Obviously you didn't inform yourself with the very helpful and informative "Get The Facts" materials Microsoft provided us with a few years ago. If you had you would know how much higher the TCO of Linux on the server is even after a massive outage.
The skimming from the strategic petroleum reserves will not fix anything, of course.
However, I think the politicians are intentionally playing on ignorance here because when they mention using the reserves (that petroleum being stored in reserve for a 'rainy day') most people think they mean using domestic oil in the ground which has been discovered but which has not yet been extracted. People are overwhelmingly in favor of the latter, but for political reasons they don't want to do this.
Most of us would love to use a viable and convenient mass transit system, and thus use as little fuel as you are able, but it's simply not practical.
I've tried to use the bus system in my city - I can drive 15 minutes to work, or I can bus for about an hour and fifteen minutes. It's not worth losing an hour each way.
Unfortunately, cities here are focused on building massively expensive 'boutique' mass transit that only gives current riders fancier options, and doesn't actually introduce new riders who used to be driving.
We really need more subways here in US cities, but even those might have limited use as so many people live in suburbs where an underground probably wouldn't run anyway.
One problem is the disingenuous "all of the above" stuff you hear them spouting in the media. Wind and solar are not anywhere near being able to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Rather than massively investing in building out wind and solar we should be spending all that money researching ways to make it viable instead of a gimmick designed to enrich campaign donors and their startups' poor business plans.
It's the same with ethanol - it's not viable as an energy source, but it's quite profitable as a political source.
Yet another point of dishonestly is even using the phrase "reduce our dependence on *foreign* oil" when really they mean any oil. This is not bad in itself, but it's also weasel wording to imply they'd like to leverage more domestic oil sources when really, they want nothing of the sort.
We're never going to get anywhere on energy policy until we make honest efforts and have honest discussion.
I agree this happens in politics all the time. The differences are that the purchase of influence is extraordinarily well documented in these cases, and the people buying influence from Obama don't seem to know how to run a business at a profit.
To be fair, F&F was not doing anything close to what it did under Holder during the Bush years, and it's not Bush's attorney general lying up and down about what he knew about the program and when.
Google should advertise that if you switch to G+, your grandmother, talkative aunt, and your mother probably wont find you again for at least another year or two.
Google isn't going to let its foray into the most profitable market... possibly ever (sales of personal information of others), just fade off into obscurity.
Personally, I wish they'd all go away. Failing that, the more competition the better.
Yes, for the same reason. The government legislates one-size-fits-all encumbrance to protect the lowest 1% (in terms of intellect) from themselves, thereby we all end up paying for their mistakes right along with them.
I don't give a rats ass if the label looses money or not. It's their fault for not providing things in a format I'm willing to pay for at a price I'm willing to pay.
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It's still unlimited. They should have to advertise this truthfully, though.
"Unlimited data, with 3G speed for the first 3GB."
"Our unlimited data plans feature 4G speed for the first 5GB you use each month!"
Save us, Captain Obvious! *swoons* :P
Obviously you didn't inform yourself with the very helpful and informative "Get The Facts" materials Microsoft provided us with a few years ago. If you had you would know how much higher the TCO of Linux on the server is even after a massive outage.
IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN!
The skimming from the strategic petroleum reserves will not fix anything, of course.
However, I think the politicians are intentionally playing on ignorance here because when they mention using the reserves (that petroleum being stored in reserve for a 'rainy day') most people think they mean using domestic oil in the ground which has been discovered but which has not yet been extracted. People are overwhelmingly in favor of the latter, but for political reasons they don't want to do this.
Rather than raise prices to make inefficient products break even, why don't we make inefficient products efficient?
Most of us would love to use a viable and convenient mass transit system, and thus use as little fuel as you are able, but it's simply not practical.
I've tried to use the bus system in my city - I can drive 15 minutes to work, or I can bus for about an hour and fifteen minutes. It's not worth losing an hour each way.
Unfortunately, cities here are focused on building massively expensive 'boutique' mass transit that only gives current riders fancier options, and doesn't actually introduce new riders who used to be driving.
We really need more subways here in US cities, but even those might have limited use as so many people live in suburbs where an underground probably wouldn't run anyway.
One problem is the disingenuous "all of the above" stuff you hear them spouting in the media. Wind and solar are not anywhere near being able to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Rather than massively investing in building out wind and solar we should be spending all that money researching ways to make it viable instead of a gimmick designed to enrich campaign donors and their startups' poor business plans.
It's the same with ethanol - it's not viable as an energy source, but it's quite profitable as a political source.
Yet another point of dishonestly is even using the phrase "reduce our dependence on *foreign* oil" when really they mean any oil. This is not bad in itself, but it's also weasel wording to imply they'd like to leverage more domestic oil sources when really, they want nothing of the sort.
We're never going to get anywhere on energy policy until we make honest efforts and have honest discussion.
In Jurassic Pangaea, pancakes eat you!
Another reason why we have to question why we're in the United Nations in the first place. (Let alone funding the whole Keystone Kops outfit)
I agree this happens in politics all the time. The differences are that the purchase of influence is extraordinarily well documented in these cases, and the people buying influence from Obama don't seem to know how to run a business at a profit.
To be fair, F&F was not doing anything close to what it did under Holder during the Bush years, and it's not Bush's attorney general lying up and down about what he knew about the program and when.
Nonsense, Microsoft is the name you can trust for security.
I think we should investigate smartphone users who are still with AT&T. Those people should be in zoos.
Not sure if I should guffaw at the oil jokes, or if I would get whooshed.
I guess the only way we could make gas prices exceed Obama levels would be if oil were being transported by interplanetary rocket ;)
Stream it to whom?
Google should advertise that if you switch to G+, your grandmother, talkative aunt, and your mother probably wont find you again for at least another year or two.
Google isn't going to let its foray into the most profitable market... possibly ever (sales of personal information of others), just fade off into obscurity.
Personally, I wish they'd all go away. Failing that, the more competition the better.
The question is not which is worse, the question is whether it's right to do either.
Yes, for the same reason. The government legislates one-size-fits-all encumbrance to protect the lowest 1% (in terms of intellect) from themselves, thereby we all end up paying for their mistakes right along with them.
France with breathalyzers in every car, UK with cameras on every square inch of the country...
You have to wonder why some politicians in the US idolize western Europe.
If we follow their model, eventually we'll all have a government minder following us around with a clipboard.
Bitcoins. We've found a way to smoke them. This time they are REALLY going to make us rich!
4 more years and the dollar is going to resemble Zimbabwean currency anyway... why invest time and effort into this.
We'll be counterfeiting the DPRK's won, and then burning it to keep warm like they do.
I don't give a rats ass if the label looses money or not. It's their fault for not providing things in a format I'm willing to pay for at a price I'm willing to pay.
Not sure if serious
But then their payment information is connected to piracy in a verifiable way, which would scare most of them off due to possible legal problems.