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Nuclear has by far the lowest [environmental impact], but for the same reason that many environmentalists are still opposing the Keystone pipeline despite the reality of more incidents of environmental damage from the alternative (inefficient rail shipping with nearly 100x the rate of environmental exposure), it's all about emotion for many in the movement, not about what's truly, measurably better for the planet.

Yes, the total economic loss due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, estimated at $240-500 billion, is nothing but emotion.

The total cost of resettlement, cleanup, and paying medical claims due to Chernobyl is estimated by Belarus at $235 billion.

A hypothetical nuclear disaster in France similar to Fukushima is estimated to cost $580 billion. Other estimates run much higher.

I'd guess that it's because the US is at the top of the list of "the person whose house you're about to invade is likely to be heavily armed."

And yet we didn't use to have a problem with cops breaking into innocent people's homes and killing them.

The problem isn't gun ownership in america, its cops putting their safety behind a hair-trigger. Somewhere along the way protecting and serving the public became secondary to protecting and serving the police themselves. When any risk is too much risk then (a) it is no surprise they kill innocent people and (b) they are in the wrong profession - especially since jobs like farmer and roofer carry a higher risk of being killed on the job.

Here is what is also true: greenpeace and other "green" organizations have been found to be taking millions of dollars in money from Russian oil interests, through shell corporations

Hey, you left out your link to a reliable source for this claim.

According to the GAO, $106 billion was spent by US government on climate research by 2010.

A total over an unstated number of years is meaningless. According to Forbes -- hardly a lefty source, and this is a denialist article -- the U.S. Government spent $32.5 billion on climate studies over 20 years between 1989 and 2009. That's $1.6 billion a year. About $5 per American per year. Accoridng to the GAO (notice the hyperlink, please starting using them, thanks) federal climate change acivities in 2010 were $8.8 billion, but that includes "technology to reduce emissions, science to better understand climate change, international assistance for developing countries, and wildlife adaptation to respond to actual or expected changes" -- so climate research is only a small part of that. Figure a quarter to a third of it is climate research. So we're looking at something on the order of $2 or $3 billion a year spent by the federal government on climate change research.

For comparison, the Iraq war was is estimated to have cost $1,100 billion in total.

Exxon Mobills's profits -- not revenues, profits -- last year were $32.5 billion. And that's just one company.

The Army's R&D budget -- not the whole military, just the Army -- is around $21 - 32 billion.Climate research funding is chump change. I kind of liked this line of bullshit better when it was "those scientists telling us smoking causes cancer are just riding the research gravy train!" At least it was a fresh and audacious sort of intellectual dishonesty then. Now it's just pathetic.

Well, Biogen's drug may have its place but it isn't exactly a Speedy Gonzales, and its side-effects include brain swelling.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ma...
"Wall Street analysts predict could get the drug to market by 2020"

Also, this research is more elegant - it uses your blood's own cleanup cells to fight the plaques, versus injecting you with a foreign antibody like Biogen's does.

Which checks would those be? The checks from Goldman Sachs for pushing the AGW reverse robin hood credit default swaps...err I mean ":carbon credits". Or would those be the checks from Al Gore who is in bed with Goldman Sachs and has set himself up to become carbon billionaire if he and GS get their giant scam that won't do shit but make them even richer made into the law?

Dude if you believe EITHER side gives a single fuck about the environment? I have some genuine Arkansas anti global warming crystals I'll be happy to sell ya, only $499.99 so act now! BTW if you actually DO give a shit about the environment? DO NOT BUY THE SCAMS, talk to somebody that actually walks the walk...Ed Begley Jr. unlike Rev Al who lives in a McMansion whose indoor basketball court uses more AC than a family home? He lives in a modest 3 bedroom, Rev Al drives a fleet of SUVs to his one man Lear jet? Begley drives an electric car to a commuter flight.But if you were to look up Begley's thoughts on the subject? You'd find an overdose of COMMON SENSE, make it easier for folks to use electric cars, promote renewables in places like AZ where solar works really well, invest in tech that will let us do more with what we have and recycle easier...its ALL common Goddamned sense!

But of course you can't become a billionaire with sensible logical approaches which is why you are getting pounded with "ZOMFG teh sky is fallin! You HAVE to do this thing (which won't do a damned thing because we filled it with more loopholes for our 1% pals than a Coke has HFCS) because we have to SAVE TEH EARF!"

