Crestron and AMX are NOT open standards. That's the problem, you have companies creating proprietary standards to create lockin. If Crestron was willing to open their control standard to an open standard it may very well succeed even though it's horribly dated (Crestron still uses mostly RS232 for communication though they have a few protocols that use communication standards that aren't 70 years old).
Environmental requirements and NIMBY. The Utah Tooele facility was heavily opposed by NIMBY and environmental groups and sued more than a dozen times. They only reason it made it through courts and continued operation is because the Army was able to successfully argue the risk of allowing the decaying munitions to remain undestroyed was higher than the risk of a leak during the destruction process. It should be noted that the Army estimated about 10% of the stores were actively leaking at the time of destruction.
The Kentucky and Pueblo facilitates on the other hand are much much closer to heavily populated areas and have faced relentless opposition including probably double or triple the number of lawsuits (lawsuits that are designed to slow the process and make it more expensive). There are also some limited stores of munitions in the pacific and I don't believe they have even built the incinerator planed for Guam yet.
Net-Metering doesn't make money for the property owner. The Net of the front of that means that at the end of the year if you generate excess power (vs what you used when the sun didn't shine) the balance is wiped to zero and the utility doesn't pay you a cent.
What this means is that solar panels generate power during peak usage when commercial power rates are the highest, the home owner typically buys power at night when rates are the lowest. The net-metering means the meter spins backwards during the day. If at the end of the year the meter is less than when the year started the balance is zeroed and they start over. If it's positive the homeowner cuts a check for the amount.
The debate is that as solar power use grows the people using with zero bills aren't paying any maintenance dollars to support upkeep of the grid. Right now power rates combine generation and grid maintenance costs in one per/kw number.
The counterpoint is that the number of people at zero is INCREDIBLY small because any excess capacity is handed to the power utility for nothing.
The reality is that as the number of people at or near zero increases, the system needs to adjust to separate power costs and grid maintenance. The solution the utility wants, is to end net-metering, the solution that should be implemented is a fixed line minimum grid maintenance fee (either monthly or yearly). It should be noted that the utility is mostly opposed to this because it would mean they would have to actually disclose what grid maintenance costs and what power costs. And of course the astro-turfed opposition is funded by the two largest private owners of hydrocarbon based energy in the US.
They had to suit started before congress passes the non-practicing entity patent reform. This is a patent troll created by 4 of Googles largest competitors to target them without fear of countersuit.
I think congress needs to add a retroactive clause to the law and pass it ASAP, either that or add language allowing Google to penetrate the sham corporation running the shakedown and sue them directly.
You appear to be under the mistaken impression that I adhere to some political philosophy in your attempts to point out failings by other groups like Obama affiliated organizations. This only serves to point out your own politicking on this issue. I'm of the opinion that EVERYONE that's abusing 501c4 for political purposes should be prosecuted for tax fraud regardless of political affiliation.
Let me say it again so you understand. None of the organizations targeted including groups with tea-party, Israel, occupy or progressive in their name (including all the groups that weren't targeted that were abusing the status as well) was engaged in social welfare as defined by the statute, which was in the wikipedia link YOU linked and I quoted in my previous reply. I will quote it YET again and bold the definition for so your reading comprehension doesn't continue to fail you.
501(c)(4) organizations are generally civic leagues and other corporations operated exclusively for the promotion of "social welfare", such as civics and civics issues, or local associations of employees with membership limited to a designated company or people in a particular municipality or neighborhood, and with net earnings devoted exclusively to charitable, educational, or recreational purposes.[41] An organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare if it is primarily engaged in promoting the common good and general welfare of the people of the community.
None of the organization targeted were engaged in social welfare. ALL the organizations targeted were using this status as cover for undisclosed political advertising. Crossroads GPS in particular ran attack ads in several elections including Akin in Missouri and according to records spent millions on advertising. That is NOT social welfare as defined by the statue.
The ONE not interested in the truth here is you. The truth is that 501c4 saw a several thousand fold increase in applications because political groups began abusing the classification. The IRS tried to filter this huge increase in people claiming 501c4 status using improper name filters to try to prevent groups clearly not engaged in social welfare.
As I noted previously they didn't have legal authority to do so because congress had not granted the IRS the authority to question applications. As with all IRS filings the IRS doesn't approve anything, the applications is for a tax ID number, whether or not the application is truthful is not up to the IRS division in question to ascertain as any allegation of fraud would be investigated and prosecuted by IRS CID. Unfortunately because of the politics involved IRS CID will likely never prosecute all the liars illegally using this status to circumvent tax and disclosure requirements.
