"You propose to establish a social order based on the following tenets: that you're incompetent to run your own life, but competent to run the lives of others—that you're unfit to exist in freedom, but fit to become an omnipotent ruler—that you're unable to earn your living by use of your own intelligence, but able to judge politicians and vote them into jobs of total power over arts you have never seen, over sciences you have never studied, over achievements of which you have no knowledge, over the gigantic industries where you, by your own definition of capacity, would be unable successfully to fill the job of assistant greaser."

Every tax eventually gets passed on to the people. There is no such thing as a free lunch. No matter how you structure it, a tax gets paid by us eventually. A Universal Basic Income has been tried many times under many names and ALWAYS fails because it takes wealth from productive work and redistributes it as a reward to non-productive non-work. It is a reverse incentive that sets up a spiraling destructive feedback loop. If you want an UBI, move to Venezuela, Cuba, or North Korea and they will set you right up. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus are alive and well 2000 years later I see.

Gary Sinese and Kelsey Grammar too

Actually, Ayn Rand hated EVERYTHING that wasn't Ayn Rand (and I am not even sure that she didn't actually hate herself too). That said, she did paint a pretty accurate indictment of coerced collectivism. But her proposed cure was quite flaky.

...as long as the scientists signing also acknowledge that the 1992 predictions and forecasts as to the impact of global warming (it's name at the time) by 2017 were, how shall we say, WILDLY erroneous. Or maybe I am writing this in an underwater home in a world with no polar ice caps and just don't realize it.

Yes, crawl back to your cruel masters and return to slavery. You had a chance to be free but chose servitude instead. So in the future, don't dare complain about M$FT products or services. You CHOSE your fate. Enjoy your expensive BSOD.

Are you pondering what I'm pondering?

Invest in the next mining boom while there is still time. Stake that claim early pardner!!!!

Please. Any news?????

Ooooh Climate Change/Carbon pollution fight! Pass the popcorn!!!! Because we all know just how many minds will be changed in the next few hours, right? :)

Electric cars only increase carbon pollution as long as the electricity is generated by fossil fuels, just saying.