Yeah, at the beginning they made it sound like Al Gore was the main owner of the company. Sounds like now that they're part of the Murdoch's organization, they're adopting Fox's "We distort, you decide"

Hawaii is the only place in the US that uses oil for a significant amount of electricity. On the mainland it's coal, nuclear, natural gas, hydro, plus some wind and solar. I doubt oil is used to produce even 1% of electricity in the mainland US.

It's always seemed strange to me that an all knowing, all powerful, and just God, won't help a sick person unless somebody else asks Him to.

Here's an article that gives another possible reason. It's hard to recruit volunteers for a study that really have a condition like clinical depression. If you actually recruit a bunch of people who are just temporarily feeling down instead of having true clinical depression, then of course they tend to get better whether they were given a sugar pill or a real anti-depressant. And they would have gotten better if they had taken nothing.

Ok, I haven't drunk the cool-aid and bought an iPhone yet. But my understanding is that it has a web browser, which means you can go to dictionary.com and look up words like this This (NSFW)

Doubt this will go over well with their viewers, if someone tells them it's a tax

Under Eminent Domain, the government still has to pay fair market value for what they take.

I see a Playstation controller in number 3

I don't think either company has the other by the balls. They're both making a ton of money off this partnership.

But at some point, the addition of enough cars means you have to widen the highway, or build a totally new highway. Don't know about where you live, they're constantly building new roads here, and there's a cost for that.

There's also a cost to maintain the roads. And cars driving over those roads do damage that has to be repaired. Large trucks cause much more damage.

In both cases, it's hard to see that adding just one more car means a new road has to be built, or and section of road has to be repaired, But it eventually adds up.

Unfortunately, most people don't have the time to go through medical school.

I can't understand why the tin foil hat people think vaccines are a scam to make insane amounts of cash by the pharmaceuticals industry.

The reality is the last thing the industry wants is a cure for a disease. What they want is a drug that treats without curing, and has to be taken indefinitely. Something like Prozac, statin drugs, Viagra - that's where the money is.

You're right that 3G coverage and radio selection out in the middle of nowhere sucks. And there is a market for people who're willing to pay for Sirius/XM because of that.

The problem is this market isn't big enough to pay Sirius/XM's costs. That's why they've never made a profit, and likely never will. And with the credit situation the way it is today, the life expectancy for companies that constantly lose money is not very long.

This site says solar has an EROEI (Energy Returned on Energy Invested) of about 10, vs about 18 for nuclear

I remember during the 2000 election fiasco, I was watching some news call in show. A woman said that Gore had an unfair advantage, because he was a career politician and probably knew about this electoral college stuff, while she was sure Bush didn't. She apparently had never heard of it.

It doesn't hurt to remind people of the bizarre way that the US Presidential election works.