Yea, the outrage over that is amazing...

People are so stupid, I sometimes have little hope for humanity.

If you want to care about something, how about the thousands of miles of coral reef that China is destroying to build islands in the South China Sea? That is FAR more damaging to the planet than a lion dying.

But no one cares, because they aren't being told to care, because people are idiots and sheep. Which I guess isn't new, but it is sad. :(

No it isn't, but thanks for playing. Note that you listed 2 rates, then noted it costs more elsewhere "without subsidy".

So those rates aren't real and couldn't be scaled up because they are being bought down with tax dollars.

The irony is that you need a mirror, you're the one with fantasy thinking...

Let me help you out with a specific, real example.

I just signed an agreement for power for my business. Thanks to the dropping price of oil and natural gas, my rate is going down for the first time in awhile.

I'll be paying 6.2 cents per kwh for the first 2,000 kwh and 6.8 cents per kwh for everything over 2,000 kwh. That is the total bill price. That is very cheap for such low usage and it includes everything, from power delivery to generation to taxes. The source of that power is a mix of coal, natural gas, and nuclear.

The same company can provide me with 100% renewables if I want it, 9.1 cents per kwh for the first 2K and 9.6 cents beyond that.

So renewables are 50% more than coal and natural gas where I live.

Yes...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/pe...

ACA caused doctors to change what plans they accept due to the amount insurance companies pay out based on changed due to ACA.

For example, my wife accepts Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas, but only for PPO plans outside of the exchanges. If you're on the cheap HMO plan on the federal exchange your insurance doesn't work for her.

A number of her patients used to be covered, until their old plans were discontinued and they were moved to new plans that she wasn't on. These changes were directly caused by ACA.

The ACA was well intentioned, but executed poorly.

Reagan...

Before that? Perhaps FDR...

Note: I liked Reagan's policies, I don't like some of FDRs policies, but that doesn't mean I can't see that he at least cared. I don't think Clinton cares at all.

The only person who has a remote chance of caring about us is Trump.

Wait, wait, don't bring out the pitch forks... yea, I know he is a walking ego trip, yes he is a arrogant SOB...

I am well aware of that... but he also has nothing to gain by screwing us at this point. He is now old, very wealthy, and has nothing else to do but take the country in a new direction. He also isn't owned by lobbyists or 30 years of political connections the way Bush and Clinton are.

If Bush or Clinton are elected, exactly nothing will change. If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always gotten.

At least Trump will kick over the table and say, "new direction".

Will it turn out well? Hard to say, we won't really know without trying, but at some point we either try something new, or accept the current situation forever.

Yes... because of ACA...

Maybe, but the flaw there is that Dell and HP tried twice in the past 10 years to sell machines with Linux on them. The customer uptake rate was low and the return rate was multiple times that of Windows machines.

It sounds nice, right up until someone needs to run a program that is Windows only, then they balk.

Paying $469 for a computer vs. $499 because the cost of Windows is saved doesn't matter to your average consumer if there is even a single program that it can't run.

The example I like to give is TurboTax, it doesn't run on Linux, or even Wine, without a lot of kicking and screaming.

This is unacceptable for a large percentage of the population.

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What I would submit is that if you think there is a market for this, start a computer company and sell machines with Linux preinstalled. If there is demand, you'll do well. If there isn't, you won't.

Isn't capitalism grand? :)

Fair enough...

So let me ask you an honest question... Why do you care?

Please note, I'm not suggesting you shouldn't care, I'm asking why you do? I suppose for me, I've decided I don't care, it doesn't really make any difference to me.

But if you care, fair enough, I can respect that, I just am curious if there is a specific reason for it.

Most of the cell phone and tablet business profits... While Macs make money, by themselves Apple wouldn't be a very interesting company, it is all iOS devices.

The Mac could vanish tomorrow and Apple would still be one of the most valueable companies on Earth. Without the iOS devices, it is just another computer company.

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My point was simply that if ANYTHING was going to give Windows a run for its money, it would be Mac and OS X, not Linux. I didn't say Apple SHOULD do this, I said they COULD do it. :)

The irony is that the iPad is actually really decently priced, all things considered. For $500 you get a REALLY thin tablet, good triple core CPU, enough RAM to be interesting... a very nice screen, and a very nice OS that is responsive. The one short aspect is storage, which at 16GB is no longer enough, 64GB should be the base these days.

You can get cheaper tablets, but not ones nearly as nice.

The iPhone is massively overpriced, but everyone knows that. :)

Of course not, but I was replying to someone who wanted to be able to upgrade his computers, so that does apply in his case.

Nope, not at all... I'm just pointing out that for all his "revelations", nothing has changed. The NSA is still doing its thing, the public has moved on and largely doesn't care.

Why did he bother if the public largely doesn't care?

Changing your web browser doesn't change your computer.

You can have 5 web browsers installed side by side, it doesn't break anything else.

Changing your OS isn't the same thing. Installing Chrome or FireFox doesn't break TurboTax.

And change the name, Ubuntu is a stupid name that no one can pronounce and no one knows what it is...

Consider for a minute that you could just assign every man, woman, and child on Earth a /64.

That would give each person 18 quntillion addresses to pick from, and you'd have enough /64 address space to cover the likely population of Earth for the rest of its entire existence.

Yes, I'm aware that some bits are reserved and that it isn't really as clear cut as that. But it doesn't matter...

You can cut huge numbers out and it still becomes a stupid big number.

And every doesn't need 18 quntillion addresses, that too is silly.

The whole space is huge and unless we're complete morons, we're done with IP address space for the rest of human history.

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As a side note, this is similar to 256 bit encryption being enough forever. No computer will ever be powerful enough to brute force it. Unless there is a flaw in the program of course, but you can't try all possible keys in a 256-bit encrypted file. There isn't enough energy in the universe to flip the bits.