If you are a decent web developers, you probably already treat user agent strings as deprecated/obsolete. Feature testing is almost always a better way to go and won't block users unnecessarily.

Personally, changing the user agent string to match chrome is one of the first changes I make in any Firefox installation. It's the only way to avoid getting less-functional pages from every Google property.

I agree 100%

Consumer awareness is the paramount issue here and as long as a consumer is asking for information, then it should be legally required. I have personally been struggling for years with the FDA with similar requirements. I have always been concerned that fruits and vegetables harvested during full moons is potentially more dangerous if consumed in excess.

I have yet to come up with conclusive evidence of how the lunar cycle affects produce harvests, but neither have the deniers decidedly refuted the theory. In fact, "scientists" whom I have asked about the theory have explicitly stated that my request to prove a negative condition is a logical impossibility. This only serves as evidence to me that we will never be able to be certain about our produce health.

The only reasonable conclusion is that it should be left up to informed consumers. If it is true that the lunar phase has no effect on the food, then food manufactures should have no reason to avoid this labeling proposal. Please join me in the fight and sign the petition.

Bathrooms are generally "locked" prior to take-off. But the "lock" is really not a security mechanism and anyone that has paid attention to the procedures when your flight hits 10,000 feet would know how to open them anyway. So, if you're stealthy enough, you could unlock the bathroom and duck in. It wouldn't be checked until somebody went to get in the bathroom after the flight hits 10,000 feet.

Not one that will be effected by the type of browsing behavior that one would typically have while wandering a store. We aren't talking about coffee shops here where you stop and hang out for a while.

Your attempt to put a false balance between the costs of these various technologies is more than a little bit of a reach. The windmill/bird death thing is pretty much a myth.

The materials used in solar panels are constantly changing with new technology. Any "strip mining" that occurs is because some of the materials are imported from China. There is no technical reason that this couldn't be done in a much more sustainable way, and there are new operations spinning up in California that plan on mining the materials locally.

If a dam blocks a river, then somebody built it wrong.

This is true, but the amount of coal energy production has been consistently declining and renewable energy production rising for a number of years. The fact of the matter is that electricity can be generated in numerous ways, using an electric car gives (at least in some sense) a choice of where the energy comes from and therefore leaves open the door to improvements. Fossil fuel cars will always be powered by fossil fuels.

Are you honestly suggesting that the people working for (and being paid by) the energy industry are the ones you can trust, and that the academics are the ones with an agenda?

They are totally fine since this is line of sight and they have permission to operate it over this private land.