But you might understand that had you been anything but a partisan hack quoting Fox news talking points. You might also take the opportunity to realize that just because I don't blindly follow the same bullshit echo chamber BS you do, that it doesn't imply I'm adhering to any particular political philosophy. I don't differentiate between any of the republicrats and democans in office currently or in control of either party. In fact I believe whole heartily that anyone that claims either party is better than the shit shoveling self interested jackasses they actually are is nothing but an idiot. Take heart in the fact that there is a good 40% of the population much like yourself that falls hook line and sinker for the propaganda and much like you thinks there is actually a difference between the parties. So you and the other idiots in the 40% have plenty of company.
Maybe you should go find one of those democans or republicrats that believes something that big fox news echo chamber has told you is bad and argue with them about how evil that pointless item is. It'll keep you distracted while the shit shoveling jackasses work to enrich themselves at your expense. Oh and while you are at it, shove your partisan world view up your ass.
Another bunch of horseshit. You keep saying things which aren't even true in the links you post. Did you even read the wikipedia article you think you are referencing?
501(c)(4) â" Civic Leagues, Social Welfare Organizations, and Local Associations of Employees
501(c)(4) organizations are generally civic leagues and other corporations operated exclusively for the promotion of "social welfare", such as civics and civics issues, or local associations of employees with membership limited to a designated company or people in a particular municipality or neighborhood, and with net earnings devoted exclusively to charitable, educational, or recreational purposes.[41] An organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare if it is primarily engaged in promoting the common good and general welfare of the people of the community.
501(c)(4) organizations may inform the public on controversial subjects and attempt to influence legislation relevant to its program[43] and, unlike 501(c)(3) organizations, they may also participate in political campaigns and elections, as long as its primary activity is the promotion of social welfare
Not ONE of the organizations that the IRS targeted meets those requirements. Not one of them was engaged primarily in social welfare. And all the tea party groups and progressive groups and other political groups using this classification so they could collect donations tax free and avoid disclosure rules broke the law. Had Congress fixed the problem when these groups began misusing the category it would have never been left up to a bunch of rank and file IRS employees to try to stop illegal use of this category.
As I said before, if Crossroads GPS was engaged in social welfare you are a duck. Now come back when you actually understand the issue instead of blindly quoting talking points you saw on fox news.
Unfortunately my knowledge of this affair doesn't come from Fox News so I will NEVER share your politicized and propagandized view of what occurred.
It's a simple fact that political groups were claiming to be charities and the IRS was trying to stop it through the means they had available because Congress had failed to fix it. No group engaged in political activity of any kind should be able to claim charitable status.
The only IRS punishment going on is the IRS trying to stop political groups claiming they are charities. Something congress themselves should have fixed rather than leave it to the IRS to try to sort out all the liars. When Crossroads GPS, a superPAC created by Karl Rove of all people is claiming to be a charity there is a WHOLE lot of lying going on.
Personally I don't really like the stalking charge. I'd like to see community shunning like what happened to the bitch in texas that did something similar. The community backlash against the behavior cost the parents their jobs and they were forced to move. This lesson would have never been realized if criminal charges like this stalking charge went forward and generated no real punishment.
See the community backlash generally doesn't happen if a criminal case is attempted. I personally think that community backlash IS the appropriate response. The parents of the kids responsible bear as much guilt as the kids and punishing the entire family through shunning is far more effective of a punishment than some silly criminal charge that won't even result in real punishment.
ITER would already be built and running if the US hadn't slashed funding in the 90's when congress went on a science slash fest. Europe now leads in high energy research because they've continued to fund projects like the LHC and ITER. It's very likely that if ITER is successful we'll be paying European experts to build our fusion power plants with European companies dominating the industry.
First, gas turbines are for natural gas, not gasoline. Gasoline would be used most effectively (AFAIK) the same way coal is. Modern power plants approach 80% efficiency using all the tricks the industry has. On the other hand the car has a maximum carnot efficiency of about 30%. Real world is in the 20% range.
With idleing and wind resistance and all the other losses on the car the total amount of gasoline energy converted to kinetic energy is around 10%. This is the reason Tesla can make a car that has a battery with 10% of the energy in a tank of gasoline and get the same range.
