Why can't the utilities use their existing profits for this?
As a Libertarian leaning conservative, I say,"Because, we don't want them to."
My reasoning:
We have public roads, because it doesn't make sense to have one entity controlling the means of commerce. Early Europe was hampered by the fact that you had to pay a toll on every road you crossed when you traveled. The founding fathers looked on that, saw what a mess it was, and wrote into our Constitution that the Federal government should control interstate commerce and be responsible for building and maintaining the roads.
The Federal government needs to build and maintain a national power grid for the exact same reason. If I, being in North Carolina, want to buy power from a solar grid plant in Arizona or a windmill farm in Montana, I have to pay a toll to multiple companies between here and there. The machine of commerce becomes clogged with multiple little contracts and breaks down. A company in Illinois could have the power to "cut off the air supply" to the Montana wind farmers when they want to move into that industry. Small players are easily kept out of the market by big players, simply by controlling access.
Today, anyone can start a trucking company and offer to haul your freight, simply by abiding by the published laws and paying for the requisite taxes and stamps. If I want to break into the power generation business, I have to deal with a company, that may not necessarily want to make a deal with me.
Build a national grid with published interconnect standards, and you create a market. Obama talks a good game about "investing in new technologies", but the fact is that the government has a VERY poor track record of picking viable technologies, when compared to investors that are putting their own money and jobs on the line. The government decrees what the state of affairs will be, writes it in a document, and creates a body of law to force their decree. Investors will put their money into several small ventures, then build on those that show promise. The investors never stop evolving their technology, because they never have anything written down that decrees what the future must be.
Create the market, and you cut loose those investment hounds of war to do what they do best. That's why I believe the government should build a national electric grid (and also why I believe they should get the hell OUT of education business).
They created a video game full of blood and gore? A video game? In 2008, they created a video game full of blood and gore, with the aim of convincing people that is a bad thing?
Did they bother to visit a game store, or even a movie theater before wasting their time? Do they realize that today's audience expects to see realistic blood splatters when a game victim is shot in the back of the head?
I always thought PETA people were insane, but I didn't imagine they were this clueless.
And why does a note from the boss saying "Meeting at 11" need to be pretty? Why does a document saying that Irag has terrorist need to be pretty?
Email is for sending bits of information quickly. It's not something you post on the wall to show friends and family. Your name and phone number in a fancy font, next to a small picture of the company logo, just tells me that you've wasted a lot of time creating a.sig file.
Yes. Get off my lawn...and do something useful for a change.
We should be pushing to roll back the right regulations, not abolish them wholesale without considering that some of them may actually be helping us.
Good enough.
Now, how do we know which ones are the right ones?
My own disposition is that the government should act almost exclusively in an advisory role. Instead of the FDA saying that a drug can or cannot be sold, they would provide advisory information to people on what is actually effective. I like the way food labelling is handled. I can choose to eat my Li'l Debbie snack cakes, but because I can read what is in them I will know that they are little more than lard with a little oatmeal to hold them together. If I want to try a new experimental cancer cure, that's my business. Why should I have to wait until after I'm dead for the FAA to pass their blessing saying that it is 100% safe.
Libertarian economies depend on the free exchange of information. Willful contracts can't be entered into when information is hidden from either party. The whole bank fiasco hinged on the fact that bad loans were bundled up so that no one knew what was in there, and then the package was given an AAA rating. If there is going to be more government regulation, that right there is where it should be aiming at.
If they can reduce the sound output to where the noise from a jet at cruising altitude is less than normal ambient noise in a suburban neighborhood, that would be a big accomplishment. I doubt they'll get it down to where you can't hear them while standing in a quiet field away from air-conditioners noise of passing cars - but they can try...
Attend a large (or military) airshow sometime. The US's newest military transport, the C-14 Globemaster, is absolutely eerie. A huge, lumbering aircraft that is close to silent for it's size.
With the cost of lifting the tools that far off the ground, I would expect that there is very little steel used in most of the tools. Your magnet gun won't work very well on aluminum.
Realistically, there are to many people with to many opinions for him to be able to give a damn what Shotgun posted on/.
There is a reason that our founding fathers created a government with a House of Representatives, a Senate, a President and a Supreme Court. Each one is best suited for a particular task. Representatives are the avenue of the common man to Washington. Senators were originally the avenue of state governments to Washington (though, that has been bastardized into a Representative ver2.0 now). The President should be receiving marching orders from the Congress, and using advisors to carry out those orders as efficiently as possible. The Supreme Court isn't even supposed to listen to the common man. That's why they're appointed for life.
