I'm sure most will be complaining about patent laws but the problem is what's the alternative? Already Chinese businesses can have a knock off on the market weeks after you launch then flood the market. The joke is if you have it made in China there's an excellent chance the knock off will come out of the same factory using your tools. What option other than surrender does a small inventor have? For years now at best you had a year before a completing product and now I'd say it's 1 to 3 months. Considering most items will have a 3 to 5 year payback before they go into profits it's almost impossible to succeed without large sums of cash.
If they are willing to spend over a hundred million denying it then it's pretty obvious it's real. These aren't the kind of people to throw money away unless they were afraid of the evidence they were trying to suppress.
It's a very different case since the corporation wasn't the bad guy but it made me think of another case. The corporation McDonalds once sued the head of the McDonald clan for daring to have a restaurant called McDonald's in the UK. He pointed out he had no problem with the corporation using his family's name but found it odd he'd be sued for using his own name especially when he was the head of the clan. This case is sad since neither side was causing a conflict it was the customers that forced the name change.
I could take the safe route and complain about copyright holders. The tougher question which most avoid is why are copyright holders assumed to be evil? I'm not talking corporations, we can all agree they are inherently evil. I'm strictly concerned with artists that are often vilified as greedy. Say I spend a year writing a novel then publish it on iTunes for sale. Why am I evil asking a few dollars for some one to read it? Say you spend a few days or a week reading it in your spare time $2 or $3 dollars seems like cheap entertainment. If it takes me six months to a year to write it why am I expected to work for free and the readers expect to be paid for their time? Before I get shouted down by people claiming that's not what they are talking about I see such posts constantly modded highly that stand up for reader rights and attack the content creators. Personally I have no use for these corporate lackies that are involved with the lawsuits and such but why aren't the readers sticking up for the indy writers and filmmakers that want their work seen and read but also want to feed their families? It's nearly impossible for writers to survive on live performance fees as everyone demands from musicians so what option do they have? I personally have a stack of unpublished novels and at present the only way I know to protect them is to leave them unpublished. If I let a distributor release them they want all the rights and if I release them independently the readers claim they have the rights. The joke is if I leave them unpublished then I keep all my rights and no one can claim them. I'm risking my Karma making this post, I'm at excellent right now, I just feel strongly about this as a writer. I avoid like the plague posting on copyright posts to avoid Karma hits but sometimes it's hard to sit back and hear how evil rights holders are. I've recommended to fellow writers to not publish their works because of the hostile environment but how do the readers benefit when writers fear publishing their work? I know capitalism is a foul word but what's wrong with letting the market decide? If you don't want to pay don't read the work. I have 400 to 500 novels saved off on my iPad all public domain. It'll take me many years to read it all. There's plenty of free material but most want what's hot right now and they still want it free. When I was growing up we'd save up a month or more to buy a book. Now most expect to have hundreds if not thousands at their finger tips. How is this the writer's fault and why do we have to suffer because of current expectations? There has to be a compromise? One that allows writers to make a living and people to have reasonable access. You may have paid $500 for your iPad but not a dime of that went to writers. We just want a fighting chance to make a living. I'm posting this mostly for friends since I have no plans to release any of my current work. After I'm dead the family can decide what to do with it all.
They say to expect a Tunguska sized one once a century and this one wasn't that big. They mostly ocean explode or strike so there's few signs of them but an ocean strike can be worse than a land one given the water they displace. They've got to wake up and start properly funding the near Earth program. It still won't protect against rouges but at least they can map ones that cross our orbit.
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Speaking of cows I need a Red Bull. Okay to answer their question before they wasted the time, no it can't be done for a simple reason. Grazing animals are hardwired to go at will. Notice how pet animals tend to be animals that have dens or burrows? Evolution has adapted them to this condition so they go in one location so they don't soil their dens. Predators have the same ability even when they don't den. Primates do it as well probably because of tree dwelling origins. Evacuating bowels requires muscles that in upright animals is used in locomotion as well as four legged animals on the move as in stalking prey. Notice horses don't go a gallop. I guess you could keep the cows on a treadmill but it would cause severe problems if they kept it up too long. I'm sure over thousands of years they could adapt but it's a waste of time. Let them roam in a field they way they were adapted to live. They'll perfect engineered meat and milk long before you could adapt a cow. I even managed in my caffeine deprived state to get it back onto a Slashdot subject, engineered meat. That's the real solution to the waste problem not teaching cows to cross their legs.
