Dude, a guy with a knife and a limp ran several hundred yards, unhindered, into the most secure building on earth. They were Lucky he was mentally deranged and not really actually out to hurt anyone. Had he been, he could have easily taken out half the building with an ied.

The secret service isn't being criticized for failing to do the impossible.
They are being criticized for failing to stop just about the easiest to stop assailant you could imagine.
They guy should have had a bullet in his chest before his feet even touched the ground on the other side of the fence.

Ok, first, you're a moron.
Yes, if you read some nonsense put out by a "Green energy" group... it's easy to get confused... if you're a moron.

Coal has an average btu of 20,000,000
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/...

It takes 10,107 BTU of coal for a power plant to produce 1 kilowatt of power.
http://www.eia.gov/electricity...

Basic math is 20 million / 10,107 = 1979 killwats per short ton of coal

The price of coal per short ton: $56.30
http://www.eia.gov/coal/news_m...

$56.30 / 1979 = Coal costs 3 cents per kilowatt

If you exclude taxes, regulation and infrastructure.

Now you're going to say "Solar's free!"
No it's not. You need a solar panel. Just like coal needs a mine and equipment.
The average price of a solar panel system for your home is $10,000... I'm even including federal subsidies. The real price is almost double.
http://www.wholesalesolar.com/...
and it lasts about 20yrs.

The average us household uses 11,000 kilowatts per year
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/...
So in 1yr, that's $313 worth of coal.
Over 20yrs, they'll use $6000 worth of coal.

That's production of the energy source, compared.
Solar is almost twice the cost.
The rest of the money you pay for coal power is going to the government, who will still want their money after coal is gone.
We're still need the electrical grid. I doubt the panels will be on your home, they will likely be somewhere else, and there will be batteries.

Which I brought up, in my post. Read it. Solar is not cheaper. But price is not our only concern.

It's idiot talk like that that leads us down the wrong path in the first place. If environmental concerns should be considered, solar should be out. Look up what the environmental impact of building solar cells. Specifically the silver used for the mirrors... It's terrible. Coal is worse, to be sure... but there are other, better alternatives than solar.

You're talking about local ordinances, which are kind of a joke. Where I live I can literally buy a solar panel at home depot and install it. Any local ordinance that requires you to have an electrician on site during construction is going to cover changes to coal based electrical changes as well. They, in fact, don't care where the power came from.

The price of coal itself is, in effect, dictated by the federal government. They limit coal production to keep the price steady in the same way they regulate other commodities. There are coal taxes, gas taxes, etc... All of which are designed to pay for the infrastructure used to deliver those services as well as hold the price steady. If the government lifted restrictions on Oil and Coal production, and removed taxes, the price of coal and oil would be like it was at the turn of the century... pennies. You drill a hole in the ground and the stuff comes out. You can't beat that. I'm not suggesting that's a good idea, but to say Solar is cheaper? That's laughable. If we were to replace fossil fuels with solar entirely, we would still need to pay for all of the power lines, distrobution, the batteries that'd keep the system working at night... the environmental impact of over 300 million new solar cells and batteries intruduced...

Even if you consider the impact of each source on the environment, solar is a big loser. Nuclear is far better for the environment provided your reactors aren't 40yrs old (like most of ours are) But hey, lets not let logic get in the way of our 1980s TV mini-series induced fear of things we don't understand.

Behold how the blind lead each other
The philosopher
You know so much about nothing at all

I would. I currently get nothing out of it anyways, and have no real choice in the election. So why not get free stuff at least?

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.