Old doesn't necessarily mean unsafe or unreliable. Plenty of people drive 10 year old cars that are not putting them in danger.

The average care on the road is *more* than ten years old. A lot of old cars still work perfectly well.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ji...

Google has been censoring searches relating to firearms for years now. Here's an article from 2012:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/fr...

I love Google and most of their products, but they are far from impartial providers of a search service.

Licensed cab drivers have comprehensive record checks.

In places where the regulators aren't simply an extension of the taxi unions and want to see innovation and an improved service they work with Uber and Uber drivers have comprehensive checks too. If Uber are using unlicensed drivers in your city you've got the regulators to thank for not licensing them as much as Uber for employing them.

Licensed cab drivers have adequate insurance.

See above, although AFAIK Uber drivers are required to have appropriate liability insurance everywhere.

Licensed cab drivers (in any decent place) drive very identifiable cars, and anyone else trying to drive in a similar car will stand out like a sore thumb.

I can't speak for other cities but, in London, anyone can drive a black cab as a private car, you just can't use it as a taxi. The reason people don't is that they're designed to be practical as taxis, not private vehicles. (Interestingly a number of celebrities drive them precisely because it means they don't stick out like a sore thumb.) And unlicensed taxi drivers certainly exist and do drive black cabs (although they're a much smaller problem than minicab drivers operating a hail and ride service outside their license... but the passenger has made a conscious choice in those cases so I don't have a problem with that).

Licensed cab drivers (in the best places) have to take some of the toughest exams in the world for spatial awareness (i.e. London's "The Knowledge" exam).

If this is so great then taxi drivers don't need to fear competition from Uber, the markets will choose their superior knowledge. Oh wait, it turns out this feted exam utilises obsolete technology (the human memory) to create an excessively high barrier of entry to protect the jobs of taxi drivers who don't want to face true commercial competition.

An Uber driver need give so little evidence to become a contractor that he could easily have faked his identity.

That depends heavily on jurisdiction. Again, if the regulators would work with Uber this could easily be overcome. It also ignore the fact that it's much easier to know I got the driver I ordered with Uber while if I hail a random cab I have no idea if the driver's license is genuine, even if it is a really rigorous process to get a genuine license.

An Uber driver has much less invested in his job, so does not stand to lose so much if he drives the long way (any decent place regularly tests its taxi drivers for honesty) or otherwise abuses his passenger.

Yet again Uber wins. They can review the route and arbitrate appropriately. With the traditional taxi even if you know the drivers details and file a claim it's basically he said, she said. But hey, the current system works so well why change it?

An Uber driver (who already has false id) wanting to cause great harm will switch off the GPS and/or report that the fare is no longer in the car.

Yet he's still the last known point of contact with that person. If I were a psychopath that puts me a darn sight nearer the centre of the police's radar than I'd like. So yes, it's an effective deterrent.

Many genuine taxi services have cameras in the cabs, which is a much safer prospect if you think a technical solution to a social problem is the way to go.

Oh sure. Once you know which cab they hailed off the street you can review the footage. These solutions (trip logging/camera) are neither solving the same problem nor mutually exclusive.

Seven Year Old San Francisco Girl Struck and Killed By Uber Driver; Uber Denies Responsibility http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/...

Boston Uber Driver Charged with indecent Assault and Battery http://www.bostonglobe.com/met...

Off-Duty LA Uber Driver Accused of Sexual Assault http://www.bizjournals.com/los...

Chicago Uber Driver With Felony Conviction Charged With Battery For Allegedly Hitting Passenger http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Writer and Activist Reports Being Choked in DC; Uber Denies The Event and Responsibility http://valleywag.gawker.com/ub...

DC Uber Driver Allegedly Assaults Customer for Burping http://www.washingtoncitypaper...

San Francisco Uber Customer Claims Abuse and Assault by Uber Driver (Pando) http://pando.com/2013/11/25/ub...

Passenger Struck In Head With Hammer by UberX Driver http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Uber Driver Pulls Gun on Valet in Atlanta http://pando.com/2014/09/08/at...

Uber Driver Punches Passenger in Oklahoma http://newsok.com/oklahoma-cit...

Lyft Driver Attacks Pedestrian in San Francisco http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news...

