Norbert Schorghofer is an absolutely epic name, I hope we can all agree on this.

> It's possible to help create something and yet hate nature the creation.

Sure, but people who hate their creation tends to not claim credit for it.

For that matter, I find that people who can create don't tend to get hung-up on their old creations, be they good or bad - they're just busy creating new things. On the other hand, if someone can't create, and they were lucky to be involved in the creation of something big but lost control - they can spend a lifetime being bitter.

According to his wikipedia page, he was laid off and left Wikipedia one year after its creation in 2002, and since then, he's been either working on a competing project or attacking Wikipedia, or both. Yet he seems to refer to himself as "Wikipedia co-founder" in his book.

> When I tried turning it on later, it never booted up again.

I had one of these in the mid-to-late 90s - I forgot how much I paid for it - and as I recall you needed to run a command to park the HD heads before shutting down, especially if you were going to move it... and the 10meg drive was a Seagate, notorious for "stiction" in those days - sometimes you'd have to twist the whole unit abruptly to un-stick the platters (risky at best!) to get it going.

Cool machines for their time, certainly, but hard as @#*$%& to pack up for shipping when you finally sell it on eBay...

There seem to be a few assumptions built into to your argument:
1. There is only a marginal net reduction is NO2 from EVs + fossil fuel power plants compared to ICE cars.
2. All (or almost all?) power plants in California are fossil fuel power plants.
3. Fossil fuel power plants are located in heavily residential areas, so there are no gains to be made from shifting NO2 from residential cars to power plants.
4. You are more informed than these researchers.
5. The researchers are green-washing, acting in bad faith or otherwise biased.

Even if we leave aside your claims 1, 4 and 5, I can't see how 2 and 3 could be true in general. Claim 2 is especially easy to disprove, given that the study was done in California, which has significant renewable energy in the electricity grid.
https://www.theguardian.com/us...

"...which is looking less likely: https://wmo.int/news/media-cen..."

The last few sentences from the article you quoted:
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"What we should take from this is the reef – the world’s largest living structure – is currently still able to recover from repeated shocks. But these shocks are getting worse and arriving more often, and future recovery is not guaranteed.

This is the rollercoaster ride the reef faces at just 1.1C of warming. The pattern of disturbance and recovery is shifting – and not in the Reef’s favour."
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Even the Paris Agreement was for 1.5C and below 2C, which is looking

"Instead, it would make up fictional yet plausible-sounding explanations."

This is a perfect description of 'Reason', the initial product of WayForward Technologies. Douglas Adams had this nailed back in the 80s!

Read your Dirk Gently, people.

It was 1983, and I was shocked when Mom said not only could I get a computer, but we had the money for some extras - ended up with a Pocket Computer 1 (https://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/trs-80-computer-line/pocket-pc-1/) WITH printer, and even a small cassette player. I kept it until a few years ago when I sent it to a podcaster guy who was collecting them. Even into the late 2000s it would still turn on and show a program dated 1986!

Later I found a Timex-Sinclair 1000 on closeout for $20, which meant a great leap into TV-based computing. Then, of course, the Commodore 64, followed by Amigas, until they were no longer usable, by which time I was working in IT and had built a Windows box out of spare parts.

On the plus side, Matt Frewer is ALWAYS fun to watch. So long as he's in it (shut up about Lawnmower Man 2) I'll be glad to watch (shut up about Lawnmower Man 2) because brilliant old Matt Frewer ALWAYS makes things worth (fuck Lawnmower Man 2)...

(but I like everything else he's done, from Meaning of Life to Perry Mason)

They will probably screw it up. But then, they can't remake the original, the whole world has changed - poking fun at corporatism, dangerous marketing, compromised journalism and sleazy politicians in pockets is now mainstream, almost the default. So they'll have to come up with some new angles, while keeping Max's essential irreverence.

Rick and Morty have been trying to do much the same thing, and struggling at it ever since season 3. Simpsons too, and many others.

The best we can hope for is some brilliant ideas for the first season or so, then a mercifully quick ending. And please don't focus too much on the CGI - groundbreaking visuals were a legit part of the show's appeal back in the day, but are now cheap and ubiquitous.

> but they gained enormous lobbying power in the US, having diligently obeyed orders like good corporate lapdogs.
> I'm sure they'll come out on the winning side

Hmm.... are you sure? I heard on the internet that dogs are always on the wrong side :D

Could you please share links to your info sources?

I am not knowledgeable about the issue of oil drilling in the US. From a quick read, it seems that you're right in that Obama did approve old drilling in 2015, but he then seems to have reversed that decision and mostly banned oil drilling in 2016.

This seems like the baby duck syndrome for UIs. Users 'imprint' in the first system they learn and then compare it with each new UI and reacts negatively if there are significant changes.

Technologies change, use cases change, standards change, so UIs must also change or be left behind.

I too find it annoying when the Firefox UI changes and I have to relearn my most used application by far. I have been using Firefox over many devices for a very long time and I would like to continue to depend on it into the future, so I will bear with UI changes. On occasion, I might even like the change - like when the address bar was moved to the bottom in FF mobile.