?
Did I rephrase you right ?

What a joke!
Then the US and US citizen are no better than China and the Chinese citizen aka known the Puppeteer and the Puppets. Except that in the US it's a never ending Muppet Show...

You MUST be kidding... As Commerce is sooooo American ( you know stuff like Capitalism and so on...), you mean that it's "unamerican" to worry what your customers may think of your ways of dealing with commerce?

So it's ok for American to spy on other countries, companies and individuals whether on american soil and abroad, even more ok to do so for economic reasons, but it's "unamerican" to worry about the consequences of that same spying on commerce?

Sure... Right...

Just one question: What did they do with the water used to cool down the reactor exposed to the sky? How did they treat/recycle/decontaminate/clean it?

And then talk to me about "safety systems" and "success story".

Plus right now it happens to the people and to the workers of Fukushima exactly what happened to the people of Nagasaki and Hiroshima : they are treated as outcasts. And that is a fact.

SO talk to me again about "success story"...

It depends of the radiation dose you take on a daily basis... And the workers are submitted daily at a 5 years dose, when not worse.

That is NOT true !!

Even worse, they continue to plant their gardens and eat what they produce. They eat what they fish from within the 20 km sea area around Fukushima, and it has been proven that the fish and crustaceans living there have a very high radiation rate.

Plus the high alert of milk radiation contamination that happened within the 100 km around Fukushima and the panic that ensued in all of Japan after that. Do you mean to tell me that suddenly the cows stopped producing milk and that within one week the japanese government managed to import the amount of milk needed for 10 prefectures without any recorded importation from any other country?

That's a fallacy...

Just wanted to add an information:
40% of the 100,000 kids under scrutiny living around Fukushima have diagnosed thyroid problems and that appeared AFTER Fukushima.
So excuse me but 40% is not an anodine number...

It is really hard to believe that a scientific committee will publish such a report when:
- the WHO (World Health Organization) published last February an official report proving the contrary ( Health risk assessment from the nuclear accident after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami based on a preliminary dose estimation. 28/02/2013.)
- 12 Fukushima workers (grunts) are already officially diagnosed with thyroid cancer and 15 others are considered "under suspicion of thyroid cancer" and are under medical watch.
- the sheer number of kids living in the surrounding within the 40km perimeter around Fukushima and whose thyroid problems are already officially diagnosed (after Fukushima) and are under medical scrutiny.

Even though the japanese governement doctors tend to say that the cases of Thyroid Cancer are unrelated with the fact that they are working at Fukushima, because they appeared "too quickly", maybe they should also consider the fact that they are constantly exposing themselves to radiation dosage much higher than what is legally authorized and that is also a proven fact.
Plus the sole number of 12 proven cases of Thyroid Cancer + 15 cases under scrutiny in the same work environment is a very high percentage (euphemism).

So, really, who are they kidding?

As we say in french : Ils marchent sur la tête ! (trans. : they act foolishly!)
It reminds me when the french government said that the Tchernobyl radiation cloud stopped at the french border and never crossed the country. Just as stupid and foolish!

This makes me wonder if you've even really read "Songmaster"... The 2 characters who are gay (Ansset, the Songbird, and Josif) and love each other in the story end up for one, Ansset, being unable of having any sexual proximity with any human being, be it male or female, because of an unbearable induced pain - which almost killed him at his first love-making attempt with his first male lover - as a secondary unforetold effectof a drug he took to become a Songbird and for the other one,Josif, to end up in a vegetative state because of what he thought he did himself to is lover (guilt) and what has been done to him (physical torture) as punishment for what they (imperial secret police) think he did to Ansset. Moreover, when you read the book, you discover that Josif, ever since has outed himself as being gay, was subjected to contempt from the majority, was gossiped about, professionally ostracized and has been the subject of manipulation from his previous lover, who namely said he did so only to use him to his own agenda. So, please explain to me where you see in this story strong and/or heroic gay characters? This space-opera is beautiful, but it is a tragedy if you look at it from the "Love" point of view. From the beginning to the end the main themes are : solitude, pain, self-sacrifice and legacy. And don't get me started on "Homecoming"... So many things to say about it...