a Mainly because the protestors tended to be women. Who tend not to do things like get drunk, violent and assault the police*. Though the police were so worried by a candlelit vigil for Everard that … (View Post)

Range = ability to loiter, the ability to take indirect routes and the ability to be based further away from the enemy. Not just the ability to fly in a straight line for x miles and go straight back (View Post)

On a more serious note - even a screwdriver operation can *start* the process of building up local supply chains. That’s how manufacturing moved to places like China in the first place. (View Post)

You asked about carbon footprint. Battery farming is very *energy* efficient. Indeed, it is the ruthless quest for efficiency that is the problem with it. (View Post)

From browsing around - the brown eggs are more expensive, since the birds they come from are a bit larger, requiring more feeding, space etc. So it's cost minimisation, lightly whitewashed with … (View Post)