I think you forgot that the Democrats have controlled the Senate from Jan 2007-Present, and the House from Jan 2007-2010. They were in control of the committees and budgets during the financial collapse of 2008, and steered all of the "bailout" money. Technically everything leading up, causing, and continuing the recession was approved by the Democrats.

But, the public is apparently ok with all of the spending. They voted for it, and re-elected the same people, so what can you do.

If we add that A123 is the sole provider of batteries for the Fisker Karma, would you start to care? That A123 is a provider of MW-scale batteries to AES Corp, for use in windfarm smoothing and grid services?

I would have preferred that the government not gotten in the business of payouts to its campaign contributors, but elections have consequences. Usually corrupt consequences, but what can you do.

To me, this sounds like someone's join isn't all that unique. Let's say you have two voters, Joe Smith, at two different addresses, that both voted. If you join a registration list with a vote list, on first and last name and not address, you actually end up with 4 combinations instead of 2, for twice the votes. Other things to check are overlapping effective/terminate date ranges, and compound primary key fields. Rookie mistakes, but big consequences.

In 1980-1981, a year of Tuition at MIT cost ~$7,400 before scholarship, a year over year increase of 17%. [$70 million in tuition & fees / 9,365 students]

In 1988-1989, a year of Tuition at MIT cost $13,400 before scholarships, a year over year increase of 8.2%.

In 2000-2001, a year of Tuition at MIT cost $31,900 before scholarships.

In 2011-2012, a year of Tuition at MIT cost $40,732 before scholarships.

In 2012-2013, a year of Tuition & Fees at MIT will cost $42,050 before scholarships, a year over year increase of 3.25 %.

I think you meant 1930s. There are newspaper articles noting the decline of glaciers back even then.

What is amusing is that photos from that era show that there is more ice volume today than the 1930s.

Didn't we just cover this a couple of days ago? Colleges don't face a risk of default; the loans are provided by banks and are underwritten by the federal government. Because 90% of the risk is mitigated by the gov, the colleges can raise tuition and the banks don't balk. A small % of students get in over their heads and default but that is baked into the interest rate, which used to be variable until congress messed with it in 2005. Like housing, the scheme breaks down when normal graduates can't pay the bills... Because there's no jobs.

Somehow Facebook is too big to fail, but MySpace can flitter off into the night without people caring? When we finally approach the end of the natural life of Facebook, people will transition into whatever the next big social media gathering site will be, little by little until Site A is empty and Site B is the new hot stuff. It's not going to happen overnight, no "rush to the exit", and definitely no need to legislate a "fix".

You're telling me. Between three adults we have two wifi-capable cell phones, a kindle, iPod touch, three desktops, two laptops, a net book, a synology nas, a wireless printer, and an Internet enabled flatscreen tv. If I could find the time to run cat5 I would, the poor wifi router is getting a workout.

Global Warming is fact, and Anthropogenic Global Warming is truth. Take care that you do not confuse the two.

I'm pretty sure that the interest in reviving the Titanic movie has more to do with the 100th anniversary of the original sinking of the Titanic on April 15th, 1912. It's like free advertising for everything Titanic-related. And, if there's any movie that squeezed more money from the public the first release, I can't think of it.

If they only had some kind of information on the card to tell you who gave it to you, like a name...

> In an era where the rich are able to get by paying so few taxes in the U.S., ...

What, as opposed to the 47% of citizens that now net zero federal taxes at all? That the top 1% already pays 40% of the national tax burden? I'm not in either group, but even I can see that's not exactly "fair"...

If there was only some system where all of the users could post comments on the changes they wanted, and then the users themselves could rate the requests up or down, and the highest modded comments could get the most visibility.

Nah, a system like that could never work...

Warmer earth = more icecap melt = more freshwater. Warmer earth = larger temperate zones = more food production. More CO2 = more vegetation growth = more food production.

The only thing stopping food production and access to drinking water is militaristic governmental controls. Free societies don't seem to have these problems.