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Patrick Lo should focus on his own company's prospects for success. Netgear is not in the same class as Apple on any financial level:
    Netgear
    Apple

I think the CEO has more important things to worry about in his own back yard. Apple would have a very far way to fall to be as paltry as Netgear.

Meanwhile, the arguments between iOS and Android platforms have all the hallmarks of a discussion of one fanatical religion over another. The points used are not as they are represented. In the end, neither camp is swayed by the other. Obviously the market is big enough for multiple platforms. I do think it's interesting how often Apple is touted as headed for spectacular failure. One would think, given the number of times that has proven to be inaccurate, there might be a little more skepticism at the predictions.

Patrick Lo should focus on his own company's prospects for success. Netgear is not in the same class as Apple on any financial level:
    Netgear
    Apple

I think the CEO has more important things to worry about in his own back yard. Apple would have a very far way to fall to be as paltry as Netgear.

Meanwhile, the arguments between iOS and Android platforms have all the hallmarks of a discussion of one fanatical religion over another. The points used are not as they are represented. In the end, neither camp is swayed by the other. Obviously the market is big enough for multiple platforms. I do think it's interesting how often Apple is touted as headed for spectacular failure. One would think, given the number of times that has proven to be inaccurate, there might be a little more skepticism at the predictions.

Part of the Obama administration, in the spring. You heard it here first, unless you already read John Dvorak's Second Opinion -- http://www.marketwatch.com/story/eric-schmidts-next-act-bodes-well-for-tech-2011-01-21 .

Warren Buffett and Ahmadinijad agree!

2009 http://www.zerohedge.com/article/here-why-dollar-now-effectively-worthless

2008 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-buffett-says-us-dollar-worthless-if-account-deficit-persists

2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21870271/ns/business-world_business/ ...

2003 http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/12-16g-04.asp

Hey, if I had that many double-consonants in my full name, would I be rich, too?

I guess my point was to tackle the things that we had the technology for and the capability today,

Where is this nuclear technology?

France successfully powers the country on Nuclear power very economically

"How do France (and India, China and Russia) build cost-effective nuclear power plants? They don't. Governmental officials in those countries, not private investors, decide what is built. Nuclear power appeals to state planners, not market actors."

though their reactors are generally much more modern designs that waste far less fuel

Citation needed. Here's some of my own:

Finland's Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant, designed and being built by the French Government owned AREVA was supposed to be compleated last year, 2009, but is not scheduled to be done before 2012 3 years behind schedule. And because of cost overruns "there is a real risk now that the utility will default". In Finland, Nuclear Renaissance Runs Into Trouble.

"Cost overruns and delays have jeopardized the fate of nuclear plants around the world." Study warns of steep cost overruns at new reactors. Is it time to press reset on nuclear?: "Cost overruns, delays in building reactors are sapping a nuclear revival".

"Boiling The Frog: Nuclear Optimism Hides True Costs Till It's Too Late".

And those are just some of the links I have in my bookmarks.

What I think people fail to realize is that we don't have to solve all our problems in a day

But isn't that exactly what proponents of nuclear power are advocating today? "Build more nuclear power plants, we'll fix the problems later." It's either that or they ignore the problems and say they don't exist.

Falcon

A phyrric victory, really. Spanish "reforms" outside economics can't do the EU any good due to its waning strength (ratings) relative to its stronger EU neighbors. It's been warned since around summer at least, and is now the EU's next Ireland-bailout-like candidate.

Countries with good laws and no economic [ergo, political] power can do little positive for their neighbors, let alone be a game-changer in America and Japan till it can get its economy back together. They've got too many problems to worry about games, and consoles/gaming are only serious social (WoW), legal (laws about who can/can't play) and major investment factors (all or nothing, folks) in Japan and the United States.

Shareholders aren't happy either as Apple stock is dropping.

Any time a company claims it will make a major announcement, a lot of people buy stock, then sell it off after the announcement is made to try to turn a profit. It rarely has to do with any particular approval of disapproval of the content of the announcement.

Shareholders aren't happy either as Apple stock is dropping.

Oh, and just to add:

"Based on the CBO's estimate, the deficit would drop to 7% of GDP in 2011, 4.2% of GDP in 2012 and reach as low as 2.5% of GDP in 2014"

What did Oracle do? Turn off the OpenOffice.org website?