"Increasing communications" will just be a way of maintaining a cult of personality that put a neophyte in the office of the President. It CAN'T be used for anything else. If you want to have your individual say-so in Washington, contact your congress-person.
Just to put an emphasis on your post, not only are the Linux users more likely to report bugs, their bugs reports are more likely to make sense and contain relevant data.
Have you seen the drop out rates in community colleges? the MAJORITY of those going with intent to transfer to a four yar school don't. Of those who do half never graduate from the four year school. Of the one who do graduate many of those had to switch majors into easier subjects, say from engineering or biology to education or business.
Have YOU seen the drop-out rate of freshmen at four year colleges? The MAJORITY of those going with the intent of graduating don't. Of those who do, many switch majors into easier subjects, say from logic to posting on/.
The students who do well are just the ones you'd expect to. They were the ones making top grades in high school they head right over to the university and continue. The majority of those taking to detour never finish. (of course there are exceptions.)
And the exceptions don't have a mortgage load of debt when they start working. The people you expect to do well will do well at CC and then finish up doing well at 4 year. That was my point. The people who are going to do well, are going to do well, and they can do much better for themselves by not pointlessly mortgaging their future. The statistics don't mean what the college recruiters say it means.
I can only go off of what I know of the CC here in North Carolina. You go into a CC Transfer Program. You don't take courses blindly. You take the courses that will transfer to the university you want to end up in. Talk to an admissions advisor. The will have a schedule of exactly which courses transfer.
What's stopping asus and co. developing their own drivers like they've always done?
Microsoft. Ask IBM. They weren't able to get official Win95 beta's until just before it's release. The bargaining chip was that the PC division had to stop marketing/shipping OS/2. Well, that's at least what IBM execs claimed in a court of law, for whatever that's worth.
It is a well known fact that M$ is very powerful force on the market. If you are in the market and depend on hardware that runs Windows for revenue, you challenge them at your peril.
Or just offer standard Ubuntu/etc "for free" and still sell the connection, voip, and long distance services - since that is where they plan to make their money anyway.
That would be their best plan of action. Since they are selling a data plan, a smart move for them would be to make a lot of programs easily accessible. The more applications people have access to, the more they need to access the net for tutorials and sharing what they create. It'll be in the telco's best interest to pack the PC's with useful applications vs the typical crapware that has been shoveled into new boxes over the years.
First, skip the 4 year program. The first year of college is just a sieve for partiers and a way for the college to collect a lot of tuition without doing any work. Anytime you sit in a class with 600 of your closest friends, you know you're being taken. Most community colleges offer a two year prep program, which will transfer to a 4 year college. Gets most of the bullshit courses out of the way for MUCH lower prices.
Second, there are two ways to make money in this world. Do something other people CAN'T do, or do something other people WON'T do. There's a reason that brain surgeons and attractive prostitutes get paid so much. A 4 year degree may or may not put you into one of these categories, but so can a 2 year degree.
Finally, the statistics that say a college degree will allow you to make twice as much money over your lifetime. Bullshit! Motivation will allow you to make more money, and it just so happens that motivated people are more likely to finish college. But that statistic may soon be a historical anomaly as degrees will become less directly tied to income when everyone has one.
So, there isn't a blog, so you don't know if this is going to the bit bucket. You don't know if everyone else thinks you're a complete idiot, or if everyone thinks you are the savant that will save the country. My personal feeling is that this will be a "online poll taker". They will grab the ideas that is submitted by a large group, and claim it for their own. Then everyone will say how smart they are, and the circle jerk will continue.
Any great idea will only be submitted by a very few, and will be ignored.
My idea for the country, and I did submit it, is that the US Federal Government should NOT invest in any form of alternative energy (AE). Instead, it should invest in a national power grid to rival the national highway system.
The problem is that if they invest in one form of AE or another, then they embroil themselves in the business of picking winners and losers, and they come up hard against trying to justify the constitutionality of whatever they pick. They neatly sidestep both issues if they build the infrastructure that allows anyone who can develop a way to generate energy the ability to bring that energy to market. Setting loose thousands of investors with visions of striking it rich in the energy markets will do more to spurn innovation than anything a government would be able to do.
