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Which is interesting since Chevy seemed concerned enough about their Volt catching fire to do a recall. Recalls from these folks only happen when they're scarred litigation costs will exceed the cost of the recall.

No, those are psychopaths. Sociopaths are in fact those who can't even simulate being sane in public.

Sociopathy commonly refers to conditions similar to or synonymous with the following: Psychopathy Antisocial personality disorder However, if you did deeper, some people are trying to define a difference, but it's not a settled matter. This reference defines them exactly the opposite of the way you do.

No, places I would never expect would be Kansas, Siberia and the middle of the Sahara. If cable television has taught me anything, it's that the sea is out to kill me. If I can smell saltwater in the air, I'm expecting some explosion of deadliness.

who says they have to be marine only? bioinvasive, freshwater jellies have been found:

Hamilton County
Erie County, Ohio
Trenton, Ontario
Hoosier county (aka Laporte), Indiana

This is the company I work for and we provide global satellite access. Honestly you'd have to talk to our sales department for prices, but we do have coverage in South America and Alaska. We're a NASDAQ traded company that's been in the satellite business for a while.
http://www.globecommsystems.com/
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GCOM

I don't see this monopoly (virtual or otherwise) in search that you are talking about. Care to provide examples?

In that case, allow me.
This is just a small sample of how wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong and hella wrong you are.

That list is far from complete, and is mostly USA-centric. In other countries, not only are there more search providers, but Google does not even rank in the top lists. Or just look at China, where Google is made fun of similar to AOL is in the US today.

If that is what you label a monopoly, I really want to know what you call companies like Microsoft regarding desktop operating systems - or the phone company - or patents/copyrights for that matter.

This one with security/encryption built in from the ground up this time. Would be more interesting that instead of the comments of Microsoft (with deep ties with the NSA), yahoo and google (both may not be very happy with the NSA, but still must give them their users accounts info by law) the article focused on comments from people from i.e. the IETF for implementing it as an standard in a more worldwide (even personal) way.

How is the well known, and obvious fact that most of the media are Democrats a lie?

Look it up from any source you care. This fact is undeniable. My 90% is in fact a very conservative estimate because I like to give some slack, but poll after poll reports this result.

You can also verify this in the core story at hand - outage over the NSA. It is mentioned in the press but not very much. Or what about drone strikes, or the embassy killings, or any other story you can name⦠all of it gets short attention in the media, nothing like what you see with any Republican wrongdoing.

As the original poster said the two parties are currently very much the same. So the only thing that makes sense to do is to vote for the party the press actually reports wrongdoing on.

The classic SNL 'Randall Meeks' sketch has disappeared from Youtube.... actually there is one but the video has been replaced with static screenshot images.

So if you wondered whether Google has a sense of humor, there's your answer right there. They can enjoy a good laugh at other people's expense, maybe.

While the USN has been slow to adapt, relying on more conventional aircraft carrier refit packages to add complements of drones, in reality the paradigm shift means that drone frigates make a lot more sense, in terms of force projection and our actual enemies faced.

Here is more info on a drone frigate: http://voices.yahoo.com/eve-online-fitting-guide-imicus-6350588.html

Also if coding is unimportant the stock market really got it all very wrong.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG ..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ORCL ..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NTDOY
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EA

Maybe he think so but the coding isn't all that irrelevant to those companies

Also if coding is unimportant the stock market really got it all very wrong.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG ..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ORCL ..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NTDOY
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EA

Maybe he think so but the coding isn't all that irrelevant to those companies

Also if coding is unimportant the stock market really got it all very wrong.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG ..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ORCL ..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NTDOY
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EA

Maybe he think so but the coding isn't all that irrelevant to those companies

Also if coding is unimportant the stock market really got it all very wrong.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG ..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ORCL ..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NTDOY
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EA

Maybe he think so but the coding isn't all that irrelevant to those companies

Also if coding is unimportant the stock market really got it all very wrong.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG ..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ORCL ..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NTDOY
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EA

Maybe he think so but the coding isn't all that irrelevant to those companies

Also if coding is unimportant the stock market really got it all very wrong.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG ..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ORCL ..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NTDOY
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EA

Maybe he think so but the coding isn't all that irrelevant to those companies

From TFA:

The wondrous thing about the Apollo program is that while big government, that deservedly maligned institution, provided the resources, it was not run as a bureaucratic, big government program.