Where have they stated that they're going to discontinue OpenOffice?

That is just a figment of some developers' minds. And so they created LibreOffice because Oracle might discontinue OpenOffice. Even though it hasn't, just like InnoDB and BDB, which they also bought.

Oracle press release on OpenOffice

They basically reiterate that they will continue to support it.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-denies-big-cut-to-2011-rare-earth-exports-2010-10-20?tool=1&dist=bigcharts

Especially since this report has been refuted by China.

And people say thats to be expected

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/cody/2010/10/19/how-to-trade-apple-from-now-that-its-reported/

"And guess what, the stock, after being hit hard, is finding its legs and remains 5% above where it was just last Thursday when it remarkably passed $300 a share for the first time. A little perspective on today’s sell off, anyone?"

And they expect APPL to hit 350 a share by the end of the calendar year. It's much more important to look at 1-5 year performance than daily.

Ahem. - http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAPL+Basic+Chart&t=5y

Licensing costs are too expensive to justify anything but the 1600 MWe behemoths using standard fuel cycles with proven technology.

Citation needed.

Here's my own, The average non-fuel O&M cost for a nuclear power plant in 2009 was 1.46 cents / kWh. That includes licensing. Or this:

Issue #1: The New Licensing Process [ppt]

• The Mythology: The old licensing process was a major factor in the collapse of nuclear power in the U.S.
• It has now been repaired by changes in law and regulatory policy, paving the way for the renaissance.

As if that's not enough here are some more links:

1. Hooked on Subsidies...
   "How do France (and India, China and Russia) build cost-effective nuclear power plants? They don't. Governmental officials in those countries, not private investors, decide what is built. Nuclear power appeals to state planners, not market actors."
2. Is it time to press reset on nuclear?
   "Cost overruns, delays in building reactors are sapping a nuclear revival"
3. Study warns of cost overruns at proposed reactors - MarketWatch
4. Cost Overruns at Finland Reactor Hold Lessons
5. Boiling The Frog: Nuclear Optimism Hides True Costs Till It's Too Late
   "The Frog Jumps: The Ontario Story. Last week the Ontario government put plans to build 2 new next-generation reactors on hold, after it received bids "more than three times higher than what the Province expected to pay", according to a story in the Toronto Star. The only "compliant" bid -- one where the supplier would be sufficiently at risk if costs exceeded the amount quoted -- was reportedly a $26 billion quote from Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd, equal to roughly $10,800 per kW."
6. Nuclear construction delays in Finland's Olkiluoto 3
7. Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/creating-an-online-presence-is-essential-for-job-hunters

Many similar articles can be found, including some that talk about how HR sees a lack of an online presence as "suspicious."

I recently submitted an application for a job I would really like knowing full-well that googling for my real name will turn up little to nothing. I hope they won't see this as a bad thing...but if they do, fuck 'em.

Hmmm, the link looks like it has been slashdotted, but since it says "archives," it might not even be the right one. Maybe they meant this one?

As inspiring as the STS program was, it's time to move on. Thinking about a craft that weighs several thousand tons being used to move crew and cargo into space on the same ride just doesn't make sense. We can send an unmanned cargo ship into orbit quite easily, without needing all of the protection that a "human cargo" would require. Having a tiny Orion spacecraft bring the people makes a lot more sense.

How did we get into the "combined crew & cargo" paradigm? Perhaps it was because of the difficulty in providing unmanned vessels that made it to the specified destination, or perhaps it was because the Gemini and Apollo astronauts really hated being compared to the "chimp in a suit" and forced NASA's to put people on every ship.

I'll just be glad when I see something smaller than a double-wide mobile home being used to ferry the humans into space.

I found another one: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/orion-spacecraft-on-the-path-to-future-flight-2010-09-21?reflink=MW_news_stmp It appears that they've brought all the manufacturing and testing facilities to Kennedy Space Center, which makes cost saving sense to me. I guess Orion is still going forward despite reports to the contrary.

I responded to this elsewhere in the thread, so I'll just link it here. The choice thing is key.