I haven't a clue of who you might be speaking, but if such a person did not get compensated the agreed upon wage for his work, then, yes, I would have made them my slave.
Maybe you're talking about the "working poor". I know a few of those people. They did everything they could to not pay any attention to their lessons throughout school. When they finally graduated, or got old enough not to be forced to show up anymore, they bounce from entry-level position in one company after another. They now have a standard of living that a large portion of the people in third-world countries would kill for.
"The poor will always be with you," Jesus said. Jesus said a lot of wise things. This one was a tautology. The problem is that 'poor' is defined as "having less than the rich". Living smack-dab in the middle of the "Land of Opportunity", we have plenty of people that won't get of their duffs to lift a finger for themselves.
They are NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY.
I prefer to funnel my charity dollars to people that I see trying to help themselves, people who's struggle could succeed or could be stymied by problems I would consider small. I prefer to offer opportunity, not handouts. I prefer to see people progress to the point where they turn around and help someone else, and thus no longer need me.
Obama will do absolutely NOTHING to reduce the welfare rolls. Every program he gets his Democratic Congress to fund will expand the rolls, as more people find it easier to let the government take care of them. No matter where you draw the line, there will be someone that has to make the decision of whether it makes more sense to work or live off the government dole.
What's worse is Obama knows this. The Dems are the party of poverty-pimps, and this year they bought the election for the princely sum of $1000/vote. They give handouts, and claim that they're working for the common man. But that handout is money taken from someone that would have given that common man a job. They have to keep the handouts going, because that is the base of their power. They don't want to help anyone. They want to appear like they're trying to help.
OK. I have a test running, so I got a little time for some math.
In 2002, the US had 2,263.96 million acres of farmland. Needing 600 sq.ft. to power the subcompact, the available farmland would power 1.64e11 cars. That sun is going to shine most of the day, and the cars will only drive an hour or two for the most part, but we'll ignore that and say that the car is going to be running at full power whenever the sun is shining.
Well, some of the farmland would not be in use, laying fallow or what have you, so let's take only 75% of what's available. That would be enough for 1.23e11 of your 100HP subcompacts.
But nobody likes to drive subcompacts, so let's allot 200HP to every car. That cuts the number of cars we can power in half, or 6.16e10 cars.
Well, much of the energy being absorbed goes to FOOD production. The whole point in growing the plants in the first place. We don't want to be stupid and cut into food production like we've done with ethanol, so let's say half the energy the plants absorb go into making food. That cuts the cars we can power in half again. We're down to 3.08e10 cars.
But the plants aren't perfect converters of solar energy. And the fungus won't be a perfect converter of the plant's energy. Let's give them both 5% efficiency. That divides the number of cars by 400. We're down to 7.7e7.
That is a ridiculously inefficient process. Wasteful in the extreme. But by this one solution alone, we would sustainably power 77,000,000 200Hp cars driving at full power, all day, every day. According to the US Bureau of Transit Statistics for 2006 there are 250,851,833 registered passenger vehicles in the US.
There's all this talk about investing in research of alternative forms of energy. Outside of funding universities, the Feds should stay out of research.
What the Feds SHOULD do is invest in building a national energy infrastructure. We need a stable national power grid, just like our national highway system. Then they should get the hell outta the way.
There are more than enough technologies out there. What doesn't exist is a way to get the goods to market. You will see solar energy skyrocket in Arizona, if they can sell their energy to Vermont. Every Montana rancher will have a solar wind farm, if she can sell what she generates to Chicago.
Taxes on what you put in and what you pull out to fund the system, just like the highways are financed through fuel taxes. Then stand back and watch private investment in research and investment shoot through the roof.
OS/2 was much better than Windows, but I could never get the fusking thing to install on anything other than an IBM PS/2. Not funky stuff, either. Compaqs and other mainstream boxes.
Plus ca change...
What?! Compaq == mainstream? Dude, Compaq did more than any other manufacturer to make their boxes as anti-mainstream, with the possible exception of HP. Bother were about as funky as it gets and still call themselves PCs.
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Why can't the utilities use their existing profits for this?
As a Libertarian leaning conservative, I say,"Because, we don't want them to."
My reasoning:
We have public roads, because it doesn't make sense to have one entity controlling the means of commerce. Early Europe was hampered by the fact that you had to pay a toll on every road you crossed when you traveled. The founding fathers looked on that, saw what a mess it was, and wrote into our Constitution that the Federal government should control interstate commerce and be responsible for building and maintaining the roads.