Lyft Driver Brandishes Knife in Los Angeles http://www.laweekly.com/2013-0...

Uber Customer Sues for $2M over Alleged Driver Stabbing in DC http://dcinno.streetwise.co/20...

DC Uber Driver Allegedly Rapes Customer http://betabeat.com/2013/03/ub...

Uber Driver Charged with Fondling Passenger in Chicago http://valleywag.gawker.com/ub...

DC Uber Driver Arrested for Alleged Rape But Not Charged Despite Strong Evidence http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Another DC Uber Driver Accused of Molesting Uber Rider http://valleywag.gawker.com/an...

Passenger Struck In Head With Hammer by UberX Driver http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Uber Driver in India Accused of Rape http://www.bbc.c

Seven Year Old San Francisco Girl Struck and Killed By Uber Driver; Uber Denies Responsibility http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/...

Boston Uber Driver Charged with indecent Assault and Battery http://www.bostonglobe.com/met...

Off-Duty LA Uber Driver Accused of Sexual Assault http://www.bizjournals.com/los...

Chicago Uber Driver With Felony Conviction Charged With Battery For Allegedly Hitting Passenger http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Writer and Activist Reports Being Choked in DC; Uber Denies The Event and Responsibility http://valleywag.gawker.com/ub...

DC Uber Driver Allegedly Assaults Customer for Burping http://www.washingtoncitypaper...

San Francisco Uber Customer Claims Abuse and Assault by Uber Driver (Pando) http://pando.com/2013/11/25/ub...

Passenger Struck In Head With Hammer by UberX Driver http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Uber Driver Pulls Gun on Valet in Atlanta http://pando.com/2014/09/08/at...

Uber Driver Punches Passenger in Oklahoma http://newsok.com/oklahoma-cit...

Lyft Driver Attacks Pedestrian in San Francisco http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news...

Lyft Driver Brandishes Knife in Los Angeles http://www.laweekly.com/2013-0...

Uber Customer Sues for $2M over Alleged Driver Stabbing in DC http://dcinno.streetwise.co/20...

DC Uber Driver Allegedly Rapes Customer http://betabeat.com/2013/03/ub...

Uber Driver Charged with Fondling Passenger in Chicago http://valleywag.gawker.com/ub...

DC Uber Driver Arrested for Alleged Rape But Not Charged Despite Strong Evidence http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Another DC Uber Driver Accused of Molesting Uber Rider http://valleywag.gawker.com/an...

Passenger Struck In Head With Hammer by UberX Driver http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Uber Driver in India Accused of Rape http://www.bbc.c

Seven Year Old San Francisco Girl Struck and Killed By Uber Driver; Uber Denies Responsibility http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/...

Boston Uber Driver Charged with indecent Assault and Battery http://www.bostonglobe.com/met...

Off-Duty LA Uber Driver Accused of Sexual Assault http://www.bizjournals.com/los...

Chicago Uber Driver With Felony Conviction Charged With Battery For Allegedly Hitting Passenger http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Writer and Activist Reports Being Choked in DC; Uber Denies The Event and Responsibility http://valleywag.gawker.com/ub...

DC Uber Driver Allegedly Assaults Customer for Burping http://www.washingtoncitypaper...

San Francisco Uber Customer Claims Abuse and Assault by Uber Driver (Pando) http://pando.com/2013/11/25/ub...

Passenger Struck In Head With Hammer by UberX Driver http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Uber Driver Pulls Gun on Valet in Atlanta http://pando.com/2014/09/08/at...

Uber Driver Punches Passenger in Oklahoma http://newsok.com/oklahoma-cit...

Lyft Driver Attacks Pedestrian in San Francisco http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news...

Lyft Driver Brandishes Knife in Los Angeles http://www.laweekly.com/2013-0...

Uber Customer Sues for $2M over Alleged Driver Stabbing in DC http://dcinno.streetwise.co/20...

DC Uber Driver Allegedly Rapes Customer http://betabeat.com/2013/03/ub...

Uber Driver Charged with Fondling Passenger in Chicago http://valleywag.gawker.com/ub...

DC Uber Driver Arrested for Alleged Rape But Not Charged Despite Strong Evidence http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Another DC Uber Driver Accused of Molesting Uber Rider http://valleywag.gawker.com/an...