Android is decidedly not being shunned in business. I work in business. I don't see anything but iPhones and Androids any more, and it's not Anecdotal. Comscore agrees. RIM still has a presence but it's fading fast. I'm still carrying around the CrackBerry at work, but an update to Epic 4G is in the plan. Android is sucking the air out of every other balloon, which means that they're getting a HUGE swath of the new unit sales - and so almost all the phone vendors' attention.

The speed of this change is nothing short of amazing. Android didn't really start to take off until Donut was released, which I note was exactly one year ago today. And now it's at 17%. That's astounding. And yet we have this fine article to tell us "choice is bad"?

Wasn't a problem with the brakes. Was a problem with the floor mats.

Wasn't a problem with either. Was a problem with the driver

As anyone in computer support knows, the most common error code is "ID-10T".
If you prefer, a "layer-8" problem.
Could be known in this case as "PICNIC" (here meaning Problem In Chair, Not In Car).
The automotive technician version: "loose nut between the steering wheel and the seat"
I could almost go on about this all day.

Hoooo boy, the old "Masters of the Universe" theory.

No, just no.

If these guys were so smart we wouldn't be having problems with stock market crashes. If they really were good at what they did it would be their CLIENTS getting rich...not just them.

Also, they ALL consistently get their asses kicked by random stock pickers.

Here's an example: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/paul-farrells-commentary-chimp-99-champ-makes-monkey-of-wall-street

Here is another, newer, one: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/market-dispatches.aspx?post=1548081

So please, stop with the "knowing what buttons to push" stuff. Most of these guys are WORSE, or arguably no better, at their job than a chimpanzee would be.

"Also try looking at growth patterns. MSFT flat, AAPL up. Pick any time frame in the last 10 yrs or so."
You're good at making stuff up, I'll give you that.

I expect he's referring to this:

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?symb=aapl&compidx=aaaaa%3A0&comp=MSFT&ma=0&maval=9&uf=0&lf=1&lf2=0&lf3=0&type=2&size=2&state=12&sid=609&style=320&time=13&freq=1&nosettings=1&rand=5013&mocktick=1

AAPL up 1000% over a decade. MSFT down about 25% over the same period.

No, we didn't. The Slashdot article was posted at 2:34 EST. The stock had already made its biggest gains by then. Plus, with all the negativity here, Slashdot is far more likely to depress the price than inflate it.

Take a look at a 1-minute chart. That spike around 2:30 is pretty neat.

Hair works too.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/people-giving-hair-off-their-heads-for-oil-cleanup-2010-05-11

My boss would have a field day with the summary.

As he likes to say, percentages mean nothing without harder numbers. Let's use one of the original articles for number basis:

Wage hike: $84 million per quarter over entire company (with a raise of 20%)
Workers: 300,000 at one plant.
Assume 300,000 workers are 1/4 of entire workforce

$84 million * (100%/20%) = $420 million
$420 million / 1.2 million workers = $350 per worker per quarter.
Assume 1 quarter is 13 weeks, with each week being 40 hours
$350 / (13*40) = $0.6731 per hour.

Assume that it takes 2 man-hours to build a motherboard
Assume $100 motherboard is marked up 70%

Motherboard Cost: $30
Percentage increase: (2*$0.6731)/$30=4.49% increase in costs

Assume price increase carried through the entire pricing package, The former $100 motherboard is $104.49 now. Not a world class problem.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/android-market-share-passes-iphones-npd-data-2010-05-10

Fun how they compare the "Android mobile operating system" to the "iPhone" - last time I checked the "iPhone mobile operating system" also included the iPad and the iPod Touch.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/android-market-share-passes-iphones-npd-data-2010-05-10

In the "US" market during a month that is just prior to the release of the next iPhone refresh so most people are holding off "purchasing" iPhone. The install base is higher even if you don't count touches and the iPad but once the new iPhone comes out, expect the numbers to reverse in the US.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/android-market-share-passes-iphones-npd-data-2010-05-10

Then, perhaps, caps as per this thread. Cap their wages, whomever is at fault, rather than just skimming a static amount or percent. Or in the case of a corporation, cap profits.

It's, what, day 40 of the leak? 25,000 barrels a day * $4,300 a barrel * 40 days of leaking = $4.3 billion.