The Federal government needs to build and maintain a national power grid for the exact same reason. If I, being in North Carolina, want to buy power from a solar grid plant in Arizona or a windmill farm in Montana, I have to pay a toll to multiple companies between here and there. The machine of commerce becomes clogged with multiple little contracts and breaks down. A company in Illinois could have the power to "cut off the air supply" to the Montana wind farmers when they want to move into that industry. Small players are easily kept out of the market by big players, simply by controlling access.
Today, anyone can start a trucking company and offer to haul your freight, simply by abiding by the published laws and paying for the requisite taxes and stamps. If I want to break into the power generation business, I have to deal with a company, that may not necessarily want to make a deal with me.
Build a national grid with published interconnect standards, and you create a market. Obama talks a good game about "investing in new technologies", but the fact is that the government has a VERY poor track record of picking viable technologies, when compared to investors that are putting their own money and jobs on the line. The government decrees what the state of affairs will be, writes it in a document, and creates a body of law to force their decree. Investors will put their money into several small ventures, then build on those that show promise. The investors never stop evolving their technology, because they never have anything written down that decrees what the future must be.
Create the market, and you cut loose those investment hounds of war to do what they do best. That's why I believe the government should build a national electric grid (and also why I believe they should get the hell OUT of education business).
They created a video game full of blood and gore? A video game? In 2008, they created a video game full of blood and gore, with the aim of convincing people that is a bad thing?
Did they bother to visit a game store, or even a movie theater before wasting their time? Do they realize that today's audience expects to see realistic blood splatters when a game victim is shot in the back of the head?
I always thought PETA people were insane, but I didn't imagine they were this clueless.
So, what you mean to say is that in the FOSS industry, the software develops you?
Let me guess, you're European, right?
(cavemen believing the world owes them something)
And why does a note from the boss saying "Meeting at 11" need to be pretty? Why does a document saying that Irag has terrorist need to be pretty?
Email is for sending bits of information quickly. It's not something you post on the wall to show friends and family. Your name and phone number in a fancy font, next to a small picture of the company logo, just tells me that you've wasted a lot of time creating a .sig file.
Yes. Get off my lawn...and do something useful for a change.
We should be pushing to roll back the right regulations, not abolish them wholesale without considering that some of them may actually be helping us.
Good enough.
Now, how do we know which ones are the right ones?
My own disposition is that the government should act almost exclusively in an advisory role. Instead of the FDA saying that a drug can or cannot be sold, they would provide advisory information to people on what is actually effective. I like the way food labelling is handled. I can choose to eat my Li'l Debbie snack cakes, but because I can read what is in them I will know that they are little more than lard with a little oatmeal to hold them together. If I want to try a new experimental cancer cure, that's my business. Why should I have to wait until after I'm dead for the FAA to pass their blessing saying that it is 100% safe.
Libertarian economies depend on the free exchange of information. Willful contracts can't be entered into when information is hidden from either party. The whole bank fiasco hinged on the fact that bad loans were bundled up so that no one knew what was in there, and then the package was given an AAA rating. If there is going to be more government regulation, that right there is where it should be aiming at.
If they can reduce the sound output to where the noise from a jet at cruising altitude is less than normal ambient noise in a suburban neighborhood, that would be a big accomplishment. I doubt they'll get it down to where you can't hear them while standing in a quiet field away from air-conditioners noise of passing cars - but they can try...
Attend a large (or military) airshow sometime. The US's newest military transport, the C-14 Globemaster, is absolutely eerie. A huge, lumbering aircraft that is close to silent for it's size.
There are already some toys that are basically velcro balls. Cheap, light, safe, effective. Sounds like you've got a winner.
With the cost of lifting the tools that far off the ground, I would expect that there is very little steel used in most of the tools. Your magnet gun won't work very well on aluminum.
Great idea, except:
-an urban planning project would probably need more input from the accountant than the architect. Streets don't pave themselves, and all that.
-power would then settle onto the guy that gets to decide who gets who vote on what and in what proportion.
Settle that second one, and you've reached governmental nirvana. All forms of government eventually boil down to "who gets to decide."
He'll listen...to his pollsters.
Realistically, there are to many people with to many opinions for him to be able to give a damn what Shotgun posted on /.