Passenger Struck In Head With Hammer by UberX Driver http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Uber Driver in India Accused of Rape http://www.bbc.c

What if your company is HQ in Bermuda, and you operate an independent subsidiary in UK?

Then keep receipts.

UK has introduced a general anti tax avoidance law. Basically, if it looks and serves like tax avoidance and the Govt says it is, then it is.

Whether either that or this new Google tax will hold up under EU law, I don't know.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ti...

Considering these guys' competency to put hits on people I highly doubt that.

This article completely misrepresents the issue, which is identity fraud. Yes, I know it's easy to hate on Apple, but if you're a thoughtful individual, read this story at Forbes for a better explanation of the issue. ApplePay isn't at fault here. Banks and their lax verification practices are when coupled with how easy it is to steal identity data.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ka...

Powerful people in the US have a vested interest in a big government. It's the never ending circle of government cooperation with the rich. The government protects the rich in exchange for lavish "contributions" that bring the politicians into the elite class.

The problem is that it costs the state more to kill someone than it does to fund the rest of their lives in a box.

It is more worthwhile to spend money giving someone better chance to prove their innocence, than to spend it keeping them in a box til they die.

Least humane way to execute someone:
Put them in a box till they die, funded by money that could have been spent saving lives.

The problem is that it costs the state more to kill someone than it does to fund the rest of their lives in a box.

You create a false narrative here. Putin's approval rating was steadily holding above 63% ever since he took office and shot up to 85% several times during his tenure for prolonged times, every time he was seen to defend Russian interests in the world. US or EU politicians usually don't have such good ratings. Here is an article with 2000-2013 chart.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ma...

Putin does not need "victory" in Ukraine. He has already achieved victory by standing up for Russia. On the contrary, nobody wants to take the mess that is Ukraine that Russia has actually supported for years by several billion dollar a year in cheap gas and by allowing over 3 million of Ukrainian men to work in Russia and send remittances home. And by buying their manufactured products as only country in the world, preserving the Ukrainian industry. If we isolate Ukraine from Russia we should be prepared to replace Russia in all three of these roles or Ukraine will be at it worse than before we got involved.

thank you

recordings are merely advertising: give it away for free online

if you like what you hear, give the artist money, buy a signed t shirt, hire the artist, pay for a concert, buy a product the artist endorses, etc... plenty of ancillary revenue streams

this guy made $75 million dollars last year, and never recorded anything (nor plays any more soccer):

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ku...

artists can do the same

this idea that because you built me a house, every time i walk across the living room you pay me a dime, for decades, is complete bullshit

it is a broken, inefficient system that only rewards abuse

oh, only a few artists make millions and 99% starve? ok: has it ever been any different in the art world, ever? is copyright a protection from that by magic? no: it's just a vehicle for abuse by the already well-established and middle men. the little guys still get screwed by distributors and labels with bullshit contracts to get their foot in the door. end that ridiculous system that rewards parasites for no added value in an Internet world

At least two or three schemes aim to do fusion with D-D or p-B11... they are more practical than the white elephant in France and make the helium 3 issue moot.

Depends - maybe not if they use progressive for insurance:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/th...

Min

No of course Apple isn't over priced... sigh : http://www.forbes.com/sites/ti...

I just hope Kyocera has the balls to fight this shit and win.

It probably won't, and even if it did, it wouldn't change anything. We need to get rid of software patents altogether. The fact that Microsoft has a war chest of profitable patents for cell phone software pretty much should disabuse anyone of the notion that software patents are necessary in order to compete and innovate in the market. They're nothing more than leverage for extracting licensing fees from others for solving software problems in the same obvious way that your patent happened to solve a problem. Copyright is more than enough to protect a company's intellectual property.

With such a volume of software patents, the problem for developers in navigating patent minefields is growing beyond all reason, as it's all but impossible to avoid accidentally infringing. It's holding back rather than helping innovation. The entire *point* of patents is not to establish or assert some natural rights of inventors, but to protect innovation by artificially granting an time-limited monopoly. The fact that everyone is forced to cross-license patents from each other, or the invention of software "patent pools" shows how far we've come from that ideal. It's beyond absurd, and it needs to stop. When both the EFF and Forbes are both in agreement that software patents need to go, can we just get rid of the damned things?

And more importantly, the propaganda is intended for domestic consumption, not "the world".

