There aren't that many sites or there aren't ALLOWED to be that many sites? It's the latter, and that's the whole point. If they'd have gotten out of the way and built them 30 years ago, then there would be plenty of water in storage to carry the state through the drought. As it is, CA is screwed because they don't…

Should humans stop trying at all? No one said that. To frame the discussion is such "either/or" dichotomous extremes shows a George Bushing "With us or against us" simplicity. No one is saying to stop trying at all. What I'm saying is that there are some things that are stupid to even try, while other ideas are…

No - I've done hydroponic. It is more work and requires pumps, pipes, tubes, tanks, and a lot of maintenance.

Hydroponic is good at the following things... 1. On average it uses less water than soil. 2. There is a reduced chance of pests and disease IF you maintain it well and know what you're doing. 3. You have…

I think they could get "a tomato", but it would cost like 10X as much as just throwing down a pot of dirt and planting a tomato start. :) And it is highly unlikely that a building this size could produce enough crop yield to justify its existence.

Like the "solar freakin' roadway" and so many other Green ideas, it…

Hydroponics requires as much or more 'infrastructure' than dirt. I've done a hydroponic greenhouse and it takes a huge amount of piping, pumps, tubes, and large tanks of nutrient engineered water. I gave up on it because it took like 3X as much work and maintenance (and cost) compared to growing in dirt.

That…

How exactly this is supposed to function as an actual producer of food is not discussed. :) Stacking boxes on top of each other and assuming they will efficiently generate produce goes against every known farming technique. But when you stick those boxes on top of each other you reduce solar exposure, which reduces…

Pht. If there wasn't a law that tells makes the USPS the only organization that can deliver handbills then they'd have died in a fire long ago. The only reason the USPS exists is because of junk mail contracts which only they are allowed to have. That's why 95% of the "mail" you get today is nothing but junk mail. …

Every government agency should have to reach that benchmark. Pensions for the employees are THE most expensive line item in every government organization from bottom to top. The department becomes more obsessed about funding its pensions than any other thing - to the detriment of everyone. If a government agency…

No - common sense is common sense and to try to warp the application of common sense into some sort of denial of civil rights is ridiculous. Being a scoutmaster is not a paid job, so no gay person is being denied employement on the basis of their orientation. There is no equal protection issue in this. Just common…

When you put a person who is attracted to a particular sex in charge of a group of teenagers of that sex then it is just plain a bad idea in general. This is nothing to do with being "anti gay". This is just plain old common sense.

Retitled: "Stupid moron who really doesn't know jack-diddly-squat about doodle believes he can engineer the entire ecosystem better than nature itself."

Tranforming apartment tries to trick stupid people into thinking it isn't an uncomfortable, tiny shoebox.

Fails.

I said nothing about Obama. You are projecting your paranoia. He isn't in charge of California's water policy. That's the fault of all the Democrats that have run that state into a drought. If they'd build reservoirs then they'd have water. But they can't because environmentalists won't let them. Derp. And yeah…

No argument there.

Participants "A" agreed to give up land in several peace deals that have been scuttled over the years by the Palestinians.

There. That was easy. Answered your question. Now give mine a shot.

Maybe with your perspective you can explain it - but how is it possible to achieve a peaceful solution to a conflict where "Participant B" has as its very first position that it refuses to acknowledge "Participant A" has a right to exist? Color me crazy, but I've never gotten any sense that that Palestinians have…

The 2nd movie was better paced than the awful first movie - but was NOT "The Hobbit" in anything except the barest most threadbare manner possible. It followed the basic sequence of locations (Beorn, Mirkwood, Elf prison, Long Lake, Lonely Mountain) but other than that? It might as well have been called, "Dingles…

A Playstation designed for 3% of the population - of which probably only 5% of which are gamers. Wow - what a marketing coup.

Ugh.

The Hobbit movies have been disappointing as a rule. It is only "The Hobbit" in name, and has none of the charm, heart, and tone which has made the book a timeless classic.

Yeah - the Hobbit movies have been disappointing as a rule. It is only "The Hobbit" in name, and has none of the charm, heart, and tone which has made the book a timeless classic.

But this was not a surprise to me. When I heard that Jackson, Boyens, and Walsh were doing what they call a "screenplay" that dragged the…