A couple of years back I came across a document from the late 1960's outlining the processes for determining if an item could be, and then should be, carried in the crew cabin... the flow chart giving a high level overview of the process alone covered a three page foldout. The rest of the document (a high level overview remember) ran almost a hundred pages. ( I suspect that if I had all the references listed at the end printed out, as it would have been back in the day, it would have filled a good sized shelf.) IIRC, there were over a dozen major Offices, Boards, and contractors involved in setting and certifying the requirements, overseeing the procurement, documenting the item, testing the item, ensuring it met the specs, ensuring it was on all the relevant drawings, ensuring it was in the appropriate training syllabuses, etc... etc...
 
I've studied many NASA internal documents of the era, and they all point to what any competent space historian knows well - the management and bureaucracy of the Apollo program was mind numbingly complicated. In fact, pretty much all of the paperwork, management, etc... that people blame for the failure of the Shuttle originates in the Apollo era.

It is not bullshit that Amazon is selling at a loss. They have never made a profit.

As long as you don't count 15 billion gross profit as a profit.

Gross is of no interest. Take a look at this graph on net: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-a-long-view-of-amazons-profits-2013-8

Sadly, it seems Australia will soon be joining you

It is not bullshit that Amazon is selling at a loss. They have never made a profit.

As long as you don't count 15 billion gross profit as a profit.

Although Amazon is a great business, it's a terrible stock. The reason is that its stock price is sky high. Compare Amazon's key statistics with those of Wal-Mart. Compare the "Valuation Measures" of the two, and you'll see two quite different stories.

Although the two businesses may seem quite different - notably by Wal-Mart being primarily a brick-and-mortar and Amazon being online - I believe there are more similarities than differences: both are retailers that operate on a massive scale, with highly efficient distribution, and sell to customers at the lowest possible price. And of course, Wal-Mart even sells online, with delivery to home or pickup at the nearest store.

Investors are taking on faith that Amazon's growth in revenue will eventually turn into growth in profits. The author of the linked article seems to believe it, and suggests that those of us who are skeptical just don't get it. However, he admits in the article:

Part of this problem comes from the limited visibility into the dynamics of its business finances. Why doesn't Amazon break out more detail in its financial reporting to help the external world understand all these intricacies? How many subscribers to Amazon Prime, how many Kindles have sold, what's the net income from different lines of business, how much of its asset base investment is for fulfillment centers versus technology infrastructure for AWS?

There may be solid business reasons why Amazon doesn't provide that, but from an investment point of view, a stock with a high valuation whose financials can't be fully understood is the very model of "speculation", as defined by Benjamin Graham, the dean of value investors. Those who invest in Amazon may eventually be rewarded, but the stock market has legions of less-speculative investment opportunities that offer a far better risk/reward ratio. There's no reason for any "intelligent investor" to be involved.

[Disclosure: I have no position in either Amazon or Wal-Mart]

Although Amazon is a great business, it's a terrible stock. The reason is that its stock price is sky high. Compare Amazon's key statistics with those of Wal-Mart. Compare the "Valuation Measures" of the two, and you'll see two quite different stories.

Although the two businesses may seem quite different - notably by Wal-Mart being primarily a brick-and-mortar and Amazon being online - I believe there are more similarities than differences: both are retailers that operate on a massive scale, with highly efficient distribution, and sell to customers at the lowest possible price. And of course, Wal-Mart even sells online, with delivery to home or pickup at the nearest store.

Investors are taking on faith that Amazon's growth in revenue will eventually turn into growth in profits. The author of the linked article seems to believe it, and suggests that those of us who are skeptical just don't get it. However, he admits in the article:

Part of this problem comes from the limited visibility into the dynamics of its business finances. Why doesn't Amazon break out more detail in its financial reporting to help the external world understand all these intricacies? How many subscribers to Amazon Prime, how many Kindles have sold, what's the net income from different lines of business, how much of its asset base investment is for fulfillment centers versus technology infrastructure for AWS?

