Try reading your water or electric bill sometime. If you are a typical residential user about 70% of your water bill is fixed costs for access to the tubes (and yes we are talking about tubes here). You pay only a marginal amount for increased volume of water. With internet traffic the costs are even more imbalanced because there is no tangible good such as water or electricity. The costs for increasing volume are negligible in comparison to the costs for installing and maintaining the base connection. The problem here is the aging local internet infrastructure in the same way that cities are incurring skyrocketing costs for maintenance of failing sewers, water lines and power lines. It is not "Bandwidth Hogs" (thank you for falling prey to industry propaganda) it is the failure of local ISPs to invest and maintain their own infrastructure as they saw demand changing.

The engadget article below would indicate that Apple does not use Gorilla glass in the iPhones at least.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/18/white-iphone-4-delay-the-challenges-faced-by-apples-glass-supp/

You are talking about taxes and the original poster is discussing subsidies. They are two sides of the equation. Furthermore, the article you cite is discussing how companies such as Exxon have structured their finances in such a way as to avoid the payment of taxes in the US. This would seem to run counter to the thrust of your argument. Tax shelters allowed by the US tax code are just one form of subsidy...

Getting a trustworthy citation on this issue is almost impossible. Climate groups put the number in the trillions by claiming unpaid environmental damages due to greenhouse gas emissions as a subsidy. I don't believe you should include data you can't quantify.http://www.progress.org/2003/energy22.htm [progress.org]

Conservative groups claim that the amount is only a couple of billion per year. http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/26559.html [taxfoundation.org]

The proposed budget by the president attempts to cut subsidies by 36.5 billion. Since it is unlikely that this is an attempt to end all petroleum subsidies (every industry from aircraft manufacture to rice farming receives some subsidies) the number is probably somewhere between 40 and 100 billion per year. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6103RM20100201 [reuters.com]

As an alternative to a pernicious media attempting to mislead you, perhaps the problem can be explained by your lack of attention to detail. "Humans do possess some enzymes that can undo damage with less efficiency. But we become sunburned when our DNA is too damaged for those enzymes to repair, and our skin cells die. Scientists have linked chronic sun damage to DNA mutations that lead to diseases such as skin cancer." The article is not about those other enzymes it is about discovering the mechanism by which photolysase works....

I was momentarily excited when I heard that the iPhone 4 would have a retinal display and then not exactly surprised when it was just hype about the screen resolution. To me, a retinal display implies a device using either LED or Lasers to paint an image on the back of the retina bypassing the lens of your eyes. I have heard that companies are developing the technology for use in cell phones but this... not so impressive.

The fact that you complain about the previous poster's understanding of statistics is laughable. Statistical probability is not additive and the mythical hacker above will have the same chance to break the password in the second month as the first.

Before we talk about nailing the company to the wall perhaps we should look into the reporting requirements a little closer. The linked article itself states, "The NRC is investigating why it took Entergy five years to report the leak, but for it to have been reportable, it has to meet certain off site dose limits. It is also investigating how Entergy responded to the problem." So we don't even know if the leak met reporting requirements. Also, there is much hay made over Entergy lying about the existence of the pipes. The company apparently did not deny the existence of underground pipes but some company representative stated before a public service commission that he/she was unaware of any underground pipes carrying radioactive particles. I don't know the context of the original statement but a close reading would seem to imply the steam pipe in question was not intended to carry radioactive particles and only the failure of several check valves allowed the particles to get into the pipe. I would guess that the steam leak was found because of the trace radiation.