The innovation is fine. The problem is that Netflix' leadership has been unable to communicate with its customers in an intelligent way. They need to tuck us into bed, and tell a bed time story which ends "and then you bought our new product and lived happily ever after." This is what Apple does when they innovate.

Instead, you can look at the Quickster announcement. First paragraph: "I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation." Second paragraph: Talks about how they treated their customers like idiots by saying that they were lowering prices when the prices increased. Paragraph ten: Announce Qwikster.

Why even combine these two messages into a single product announcement?

I was present for the opening night in Chao Bistro in Seattle. Their restaurant/bar is already naturally separated into two sections, so they had Starcraft 2 in one section and the normal bar in the other. The bar owners tend to run these events on traditionally slow nights, so there's room for normal patrons and gamer patrons at one time.

Why does a subsidy create more jobs than basic research? Is it because a subsidy only slightly covers the cost to produce a good and the purchaser pays the rest, while a basic research grant must cover 100% of the wages?

Fundamental science's goal is to understand how the universe we live in behaves. We accumulate evidence about how the universe works (called "measurements"), and use it to rule out incorrect possibilities.

It's the job of others, such as scientists who don't work on fundamental research (called "engineers"), to decide what we can do with the universe we live in.

According to the World Nuclear Association:

Perhaps the World Nuclear Association has some bias or they're refering to something different than you are. It's hard to evaluate that since you don't include a source, though.

You shouldn't use examples as definitions, as it's hard to find a consensus in what constitutes a generalization of that term.

It's pretty disingenuous to link the cost of a detector to its size, as though size indicates scientific merit.

But maybe I'm just bias because I have studied atoms (0.5x10^-10 meter scale) on a graduate student stipend ($20k per year). This cost my university a measly $400,000,000,000,000 per meter per year.

For many academic scientists (i.e. professors, post-docs, graduate students), a part of their pay is the ability to publish their research findings. It takes long thought and work to devise and carry out experiments which gather pertinent data. It's not unreasonable to allow some time for these scientists to analyze their data and properly understand it.
If you mandate all data be immediately made public, the researcher can be "scooped" by anyone. This is bad for science because it removes the incentive to actually gather the data. This is one argument for why data may be kept internal, at least for a while.

According to my professor (who is very involved in the LHC) the first LHC run will be collecting an integrated luminoscity of 1 fb^-1.

Another professor mentioned today that by the end of the Tevatron's life (in a couple years), it will have collected 12 fb^-1. This is over it's 10-ish year life span.

At this point, some may wonder why the LHC is unable to keep pace with the Tevatron, the old toy. These machines are very complicated, and apparently don't work nearly to maximum efficiency out of the box. Check out this plot of the amount of data collected at the tevatron versus year. The slope is rising continuously, as they improve their beam and detectors to handle more collisions:

Tevatron Integrated Luminosity

The medical journal is denouncing that particular particular study. They are presumably not discounting all studies, past and future, on the issue.

I don't know if autism is correlated with vaccines. I am not familiar with modern medicine. But my instinct tells me that if someone on the internet tells me how I should feel about the science, I would like to see his qualifications.

If you combine their Social Security tax with their federal income tax, these two men are paying quite progressive taxes overall.

This thread, paraphrased:

I think taxes aren't fair because I should be taxed less and others should be taxed more.

But how much energy is 5 GW in houses supplied with electricity?

The advantage of Fahrenheit over Celsius is that it is bound to two very useful points: the temperature water freezes (32 Fahrenheit) and the temperature water boils (212 Fahrenheit). These can be used to predict things more easily, like is there a risk for icing on the roads, how does the frozen lake/sea hold weight and so on. Or just to know if a surface is above 212 degrees. Put some water on it and see if it vaporizes.