Electricity is easy to clean up. It's fuel neutral, ie you can produce it any of a hundred different ways. Centrally run it's efficiency can approach theoretical limits. Because of it's massive point source it's easier to install scrubbing to clean the emissions and dramatically reduce the pollution. And it doesn't even have to be carbon based.
Cars on the other hand are hugely inefficient, you have a fuel stock that's being used primary to generate waste heat with very little kinetic energy output (as a percentage of stored chemical energy in the gasoline). If we switched all our cars to electric and used the gasoline to generate electricity we would need about half as much.
We could easily reduce carbon emissions in the west by making driving expensive. The dramatic rise in gasoline price that happened during Bush's second term has reduced US carbon output dramatically. Cars are now more efficient and we're driving less. In total this has reduced gasoline consumption dramatically to the point that the US is now exporting gasoline because we have so much refinery capacity built up in the run-up to the decline in driving.
Well wonder no more. It would be someone at the NSA using the illegally collected data to embarrass a congresscritter from each party. The most effective release would be adultery particularly if it involves some form of "deviant" sexuality. Think along the lines of propositioning a transsexual for sex. Other big winners are use of illegal drugs or sex with a minor.
If the debt ceiling is not raised we will default. That puts it on the table. If a single bill goes unpaid we are defaulting. It doesn't matter if it's a bond or a social security check. The market will treat it the same and it's going to be catastrophic. We run the risk of a collapse of the entire world economy (which is predicated on the stability of the US bond market).
Treasury has no way (without rewriting their entire software that controls the payment system) to sort payments by type. They would have to sort manually and with millions of payments due every single day it would take thousands of people to sort them all and pay only one type.
People that are downplaying default don't know what the fuck they are talking about. You want an example of default, refer to Argentina. They defaulted almost a decade ago and they STILL can't borrow money. Every single thing they import must be paid for with hard currency extracted from products they sell to other nations. Much like Venezuela they have shortages, business can't get parts and a whole host of problems that would make living there hellish. The US has a import/export deficit of several hundred billion dollars a month. That means all that stops, nothing will be imported without a corresponding export of equal value. Do you have any idea how much that would impact the world economy let alone the US economy? It would lead to a recession that would be WORSE than 2008. In fact we probably wouldn't recover from it without a big fucking world war again.
Maybe I'm being paranoid but you are seriously playing down severe risks. If we default (meaning we don't pay a bill when required) we are looking at a severe recession with high double digit unemployment that will make the last few years of 12% unemployment look like a picnic.
And with the number of payments and such that Treasury processes every month there is absolutely no way for them to manually separate out the bond payments because their systems were never designed for this.
So if they hand you 40 reams of paper printed with 8point text with each line being a payment do you want to be the person that has to find every bond payment in the list. Oh and you need to do the same list every single day (and it won't be in the same order).
They would need to hire 1000 people to manually sort the payments.
Crime rule #2: If you think that guy you knew from high school who gets arrested isn't going to rat your ass out for a sentence reduction you are fucking stupid.
The only successful long term criminal operations are ones based on family.
That's what he claims. You have no idea what his actual motivations are, well unless you believe he is a paragon of virtue and would never lie but that only affects you.
There are quite a few people that think he's using the US as an excuse to avoid extradition.
I attribute the serious press coverage and negative tone to paid coverage by other car manufacturers. They are scared of Tesla because they've developed everything in house and now hold patents on a lot of key electric car technology.
Anyone with any brains looked at this as said so what. I've seen car fires, obviously gas car fires and they are fucking scary. I watched a gas car go from a little smoke to smouldering ember in less than 2 minutes. The driver barely made it out alive. People are routinely killed in car fires because gas cars burn very very fast. Apparently the Model S told him there was trouble and to pull over and he was out of the car waiting for help long before the fire started. Though it makes for an interesting video had that been a gas fire the car would have been a smoking ember before the fire department got there.
Even when it comes to something as basic, and apparently as simple and straightforward, as the question of who shut down the federal government, there are diametrically opposite answers, depending on whether you talk to Democrats or to Republicans.
It's funny you put that at the top because you just fucking demonstrated it. Everyone's at fault, but there is one group holding government hostage to defund something that's not even part of the spending bill. ACA is already funded, and the house is trying to undo that funding at the threat of shutting down the government.