I write which has the same issue. Most monitors even name brands do a poor job of displaying text sharply. I always go to Fries Electronics and go down the row scanning for sharp text and solid blacks. The best monitor for the money I used in the past was discontinued. I hate to use the "A" word but Apple monitors are solid if a bit pricey. In the non Apple world I like the Dells, once again pricey. Apple's I don't like the color balance so much and they tend towards the gray side, Retina displays are very sweet and have rich blacks. The Dells tend towards the dark side but you can tweak the settings. I haven't looked in years but the last time I checked my old favorites Viewsonic sucked for sharp text and Samsungs were pretty fuzzy. Since only a hand full of companies produce the screens it's not so much the name brand so bargains can be found but I suggest looking. A glance will tell you if an hour on the screen will be giving you a headache.
I was a fan of Top Gear but stopped watching it after the Tesla episode. It was pretty pathetic. Basically he ran it flat out to show he could burn through the battery in 15 or 20 minutes. It's pathetic because in another episode he showed how a Mercedes McLaren flat out would run dry in less than 20 minutes. You'll also burn through a set of tires proving they aren't meant to be run that way in everyday driving. Clarkson has a personal dislike of electric and diesel cars so he wanted to make the Tesla look bad. Considering most other electric cars have a 50 to 100 mile range the Tesla is impressive.
Just look at how much government policy is about protecting corporate profits. More often than not the people writing the rules work for the companies the rules cover. Tell me how hiding health concerns benefits the public? We need more people like this scientist not fewer! For everyone they fire ten more will think twice about standing up to the corporations.
Even ten years ago it was getting obvious that the main problem we'll face this century isn't energy it's water. People worry about cheap energy but cheap or even availibility of food should be the bigger concern. In the US we won't face a lack of water but it'll get expensive and food prices are likely to double and could triple or more in adjusted dollars. If you're spending a $100 a week what happens when that's $200 or $300? Some families I'm sure the number is already $200 or more a week. They'll face $400 to $600 food bills. That's $1,600 to $2,400 a month. It'll equal or exceed their mortgage. That was mostly from droughts and higher chemical prices. If the water used to irrigate those crops is polluted then the prices could be much higher. We can simply spend more of our cash on food. The third world will starve.
I want one of these large enough to mount a shotgun and chainsaw to so I can sit from the roof of whatever building I used to get away from the zombies and clear a path for my escape.
Why waste a shotgun? Just build one large enough to slap a fresh brain on and while they are chasing that make your escape. An RC car will work just as well and will provide hours of fun watching them chase after the brain mobile.
I want this thing running linux before the month is out. I'd even settle for Windows 7. Just... not the Windows 8 abomination. Anything but that.
If it weren't for the price, I rather like the idea of an x86 high-spec tablet. The android offerings have to make a lot of compromises to keep weight down and battery life up. The Surface pro doesn't: It's a lap-burning battery-sucking brick with processing power to rival a laptop. That's the type of tablet I want.
You're demanding a touch device with no touch features? Isn't that a bit irrational? Linux and Windows 7 are both designed for keyboard use. Ah you just add a keyboard! So you end up with an expensive underpowered notebook that comes in two pieces.
What about Beltane, May 1st, Lamnas August 1st, Samhain October 31st? They are all traditional Celtic holidays. May day was the beginning of the planting season. Lammas was the wheat harvest and was celebrated with bread, Samhain was a combination of Thanksgiving and New Years Eve. It was called the season of death because it was also the time animals were slaughtered for winter meat so they didn't have to feed them all winter. Far more people in this country grew up with May Day and Halloween celebrations than Chinese New Year. We already celebrate a New Year so how many redundant new years do we need to have to keep everyone happy?
OK, as long as history and science classes have to give arguments on both sides about the existence of God.
History is about established facts of the past so a pro or con debate on the existence of God in not appropriate. God can't be proven so once again the debate has no place in a science class. Even unproven aspects of science will hopefully one day be proven. There is no reason to believe there will ever be proof of a God. Bringing "God" into the classroom is purely about indoctrination. It reminds me of that Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake 20 years ago. The class all drew pictures and the one the human child drew looked nothing like the rest and they all stared at her. That's what would happen when the obvious question came up of "who believes in God"? If you are the one kid that doesn't put their hand up they'll stare at you like you were the alien. Bringing religion into the schools is about oppressing those with different beliefs. What other purpose does it serve? Unless it's a class on world religions then leave it where it belongs, in Sunday School.
