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Comment Re:Incomplete (Score 4, Insightful) 338

Not entirely true. While they don't collect funds collected via taxes, they also don't PAY taxes on many things, like say property taxes for their offices, sorting facilities, etc. So they indirectly are Government funded, at the state and municipality level.

So they're funded in the same way religious groups and non-profit organizations are funded by the government.

Comment Re:Slashdot BETA Sucks. (Score 1) 2219

The problem with your math is that 99% of users aren't active contributors when the site works properly. A great deal of them are suddenly up in arms when it's actively broken. People are posting angrily instead of constructively due to the mangling of the site. And it's many of the typical lurkers, AKA the viewership. If people could moderate the beta as -1 off-topic, troll, or flamebait they would all be correct.

Comment Re:There must be a very good reason... (Score 1) 579

He's pointed out that there's more energy produced during the artificially expensive peak hours. Supply and demand doesn't bear out their pricing energy higher during the day. If it did, the going rate during the day compared the decreased value at night suggests the 5 stored during the day should net him roughly double what it costs to use it at night. The utility isn't doing him any favors holding onto valuable energy during the day in lieu of him using having his own storage, just based on their own pricing.

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