Seriously, why all this conversation about remotes, smart apps, connectivity... all you need to a Logitech universal, the Harmony model comes is various 'flavors'. All my content runs via my Pioneer receiver for video and audio with a single HDMI out to my plasma (Samsung, not so smart). I can control, via quite a bit of laptop setup frankly, my iPod, Wii, XBOX, satellite TV box, DVD multi-disk, BD player (which is smart but oh so slow), CD changer, tuner, Laser Disc (I know, old school) and if I cared to go get it out of the upstairs closet, an honest to god direct drive turntable. I also have a Chrome cast dongle plugged in but my only complaint is I have not (yet) added an audio out from the TV back to the receiver so I can hear decent cast content on my much better than the TV speakers. So as much as I may like raspberries, I prefer to video switch via my high end receiver and use a universal remote that has really worked pretty well for several years. And yeah, been looking at Costco for a newer, less power hungry TV. And now I know to avoid Samsung, thanks to /.

You forgot: "Signed RICHARD M. NIXON Including the majestik møøse"

Oh man, as they say in 'net parlance, I really did LOL at that comment! Never liked butterscotch pudding but now I can't stop thinking about it. Hosting my own "America, fuck yeah" party this weekend with a screening of the uncut Team America... all the raunch and none of the edits. Woohoo!

No, no, no, you missed the lead in.

"What do you get when you cross a computer with a nun? A system that won't go down on you."

Well said. The question is this, IMO:

a) If warming/climate change is a myth *and* we do something about it, what is the cost? As stated above, economic impact. We pay more for solar, alternate fuels or vehicles, etc.

b) If warming/climate change is NOT a myth and we do *nothing* about it, what is the cost? Well, we all get permanent sunburns and move inland.

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Well said.

I believe these are the questions we need to ask:

If "global warming" is a myth and we do something about it, what do we have to lose? Cash. Economic hardship via higher prices at the pump, when buying a house, etc. If "climate change" is not a myth and we do nothing, what do we have to lose? The planet, our ability to survive here in far more inhospitable conditions. Let me think... which one would I choose?

Wow, way to go Mr. Stumbles. Deflect from the primary posted issue. How long have you been strategizing for Fox News again? Or was it the Koch Brothers?

Oh man...good one.

You should probably slog through this novel too - Flood, by Stephen Baxter, for a glimpse of at least one future.

There are plenty of SciFi ideas that might help but even some relatively mundane ones as well. Change the Earth's albedo and we can lower temps, however there are some drawbacks like potentially less rain.

Strangely enough I both agree and disagree, on different grounds. First, if someone murdered one of my family members, I would personally want revenge. It might get *me* the death penalty, but I would want the criminal to pay. But my own feelings are not the same as what society may want or need. All I can think of, and feel free to ridicule, is that if we *ever* hope to have world peace (or whirled peas) then we need to stop killing our fellow citizens. We will never advance as a culture if we keep up the cycle of killing. The continuation of the death penalty makes us so much like the countries listed above that still have the death penalty, whom all share a couple of things in common: they are most all considered repressive regimes AND they kill each other in the name of justice.

And for those who are more pragmatic about the costs, putting aside the moral issues altogether, if you truly want to save some cash, stop killing prisoners.
"Each death penalty case in Texas costs taxpayers about $2.3 million. That is about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years. ("Executions Cost Texas Millions," Dallas Morning News, March 8, 1992)."

Yes, I do feel somewhat out of place here in Texas, even though a native. Will we still have heinous crimes committed by murderous crazies? Probably for awhile, until we get that darn universal health care implemented, including mental health coverage. But until then, I just don't see how we can ever hope to have the kind of cooperative, collaborative civilization I read about as a teenager (and still once in awhile as an adult) in Science Fiction.