Apply their "rules", or lack there of, to most any other industry. Let's say I want to dispose of assorted farm waste into the environment so I claim it's mostly water, which it is, but the composition of this farm material is patented and the government isn't allowed to restrict it since it's exempt from the clean air and water acts. Within a decade they've turned some of the cleanest air in the country into some of the dirtiest, not even debated it's an established fact. There have been numerous releases and accidents which have left locals sick and some have died of cancer. Due to the fact most people in these areas don't own their mineral rights they can come onto your property, leave it an ecological disaster then leave without even attempting to restore it. The rest of the country is supposed to look the other way so we can keep getting cheap oil and gas and just feel thankful we don't live in one of these pristine areas that are being destroyed. Check out "Split Estate", it's on Netflix, if you want your eyes open. After everything I've seen and read I want fracking banned but it stands to make the oil companies a fortune so it's here to stay and we have no rights or say in the matter.
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” Edward Abbey
The Founding Fathers realized there is an inherent entropy in government where governments decay to the point where they no longer represent the people. We are essentially there since few laws benefit the average person and most rules are to benefit corporations. Little things like the FDA trying to pass a law that would require every chicken be RFID tagged except for factory chickens that are raised in batches, they would only need one tag for the whole barn. It would double cost for free range organic growers and have no affect on factory farms. Corporations now use the government to attack small business to get rid of competition. Why is this important? It shows clearly we are becoming a Fascist state. Corporate government with the average citizen heavily controlled. Americans have sadly gotten fat and lazy and they'll put up with a loss of rights rather than stand up to their government. It's the Roman Bread and Circuses. They feed us junk food to keep us fat and reality TV to keep us lazy and stupid. 30 or 40 years ago most everyone read a daily paper. Two elections ago Sarah Palin did a deer in the headlights when asked what newspapers or magazines she read. In truth she's not the exception most would do the same. It's the reason this quote is so important, “I would rather have free a press and no government, than a government and no free press.” Thomas Jefferson. An uninformed public is easy to control.
I'm looking at buying land 10 miles from the Canadian border. So they are telling me my electronics can be seized at anytime without cause or warrant? We have no rights. The government has been using the Constitution for toilet paper so long they have forgotten what it was even meant. They treat it like a list of quaint suggestions from a more naive time. The truth is the Founding Fathers would have never stood for much of what they have done so they were better men than the men and women that now run the country. The paranoid and the power mad are in control and we are viewed as peasants. Remember this every year there are more laws not less. Once a right is gone it's gone forever. If we give up our privacy we'll never get it back. Already they are preparing to fly tens of thousands of drones over US soil. Why? To look for bad guys? They don't sun themselves in their backyards with signs that say "Bad Guys". This is about keeping an eye on everything you do. We also have black boxes in most every new car so our movements can be traced and they don't seem to need a warrant to access that information either. There are devices to see through walls and cameras everywhere watching us. It's the frog in the pot of boiling water. Can you imagine people standing for all this 30 or 40 years ago? There would have been rioting in the streets. Today we accept it without a whimper. It's sad to see the country I grew up is fade into a fascist state.
Reall good huh! What suckers you all were to believe the "Obama is good on civil liberties!" line. The man has proven himself by word and deed to be even more evil than Bush and Cheney. Not only does he not reverse their policies, he expands and extends them. But not a peep out of his supporters because he's "their" guy.
You lost me at "even more". For all the Republican moaning and whining Obama has largely kept the Bush/Cheney policies in tact and anything added was in keeping with what Bush and Cheney would have done. The myth this explodes is their ridiculous claim that Obama is the most liberal President ever. No true liberal even considers him a liberal. Clinton was far more liberal. Obama is a right leaning centrist. That's the truth.
I wonder how many actually bothered to watch the video. That statement was stupid, of course, but it was just an added "fact" that really doesn't change the tone of the report that solar energy subsidies have resulted in very little output. We are throwing money away at failed companies.
I'm all for solar energy. But I'm not for throwing our money away. My thought: who is being held accountable for the money, and overseeing that it goes into productive use?
And what exactly have we gotten for the tens of billions thrown at oil companies other than higher gas prices and increased dependence on oil?
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I'm sure most will be complaining about patent laws but the problem is what's the alternative? Already Chinese businesses can have a knock off on the market weeks after you launch then flood the market. The joke is if you have it made in China there's an excellent chance the knock off will come out of the same factory using your tools. What option other than surrender does a small inventor have? For years now at best you had a year before a completing product and now I'd say it's 1 to 3 months. Considering most items will have a 3 to 5 year payback before they go into profits it's almost impossible to succeed without large sums of cash.