Considering that they made over that in the last three months I'd say that much is a decent start to making them feel something for this god damn mess.

BP's annual profit is less than 60 billion dollars.
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/BP/financials

The US debt is about 13 trillion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt

13 trillion / 60 billion / year = 216 years.

Even BPs gross of 366 billion would take 35 years to pay off the debt.

That's more than 'a few', not that that really undermines your point, which is really that BP is too big to let any government fine it willy-nilly. It will defend itself to a ridiculous level in the courts, and whatever they pay out in the end will be a pittance.

Ok, how many people do you know that have Android phones?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/android-market-share-passes-iphones-npd-data-2010-05-10

Perhaps there are better charts available, but from what I see, the cliff-drop in P&G preceded the big action in the USD vs Yen by a good couple hours.

> You may not like those reasons, and you may think those reasons are stupid, but I don't really see a lot in the way of grounds to disbelieve that those are the main reasons. To boil it down to what's probably the biggest reason: Apple *wants* developers to develop apps specifically for the iPhone/iPad because they believe they'll get better apps that way.

Well, I see plenty of reasons to believe that those aren't the real reasons, and that the real reasons start and end with $$$.

It's a walled garden and they don't want anyone making a way to climb over the wall (so no Flash, emulators, etc.). I don't give a crap about Adobe. "Astroturf"? Leave me out of that. I wouldn't care if Adobe curled up and died and you can find plenty of folks here saying the same thing. Apple fanboys are legendary, though. I don't care which company wins. I only care about making sure that I don't lose. I haven't seen anyone saying how great Flash is, so you're arguing against an opponent you invented. If not, please at least give us some quotes that demonstrate these motivations you made up on the spot. There are tons of comments here, it shouldn't be hard to show that more than one person is actually claiming that Flash is perfect and wonderful, right?

As for complaining about Apple's lock-down, we DID complain about all of those things! And I still am! Finally, they're also saying that you can't use any tool but those in a small set. That stops you from using a lot more than Flash. It also prevents you from making anything new. No, I won't buy their damn phone. Ever. But the iPad is eating into the netbook market and that worries me. Yeah, yeah, they're not a monopoly... yet. But Apple is big enough that I see no point in waiting to worry about that when they're pulling off a bunch of total dick moves that would make Microsoft proud. And yes, I've read the Comes v. Microsoft documents, so I know what kind of crap Microsoft pulled to get their monopoly. In short, I have every confidence that they could become one and I don't want to let it happen.

But being anti-Apple because of the restrictions they put on what you can do with their iPhones (and thanks to the EULA, they really are *their* phones, not yours), does NOT make me pro-Adobe.

A NYSE Spokesman disagrees with this: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-bad-procter-gamble-trades-at-nyse-spokesman-2010-05-06

It is nice to see some alternatives to the x86-monoculture coming along, but I wish MIPS was still around, it is a beautiful architecture with the same efficiency advantages of Arm but an even cleaner design.

AFAICS it's still going. There was a recent announcement of a MIPS SOC with a built-in GPU.

...overseas discount web retailers have suddenly stopped selling products from a US company which is known for not liking to be undercut. :)

is that they're stupid. ... This has led to:
1) A ban on nuclear power here in California

Except environmentalists or greenies didn't stop nuclear power. As the Hooked on Subsidies article the pro freemarket CATO Institute republished, originally published by "Forbes", said it is state actors not the market that decides what nuclear power plants are built. Even in France and other nations, here's the relevant paragraph:
"How do France (and India, China and Russia) build cost-effective nuclear power plants? They don't. Governmental officials in those countries, not private investors, decide what is built. Nuclear power appeals to state planners, not market actors."

The "Hooked on Subsidies article brings up the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant being built in Finland. The French government owned business Areva and Siemans were building it, however Siemens sold it's interest to Areva. As of this tyme last year cost overruns have caused it's "3 billion euro price tag, about $4.2 billion", to climb at least 50 percent. Market Watch published a story about a study that warns of steep cost overruns at new reactors.

2) The Sierra Club successfully shutting down a massive solar plant. (What? Solar is a green energy? But think of all the DESERT that would be covered by those panels! 25 tortoises live there!) Good luck getting more companies to put money into proposing green power generators, assholes. Similar stories exist for wind and tidal projects across the country.

