There are plenty of places to put solar panels that don't cover farm fields or forests. Floating panels on reservoirs and aqueducts generates power and help reduce evaporation. Putting them over parking lots lets people park in the shade. There are designs to put them in highway medians too, and of course there are residential and commercial roofs.

I've found just the opposite to be the case. I've run NVIDIA for years and had almost no driver issues, either on Windows or Linux. But my teenaged son had an AMD card for a while and had nothing but problems with the Windows driver in both compatibility and stability. We finally gave up and switched him to NVIDIA and traded in the AMD card. I would LOVE to support AMD and switch to their cards, but the driver issues keep me from pulling that trigger.

A sovereign "debt" fund.

If you are affiliated with almost any college in Ohio, you have free access to OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center, (journals.ohiolink.edu) with has every article from 11,000 journals going back several decades. I designed the system and the 100 TB full-text searchable database.

There are a lot of creative solar locations being developed like over aqueducts which reduces evaporation and takes no extra land. Over parking lots, produces shade for parked cars and uses no extra land. Even floating on parts of reservoirs which again reduces evaporation. So its not always a matter of wasting farm land. -- BP

I don't think anyone is claiming it will be the "end of the world". Life on Earth will surely survive. I don't think anyone thinks that AGW will turn our plant into Mars. The big question is, will human civilization survive?

We have used it a lot for camping, when you need to know, "how much time do I have to get this tent set up?" I have found that the "AccuWeather" app for Android is pretty good at giving the "Rain in X minutes" results too though.

Just remember that in 2020 adjusted dollars the Apollo command module cost was about $80 billion. The Space Shuttle orbiter cost was around $27 billion. The Orion program is expected to cost about $12-13 billion after its all said and done. So, while I completely agree that cost-plus is a crazy way to award contracts, and Lockeed is being incompetent on this project, to say that they are raking in truck-loads of amounts of money is a little hyperbolic. Space is expensive. The fact that SpaceX managed to develop Crew Dragon for $2 billion is nothing short of miraculous.

I won't argue with your other rants, but I know several people who have worked for Oracle for years and they are all very happy and loyal to the company. So it can't be all THAT bad to work for.

Welcome to the 100-Gb/s club California...

OARnet in Ohio has had this for a while now...

I can't speak for all perl sites, but I have a extensive perl-based set of web applications running well over 100,000 lines of perl code. It has a clustered Oracle back-end and is administered under a high level of scrutiny and has never had a security breach in 10 years. It's really easy to write horrible perl code, but well written perl code can be very secure.

In all three of your "examples", you twist the meaning and the tone of Obama's statements to further your own anti-Obama agenda.

> Bump in the Road

His statement was not directly about the embassy murders, but about the violence in general in the Mid-East recently.

> Not Optimal

He was being sarcastic, using Jon Stewart's words back at him in a very sarcastic tone. A transcript of that conversation would be very misleading because Obama's tone is obvious when you listen to it.

> UN Speech

Obama never even mentions the embassy murders in this video! He was only talking about the uprisings over the film and how censorship is bad and does not say word one about the embassy murders.

"Sound may not travel through space, but a supersonic-propagaing sphere of compressed gas from high explosive warheads do."

The term "supersonic" has no meaning in space. You can't go faster than sound in a vacuum...

Yeah, he was so bad that he tried to institute a freeze in the amount of oil the country uses and a push for alternate energy sources in the 1970's. If your buddy Reagan hadn't rolled the whole thing back, we would now be completely free of Mid-East oil and would probably not be in two (three?) wars and paying for the lifestyles of the Saudi kings right now... ... and don't get me started on that ridiculous Egypt/Israeli peace treaty that has held for over 30 years, and probably helped lead to the current democracy movement in Egypt...

The European counties properly tax gasoline to pay for the subsidies that it requires. Subsidies that the US "hides" in the general budget. Things like the billions expended in military expenses to secure access to oil and the billions spent cleaning up the environmental damage (spills, polution, etc) of oil-based fuels, the billions in health care costs associated with breathing the crap that comes out of exhaust pipes. I could go on...