I agree, but they didn't have the internet,GPS or traceable payments way back when either. I'm not saying that Uber is doing it right, but I can envision how you could by using these new tools. If in order to be a part of this system you have a background check, your bank account linked, pick up and drop off information logged, and your GPS constantly logged while active - along with a passenger feedback system - it's going to be awfully difficult to provide bad service, charge too much and then murder your passengers on a regular basis.

That's crazy. I understand the point of licenses, but I would like the option to use a non-licensed service. Maybe I don't care if my barber has a license, but I really want to make sure my electrician does. Maybe I'm broke and running around to job interviews and I'm willing to use an 'unlicensed' daycare because it's cheaper and I've heard good things about it. If I want to be a dummy and used an unlicensed dentist that should be my choice. Naturally you'd have to scale up the legal repercussions on both sides though.

It does not make sense for solar. It would make sense to have a set fee for solar. Why? The price you pay without solar is based on the power being generated somewhere most likely very far away and then transported to your house. Now, with home generation, you are selling directly to your neighbor. There is very little loss and very little infrastructure required. The solar producers should have to pay some form of set fee to maintain the infrastructure, but charging them by the KWh is an unnecessary disincentive to participate. A lot of this is the cost of having a monopoly. You can't just start a neighborhood power distribution company, and if you tried 'sharing' your electricity with your neighbors I imagine you'd have unhappy officials stopping by.

You should not have to pay transport costs for the power you produce, because that power doesn't have to run back to the power plant and then back out. Most likely your neighbors are using that power, and the power loss is minimal. I could see a few dollars charge for general upkeep, but it shouldn't a percentage of what you produce because that is irrelevant. I could see adding some cost for additional data infrastructure so that panels can talk to the plant and the plant can potentially throttle panels to even out demand swings, but there's got to be a better solution.

Any freedoms end if they hurt business. That's the new Libertarianism.

My biggest complaint about this is that they were using eminent domain to take people's land for a project that is not primarily for the public good.

Perhaps the government should declare a Jihad on unregistered SIM cards? Or create the Intracellular Electronic Documentation Service to keep track of this stuff?

GaAs wafers are extremely expensive, but that's nothing compared to the cost of retooling and process development. It will be worth the effort though, because you can do really cool stuff with electricity and photons when you move to GaAs/N. I just wonder if Intel will stay on top when we move from Si to something else.

The issue is that they didn't have this policy in the beginning. There would be no Blogger if it wasn't for the users. There are a lot of users that helped to get the site popular, Google is changing the terms on everyone now that the community is established. It's a pretty shitty thing to do. "Thanks for bringing us traffic, now fuck off!"

What about rituals? Daily rituals...

And what about the radioactive werebeasts? We're asking the questions everyone else is too afraid to ask.

I imagine you end up killing the things that eat the mosquitoes. I figured, animals eat plants, mosquitoes feed on animals, bats feed on mosquitoes, plants feed on bat shit.

Well duh! If you put it on the moon every time it rains we're going to get radiated.

Put yourself in the head of someone that just wants to kill cops. Do you really think you need an app to find a random cop? You could, I don't know... call them and report something so they show up, or create some anonymous mayhem and wait. Like it was said above, the only way you'd see this used by criminals is to avoid the police.

4/1 sounds absolutely acceptable as a baseline for broadband, especially if they plan on mandating broadband as a public utility. That's enough to pay your bills, do social media and some basic video streaming. Are you streaming HD content on every device in your house, NO, but you expect that from what we'd consider a basic service. It should be enough so that you can do necessary things with reasonable efficiency, not having another entertainment box.