How does Dark Energy lose its value?

There is no scarcity of TVs or ability to broadcast shows. Why should poor kids not be able to watch?

Why do you think you know what is better for others to do, and that you should impose an artificial scarcity to make them behave as you would have them behave?

I've been in that area. The river is far enough away from the sides of the valley that it isn't eroding the slope. In my observational opinion. The river went through flat land, at least several hundred yards away from the valley wall.

Yes, the destruction of trees through harvesting contributes to water runoff. Why do you think flash floods happen in treeless areas like Utah box canyons?

Which is a slippery slope argument (literally!).

Deforestation contributes to landslides and water runoff volume. It is not a magic bullet. Landslides might still occur if the land on top of the cliff hadn't been logged. But they would be less likely. And you would have nice old growth forests.

No, I don't think you have the physics right. Water flowing into the hill from the top down causes the slide. The river is far enough away from the cliff that your scenario doesn't happen.

When the disaster strikes, I can count on my good old Republican corporations to save me, because they will profit. Oh, wait.

Trees reduce the water flows. It's not the anchoring depth of the roots that matters, but the water retained by the large trees.

Trees suck up water that otherwise causes slides.

You're focusing on the wrong variable with surface area. Figure out water flows and how trees smooth those out.

Your dismissal of my evidence is itself an example of cherry-picking. Here's another typical example of business stifling speech: http://www.whas11.com/home/12-...

"According to a 2009 study by Internet security firm Proofpoint, 8 percent of companies with more than 1,000 employees have fired someone for social media actions -- a figure that is double what was reported in 2008."

Business is built upon the idea that hoarding is good. Non-disclosure agreements, trade secrets, copyrights all serve to censor the free and open transmission of knowledge. Maybe biz will finally get it, that open exchange is better for progress. But how much will I suffer meanwhile?

Capitalism and slavery are intimately connected. I wrote an essay on this subject, for the History of Capitalism MOOC: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/...

Why do wars accelerate technological innovation? Because govt funds research. Why not invest in disruptive innovation all the time? The market is too short-sighted: see http://depts.washington.edu/uw...

"Itâ(TM)s common for business people to point to the 1990sâ"specifically, to the 1995 Netscape IPOâ"as the âoebeginning of the Internet.â This claim is unsupported by fact. The Internet was âoebornâ in 1968, more than 25 years earlier. Internet pioneers, such as Bob Taylor, in interviews express frustration at how slowly business came to realize the importance of a collection of technologies that we now consider extremely valuable. Internet pioneers worked hard to prove the value of the new technologies, but business took a very long time to âoeget it.â"

Govt's greatest potential is in creating money to free individuals from having to do what "little Napoleon" bosses tell them to do. So get rid of government bureaucracies, leave the private sector alone (to fail), but provide an opt-in robust unconditional safety net. Stimulate innovation with challenges.

I'm not a people person. People make me depressed. I prefer to go out in nature and communicate with animals. I try to limit human contact to the internet.

Why should I suffer a lifestyle below the poverty line, because I don't sell? I produce things that no one wants to buy (and I just give away anyway because I hate selling), but someone who produces the same thing gets rich and rewarded, because he knows how to communicate non-verbally. That's the fickleness of the market.