There is a reason that our founding fathers created a government with a House of Representatives, a Senate, a President and a Supreme Court. Each one is best suited for a particular task. Representatives are the avenue of the common man to Washington. Senators were originally the avenue of state governments to Washington (though, that has been bastardized into a Representative ver2.0 now). The President should be receiving marching orders from the Congress, and using advisors to carry out those orders as efficiently as possible. The Supreme Court isn't even supposed to listen to the common man. That's why they're appointed for life.
"Increasing communications" will just be a way of maintaining a cult of personality that put a neophyte in the office of the President. It CAN'T be used for anything else. If you want to have your individual say-so in Washington, contact your congress-person.
Just to put an emphasis on your post, not only are the Linux users more likely to report bugs, their bugs reports are more likely to make sense and contain relevant data.
Have you seen the drop out rates in community colleges? the MAJORITY of those going with intent to transfer to a four yar school don't. Of those who do half never graduate from the four year school. Of the one who do graduate many of those had to switch majors into easier subjects, say from engineering or biology to education or business.
Have YOU seen the drop-out rate of freshmen at four year colleges? The MAJORITY of those going with the intent of graduating don't. Of those who do, many switch majors into easier subjects, say from logic to posting on /.
The students who do well are just the ones you'd expect to. They were the ones making top grades in high school they head right over to the university and continue. The majority of those taking to detour never finish. (of course there are exceptions.)
And the exceptions don't have a mortgage load of debt when they start working. The people you expect to do well will do well at CC and then finish up doing well at 4 year. That was my point. The people who are going to do well, are going to do well, and they can do much better for themselves by not pointlessly mortgaging their future. The statistics don't mean what the college recruiters say it means.
I can only go off of what I know of the CC here in North Carolina. You go into a CC Transfer Program. You don't take courses blindly. You take the courses that will transfer to the university you want to end up in. Talk to an admissions advisor. The will have a schedule of exactly which courses transfer.
What's stopping asus and co. developing their own drivers like they've always done?
Microsoft. Ask IBM. They weren't able to get official Win95 beta's until just before it's release. The bargaining chip was that the PC division had to stop marketing/shipping OS/2. Well, that's at least what IBM execs claimed in a court of law, for whatever that's worth.
It is a well known fact that M$ is very powerful force on the market. If you are in the market and depend on hardware that runs Windows for revenue, you challenge them at your peril.
Or just offer standard Ubuntu/etc "for free" and still sell the connection, voip, and long distance services - since that is where they plan to make their money anyway.
That would be their best plan of action. Since they are selling a data plan, a smart move for them would be to make a lot of programs easily accessible. The more applications people have access to, the more they need to access the net for tutorials and sharing what they create. It'll be in the telco's best interest to pack the PC's with useful applications vs the typical crapware that has been shoveled into new boxes over the years.
First, skip the 4 year program. The first year of college is just a sieve for partiers and a way for the college to collect a lot of tuition without doing any work. Anytime you sit in a class with 600 of your closest friends, you know you're being taken. Most community colleges offer a two year prep program, which will transfer to a 4 year college. Gets most of the bullshit courses out of the way for MUCH lower prices.
Second, there are two ways to make money in this world. Do something other people CAN'T do, or do something other people WON'T do. There's a reason that brain surgeons and attractive prostitutes get paid so much. A 4 year degree may or may not put you into one of these categories, but so can a 2 year degree.
Finally, the statistics that say a college degree will allow you to make twice as much money over your lifetime. Bullshit! Motivation will allow you to make more money, and it just so happens that motivated people are more likely to finish college. But that statistic may soon be a historical anomaly as degrees will become less directly tied to income when everyone has one.
This is America. No he can't. Anyone that has any expectations of winning 4yrs from now had better have started already.
So, there isn't a blog, so you don't know if this is going to the bit bucket. You don't know if everyone else thinks you're a complete idiot, or if everyone thinks you are the savant that will save the country. My personal feeling is that this will be a "online poll taker". They will grab the ideas that is submitted by a large group, and claim it for their own. Then everyone will say how smart they are, and the circle jerk will continue.
Any great idea will only be submitted by a very few, and will be ignored.
My idea for the country, and I did submit it, is that the US Federal Government should NOT invest in any form of alternative energy (AE). Instead, it should invest in a national power grid to rival the national highway system.