There may be solid business reasons why Amazon doesn't provide that, but from an investment point of view, a stock with a high valuation whose financials can't be fully understood is the very model of "speculation", as defined by Benjamin Graham, the dean of value investors. Those who invest in Amazon may eventually be rewarded, but the stock market has legions of less-speculative investment opportunities that offer a far better risk/reward ratio. There's no reason for any "intelligent investor" to be involved.

[Disclosure: I have no position in either Amazon or Wal-Mart]

and toddlers could then steal cars and go joyriding. no more waiting until they're 13 http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/19263252/police-fail-13-year-old-boy-before-death/

This is sort of amusing since PopSci decided to stop having comments. They did so because of evidence that comments really are a net negative. See http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6115/40.summary?sid=9b37fd35-5bb4-4bbe-89e7-b1054f5ecdd1 and http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/popular-science-ends-reader-comments--says-practice-is-bad-for-science-002245622.html.

Has anyone noticed that they now describe Man Made Global warming, which nobody uses anymore to describe climate change based on man made contribution, or that is, to initiate a world wide carbon tax, is now generic Climate Change?

You boring little toad.

Why do you bother spouting the same crap that other ignorant toads have spouted before you.

Please come up with something new.

Look, even "Yahoo Answers" can point out your idiocy. What a failure.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111107085541AAO1w0v

Heeeres Luntzy...

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.climatechange

The phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favour of "climate change", Mr Luntz says

Things were pretty anarchic in Europe after the Romans retreated and the Huns wandered through...though admittedly it never got all the way down to pure anarchy.

That was not anarchy but anomie.

Do you know the difference between Anomie and Anarchy?

The shutdown wasn't really a big deal, sure, but if the US had defaulted on its debt, that would have been catastrophic.

No, it was a big deal. But it wasn't catastrophic, and neither would us defaulting. Because all that means is our credit rating would be downgraded and so we'd have to borrow at a somewhat higher rate. Would this be a problem? Yes. Would it lead to the death of America? No. Catastrophic means unrecoverable to most people. It means a one way trip to fucking doomsday. This isn't that.

But go on thinking that, tin foil hat man, if it helps you stay awake at night. -_- It would not trigger another great depression. It wouldn't be the end of life as we know it. None of these things would happen. And it's not me saying that, it's the Federal Reserve saying that. The very people who oversee the debt.

Their take on it? "Failure of the government to pay its bills could undermine world confidence in the U.S. dollar, and in the extreme could cause a global financial panic." (emphasis mine). Am I saying the default wouldn't be a crisis? No. But to call it catastrophic is just tin foil hat brigade.

TFA says "This is the original Nokia modem team, it started work on LTE, a better part of a decade ago. These are some of the guys who created the LTE standard and were involved in the original algorithm work of LTE long before other companies were developing LTE, so we believe we found some really good talent here."

Most of those ex-Nokia, ex-Renesas people are located in city of Oulu in Finland, and a few months ago all of them almost went unemployed because Renesas run out of money; right when this new modem tool was ready for the markets. And miraculously their jobs were saved by the bell... by the Broadcom's offer.

Broadcom now laying off its people is just an aftershock to Nokia's and Renesas' failures to utilize their former talent pools properly. These kind's of event, once again, hi-light the fact that Nokia was once doing all kinds of right gizmos. But unfortunately its leadership has been failing the company for a full decade now. In fact, those who have been leading Nokia during the last decade should never hired for any non-gargoyle jobs. The kind of waste of human creativity and stockholders' property they caused is just sad.

AAPL is up 20% over the last quarter.

OK, there's a big misconception people have about stock prices and percentage gain and loss. If your stock loses 20% of it's price today but gains 20% tomorrow, you have NOT gotten back your losses. You're still behind.

Have some perspective in this chart of Apple stock since it's all-time high a year ago:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=AAPL+Interactive#symbol=aapl;range=20120924,20130923;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

So, while it's true that AAPL has seen an increase of 20% in the past quarter, they're not even halfway back to where they were last September. If you bought AAPL when it was $700 (and a lot of people did because they were predicting AAPL at $1000), today you are one very sad panda because more than 1/3 of your wealth has disappeared. You would need to see a 50% gain just to get back to where you started, and nobody wants to hold a stock for a year just to end up where they started.