I'm glad I don't donate to the Sierra Club. They're not the only hypocrites though. On the Atlantic Coast there are those who oppose offshore wind farms. Even Ted Kennedy opposed a wind farm, in Cape Cod. The Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States" lays out the wind potential of various regions of the US. The Rocky Mountains alone has enough potential to supply all of the US with energy. Meanwhile SciAm published the article A Solar Grand Plan lays out how solar power can "supply 69 percent of the U.S.'s electricity and 35 percent of its total energy by 2050." Then there are other potential energy sources as well. Geothermal energy supplied California with 13 terawatts or 4.5% of the electricity used in CA in 2007. One geothermal project in Hawaii is the Puna Geothermal Venture and it supplies the big island of 20% of it's electricity. The SciAm article Hawaii Says Aloha (Greetings) to Clean, Renewable Energy says geothermal energy can be expanded to supply more electricity:

"Last January, Hawaii signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) that would make the Aloha State the country's most aggressive in pursuing renewable energy. By 2030, it plans to obtain 70 percent of its power from clean energy (40 percent from renewables and 30 percent from energy efficiency). Outstripping California's goal of 33 percent by 2020, the Hawaii initiative is a green light for clean-tech experts and enthusiasts to set up shop in the heart of the Pacific and may become a blueprint (or greenprint) for the rest of the country."

Geothermal isn't only available in the west either. It is being used now in

Slashdot is seriously out of touch with reality regarding Apple. The company just posted yesterday their highest non-holiday profit quarter ever (90% year-over-year increase in profit). iPhone sales were up 130% year-over-year. AAPL stock is soaring right now

This is all due to Apple's complete control over the iPhone. So does the lack of hardcore adult content hurt the iPhone sales? No, it does not. Steve Jobs is absolutely right.

Hold on, now - when did this become all about what's best for Apple?

The problem here is that, while Apple's approach works well for them, it's an approach that frustrates would-be developers for the platform and, I imagine, doesn't please a lot of Apple's audience, either. The question isn't whether what Apple's doing is reasonable or advantageous in a business sense or whatever - it's whether we, as potential customers of Apple are OK with this.

Apple could be raking in enough money to buy Canada for all I care - it doesn't change the fact that I personally find the restrictions of their iPhone platform unacceptable - both as a developer and a user.

Apple just posted a 90% year-over-year profit increase in their best non-Christmas quarter ever. iPhone sales increased 130% year-over-year. AAPL stock price reached an all-time high today. Of course, these amazing results are without Flash on the iPhone. People (including myself) are enjoying native apps which were written in Objective-C. I don't think any consumer cares about seeing Flash on the iPhone anymore.

Slashdot is seriously out of touch with reality regarding Apple. The company just posted yesterday their highest non-holiday profit quarter ever (90% year-over-year increase in profit). iPhone sales were up 130% year-over-year. AAPL stock is soaring right now This is all due to Apple's complete control over the iPhone. So does the lack of hardcore adult content hurt the iPhone sales? No, it does not. Steve Jobs is absolutely right.

Didn't they already do this?
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-redirects-china-traffic-to-hong-kong-page-2010-03-22

Google Inc. on Monday started redirecting traffic for its China page, google.cn, to the company's uncensored Hong Kong page, google.com.hk. On a company blog, Google said it has stopped censoring Web services in China. Google called the move "entirely legal," and said it will continue research and development activities in China. The move is the latest in Google's feud with China over the censorship of search results. (Updates for Google's blog announcement.)

No. But when he starts applying for jobs (little j) next week, many potential employers are going to recognize his name (or find it when Googling) and think twice about hiring him.

I dunno, I hear that these guys are looking for someone good at losing things. Maybe he just needs a change in industry.

In mass media, we call it sensationalism. Newspapers, magazines, and TV reporters present people who proselytize the most extreme viewpoints as evidence of a controversy about this and a controversy about that, even where no such "controversy" exists. They aren't making up that there are people having an argument, but they go out of their way to cherrypick the extremists that are at the opposite extreme ends of any issue. Have you noticed all the reports about Toyotas recently? Remember all the hype about the so-called Firefox memory leaks?