If they are willing to spend over a hundred million denying it then it's pretty obvious it's real. These aren't the kind of people to throw money away unless they were afraid of the evidence they were trying to suppress.
It's a very different case since the corporation wasn't the bad guy but it made me think of another case. The corporation McDonalds once sued the head of the McDonald clan for daring to have a restaurant called McDonald's in the UK. He pointed out he had no problem with the corporation using his family's name but found it odd he'd be sued for using his own name especially when he was the head of the clan. This case is sad since neither side was causing a conflict it was the customers that forced the name change.
I could take the safe route and complain about copyright holders. The tougher question which most avoid is why are copyright holders assumed to be evil? I'm not talking corporations, we can all agree they are inherently evil. I'm strictly concerned with artists that are often vilified as greedy. Say I spend a year writing a novel then publish it on iTunes for sale. Why am I evil asking a few dollars for some one to read it? Say you spend a few days or a week reading it in your spare time $2 or $3 dollars seems like cheap entertainment. If it takes me six months to a year to write it why am I expected to work for free and the readers expect to be paid for their time? Before I get shouted down by people claiming that's not what they are talking about I see such posts constantly modded highly that stand up for reader rights and attack the content creators. Personally I have no use for these corporate lackies that are involved with the lawsuits and such but why aren't the readers sticking up for the indy writers and filmmakers that want their work seen and read but also want to feed their families? It's nearly impossible for writers to survive on live performance fees as everyone demands from musicians so what option do they have? I personally have a stack of unpublished novels and at present the only way I know to protect them is to leave them unpublished. If I let a distributor release them they want all the rights and if I release them independently the readers claim they have the rights. The joke is if I leave them unpublished then I keep all my rights and no one can claim them. I'm risking my Karma making this post, I'm at excellent right now, I just feel strongly about this as a writer. I avoid like the plague posting on copyright posts to avoid Karma hits but sometimes it's hard to sit back and hear how evil rights holders are. I've recommended to fellow writers to not publish their works because of the hostile environment but how do the readers benefit when writers fear publishing their work? I know capitalism is a foul word but what's wrong with letting the market decide? If you don't want to pay don't read the work. I have 400 to 500 novels saved off on my iPad all public domain. It'll take me many years to read it all. There's plenty of free material but most want what's hot right now and they still want it free. When I was growing up we'd save up a month or more to buy a book. Now most expect to have hundreds if not thousands at their finger tips. How is this the writer's fault and why do we have to suffer because of current expectations? There has to be a compromise? One that allows writers to make a living and people to have reasonable access. You may have paid $500 for your iPad but not a dime of that went to writers. We just want a fighting chance to make a living. I'm posting this mostly for friends since I have no plans to release any of my current work. After I'm dead the family can decide what to do with it all.
They say to expect a Tunguska sized one once a century and this one wasn't that big. They mostly ocean explode or strike so there's few signs of them but an ocean strike can be worse than a land one given the water they displace. They've got to wake up and start properly funding the near Earth program. It still won't protect against rouges but at least they can map ones that cross our orbit.
Speaking of cows I need a Red Bull. Okay to answer their question before they wasted the time, no it can't be done for a simple reason. Grazing animals are hardwired to go at will. Notice how pet animals tend to be animals that have dens or burrows? Evolution has adapted them to this condition so they go in one location so they don't soil their dens. Predators have the same ability even when they don't den. Primates do it as well probably because of tree dwelling origins. Evacuating bowels requires muscles that in upright animals is used in locomotion as well as four legged animals on the move as in stalking prey. Notice horses don't go a gallop. I guess you could keep the cows on a treadmill but it would cause severe problems if they kept it up too long. I'm sure over thousands of years they could adapt but it's a waste of time. Let them roam in a field they way they were adapted to live. They'll perfect engineered meat and milk long before you could adapt a cow. I even managed in my caffeine deprived state to get it back onto a Slashdot subject, engineered meat. That's the real solution to the waste problem not teaching cows to cross their legs.
I write which has the same issue. Most monitors even name brands do a poor job of displaying text sharply. I always go to Fries Electronics and go down the row scanning for sharp text and solid blacks. The best monitor for the money I used in the past was discontinued. I hate to use the "A" word but Apple monitors are solid if a bit pricey. In the non Apple world I like the Dells, once again pricey. Apple's I don't like the color balance so much and they tend towards the gray side, Retina displays are very sweet and have rich blacks. The Dells tend towards the dark side but you can tweak the settings. I haven't looked in years but the last time I checked my old favorites Viewsonic sucked for sharp text and Samsungs were pretty fuzzy. Since only a hand full of companies produce the screens it's not so much the name brand so bargains can be found but I suggest looking. A glance will tell you if an hour on the screen will be giving you a headache.