Oh, how one may wish, this were true! It is not. Compare, for example, the world's reaction to US invading Iraq in 2003 — it caused, what Time magazine would later call "World's biggest coordinated protest in history" — with Russia's invasion into Ukraine and annexation of a jewel of a province after a fraudulent "referendum".

What few protests in the West this caused, they were organized (and attended) mostly by Ukrainian expats — without sympathetic locals.

Because, somehow, both Left and Right in the West were providing Russia with propaganda-cover. Some called Ukraine's new government "Nazis" while others dismissed them all as "Jews" — without arguing with each other both helped Putin.

Now, are all of these people on Kremlin's payroll? Probably, not — but they were carefully fed custom-crafted lies by the Kremlin analysts, who approach the government propaganda the way Western corporations approach advertising of goods...

There are a total of 12 business models that are known to have ever made money at all.

What? That's a horrific oversimplification. And if you're going to do that you may as well go all the way: There's only one business model that works -- make more money than you spend.

you don't exactly hear the Porn industry complaining that the Internet ruined their movie business, do you?

Nope, not ever. And that's just a few from the first page of Google results.

recognize the obvious: Distribution online is effectively free.

While true, recent history has shown that this isn't the biggest issue. The problem is that piracy is more convenient. If I want to watch a movie legitimately I have to obtain the discs, plug it into the machine, sit through 1-2 minutes of unskippable copyright warnings (being shown only to the very people who aren't infringing.. I get that legally they need those warnings but there's no reason to make them unskippable.) 30 seconds of stupid menu animations, probably a handful of ads for other shit (which are thankfully mostly skippable but still..) Then sometimes you get shown the damned copyright notices again after you finally get to the menu to hit play. 4-5 steps and several minutes of useless shit in order to finally view your show. Assuming you're wanting to watch something old enough to have discs available in the first place. And you're paying for all that shit.

Oppose that to a torrent. Yes you have to wait for the download but with modern internet speeds that's usually less than an hour and frequently only a few minutes depending on number of seeders and the quality (file size) you're picking up. Less time than having to go to the store to pick it up for a lot of people, and far less than ordering from Amazon or other online sellers. And when you get it you hit play and you're immediately watching your movie. Two steps and no wait time beyond the initial obtaining which is comparable to obtaining a legitimate disc.

Thanks mostly to Netflix and Apple, this is improving quite a bit -- primarily in the sense that they've mostly proved that people will actually pay for content if its a) reasonably priced and b) convenient. The recording industry has mostly realized this and most music is available through iTunes, Google Play and a few other big name services (often available through all of these services.) That's exactly what people want and will pay for. Simple, fast and not unduly expensive.

The TV industry is slowly catching on. They're not there yet. Every studio is making their own access site which destroys that "convenient" aspect that's so important: If I want to watch Game of Thrones, I have to know which site is distributing it in the first place, and if its not one I've signed up for I've got to go through that whole hassle. Rinse and repeat for every single show I'm interested in.

That "knowing who distributes it" in particular is terrible. If they want to create a competitor to Netflix and Hulu for whatever reason then great -- but having 47 competitors that all offer only one or two (popular) shows each isn't going to solve anything (of course they'll use the fact that nobody cares enough to sign up for that much shit as yet more evidence that copyright infringement is destroying their business, even though that's not the underlying problem.)

The movie industry on the other hand is still stuck in the past for the most part. They usually distribute "ultraviolet" codes with discs nowadays which is great but it means I still have to pick up the discs.

Some quick links I found covering the issue.

Americans Living Abroad Becoming Trapped by Citizenship Based Tax Rules
Mayor Of London Boris Johnson Announces He'll Renounce U.S. Citizenship
When American Expats Donâ(TM)t Want Their Kids to Have U.S. Citizenship
Meet the 'accidental American' with a big tax bill
PwC suggests a check to see if you're an 'accidental American'
âAccidentalâ(TM) Americans Still Owe Income Tax

You have no idea what you're talking about. Pollution and mining accidents from coal kill far more people than nuclear accidents do.

Death per kilowatt, etc.

Many of these nuclear costs are because of irrational fear. If no amount of safety is enough, no amount of spending will be enough.

Nuclear is already far safer than other power generation, including numbers from Fukishima.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/print/

As the article points out, this is not a big cost for the companies involved. Unionisation of the buses is not going to make the slightest bit of difference whatsoever to Google's desire to generate a self-driving vehicle.