Your post was nothing but a bunch of horseshit partisan politics and I hope you enjoy your layoff. You have been clearly sucking on the government tit. You are exactly the kind of government spending we need to cut.
They haven't decided where to install because Google hasn't. It will be predatory installation. That means they will install the system only where Google does and will only offer competitive prices to those who can get Google service. They do this to anyone that tries to overbuild.
It was passed with Veto Proof Margins. Clinton couldn't veto it, his signature wasn't even needed. Repealing the financial regulations is ENTIRELY on the feet of the republican party.
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Crestron and AMX are NOT open standards. That's the problem, you have companies creating proprietary standards to create lockin. If Crestron was willing to open their control standard to an open standard it may very well succeed even though it's horribly dated (Crestron still uses mostly RS232 for communication though they have a few protocols that use communication standards that aren't 70 years old).
Environmental requirements and NIMBY. The Utah Tooele facility was heavily opposed by NIMBY and environmental groups and sued more than a dozen times. They only reason it made it through courts and continued operation is because the Army was able to successfully argue the risk of allowing the decaying munitions to remain undestroyed was higher than the risk of a leak during the destruction process. It should be noted that the Army estimated about 10% of the stores were actively leaking at the time of destruction.
The Kentucky and Pueblo facilitates on the other hand are much much closer to heavily populated areas and have faced relentless opposition including probably double or triple the number of lawsuits (lawsuits that are designed to slow the process and make it more expensive). There are also some limited stores of munitions in the pacific and I don't believe they have even built the incinerator planed for Guam yet.
Net-Metering doesn't make money for the property owner. The Net of the front of that means that at the end of the year if you generate excess power (vs what you used when the sun didn't shine) the balance is wiped to zero and the utility doesn't pay you a cent.
What this means is that solar panels generate power during peak usage when commercial power rates are the highest, the home owner typically buys power at night when rates are the lowest. The net-metering means the meter spins backwards during the day. If at the end of the year the meter is less than when the year started the balance is zeroed and they start over. If it's positive the homeowner cuts a check for the amount.
The debate is that as solar power use grows the people using with zero bills aren't paying any maintenance dollars to support upkeep of the grid. Right now power rates combine generation and grid maintenance costs in one per/kw number.
The counterpoint is that the number of people at zero is INCREDIBLY small because any excess capacity is handed to the power utility for nothing.
The reality is that as the number of people at or near zero increases, the system needs to adjust to separate power costs and grid maintenance. The solution the utility wants, is to end net-metering, the solution that should be implemented is a fixed line minimum grid maintenance fee (either monthly or yearly). It should be noted that the utility is mostly opposed to this because it would mean they would have to actually disclose what grid maintenance costs and what power costs. And of course the astro-turfed opposition is funded by the two largest private owners of hydrocarbon based energy in the US.
They had to suit started before congress passes the non-practicing entity patent reform. This is a patent troll created by 4 of Googles largest competitors to target them without fear of countersuit.
I think congress needs to add a retroactive clause to the law and pass it ASAP, either that or add language allowing Google to penetrate the sham corporation running the shakedown and sue them directly.
Some of us like masochism, no give me my whip back.
Sounds like Microsoft Bob all over again.
They should call Melinda Gates and get her input.
You appear to be under the mistaken impression that I adhere to some political philosophy in your attempts to point out failings by other groups like Obama affiliated organizations. This only serves to point out your own politicking on this issue. I'm of the opinion that EVERYONE that's abusing 501c4 for political purposes should be prosecuted for tax fraud regardless of political affiliation.
Let me say it again so you understand. None of the organizations targeted including groups with tea-party, Israel, occupy or progressive in their name (including all the groups that weren't targeted that were abusing the status as well) was engaged in social welfare as defined by the statute, which was in the wikipedia link YOU linked and I quoted in my previous reply. I will quote it YET again and bold the definition for so your reading comprehension doesn't continue to fail you.
None of the organization targeted were engaged in social welfare. ALL the organizations targeted were using this status as cover for undisclosed political advertising. Crossroads GPS in particular ran attack ads in several elections including Akin in Missouri and according to records spent millions on advertising. That is NOT social welfare as defined by the statue.
The ONE not interested in the truth here is you. The truth is that 501c4 saw a several thousand fold increase in applications because political groups began abusing the classification. The IRS tried to filter this huge increase in people claiming 501c4 status using improper name filters to try to prevent groups clearly not engaged in social welfare.
