Oh good, so they're following a *different* management-diagram-fresh-from-Terry Gilliam's-"Brazil" then?

If it were a research project that we could eventually develop into a working technology, that would be perfectly legit in my mind. But that isn't apparently good enough: A.) The powers that be don't want to *test* something, they want to *deploy* something and *maybe* then test it. And B.) when they do very…

*Clearly it works...*

Decarbonization is tough. Ever try getting the baked-on residue out of the tiny spaces in a waffle iron? Freakin' arduous. Glad to know somebody's working on the problem.

Sweatpants. Crocs. Fat people on Rascal scooters. Daytona Beach. Adam Sandler. Autotune. First-person shooters. The Alternative Minimum Tax. Antonin Scalia.

"I don't need to read it, I read it every day" . . . trying to put together in my mind and it's just not gellin' . . .

Probably better if you read the article.

*If it wasn't possible we would already have abandoned it.*

The ones from Eastasia, I assume?

Okay then: We've spent billions. So why hasn't the problem been solved?

Oh and obligatorily, this image.

I've never understood why missile defense is such a 'culture war' issue. As in, it gets treated like belief in Jesus or whether or not one does or does not wear a tiny American flag pin.

Once we permanently unemploy all of the damp social engineers that constitute your average 'Campus Life' department, your average student will be getting a pretty big refund. Shouldn't really be an issue.

Ban dorms. Dorms are shit. On-campus living is shit too. Eliminate it all.

[joke about sudo here]

Obligatory mention of this highly underrated entry that managed sword-mechanics pretty elegantly.

This kind of sidescrolling, 8-bit graphic, bargain-budget game excites me in a way that none of these silly 10 button-controller/ultra 'realistic' graphic/half-billion-dollar 'AAA' games can.

Maybe. I don't know. 'Bunker fuel', the ultra-low-grade diesel used by most commercial ships might not have a lot of value, but I suspect it is in fact siphoned except for perhaps a few buckets of residue at the very bottom of the tank. Other chemicals, I admit I don't know.

No, but they're not though: It is *not* the case that we're just shipping this stuff to China where it sits in a big pile and then the U.S. company lies and says they 'recycled' it. It really IS broken down for parts and materials once in China (or India or Bangladesh or Vietnam or wherever).

No need for the quotation-marks: That stuff really is recycled. There's money to be made doing so. That's the message of that book: That almost any 'garbage' has economic value to someone. It's just as I say, though: The facilities and/or personnel to actually do it are now located elsewhere.