Please note that Google is not listed among those 5 companies that contracted their busses out to that other company. I don't know about their transportation, but espescially Google has a lot of their service done by their own staff instead of outsourcing to the cheapest bidder:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2014/10/06/google-brings-security-staff-in-house-a-new-trend/

Well David Blood and Al Gore certainly did

Yeah, that's why the EPA just implemented new standards which would ban the production and sale of almost all of the current wood burning stoves in the U.S.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/la...

All this environmental alarmist nonsense is just being used as an excuse for more government control.

You realise that the people here who can actually "report all movement" are Uber?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ka...

And they're not really very concerned about privacy either when it suits them:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...

Krugman thinks that banks are mere intermediaries between patient people and impatient people. Have you ever seen your bank balance drop when the bank creates a loan?

It's already happening.

The instalation of rooftop solar panels was growing quickly in Spain over the past few years. With up to 5 sun-hours available in many areas the investment was more than justified.

But as soon as parity in the home photovoltaic generation cost was reached over a year ago, Spain taxed the Sun, making anyone that dares to generate and consume their own electricity pay up to 0.09 euros/kWh consumed and produced by their own equipment in their own home, and not only solar but also wind geothermal or any other source.

The penalty for not registering (and paying) is considered a very serious offense with ridiculously outrageous fines and they can cut your home supply from the net.

You can guess that nobody installs rooftop solar panels anymore around here wasting perfectly good kWh of free sun.

There are about 300 spills a year from pipelines. You can do the googling yourself, but that's how many spills were considered 'significant' in the USA in 2014.

I tried to find a source that isn't obviously left-wing so you wouldn't reject it out of hand: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja...

Admittedly, every single method of transporting oil is bad, and all of them lead to environmental problems and costs. So while pipelines may be 'best'--for some meagre definition of 'best'--there is an absolute amount of damage that's done. Conventional bombs are 'safer' if you drop them on my house than nuclear bombs, but it's a distinction without a difference when it comes to whether or not my house is still there.

Maybe the maintenance is as good as we could hope (I doubt it; we're talking about fallible humans and corporations with a bottom line), but this isn't exactly a solved engineering problem.

Nobody really knows how bad a bitumen spill would be. There's a lot of extra chemicals in there to keep it diluted and flowing.

In the end, one catastrophe a year is too many, even if it seems like 20 years later maybe things would be okay. I'm dubious about that number; 25 years after the Exxon Valdez spill, Prince Edward Sound is *mostly* recovered but still has problems. 20-30 years is a big chunk of time to humans, and we still have to live in this world.

Though that estimate might be a little high...

"Just before leaving public office in 2001, Gore reported assets of less than $2 million; today, his wealth is estimated at $100 million."

Warning about global warming is a good business to be in it seems...

In 2001, the Koch brothers where worth $ 3.2 billion each. In 2010 $ 17.5 billion. Looks like paying others to deny Global Warming seems to be a better business....

As for Al Gore - he made far from being on the board of Apple than from Global Warming. http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/heres-how-apple-and-the-internet-made-al-gore-rich.html/?a=viewall

A whole bunch of kids who are innocent, or guilty of spitting on the sidewalk, would probably say it is...

Yeah, the cool devs in the top 10 list. iOS developers are all getting rich on that $4k average app revenue. Wow.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/co...

if the brain is larger, does the cranial cavity grow increase to the same level?

It does in humans

So are Precious Moments body proportions likely in humanity's future?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/th...

And thats not counting their VC partners, again staffed with ex intelligence operatives, the whole setup is shady and they need to be jailed

"Barak Weichselbaum, Komodiaâ(TM)s founder who was once a programmer in Israelâ(TM)s IDFâ(TM)s Intelligence Core"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/th...

Board of Directors
Andrea Stavopouslos, Partner, DFJ
Abe Finkelstein, General Partner, Vintage Investment Partners
Anat Segal, CEO, Xenia Venture Capital
Shai Saul, Managing Partner, DFJ
Tuvia Barlev, Founder and Executive Chairman, Actelis Networks
Yen Lee, SVP Corporate Development, Ebates Inc.
Professor Tomaso Poggio, PH.D â" MIT
Prof Lior Wolf â" MIT/Tel Aviv
Professor Yosi Keller â" Yale/Bar-Ilan
Olga Russakovsky, PH.D â" Stanford (Fei-Fei)
Ron Bekkerman, PH.D - University of Massachusetts
Zeâ(TM)ev Rozov, CEO and Co-Founder Rewardpod

International corporations owns the US, the corporations want everyone's data so they can destroy their competition. If the US government is actually in charge, all the banks would have been sued after the 2008 financial crisis, but they didn't, the banks and big corps own the US and they own you. That's who the data is for, they want dirt on everyone just in case they one day become a threat to the corps.