As I noted previously they didn't have legal authority to do so because congress had not granted the IRS the authority to question applications. As with all IRS filings the IRS doesn't approve anything, the applications is for a tax ID number, whether or not the application is truthful is not up to the IRS division in question to ascertain as any allegation of fraud would be investigated and prosecuted by IRS CID. Unfortunately because of the politics involved IRS CID will likely never prosecute all the liars illegally using this status to circumvent tax and disclosure requirements.
But you might understand that had you been anything but a partisan hack quoting Fox news talking points. You might also take the opportunity to realize that just because I don't blindly follow the same bullshit echo chamber BS you do, that it doesn't imply I'm adhering to any particular political philosophy. I don't differentiate between any of the republicrats and democans in office currently or in control of either party. In fact I believe whole heartily that anyone that claims either party is better than the shit shoveling self interested jackasses they actually are is nothing but an idiot. Take heart in the fact that there is a good 40% of the population much like yourself that falls hook line and sinker for the propaganda and much like you thinks there is actually a difference between the parties. So you and the other idiots in the 40% have plenty of company.
Maybe you should go find one of those democans or republicrats that believes something that big fox news echo chamber has told you is bad and argue with them about how evil that pointless item is. It'll keep you distracted while the shit shoveling jackasses work to enrich themselves at your expense. Oh and while you are at it, shove your partisan world view up your ass.
Another bunch of horseshit. You keep saying things which aren't even true in the links you post. Did you even read the wikipedia article you think you are referencing?
Not ONE of the organizations that the IRS targeted meets those requirements. Not one of them was engaged primarily in social welfare. And all the tea party groups and progressive groups and other political groups using this classification so they could collect donations tax free and avoid disclosure rules broke the law. Had Congress fixed the problem when these groups began misusing the category it would have never been left up to a bunch of rank and file IRS employees to try to stop illegal use of this category.
As I said before, if Crossroads GPS was engaged in social welfare you are a duck. Now come back when you actually understand the issue instead of blindly quoting talking points you saw on fox news.
Unfortunately my knowledge of this affair doesn't come from Fox News so I will NEVER share your politicized and propagandized view of what occurred.
It's a simple fact that political groups were claiming to be charities and the IRS was trying to stop it through the means they had available because Congress had failed to fix it. No group engaged in political activity of any kind should be able to claim charitable status.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Crossroads
If Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS group was engaged in social charity you're a fucking duck.
The only IRS punishment going on is the IRS trying to stop political groups claiming they are charities. Something congress themselves should have fixed rather than leave it to the IRS to try to sort out all the liars. When Crossroads GPS, a superPAC created by Karl Rove of all people is claiming to be a charity there is a WHOLE lot of lying going on.
Personally I don't really like the stalking charge. I'd like to see community shunning like what happened to the bitch in texas that did something similar. The community backlash against the behavior cost the parents their jobs and they were forced to move. This lesson would have never been realized if criminal charges like this stalking charge went forward and generated no real punishment.
See the community backlash generally doesn't happen if a criminal case is attempted. I personally think that community backlash IS the appropriate response. The parents of the kids responsible bear as much guilt as the kids and punishing the entire family through shunning is far more effective of a punishment than some silly criminal charge that won't even result in real punishment.
ITER would already be built and running if the US hadn't slashed funding in the 90's when congress went on a science slash fest. Europe now leads in high energy research because they've continued to fund projects like the LHC and ITER. It's very likely that if ITER is successful we'll be paying European experts to build our fusion power plants with European companies dominating the industry.
First, gas turbines are for natural gas, not gasoline. Gasoline would be used most effectively (AFAIK) the same way coal is. Modern power plants approach 80% efficiency using all the tricks the industry has. On the other hand the car has a maximum carnot efficiency of about 30%. Real world is in the 20% range.
With idleing and wind resistance and all the other losses on the car the total amount of gasoline energy converted to kinetic energy is around 10%. This is the reason Tesla can make a car that has a battery with 10% of the energy in a tank of gasoline and get the same range.
Electricity is easy to clean up. It's fuel neutral, ie you can produce it any of a hundred different ways. Centrally run it's efficiency can approach theoretical limits. Because of it's massive point source it's easier to install scrubbing to clean the emissions and dramatically reduce the pollution. And it doesn't even have to be carbon based.
Cars on the other hand are hugely inefficient, you have a fuel stock that's being used primary to generate waste heat with very little kinetic energy output (as a percentage of stored chemical energy in the gasoline). If we switched all our cars to electric and used the gasoline to generate electricity we would need about half as much.
