Re: global warming is b/s? nice hatchet job

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> For example: there isn't the slightest reason for any security
> conference to happen, per se.  There's no need to heat/cool a meeting
> place, no need to expend jet fuel/gasoline/diesel transporting people
> to it, etc.  It's completely possible to do the entire thing
> virtually -- and while that also uses some energy, of course, it's
> far less.

Yes, but the benefits are also substantially less.  You lose all the
meetings at meals, yakking with randoms met in the hallway, etc, which
in my experience usually rival and often surpass in value the overt
business of the conference.

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