... when I read Atlas Shrugged and learned to empathize with others a lot LESS.

Wow. Just fucking wow.

Here we have at least three replies to my original post who think that "sucking off of the Government teat" is a valid part of a viable business plan.

Listen, if you can't generate enough income to pay your own way in the world, then you don't belong in business. Forcing other people to pay your expenses is not a sustainable plan.

Plus the fact remains that Obamacare has already killed more startups than it will ever incubate.

Sheesh. Some of you people need to read your Bastiat. Better yet, just keep your day job.

Precisely.

My first thought on reading the summary: "Holy crap, is Slashdot getting paid to shill for Obama / DNC? now" Because this whole thing is not only ridiculously absurd (people afraid to start up a business because they can't afford health care -- yah r-i-i-i-i-g-h-t), it's straight out of the DNC talking points memo.

The truth is that no one wants to start a business with the Obamacare mandates hanging over their heads.

Yeah, that's the problem I'm having. Do I count the number of apps? Or do I count the number of megabytes? How about libraries? Do I count them, or not? What about scripts?

Without a Cowboy Neal option, I have NO idea how to answer the question.

Precisely.

The "Climate Change" that threatens these companies is the economic climate of the former Golden State.

At 3.25 inches per century (the current rate of sea level rise in California), by the time those campi have been inundated some tens of thousands of years from now, all of those companies will have either moved or gone under -- not from water, but by the flood of taxes and regulations in the Golden [Fleece] State.

Ah, yes, that's the REAL goal, isn't it? And it takes a heap o' fearmongering to herd people into voting for that...

...the politician jokes!

In other words: "People aren't sufficiently scared, so we'll have to do what Stephen Schneider told us to do."

Fear. The tool of every dictatorial tyrant. Sigh.

So... let's see...

The sixteen-year period of global warming from 1980 to 1996, which was cause for great alarm, isn't cherrypicking, but --

-- the nearly seventeen-year period since then IS cherrypicking?

Got it. I think.

Taking a two-decade-old trend is not cherry-picking.

Thank you for that little ad hominem pejorative directed against someone you don't know, have never met, and know nothing about. At least now I know what kind of person I'm dealing with here.

Thanks for playing, and have a good day ... oh, wait, your kind never has a good day. Never mind.

Yes, the city-county of Nashville/Davidson County is one the two blue spots in a red state. But the people I knew and worked with, and the people who staff the radio stations, and the people you talk to on the street, don't all live in the Blue Hole known as Davidson County.

I see that you're not from there, and have probably never set foot on the ground there, so I'll give you a hint: check the "doughnut" counties.

Right. Because if anyone knows anything about a man's character and values, it couldn't possibly be his hometown neighbors...

You mean, as it did over sixteen years ago?

Funny that Gore hasn't taken credit for THAT. Oh, wait a minute, that wouldn't serve the Greens' real agenda now, would it?

Yeah, Al Gore is basically the Town Joke around Nashville, TN. During the three years I lived there, I never once heard his name mentioned in a respectful manner, and that includes on the local radio stations.

Most of the time you could get a laugh just by dropping his name into a conversation.