Yeah, that was a typo in my submission. I should have said 2021, not 2024 given that the REDIT post was '4 years ago'. Sorry.

It's just a Pink Floyd quote. Calm your tits, man.

I mean, look at who is... Oh, nevermind.

Like so many other things, people slap a magnet on the back of their minivan to Raise Awareness, and then pretend they've done something. You being all alarmed or convinced or otherwise aware of the problem after seeing the movie, doesn't actually accomplish anything. DO SOMETHING. Plant a tree. Plant a thousand trees. Install solar panels. Change your light bulbs over to LED. Turn down the thermostat. Properly inflate your tires. Get a job closer to home. DO SOMETHING.

I've planted around 10,000 trees, and installed around 10KW of solar panels. The solar panels are on a 4-5 year schedule to pay back the money spent on them, after which it's pure profit. AND, all the CO2 emissions that have been avoided by having them producing energy. I changed jobs to reduce my drive by an hour a day. We even gave tree seedlings to our wedding reception guests. Maybe I don't have a magnet on the back of my car, but, to me, actually doing something about it is more important than "raising awareness".

Solar is a great way to do something, and, have a great investment. Where else can you put your money and get a ~5 year ROI?

Big Oil also told Norway that they wouldn't drill in the North Sea if Norway set their oil royalties where they are today.

If launching 5G networks works financially for the companies then they will do it.. With or without Net Neutrality laws.

From the sounds of things, if you "angrily hit the (F^@king) red 'x' to close the update window a second time, you'll be scheduling an upgrade.

It appears that Microsoft hasn't learned the 25 year old lesson that 'clicking on the close box means STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING -- RIGHT NOW!

Apparently, trump hired a rabid global warming denier as his energy adviser.; Supposedly, this guy is so anti-global warming that he believes that the earth is cooling and that claims that CO2 is a greenhouse gas are fraudulent.

I have no reports on whether or not this guy is also a flat-earther.

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

If you've got enough money, you can pressure the government into holding you harmless from any serious prosecution. It happened with the bankers on wall street after 2008, and it's happening with the Saudis after 9/11.

Rinse^w, money launder, repeat.

What makes Americans easier to recruit to ISIS is the fact that they have right wing yahoos who make a point of looking down their nose at the kid, calling him a terrorist and sometimes even spitting in his face, when all he's trying to do is live a decent life.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

So, it's like a teapot when it gets boiling?

Purple? Newb...it's red. No, green. Wait, I'll come in again.