Why The NSA Leaks Will Lead To More Economic Espionage Against American Companies

[citation not needed]

The citation isn't needed not because that rant-with-a-personal-slant didn't require citation, but because it's off-topic. I'm not sure how his comment got modded 'Informative' - unless this is not Slashdot, but Buzzfeed, or Us magazine or some other gossip rag.

Without defending whatever nastiness went on in his restaurants, how does that relate to malware being on a website? It's highly unlikely that he personally oversees the restaurants, and even less likely that he personally oversees the website. At best one can fault him for having certain ideas about how to run things, that in turn lead to both restaurateurs and webmasters cutting corners and dropping the ball.

What's next? A report comes out about Forbes being hacked ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/th... ) and we point out how they let an article that was then vastly criticized by its subject ( The Oatmeal - http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tes... ) through as some sort of 'goes to character and general reputation'?

The early United States ignored patents issued abroad once upon a time...

India is ignoring US medical patents right now!

India's Solution To Drug Costs: Ignore Patents And Control Prices - Except For Home Grown Drugs

Technically it's compulsory licensing, I think....

Just tell them to piss off because the planet is more important.

India's Solution To Drug Costs: Ignore Patents And Control Prices - Except For Home Grown Drugs

So, all some poor country has to do is just go ignore IP rights - there' s not a fucking thing the owners can do about it.

I wonder how many TV companies would shovel over billions for the rights to broadcast "The Real World"/"Survivor"/"Big Brother" Mars for long term funding.

Let's assume the best-case scenario -- that the entertainment industry is dying to get broadcast rights for the Mars Reality TV show and will pay top dollar to do so.

What constitutes "top dollar" for that industry? i.e. how much could they afford to pay if they really wanted to?

I'm not sure how to answer that, but the biggest TV event I'm aware of is the World Cup, which brought in $4 billion to FIFA last year.

Would $4 billion be enough for a Mars colonization program? According to this article, they'd still be $2 billion short.

There are a lot of fanbois here, which is why this type of information is useful. Entergy already has a history of neglecting their plants and lying about it to those responsible for oversight. They seem particularly vulnerable to this kind of dangerous dishonesty with so much at risk. http://www.forbes.com/sites/je...

Tesla was not first to market with an EV.

No, but they were the first to sell an EV that made non-geeks' pulses quicken. The vehicles sold before that were more of the "eat your vegetables" variety, and thus doomed to be money-losing niche vehicles, useful only as arguments against the viability of the electric vehicle market.

They did move first into the high end market, but what will matter is the lower end mass market where existing EVs are trying to sell.

Sure, but you can't get to the mass market without starting somewhere viable. Previous attempts to start at the low end failed (see: EV-1, RAV4 EV), and failures don't help the EV market grow.

The EV market would evolve, with or without subsidies, and with or without Tesla.

That's an assertion only -- I don't see any evidence to back it up. Before Tesla's successes, no other companies were marketing a desirable electric car, and there was little evidence that any of them had much interest in doing so in the future.

Sure, the EV market would have caught on anyway, decades from now, after gas prices rose high enough that almost nobody could to afford to drive a traditional car anymore; but that's a rather grim scenario that I think we are well-served to avoid.

That some wealthy folks that don't need the money are getting it isn't really helping anybody expect them and Tesla.

Them, and Tesla, and everyone else who will buy an electric car that wouldn't have existed without Tesla's demonstration of how to profitably sell EVs, and all the other car companies that can now take advantage of the technology Tesla developed.

As a former smoker, while some of what you say may be true, your post seems to be just about as equally dangerous and misinformed. There are basically no long term studies that demonstrate the safety of e-cigarettes and there have been several recent reports highlighting the danger of them. For example, here, here and here. Two wrongs by the FDA (e.g., fully endorsing vaping) wouldn't make a right.