The author is recommending that local government own and control "the internet." He uses public roads as an example of local government ownership -- potholes and all.

When communities own their roads they can and have established the rules of the road. This is why the average speed and carrying capacity of these local roads have skyrocketed in the last two decades.

Local government ownership of public schools has given us a fine education system turning out young adults that know far more and are more prepared for good jobs than 20 or 30 or 50 years ago.

You can fire your local cable provider and stop paying if you don't like the product. Try to stop paying taxes sometime.

By the way, in most places the local cable provider has been handed a franchise by the local government. Clearly they (the government) was knowledgeable and able to specify a high performance product at a fair and reasonable price before awarding the franchise. Weren't they?

Let the "activists" put up the money, buy a fleet of these things and sell rides through the park. We'll see if the tourists pay for the electrics or the real horses.

I'll take the horses.

Oh, the corn. Think of the corn. Children will starve in Des Moines.

Victory! Social Security Suspends Stale-Debt Collection Program
http://overlawyered.com/2014/0...

Right question: "Will This Flying Car Get Off the Ground?" As in, "Will This Flying Car Ever Make a Profit?"

Just like all others before it, no.

That's 100 (or 93) faculty members out of "about 2,400 faculty members."

Another headline could be, "2,307 Harvard Faculty Members Don't Call On the University to Divest From Fossil Fuels."

http://www.harvard.edu/harvard...

If adware is malware, why wait until July?

Because if they just popped it on the unsuspecting world with neither prior notification nor opportunity for users and IT professionals to react and inform, pundits would be caught unaware and unprepared and spend the next weeks complaining. Loudly. Vociferously. Obnoxiously. And users would be more pissed off than they will be in any case.

According to industry experts ... we aren't anywhere close to getting a service that allows customers to pay a single monthly fee for access to a wide range of top-notch movies and TV shows.

Just like one service can't provide customers with a wide range of top-notch retail products. Except for Amazon.

... to not-for-profit institutions?

Perhaps public high schools should be held to the same standard. Like Charter Schools.

Your calculation implies that the benefit is full employment. The benefit of science is knowledge. You get an F.

The poster asserts, "Government-funded science is struggling in the United States."

The Federal Government spends more than $130 billion on research and development (R&D) each year, conducted primarily at universities and Federal laboratories.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog...

How much should the taxpayers spend on research? Show your work.

You'll notice in the graph at your link that the temperature trend is flat since about 2000. No warming. Thanks for proving my point.

Big picture here ...
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/...

I'll respond to you and hope that your friends below manage to find it.

On all data sets below, the different times for a slope that is at least very slightly negative ranges from 8 years and 7 months to 16 years and 8 months.
1. For GISS, the slope is flat since February 2001 or 12 years, 6 months. (goes to July)
2. For Hadcrut3, the slope is flat since April 1997 or 16 years, 4 months. (goes to July)
3. For a combination of GISS, Hadcrut3, UAH and RSS, the slope is flat since December 2000 or 12 years, 8 months. (goes to July)
4. For Hadcrut4, the slope is flat since December 2000 or 12 years, 8 months. (goes to July)
5. For Hadsst2, the slope is flat since March 1997 or 16 years, 4 months. (goes to June) (The July anomaly is out, but it is not on WFT yet.)
6. For UAH, the slope is flat since January 2005 or 8 years, 7 months. (goes to July using version 5.5)
7. For RSS, the slope is flat since December 1996 or 16 years and 8 months. (goes to July)

http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...

There is an embarrassing (for you) graph at the link in case you have trouble with numbers.

I've shown you my data now you can show me yours and we'll see who is the moron, you moron.

It's a failure that highlights the danger of relying on big data technologies.

Or big models. Like climate models. The ones that have predicted a warming climate for the past 15 years while the climate has not warmed.

You know that old joke ... Will the last one out turn off the lights.

How do these bozos plan to power the lives 300+ million Americans who like to read at night, watch TV and have electric appliances do their laundry and wash their dishes.

And don't just say, "solar" or "wind" without including the cost (in $Gazillions) and time (in decades) to build out an entirely new infrastructure while inventing some way to store power for calm nights.

Nuclear? Great. Better start changing regulations and lining up money. Lots and lots of money.