It really depends on your local power company, its solar laws lobbying skills, NET/FIT rates, federal solar panel import protections and state/city building/code regulations.
Some areas ensure you get real cash back for feed in back to the grid. Others do not offer much export cash to homes with solar.
City building/code regulations can also be costly in some areas.
http://freeingthegrid.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering#United_States
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/solar-panel-next-granite-countertop-161321343.html
http://www.fool.com/how-to-invest/personal-finance/home/2013/09/15/net-metering-how-a-little-known-policy-can-shave-h.aspx
With energy prices going up, you get a FIT, if the cost of a solar install in your state is fair, your home has newer appliances... the pay back period is not so unaffordable over many years.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get 60c back for every unit exported from tax payers and/or power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get 15c back for every unit exported from tax payers and/or power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get 4c back for every unit exported from the power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get a time limited credit back for every unit exported from the power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get taxed for having solar. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24272061
Mix in NET, tariffs with off-peak power rates, smart meters and it gets more interesting :)
The whole electrical load can be reduced with new appliances, efficient home design (heating~cooling, materials used), better orientation when building, roof slope, understanding tree shading.

I would argue that your fix for the education system is completely backwards. Teachers, while not earning rock-star salaries, are in the top half of all earners in every state in the Union. More education for teachers wouldn't solve the problem. Having a teacher with a masters degree is like having a McDonald's employee with 8 years of culinary school training. The extra training doesn't bring anything to the table. A person only needs to be about two levels ahead in a subject to be able to effectively teach the subject. That means that to teach 2nd grade math, the teacher only needs to be competent in 4th grade math. More education isn't going to help the teacher that currently only has a 4th grade education.

Likewise, students working more hours isn't going to help them. Students are already wasting most of their time as it is. They don't need more work. They need less busy work. As a home schooling parent, I can tell you that it only takes a couple of hours a day to blaze past public schooled children's education. More money to the schools won't help them. The schools are already a black hole for money. The problem with school budgets is accountability.

I'll agree taht changes in parenting culture need to happen, but not in the way you think. Currently we live in an orphanage state. The vast majority of kids spend more waking hours in the care of the state than they do the people who are supposed to be their parents. The school has become the parent. This is encouraged by both the school and the people who are supposed to be the kids parents.

Your suggestion basically boils down to more of the same. Fixing our education system will require far more radical thinking than "more money, more time". Our public educational system is the 'Emperor's New Cloths'. No one wants to point out that the whole thing is a sham.

Here is a good example how messed up our school system is: http://news.yahoo.com/school-superintendent-gives-800k-pay-150206667.html

Notice that this guy's position normally pays over $300k a year, and the starting pay for the teachers is $41k a year. I'm not going to complain about the teacher's pay, but starting a career at $41k isn't poverty.

Walmart's profit margin is 3.61%. So 1.1% would be about 30% of their earnings.

I wonder how much of that 1.1% is only possible because of Wal-Mart employees on food stamps?

In other words, how much of that 1.1% is basically our tax money?

Wal-Mart increasing their wages to $12/hr. would increase their average item price by 1.1%

Walmart's profit margin is 3.61%. So 1.1% would be about 30% of their earnings. If they could increase earnings by "just raising prices", they would have already done so.

If Walmart increased their wages to $12/hour, that would not help their current workers, because for $12/hour they would hire different people. My local Walmart has two employees in wheelchairs, and another employee that obviously has Down's Syndrome. You won't likely see either in shops that pay higher wages. Walmart hires people on the bottom rung, that would likely otherwise be unemployed.

Given how IBM has been performing lately, perhaps they should put Watson in charge of the company. Then the question of "whether it [IBM] wants to try and dethrone Google" can also be answered by Watson.

You're entitled to that interpretation. Most Americans think it is the other way around.
http://news.yahoo.com/poll--americans-reject-gop-shutdown-strategy-132559818.html

You conveniently forgot to mention that the senators that shut gov't down are is still being paid.

You could save a fortune if you defunded them and kicked them out of our home.

Ref Ref Ref You know, what, Lemme just google that for you

If Adobe was not already a PCI level 1 (6 million transactions on a single card type), they will be escalated to it now.

Even if they were considered compliant (likely) at the time of the breach, it is never cheap. Keep in mind that fines are assessed independently from each issuer (Visa says what they will charge, MasterCard says what they will charge, etc.). But it is true the charge will not be assessed directly to Adobe, rather their acquirer will have to figure out how to collect it. It's a good thing Adobe has some $4B in liquid assets.

