Because they know things.

A lot of companies lease solar setups now. SolarCity does i think. A quick google should find you something near you too.

A good way to think about Solar is if you don't mind paying rent the rest of your life or if you'd rather own your own home. Most people go into debt to buy a home that takes them decades to pay off. That is normal and everyone considers it to be a good investment. You are right that the payback for solar is years away. But it's the same for almost all long-term investments.

You can always rent them for less than the price you are currently paying for electricity. That makes economic sense. You are paying less each month and someone else is using you as an investment. Win-win : ) Or you could just buy them and invest in yourself.

Does that make it superior or just your preference?

Just checked back. Looks like i was modded to zero and you were modded to 5. I just googled "aca enrollment success" and found plenty. Here's a link (or it didn't happen, right?): http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/19/politics/obamacare-enrollment-update/

It seems very silly to have to link to evidence in order to have a conversation here. I know you were just pointing out that i did not counter his argument and just made a snarky remark about it. But I was not intending to carry a flag for either side. Was just pointing out how he had to exclude any success links to make his point.

People are crazy about this ACA stuff.

no problem! i'll send you some binaries you can run to access my site. It's safe, TRUST ME.

Column mode like when you do alt+shift+up/down?

You just cherry-picked a bunch of failures. Great job.

Looks like steam auth was offline for 5 minutes.

They could have displayed an error message instead of simply giving a vague, unhelpful error.
I can agree with that. But i don't think it is a very strong criticism because nearly every application gives a useless error when it can't reach beyond your router.
Too bad the rest of their stuff is so broken that most of us can't play.
You are the first person i've ever seen say this. I've heard of people who did not want to play but certainly not "can't". Exceptions being when authentication temporarily dies or is under maintenance. No service can have 100% uptime though. So that is a weak criticism as well.

I'm not saying your problem with Valve doesn't have merit. It is very real. But it is a problem that is specific to you. Your firewall does not prevent other people from playing steam games, just yourself. It has also been very common since the beginning of online pc-gaming to have to have very permissive firewalls. Especially if you are hosting.

How is firewalling yourself Valve's problem?

There were competing projects within Valve. One was AR the other was VR. VR won and the AR team was let go. It turns out that the AR project can also do VR with a small attachment though. But i have the feeling there was politics at play and not just the technical merits of each project.

I'm very excited for CastAR and helped with the kickstarter. I have no doubt that Jeri will deliver something great.

Her story about how she was let go is pretty good. She did not want the AR project to die and sounded pretty emotional in meeting with Gabe. He told the layer to let her have it. What company does that kind of thing?!

Not sure but i'm very thankful that Gabe let Jeri have the tech.

lol, could be worse! You could be a libertarian, AMD hating, apple loving, microsoft shill. Also, you'd be fine if you 3d printed that gun.