The price of electricity is not just the price of generation.
The price of transportation is not just the price of fuel.

If you gave fossil fuels the same advantage of not charging infrastructure costs, taxes, government regulations on production etc... like you do with solar, you'd find that they are virtually free. There is no conceivable way solar is even remotely comparable until the government steps in and starts manipulating the numbers for the public good. You can argue that the CO2 issue is important enough to justify that interference, but lets not lie to ourselves about the numbers.

It looks cool... but so did the last 20 kickstarter games I thought looked cool and either never got finished, or the developers totally changed what the game was about or removed the feature I thought would be cool just weeks before it was released.

I'm sorry, but I don't think a single game I've doled out money for on kickstarter has turned out in a such a way that I was later glad I'd spent it. I really hope this game lives up to what they're promising but I have a feeling that what we'll really end up with is another neverwinter clone.

Farmers feed cows corn because it's the cheapest feed. You can argue corn subsidies all you want, I don't care.

There are about 49 million people in this country however, that do not get regular meals due to poverty and would like beef to be as cheap as possible:
http://www.feedingamerica.org/...
I bet they would dispute your opinion of corn subsidies...

Why did people paint after the advent of cameras? The camera produces a far superior image!

I've been doing this since I was about 10yrs old. Clearly this woman is far far superior at it than I've ever been. At best, I can hold the fundamental and move the overtone around in a slide sort of way. The way she's doing stepping is amazing. When I started doing this, it was more of a magic trick to me. I'd say "Listen! I can have 2 voices at once!" I had no idea what I was really doing.

For those wondering how to do it. Imagine humming with your mouth open. You have to close off your mouth in the same way you do when you drink through a straw and then hum like that. The fundamental feels very nasally to the singer. It makes your sinuses vibrate.

To get the overtone, I put the tip of my tong, right behind my front teeth on the roof of my mouth like when I make an "L" sound. Then change the shape of your tong like when you say "La" or "Lu" or "Lo" but never remove your tong from the roof of your mouth. The shape of your tong for each of those phonics gives you different tones. That's of course, how I do it. And I'm totally untrained so take it with a grain of salt.

The project has goals, if the team doesn't meet those goals the users get refunds.
If a single player version was in those goals, then the backers should get a refund.
If it's not, then the backers were stupid to assume that it would be.

It's as simple as that.

Google is your friend:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

That's done daily by farmers everywhere. Where do you think mules come from?

I'm glad you're wealthy enough that you can get prissy about what the thing you're eating, ate prior to you eating it.

But that's not really relevent since grass fed herds were slaughtered as well. The drought affected all silage, not just corn.

I don't understand... what would be unethical about this?

Yea no...

In farming, a rising tide tanks the commodities market and all the boats sink at the same time.

Take a look at the price of corn over the past couple of years. First there was a drought through much of the midwest... so yields were low for corn and hay. This drove the price of feed through the roof. I saw hay going for $7 to $10 a bail... the highest I've ever seen. It was so expensive that it cost more to feed animals through the winter than the animals were worth. Farmers slaughtered their herds en-mass. That drove the price of beef through the floor, making breeders cut back on their investments. Which lead to this year, no one wanted beef cattle because the price was so low... there were already tiny herds due to the price of feed and the mass slaughter last fall... then we got record rainfall this year. As a result there's way way way too much grain this year. The price of corn is at an all time low. So low that most of the corn around here is still in the field. Farmers aren't harvesting it because the diesel to do so costs more than the corns worth.

Lol, again with the monopoly talk... There is no such thing in the united states.

Telcos have franchise agreements for POTS (plain old telephone service)
Cable companies have them for Telvision over coax.

If you're not using coax, and you're not delivering phone service over twisted pair, there is nothing a local phone or cable company can do to stop you unless you're the actual municipality itself. It's usually in the agreements that local government cannot compete with these sorts of services at all. Hence the municiple fiber kerfuffle. These municipalities are more than welcome to not include that in the franchise agreements, but good luck finding a telco willing to sign that.

Are you going to pay for it? Laying fiber is insanely expensive. Not because of the trench or even the fiber... it's the home owners that are the problem.

Imagine I show up at your house and tell you I'm going to dig an 8' deep trench across your yard for Fiber. What are you going to do? And your neighbor? And his neighbor? ... and the other thousand people whos yards get trenched? Lawsuits... and that doesn't even cover all the roads, driveways and sidewalks you have to dig up.

I've worked for just about every phone company... We still have them... everywhere. Fibers replaced microwave in most residential areas... but in areas where you can't dig a trench, we use microwave. Communities on islands, on mountain sides... etc... there are a LOT of microwave dishes along the grand canyon for example. Even in sky rises, a lot of companies will setup microwave dishes in an extra conference room and beam a trunk to another building across the way.

The problem with microwave is that it doesn't work well in humidity. Fog, snow and rain make it cut in and out. Basically, imagine your DishNetwork/DirectTv signal... it's got pretty much the same problem.

Oh, and I do agree with you. MS certs are completely worthless.