The problem is that if they invest in one form of AE or another, then they embroil themselves in the business of picking winners and losers, and they come up hard against trying to justify the constitutionality of whatever they pick. They neatly sidestep both issues if they build the infrastructure that allows anyone who can develop a way to generate energy the ability to bring that energy to market. Setting loose thousands of investors with visions of striking it rich in the energy markets will do more to spurn innovation than anything a government would be able to do.
As long as she doesn't talk, is there a problem with that?
I haven't a clue of who you might be speaking, but if such a person did not get compensated the agreed upon wage for his work, then, yes, I would have made them my slave.
Maybe you're talking about the "working poor". I know a few of those people. They did everything they could to not pay any attention to their lessons throughout school. When they finally graduated, or got old enough not to be forced to show up anymore, they bounce from entry-level position in one company after another. They now have a standard of living that a large portion of the people in third-world countries would kill for.
"The poor will always be with you," Jesus said. Jesus said a lot of wise things. This one was a tautology. The problem is that 'poor' is defined as "having less than the rich". Living smack-dab in the middle of the "Land of Opportunity", we have plenty of people that won't get of their duffs to lift a finger for themselves.
They are NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY.
I prefer to funnel my charity dollars to people that I see trying to help themselves, people who's struggle could succeed or could be stymied by problems I would consider small. I prefer to offer opportunity, not handouts. I prefer to see people progress to the point where they turn around and help someone else, and thus no longer need me.
Obama will do absolutely NOTHING to reduce the welfare rolls. Every program he gets his Democratic Congress to fund will expand the rolls, as more people find it easier to let the government take care of them. No matter where you draw the line, there will be someone that has to make the decision of whether it makes more sense to work or live off the government dole.
What's worse is Obama knows this. The Dems are the party of poverty-pimps, and this year they bought the election for the princely sum of $1000/vote. They give handouts, and claim that they're working for the common man. But that handout is money taken from someone that would have given that common man a job. They have to keep the handouts going, because that is the base of their power. They don't want to help anyone. They want to appear like they're trying to help.
OK. I have a test running, so I got a little time for some math.
In 2002, the US had 2,263.96 million acres of farmland. Needing 600 sq.ft. to power the subcompact, the available farmland would power 1.64e11 cars. That sun is going to shine most of the day, and the cars will only drive an hour or two for the most part, but we'll ignore that and say that the car is going to be running at full power whenever the sun is shining.
Well, some of the farmland would not be in use, laying fallow or what have you, so let's take only 75% of what's available. That would be enough for 1.23e11 of your 100HP subcompacts.
But nobody likes to drive subcompacts, so let's allot 200HP to every car. That cuts the number of cars we can power in half, or 6.16e10 cars.
Well, much of the energy being absorbed goes to FOOD production. The whole point in growing the plants in the first place. We don't want to be stupid and cut into food production like we've done with ethanol, so let's say half the energy the plants absorb go into making food. That cuts the cars we can power in half again. We're down to 3.08e10 cars.
But the plants aren't perfect converters of solar energy. And the fungus won't be a perfect converter of the plant's energy. Let's give them both 5% efficiency. That divides the number of cars by 400. We're down to 7.7e7.
That is a ridiculously inefficient process. Wasteful in the extreme. But by this one solution alone, we would sustainably power 77,000,000 200Hp cars driving at full power, all day, every day. According to the US Bureau of Transit Statistics for 2006 there are 250,851,833 registered passenger vehicles in the US.
Nawh. You're right. This is a pointless endeavor.
I would nominate The Woz!
There's all this talk about investing in research of alternative forms of energy. Outside of funding universities, the Feds should stay out of research.
What the Feds SHOULD do is invest in building a national energy infrastructure. We need a stable national power grid, just like our national highway system. Then they should get the hell outta the way.
There are more than enough technologies out there. What doesn't exist is a way to get the goods to market. You will see solar energy skyrocket in Arizona, if they can sell their energy to Vermont. Every Montana rancher will have a solar wind farm, if she can sell what she generates to Chicago.
Taxes on what you put in and what you pull out to fund the system, just like the highways are financed through fuel taxes. Then stand back and watch private investment in research and investment shoot through the roof.
OS/2 was much better than Windows, but I could never get the fusking thing to install on anything other than an IBM PS/2. Not funky stuff, either. Compaqs and other mainstream boxes.
Plus ca change...
What?! Compaq == mainstream? Dude, Compaq did more than any other manufacturer to make their boxes as anti-mainstream, with the possible exception of HP. Bother were about as funky as it gets and still call themselves PCs.