Nice goalpost shift, but the above comment went "clearly shows that Windows Phone marketshare is INCREASING ?" and it's still there for us to read.

Some of them are run by charities so at least your money is running down a useful drain in that case.

Too much to publish at once.

and terrorism really hasn't changed much

Conrad's "The Secret Agent" from 1907, and set in 1886, fits depressingly well into current circumstances.

From wikipedia:

In modern times, The Secret Agent is considered to be one of Conrad's finest novels. The Independent calls it "[o]ne of Conrad's great city novels"[22] whilst The New York Times insists that it is "the most brilliant novelistic study of terrorism".[23] It is considered to be a "prescient" view of the 20th century, foretelling the rise of terrorism, anarchism, and the augmentation of secret societies, such as MI5. The novel is on reading lists for both secondary school pupils and university undergraduates.

I don't agree with the "foretelling" bit on wikipedia, since Tzarist Russia had all of the above in spades in 1907 and Conrad IMHO wasn't trying to foretell anything. It's just the current situation is closer to Tzarist Russia than we would like.
Every time I've read some Tom Clancy I've wished he's read that earlier spy novel and taken it as a cue to either lift his game or give up.

And the Japanese (submarine project for subs that are useless to us due to short range), and the Koreans, but most especially pleasing the Chinese.
Things are currently weird. At the G20 Putin was given a Koala and smiles while Obama was called a lair in at least two press releases for mentioning something about the barrier reef. The PM, Tony Abbott, may have a forked tongue but he needs it to lick all those arses at once.

So why have this bill at all if it apparently changes nothing?
Implications and motives are important since laws such as this are expensive to produce - why so much effort been expended? It appears to have been done to either hamper the operations of the EPA or result in increased headcount, so the question is whether it's for the benefit of those who wish to flout EPA regulations (benefiting from an EPA weakened by pointless busywork) or those in the EPA who are jealous of Homeland Security and want an enormous bureaucratic empire just like it.

When "conservatives" push hard to change the status quo it's best to consider why to see if they are actually radicals in disguise (or they are on the take and owned by people who desire radical change).

this is a wonderful time for the Republicans to create all kinds of crazy ridiculous stuff

I wonder if it will distract people from their efforts to shut down the government financially during a time of war not far back? If the Democrats tried that we'd be hearing screams of "Treason" for the next three decades.

Most likely, but there was no grid connection in this case until the windmills supplied more incentive than was previously there.

I've only ever seen it as an insult applied so it's completely relevant to the GP. Maybe for a week people applied the label to themselves, but most of the internet missed that week and just see the insult delivered by frustrated virgins who think the world owes them an easy lay.

It would probably have a quick payback even at the far south end of South America or the north of Norway with such high retail electricity prices.

Fair enough, but they seem to forget that they can be easily traced and post things that most of us would never seriously contemplate even under a false name.
Slashdot have my email address but even without that someone could who wanted to waste enough time could trawl through a decade of my posts and work out what country, city and industry I work in and maybe get my real identity with around three phone calls. If I was an evil troll I'd still be pretty dumb to post such threats as we are discussing even with the false name, especially one that's been active for a long time.

I addressed that in another post. Before the island had excess generating capacity there was not enough incentive to link it to the grid.

A hurricane destroying such a windmill would need to be at least two times stronger than the strongest hurricane we have on records

Yes, I'm just providing an artificial example of a short life for the windmills, but they still beat tiny diesel things even with such a short life.

I really womder why the power that wind plant is generating is so expensive

Yes, retail price not price of production. In Australia for an example we've got some of the cheapest to produce non-hydro electricity in the world but the retail price is close to the most expensive - a consequence of having the regulators profit from the industry they are supposed to regulate. That is one of the things making household solar very popular with in some cases pay back times under five years.

something is getting subsidized.

You forgot the cable to the mainland to sell electricity to other folks. Having an order of magnitude more customers spreads those costs a bit more. What are a mere 1800 customers going to do with all those MW anyway?

It could be argued that linking to the grid would have the same effect of driving down the costs for those customers but there hasn't been enough incentive until now to build the link.

Only as dumb as more than 99% of Facebook users.
Remember we used to tell kids not to give out their real name on the net? Then Facebook happened and what used to appear to be dumb is now the default.
It would be truly ironic for you to post what you've written above if your name really is Matthew Ventura.
Even more so if I was really the software dbaseIII that had become self aware over the years instead of someone taking the common form of it's name as a handle.