But, I bet that oil company envelope he got under the table will make his humiliation more palatable.
He was probably less happy with the envelope Elon Musk gave him with a xerox of his ass.
What happened with Top Gear?
I was a fan of Top Gear but stopped watching it after the Tesla episode. It was pretty pathetic. Basically he ran it flat out to show he could burn through the battery in 15 or 20 minutes. It's pathetic because in another episode he showed how a Mercedes McLaren flat out would run dry in less than 20 minutes. You'll also burn through a set of tires proving they aren't meant to be run that way in everyday driving. Clarkson has a personal dislike of electric and diesel cars so he wanted to make the Tesla look bad. Considering most other electric cars have a 50 to 100 mile range the Tesla is impressive.
They figure given the asteroid's speed the cost of the speeding ticket could balance the budget.
Just look at how much government policy is about protecting corporate profits. More often than not the people writing the rules work for the companies the rules cover. Tell me how hiding health concerns benefits the public? We need more people like this scientist not fewer! For everyone they fire ten more will think twice about standing up to the corporations.
Even ten years ago it was getting obvious that the main problem we'll face this century isn't energy it's water. People worry about cheap energy but cheap or even availibility of food should be the bigger concern. In the US we won't face a lack of water but it'll get expensive and food prices are likely to double and could triple or more in adjusted dollars. If you're spending a $100 a week what happens when that's $200 or $300? Some families I'm sure the number is already $200 or more a week. They'll face $400 to $600 food bills. That's $1,600 to $2,400 a month. It'll equal or exceed their mortgage. That was mostly from droughts and higher chemical prices. If the water used to irrigate those crops is polluted then the prices could be much higher. We can simply spend more of our cash on food. The third world will starve.
I'm sure it'd hurt like hell getting hit in the head by an iPhone a cop threw but wouldn't it be cheaper to arm them with pointed sticks?
I want one of these large enough to mount a shotgun and chainsaw to so I can sit from the roof of whatever building I used to get away from the zombies and clear a path for my escape.
Why waste a shotgun? Just build one large enough to slap a fresh brain on and while they are chasing that make your escape. An RC car will work just as well and will provide hours of fun watching them chase after the brain mobile.
I thought they meant that's how much we could save if we dropped it on North Korea
I want this thing running linux before the month is out. I'd even settle for Windows 7. Just... not the Windows 8 abomination. Anything but that.
If it weren't for the price, I rather like the idea of an x86 high-spec tablet. The android offerings have to make a lot of compromises to keep weight down and battery life up. The Surface pro doesn't: It's a lap-burning battery-sucking brick with processing power to rival a laptop. That's the type of tablet I want.
You're demanding a touch device with no touch features? Isn't that a bit irrational? Linux and Windows 7 are both designed for keyboard use. Ah you just add a keyboard! So you end up with an expensive underpowered notebook that comes in two pieces.
What about Beltane, May 1st, Lamnas August 1st, Samhain October 31st? They are all traditional Celtic holidays. May day was the beginning of the planting season. Lammas was the wheat harvest and was celebrated with bread, Samhain was a combination of Thanksgiving and New Years Eve. It was called the season of death because it was also the time animals were slaughtered for winter meat so they didn't have to feed them all winter. Far more people in this country grew up with May Day and Halloween celebrations than Chinese New Year. We already celebrate a New Year so how many redundant new years do we need to have to keep everyone happy?
OK, as long as history and science classes have to give arguments on both sides about the existence of God.
History is about established facts of the past so a pro or con debate on the existence of God in not appropriate. God can't be proven so once again the debate has no place in a science class. Even unproven aspects of science will hopefully one day be proven. There is no reason to believe there will ever be proof of a God. Bringing "God" into the classroom is purely about indoctrination. It reminds me of that Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake 20 years ago. The class all drew pictures and the one the human child drew looked nothing like the rest and they all stared at her. That's what would happen when the obvious question came up of "who believes in God"? If you are the one kid that doesn't put their hand up they'll stare at you like you were the alien. Bringing religion into the schools is about oppressing those with different beliefs. What other purpose does it serve? Unless it's a class on world religions then leave it where it belongs, in Sunday School.
