The IMF opinion is indeed nonsensical, but fossil fuels are subsidized.

In 2009:

        Tenaska's Taylorville Energy Center – loan coverage $2.6 billion for a 730 MW coal-fired IGCC with CCS.
        Leucadia's Indiana Gasification SNG project – loan coverage of $1.6 billion to produce Substitute Natural Gas (syngas) from coal for sale to customers in Indiana, with proposed carbon capture for enhanced oil recovery.
        Leucadia's Mississippi Gasification SNG project – loan coverage of $1.689 billion to produce syngas from petroleum coke feedstock, for sale to electric utilities in the region, with proposed carbon capture for enhanced oil recovery.

Subsidies identical to the type received by Tesla and Solyndra both.

In July 2013, the US Department of Energy made available $8 billion in loan guarantees to the fossil fuel industry, again, the identical type of subsidy received by Tesla. For an industry that has been recording record profits for the past 6 years.

So either stop claiming Solyndra received a subsidy or stop claiming fossil fuel industries don't receive any. You can't have it both ways.

Because climate IS weather? It's just lots of it averaged over time. This winter is a valid data point that will drag down the average temperature for the decade, and that statistical behavior is perfectly acceptable. What did you think you were measuring, anyway? Tree rings?

The dollar store? My Ti-34 (that I still use) cost $74 you insensitive clod! (And it has pi to 9 decimal places as a built-in constant.)

For once, an appropriate use of the marketing-monkey trick of substituting "impact" for "affect".

On the plus side, you're floating on top of a very large, very agreeable heat sink.

Sure. In 9 states. In the other 41, it's legal. In Washington, California, Colorado, Michigan, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Louisiana, and Florida it's illegal to fire someone for political activity or for not voting for your employer's preferred candidate, or for belonging to a particular party (one or more of those protections, depending on the state).

The linked blog post is by an employment attorney, so it's reasonably sure to be correct. Some states are more specific than others about what specific political activity can not be used to justify firing. Some extend protection to all activity. Others are specific only to voting. Your Republican in South Carolina example is perfectly legal.

*air-punch*

I knew procrastinating Debian upgrades for most of a decade would pay off! I am VINDICATED!

You think? I spent three years without a job, writing code 10 to 12 hours a day on weekdays and 2-4 hours a day on weekends. I spent my entire (liquid) life savings staying current on that mortgage and paying for utilities and food. I had $600 left in the bank when my first paycheck at my new job arrived. I don't know what your definition of "went for it" is, but that should be good enough for anyone.

(Actually I spent 34 months without a job, if you want to be excruciatingly precise.)

I went for it.

I failed.

I have no debt other than the mortgage I started with, excellent credit, and a good job. What did I do differently?

I gave up when the money ran out and went back to work for The Man, rather than throw good money after bad. Trying to launch a startup is a gamble and should be treated precisely the same way. Only use money you can afford to lose and do not spend one thin dime of money you don't have trying to "win it all back" if you hit bottom. Quit and go home.

Too late for you, but for other people thinking about it, this can't be repeated enough.

Clarissa MacDougall was eventually upgraded to an actual character. By the time Children of the Lens came around, she was a mental match for her husband. "Doc" Smith was one of several Golden Age writers who actually moved with the times. The Golden Age faded, but at least the survivors lost some of their prejudices.

Just get a CuBox-i. 2"x2"x2" cube, available in three editions. The quad-core with 2 GB of RAM version that's equivalent to this Amazon thing is $130 and it has a microSD card slot, so you can fill it with as much or as little flash memory as you feel like paying for. I run Android on mine, but it also boots any of several different Linux distributions. It doesn't come with a remote or a game controller, but it has USB, and the quad-core version has BlueTooth. All versions have an IR receiver. No Amazon prime subscription needed, no custom manufacturer-mangled smart TV version of Android required, and it has access to the Google Play store.

Small business that doesn't have a "tie the world to our services" agenda can still deliver a product designed for customers, rather than consumers.

Somebody actually remembers that pine could read news, not just email. Talk about obscure...

They had better not be. Dropbox offers no source downloads, but rsync is GPL. If they are using some form of the rsync protocol, they had better be using their own clean-room implementation, or they're currently in violation of the GPL.

You watch way too many horror movies. The average adult male has about 1 gallon of blood. The average adult female has about a pint less. It's not a very big tank.

Disingenuous post is disingenuous. The poster illustrates the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th 8th, 9th, 15th, and 19th amendments. Leaving out the 2nd is not some grand conspiracy. It illustrates what the ACLU fights hardest for, and everyone knows the ACLU doesn't bother with the 2nd amendment. There's an entire organization devoted to just that one, so no need to duplicate effort.