I saw the headline "Charge your mobile device with fire", and I thought the topic was the Tesla fire:

Depending on the T-shirt, the slogal might have to say "I saved Yahoo! public embarrasement and millions of dollars in damages, and all I got was a discount on this lousy T-shirt." to be perfectly accurate.

http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-ceo-ranked-2nd-companys-2012-pay-scale-001129756.html

Regulatory documents filed Tuesday revealed that Mayer received a pay package valued at $36.6 million last year. Most of the compensation consisted of stock awards that Mayer got in July when she ended a 13-year stint as a top Google executive to become Yahoo's CEO.

Most of the components of Mayer's pay had been previously disclosed.

It wasn't previously known that Mayer ranked second on Yahoo Inc.'s pay scale last year.

Henrique de Castro, another former Google Inc. executive who became Yahoo's chief operating officer in November, eclipsed Mayer with a compensation package valued at $39.2 million.

So, according to your methodology:

Apple Market Cap: 433.10B
Coca-Cola Market Cap: 167.93B

Oh by the way, I've discovered this great company that literally doubled its value over the past 12 months!!! You really should check it out before it takes over the world.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NOK+Interactive#symbol=NOK;range=1y

"According to consultancy firm Interbrand's latest 'Best Global Brands' report, Apple is now the world's most valuable brand, with an estimated worth of $98.4 billion.

No need to "estimate" Apple's worth. You just multiply the number of outstanding shares by the stock price and you get the exact value of the company according to the "free market".

However, since Apple's stock is down almost 1/2 in the past year, I don't see how it's possible that suddenly in September of 2013 Apple has become the world's most valuable brand.

It sounds like "Interbrand" consultancy might just have a client in Cupertino, that hopes some well-placed "Apple is #1" stories will shore up a dropping stock price.

Here's a stock chart for AAPL, in case you want to check for yourself.
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=AAPL+Interactive#symbol=aapl;range=20120924,20130923;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

gambling-pro-archie-karas-charged-defrauding-casino - The article doesn't say how he was marking the cards, but Archie Karas was arrested at his home in Las Vegas for cheating at an Indian Casino near San Diego. (The article also doesn't say why state police were involved; the casino's on an Indian reservation, and casinos are allowed to operate there because it's not subject to state jurisdiction, though California's tried to cheat the local tribes on that for years because they want a cut of the gambling take.)

"Well no, they likely won't say something absurd and false."

OHRLY?

Check out their list of predictions. Not one came true. Ever. Show me the one that did.

Did you miss this?

"James Lovelock, the scientist that came up with the 'Gaia Theory' and a prominent herald of climate change, once predicted utter disaster for the planet from climate change, writing 'before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.' Now Lovelock is walking back his rhetoric, admitting that he and other prominent global warming advocates were being alarmists. In a new interview with MSNBC he says: '"The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books — mine included — because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened," Lovelock said. "The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now," he said. "The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising — carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that," he added.' Lovelock still believes the climate is changing, but at a much, much slower pace."

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/james-lovelock-the-earth-is-about-to-catch-a-morbid-fever-that-may-last-as-long-as-100000-years-523161.html
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/23/11144098-gaia-scientist-james-lovelock-i-was-alarmist-about-climate-change?lite

And wtf do you suppose this means?

http://news.yahoo.com/best-ipcc-climate-report-leaks-122437372.html

"The draft report said, "There is low confidence in the scientific understanding of the small observed increase in Antarctic sea ice extent."

"The IPCC projects warming will likely be above 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) and very likely below 10.8 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius.) This is a rollback from 2007, when the likely low end of the warming range was pinned at 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius)"

"The IPCC also acknowledges a slowdown in warming in the past 15 years, which climate change skeptics say is evidence of a global cooling trend. There's no global cooling, according to the report."

"But even with this variability, the past 30 years were the warmest in several centuries, the report said. (A study published April 21, 2013, in the journal Nature Geoscience confirms this trend — the last three decades were the warmest in 1,400 years.)" - ok work with me here. So, it was warmer 1401 years ago? The Danish tree ring data (http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1589.html) shows it was much hotter in Roman times than even way off the end of the hockey stick graph, so the "unprecedented" claim has been falsified.

