Totally missing on those $-addicts.
Seems to come with their genetics.
Not even sure if the word "patriotism" is the right term here. Maybe patriotism is including to cheat in taxes.
Nevertheless, people hate the taxman because they distrust the receivers - government.
So, it's an ingrained fad to reduce tax payments as much as possible.
Stash it away in Grand Cayman, Switzerland and hope you don't get caught. That's the smaller guys.
The larger whales in this game are doing it legally by feeding part of their stash to "friends" who implement "good rules" for them and don't touch their undertakings.
And there we have it... maximize $$ at any price to the top of the pyramid.

Is the school/university system with all the financial burdens on the future of participants and inequality a consequence of this? Maybe, who knows...

Some kind of modular system where a standarized batterypack is used which can be refurbisched with material (sulfur) reused?

Well, my "downgrade" from W 8.1 wasn't smooth at all. I take raw partition images as FS backups and after restore, the W 8 didn't like itself any longer and failed to boot.
The "repair" feature of the W8 install disk was trying all night and in the morning it concluded that it can't fix itself. A W 7 install/repair fixed the W8 boot failure malaise in minutes which got me quite amused.

What? Since when has W8 a START button? On which planet/reality are you at home?
Seems we have a certain kind of fanboy here...

this is a, if not the major problem that ROI = $'s ** x is the only measure how things are followed, the more the better, and not what would be adequate on a global scale. That's where currently all systems fail flat.

I am not really an Apple fan but this is a good one!

update on top of W8 that is..

Experience so far:

Acrobat reader crashes reliably
Essential VPN in VMware images no longer works.

Consequence:
Restore W 8 from backup

Cost? Lots of time lost on this BS!

Maybe they need to give it away for free so people are less upset if they get burnt - you get what you pay for and get sucked on with ads and/or giving up your privacy.

Ah - and this BING desktop or whatever it is was never installed.

not only on the republican side but also in brains of a large section of US population.

The thought, just the idea in one's head that something can be sorted out without "power" will be considered a weakness which cannot be tolerated.

That's totally independent from the money made on military and the forces behind.

Just looking at the near east idiocy coming purely out of conditioned structures in people brains.

All pretty desolate I'd say....

As if there would not be enough to do in this country - deteriorating infrastructure, alternative energy use just skimping along and partially failing making some folks feeling good...

the MF reason is profit of somebody selling insurance for cellphone theft - probably the carriers themselves...

Would there somebody be to clean up this mess?

So, what happens to all that dirty water pumped pumped in deep injections "wells"? Maybe it's "spare" water when surface water becomes even more scarce then in some areas of US already?

I think all this activity is playing poker with the future where one side in the present holds the better card.

Maybe to avoid a lawsuit by the private jail company for lost profits?

Those characters: "Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Sadistic" are on the highest positions which is a well known fact. Does this knowledge change anything or has it in past?

that some folks - lawyers(?) - come to their senses, maybe by giving them a strong whack left and right on their cheeks, looking straight in their eyes and telling them "you don't do this again".

If this happens enough - maybe 100 times per individual - this nonsense may change...

Any other ideas?

fix something which isn't broken?

Does not matter, same story of politicians bribed, lobbyists behind closed doors present their wishes and common folks get screwed - in some cases for 1/2 a century:

https://friendsofthecoloradopu...

They have a "Privatization Board" there!!!

It's a total money game selling one's butt to be used at the payers liking. Isn't that called prostitution and generally prohibited in most states in the US? Maybe not at the Capitol, I'll have to check on that.

In effect, that means that the winning Senate candidates needed to raise an average of $14,351 every day between Jan. 1 2010 and election day, 2012 in order to pull of a win, while the victorious House members raised $2.315 per day, MapLight found.

From: http://www.nydailynews.com/new...