Apply their "rules", or lack there of, to most any other industry. Let's say I want to dispose of assorted farm waste into the environment so I claim it's mostly water, which it is, but the composition of this farm material is patented and the government isn't allowed to restrict it since it's exempt from the clean air and water acts. Within a decade they've turned some of the cleanest air in the country into some of the dirtiest, not even debated it's an established fact. There have been numerous releases and accidents which have left locals sick and some have died of cancer. Due to the fact most people in these areas don't own their mineral rights they can come onto your property, leave it an ecological disaster then leave without even attempting to restore it. The rest of the country is supposed to look the other way so we can keep getting cheap oil and gas and just feel thankful we don't live in one of these pristine areas that are being destroyed. Check out "Split Estate", it's on Netflix, if you want your eyes open. After everything I've seen and read I want fracking banned but it stands to make the oil companies a fortune so it's here to stay and we have no rights or say in the matter.
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” Edward Abbey
The Founding Fathers realized there is an inherent entropy in government where governments decay to the point where they no longer represent the people. We are essentially there since few laws benefit the average person and most rules are to benefit corporations. Little things like the FDA trying to pass a law that would require every chicken be RFID tagged except for factory chickens that are raised in batches, they would only need one tag for the whole barn. It would double cost for free range organic growers and have no affect on factory farms. Corporations now use the government to attack small business to get rid of competition. Why is this important? It shows clearly we are becoming a Fascist state. Corporate government with the average citizen heavily controlled. Americans have sadly gotten fat and lazy and they'll put up with a loss of rights rather than stand up to their government. It's the Roman Bread and Circuses. They feed us junk food to keep us fat and reality TV to keep us lazy and stupid. 30 or 40 years ago most everyone read a daily paper. Two elections ago Sarah Palin did a deer in the headlights when asked what newspapers or magazines she read. In truth she's not the exception most would do the same. It's the reason this quote is so important, “I would rather have free a press and no government, than a government and no free press.” Thomas Jefferson. An uninformed public is easy to control.
How does that work exactly ? You shoot at a border agent and then what ? Guns are not a solution to everything.
God made man but Colt made all men equal
I'm looking at buying land 10 miles from the Canadian border. So they are telling me my electronics can be seized at anytime without cause or warrant? We have no rights. The government has been using the Constitution for toilet paper so long they have forgotten what it was even meant. They treat it like a list of quaint suggestions from a more naive time. The truth is the Founding Fathers would have never stood for much of what they have done so they were better men than the men and women that now run the country. The paranoid and the power mad are in control and we are viewed as peasants. Remember this every year there are more laws not less. Once a right is gone it's gone forever. If we give up our privacy we'll never get it back. Already they are preparing to fly tens of thousands of drones over US soil. Why? To look for bad guys? They don't sun themselves in their backyards with signs that say "Bad Guys". This is about keeping an eye on everything you do. We also have black boxes in most every new car so our movements can be traced and they don't seem to need a warrant to access that information either. There are devices to see through walls and cameras everywhere watching us. It's the frog in the pot of boiling water. Can you imagine people standing for all this 30 or 40 years ago? There would have been rioting in the streets. Today we accept it without a whimper. It's sad to see the country I grew up is fade into a fascist state.
Reall good huh! What suckers you all were to believe the "Obama is good on civil liberties!" line. The man has proven himself by word and deed to be even more evil than Bush and Cheney. Not only does he not reverse their policies, he expands and extends them. But not a peep out of his supporters because he's "their" guy.
You lost me at "even more". For all the Republican moaning and whining Obama has largely kept the Bush/Cheney policies in tact and anything added was in keeping with what Bush and Cheney would have done. The myth this explodes is their ridiculous claim that Obama is the most liberal President ever. No true liberal even considers him a liberal. Clinton was far more liberal. Obama is a right leaning centrist. That's the truth.
I wonder how many actually bothered to watch the video. That statement was stupid, of course, but it was just an added "fact" that really doesn't change the tone of the report that solar energy subsidies have resulted in very little output. We are throwing money away at failed companies.
I'm all for solar energy. But I'm not for throwing our money away. My thought: who is being held accountable for the money, and overseeing that it goes into productive use?
And what exactly have we gotten for the tens of billions thrown at oil companies other than higher gas prices and increased dependence on oil?
Comedy Central: Best news channel that isn't a news channel.
Fox News: Best comedy channel that isn't a comedy channel.
It's sad when The Onion is more often quoted as a legitimate news source than Fox news