"The pace of melting glaciers is rising, the report concludes. The Arctic ice pack is shrinking. As mentioned above, the massive Antarctic ice cap is also starting to show signs of responding to global warming by increasing its melting. The Greenland Ice Sheet lost about six times more ice from 2002 to 2011 than from 1992 to 2001 — an average of 177 billion tons a year versus 7 billion tons a year, respectively. "

Oh crap, that sounds serious. What does NASA say?
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/greenland-melt.html

"Ice cores from

It really depends on your local power company NET/FIT rates, federal solar panel import protections and state/city building/code regulations.
Some areas ensure you get real cash back for feed in back to the grid. Others have do not offer so much export cash to homes with solar.
City building/code regulations can also be costly in some areas.
http://freeingthegrid.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering#United_States vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed-in_tariff#United_States_2
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/solar-panel-next-granite-countertop-161321343.html
http://www.fool.com/how-to-invest/personal-finance/home/2013/09/15/net-metering-how-a-little-known-policy-can-shave-h.aspx
When energy prices going up, you get a FIT, the cost of a solar install in your state is fair, your home has newer appliances... the pay back period is not so unaffordable over years.

Apparently they make life possible because they move capital where it is needs to be, and deserve the medal of honor for what they graciously give the rest of us. http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/99-owe-debt-gratitude-1-harry-binswanger-153327379.html

Please, the figures are on record. Nokia shares dropped 75% between September 2007 and September 2010, when Elop took over. In the following 3 years, they only fell 40%. By that metric, Elop actually *improved* their performance.

NFC.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/eliminate-complicated-wireless-set-tis-110000089.html

Never mind that sales of the original Surface totaled a pitiful $853 million in its first few months of release

Pitiful. $853 million.

How much you think it cost, total, to develop the Surface? Maybe their income tax return shows a loss on the Surface (or not), but I'll bet they made a little bit of money on the deal overall. And the people who bought Surface Pro tablets tend to like them.

Let's look at Microsoft's stock chart in the past year. Look at what happens since the Surface Pro started selling last November. $26 bucks to $33 on an average volume of about 40-50million shares:
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=msft+Interactive#symbol=msft;range=1y;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

OK, now let's look at Apple's stock chart for approximately the same period. $650 to $460 on an average volume of 10-20 million shares:
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=msft+Interactive#symbol=msft;range=1y;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

The day the Surface Pro was first available, would you have been better off investing $100,000 in MSFT or AAPL?

Where's your Yahweh now, fanbois?

Never mind that sales of the original Surface totaled a pitiful $853 million in its first few months of release

Pitiful. $853 million.

How much you think it cost, total, to develop the Surface? Maybe their income tax return shows a loss on the Surface (or not), but I'll bet they made a little bit of money on the deal overall. And the people who bought Surface Pro tablets tend to like them.

Let's look at Microsoft's stock chart in the past year. Look at what happens since the Surface Pro started selling last November. $26 bucks to $33 on an average volume of about 40-50million shares:
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=msft+Interactive#symbol=msft;range=1y;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

OK, now let's look at Apple's stock chart for approximately the same period. $650 to $460 on an average volume of 10-20 million shares:
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=msft+Interactive#symbol=msft;range=1y;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

The day the Surface Pro was first available, would you have been better off investing $100,000 in MSFT or AAPL?

Where's your Yahweh now, fanbois?

These diagnostic patents are all held and defended by the American drug company cartels who hold the world ransom. Same thing applies to the detection of the breast cancer gene, that is why you only see the wealthy being tested for this indicator gene, then deciding to have their breasts removed if they inherited the gene. Nothing is holding back the rapid advancement of diagnostics more than the drug company cartels and they need to be broken up permanently the same way standard oil was dealt with!

Myriad no longer has a monopoly on the BRAC breast cancer markers: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/supreme-court-strikes-down-breast-cancer-gene-patent-175640515.html They may keep fighting this, but this patent is crumbling. Where is your link for the HCV test? Physical image shape sounds like something you'd need EM to do. What's stopping people from tagging virus particle with fluorescent antibodies and then counting the green dots with a light microscope? No software patent needed to count dots.