We could easily reduce carbon emissions in the west by making driving expensive. The dramatic rise in gasoline price that happened during Bush's second term has reduced US carbon output dramatically. Cars are now more efficient and we're driving less. In total this has reduced gasoline consumption dramatically to the point that the US is now exporting gasoline because we have so much refinery capacity built up in the run-up to the decline in driving.
Well wonder no more. It would be someone at the NSA using the illegally collected data to embarrass a congresscritter from each party. The most effective release would be adultery particularly if it involves some form of "deviant" sexuality. Think along the lines of propositioning a transsexual for sex. Other big winners are use of illegal drugs or sex with a minor.
In fact I pray the next "snowden" does just that.
If the debt ceiling is not raised we will default. That puts it on the table. If a single bill goes unpaid we are defaulting. It doesn't matter if it's a bond or a social security check. The market will treat it the same and it's going to be catastrophic. We run the risk of a collapse of the entire world economy (which is predicated on the stability of the US bond market).
Treasury has no way (without rewriting their entire software that controls the payment system) to sort payments by type. They would have to sort manually and with millions of payments due every single day it would take thousands of people to sort them all and pay only one type.
People that are downplaying default don't know what the fuck they are talking about. You want an example of default, refer to Argentina. They defaulted almost a decade ago and they STILL can't borrow money. Every single thing they import must be paid for with hard currency extracted from products they sell to other nations. Much like Venezuela they have shortages, business can't get parts and a whole host of problems that would make living there hellish. The US has a import/export deficit of several hundred billion dollars a month. That means all that stops, nothing will be imported without a corresponding export of equal value. Do you have any idea how much that would impact the world economy let alone the US economy? It would lead to a recession that would be WORSE than 2008. In fact we probably wouldn't recover from it without a big fucking world war again.
Maybe I'm being paranoid but you are seriously playing down severe risks. If we default (meaning we don't pay a bill when required) we are looking at a severe recession with high double digit unemployment that will make the last few years of 12% unemployment look like a picnic.
And with the number of payments and such that Treasury processes every month there is absolutely no way for them to manually separate out the bond payments because their systems were never designed for this.
So if they hand you 40 reams of paper printed with 8point text with each line being a payment do you want to be the person that has to find every bond payment in the list. Oh and you need to do the same list every single day (and it won't be in the same order).
They would need to hire 1000 people to manually sort the payments.
Crime rule #2: If you think that guy you knew from high school who gets arrested isn't going to rat your ass out for a sentence reduction you are fucking stupid.
The only successful long term criminal operations are ones based on family.
That's what he claims. You have no idea what his actual motivations are, well unless you believe he is a paragon of virtue and would never lie but that only affects you.
There are quite a few people that think he's using the US as an excuse to avoid extradition.
Meg is a copycat CEO.
Which is technically the same person.
Unless you are referring to the political head of state and not the official head of state who is ceremonial.
I attribute the serious press coverage and negative tone to paid coverage by other car manufacturers. They are scared of Tesla because they've developed everything in house and now hold patents on a lot of key electric car technology.
Anyone with any brains looked at this as said so what. I've seen car fires, obviously gas car fires and they are fucking scary. I watched a gas car go from a little smoke to smouldering ember in less than 2 minutes. The driver barely made it out alive. People are routinely killed in car fires because gas cars burn very very fast. Apparently the Model S told him there was trouble and to pull over and he was out of the car waiting for help long before the fire started. Though it makes for an interesting video had that been a gas fire the car would have been a smoking ember before the fire department got there.
It's funny you put that at the top because you just fucking demonstrated it. Everyone's at fault, but there is one group holding government hostage to defund something that's not even part of the spending bill. ACA is already funded, and the house is trying to undo that funding at the threat of shutting down the government.
Your post was nothing but a bunch of horseshit partisan politics and I hope you enjoy your layoff. You have been clearly sucking on the government tit. You are exactly the kind of government spending we need to cut.
They haven't decided where to install because Google hasn't. It will be predatory installation. That means they will install the system only where Google does and will only offer competitive prices to those who can get Google service. They do this to anyone that tries to overbuild.
It was passed with Veto Proof Margins. Clinton couldn't veto it, his signature wasn't even needed. Repealing the financial regulations is ENTIRELY on the feet of the republican party.