While these thieves on the other end are high on opium (OPM= other people's money) rolling high, taking insane risks, and all the profits and bonuses are theirs. If they make a loss, they are too big to fail and our taxes will bail them out. If they blatantly lie, cheat and commit felonies, they are too big to jail too.
Realize this. The. joke. is. on. us. They are laughing all the way to the bank (which they own probably).
If I lock up Einstein, Schrodinger and Heisenberg in a room with a capsule of cyanide gas and a time release mechanism for the gas, would I be sent to jail? Or to the mental institution?
Finally they are getting real competition from the free market. The new paradigm is, "Home owner, you don't worry about site survey, investment cost, installation contractor etc etc. Here is the deal. We install our solar panels in your property using our workers. We install a meter. You pay for whatever electricity we deliver at this price. There is x year lock in period, after that we take our stuff away anytime you cancel the contract. You compare apples to apples, metered electricity cost to metered electricity cost".
Even after the subsidies are taken away, even after imposing road blocks by politicians and utility commissions, this would not be stopped. The technology already has very strong market where the grid is poor. India, Pakistan, many developing countries, etc. They will provide the demand and the technology will advance. Then private companies will raise investment to compete with utilities. As people start using less and less of the grid, it becomes more and more expensive for the utility to find cash for infrastructure upgrades. That will feed into the vicious cycle, and utility companies will face big problems keeping customers.
People have been looting our US government from the day it was founded. George Washington spent post presidential life trying to get a canal built using federal money through Cumberland gap into the Monongahela valley in south western Pennsylvania. He had bought all the land that is today Washington County, PA. That shining example set by our founding father is a well trodden path. Flat-as-pancake land is declared to be "mountain" to extract quadruple the federal subsidy for transcontinental railroads. There are literally thousands of companies and individuals whose only ability is extracting money from the government.
And usually these are the folks who are in the fore front decrying government waste citing some poor black inner city single mother who probably gets 400$ a month.
It is interesting one of the ingredients is cow bile. Definitely not something you would think of as an disinfectant. But, being from India, I know so many people who believe cow urine and cow dung has disinfecting properties. May be there is something to it. Cows digest tough vegetation. Their stomachs are full of bacteria that could break down vegetable matter. May be there are so many beneficial would-not-harm-a-mammal bacteria in there, some of them might fight of any bacteria that would infect its host, the cow.
Surprised USA has a policy of not allowing the cockpit to be occupied by a lone occupant. Given the staffing cuts and the callousness of the airline management surprised they did not mount a lobbying effort "against the onerous and burdensome regulations by Washington bureaucrats that is strangling the industry and killing jobs" to remove that requirement.
Every damned fool who was lucky enough or criminal enough to make oodles of money thing they are visionary thinkers too and come up with grandiose projects. Let us award Vladimir Yakunin, the Wannabe-Elon of the Year award.
BTW China just demonstrated the Steel-Silk Road, a rail link between China and Spain via old Orient Express route via Samarkand. Trans Siberian railroad links to Chinese network. Chunnel connects London to European network. There is a railroad in Alaska, but not sure it connects to Canadian national network. Building rail links and putting a roof over them to keep out the snow and and fence to keep out the animals, to provide overhead electric power, to make it an year around service would be a lot more practical. Steel-on-steel rolling friction is much lower than steel hull on water drag. Done correctly, it could peel off a huge chunk of ship borne Pacific freight, reduce the over reliance of West Coast ports. Essentially it would become a conveyor of 40 foot containers.
But doxing of other activists would really have a chilling effect in the political speech. Hope agencies take doxing seriously and if any of the perps are within jurisdiction, hope they catch them and punish them.
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau