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.