Hey, it sells ads!

Nov. 2009 data showed Baidu was 62.2% and Google was 14.1%, alibaba 5%, tencent 5%, MS 5%.

What do you expect from a company that gets a lot of its funding from Saudi Arabia? Murdoch is also investing in Saudi companies owned by the same person.

If partnering up with one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet is all in a days work, how does your personal information on MySpace rate any concern?

Funny it never dawns on a certain segment of our population that one of our major cable news sources is heavily influenced by the Saudis. That would be particularly noticeable, on topics related to climate change.

Why exactly is there a congressional case going on about this?

Because Congress (under its Constitutional authority to regulate interstate and international commerce) makes laws that regulate the auto industry.

It becomes even more worrying when you realize that the US government has a controlling interest in most of Toyota's competitors in the USA.

Toyota is directly or indirectly responsible for 170,000 U.S. jobs -- jobs held by voters. Congress has plenty of interest in Toyota's well being.

In short, why do I care about this?

If you do not care that people are dying because of defective products, please seek psychiatric attention.

File a class action lawsuit and let the courts settle it.

A class action lawsuit would compensate those injured, and the families of those killed. It will not stop the killing, whereas revised regulations might.

MS is, essentially, the last to the table of those I mentioned, and that's a dangerous place to be, even with a superior product. All of the others (well, possibly excepting Maemo) already have mind share and already have, more importantly, applications. The Windows 7 phone will mystifyingly not support any legacy winmo apps, so it's starting off at a massive disadvantage.

Well, it looks like a Zune clone, which is to say that it looks like it's trying to do the iPod/iPhone/iPad trick. Microsoft was really one of the first at the table with a phone OS, but it's scraping its broccoli off to the dogs and hoping no one complains while it whips up something new. Unfortunately, it doesn't look terribly new nor is it building on a wildly successful platform -- the Zune may be getting better, but it's not getting better than its competitors and the niche market it has "carved out" is also caving in -- from last fall to last winter Zune market share slipped from a wee 4% to an abysmal 2%. That's a hell of a drop for one quarter. So if Windows Phone 7 does the same, Windows could find itself just passing even more broccoli to the dog.

Google isn't the only site that displays news on stock charts this way, and I don't think they were the first.

Examples:
SmartMoney
MarketWatch

Well I'll be! I was researching some facts to karma slut (I'm an AC so karma doesn't matter) and I found that the market cap of Kodak is 1.36 Billion! and Apple has over 5 billion in cash.

I didn't realize that Kodak was sucking wind so much. They used to be such a power house.

Looking at Kodak, it just might be a decent hostile takeover target - look at its cash balance Over 2 billion!

As mentioned in John Dvorak's Second Opinion this excerpt sums it up quite well:

Our privacy rights have been eroding for years and just accelerated with the Bush administration. President Barack Obama has been on board since day one.

What sort of society wants to tap the phone calls of all its citizens? What sort of society wants to rifle through your personal belongings after busting into your house? These notions are promoted on TV with shows like "24" and other cop shows, where warrantless searches are common. (Even the actual mechanisms are revealed: "Did you hear a scream for help in there?" "YES! Let's bust in.")

It ironic Eric Schmidt seems to feel differently about his own personal information that that of others.

Schmidt, it should be noted, had a few personal details of his life revealed a few years ago by CNet in an exercise to show the power of Google's /quotes/comstock/15*!goog/quotes/nls/goog (GOOG 590.51, -0.99, -0.17%) search engine. Schmidt was incensed that, for instance, his home address was unearthed, and the company then banned CNet from its press events. Read the CNet article at issue.

Using Schmidt's logic, one has to ask: Why did he care if he wasn't doing anything wrong?

- The household energy use issue is real for CA. Remember the rolling blackouts?
- Legislation often happens in parallel. Homework assignment: how many laws they pass in a year? Would you want them to do it one at a time in order of importance?

Having said the last one, I also think some issues are just distraction, for sure.

Hey ass twit, do your homework before demanding others do theirs (and that includes grammar, as well)

I remember the blackouts, they weren't caused by lack of resources or excessive consumption: It was artificial.

According to this article, the glitch is no longer.

Apparently they fixed the glitch so the problem worked itself out naturally.