I have no doubt that a lot of people falsely claim police brutality - but there are PLENTY of cops who resort to UNNECESSARY violence at the SLIGHTEST provocation even when they KNOW they're being recorded.
That kind of arrogance is incredible; imagine a thief who walks up to a surveillance camera, holds up his loot, give his name & address and says "come get me, bitches".

One recent incident involved a kid on a motorbike who rolled through a stop sign and then tried to evade a cop in a cruiser. The officer shot at the kid several times, hitting him at least once in the leg, forcing him to pull over and you can see him raise his hand, turn off the bike and begin to dismount.
Before he's halfway, Officer Wannabe Texas Ranger comes running at him and executes a flying side kick that knocks both kid & motorbike ass over teakettle??
WTF??

"especially since Rodney King, which made it en vogue"
En vogue?
Rodney King did not make a fucking fashion statement; he got the shit beaten out of him like I'd never seen before by several officers, who punched, kicked, and Tasered him with several dozen baton blows thrown in for good measure.

A couple years back, I requested a root cause analysis for an 8 hour outage of my company's main fiberoptic link.
The headline of the terse report I got back was "Squirrel Chew"

I don't know for certain. What I can tell you is that the smart inverters that have been a requirement for rooftop solar in Germany for the past few years are supposed to start adjusting reactive power when the output of their panels exceeds 50%.

I believe that utility-scale solar plants are already doing this in some countries.

This is a trojan not an exploit. Any vendor could do this. How do I know that even the legitimately purchased programs aren't using my computer or network resources for their own benefit?
For all I know, M$ could be using the Office suite programs to mask some kind of analysis or number crunching at my expense and using Windows Update as a command-and-control.

What's the storage capacity of your batteries and max continuous output? Tesla's Powerwall is rated at 2 kW which would give 5 hrs max for what you paid 6 yrs ago.

Elon is almost 44 years old which means he's drifting into Old Spice territory and you just don't wanna go there.

What about Solar City? They have no money down, monthly payments plans.

Why so expensive? Germany has been getting residential solar installed at ~$2 / W for several years.

Grooveshark may have caused a very theoretical $50 million in "damage" and were forced to "apologize without reservation" but the greedy evil fucktards that nearly sank the planetary economy get to pay relative pittance fines without apology or admitting guilt?

Germany gets it installed for WAY below that price and have for years. And with the kinds of smart inverters that have been mandated for rooftop solar for the past few years, they can add about 40% more solar PV than was previously thought to be feasible.
Plus those installations can provide a shedload of REACTIVE power, very, very useful for grid stabilization.

I've heard of a company called Sun Town or something that does leasing of solar panels. Pretty sure you can get kilowatts worth of them up on your roof for not a lot of cash. I hear they're run by a bunch of South Africans; someone should tell Elon about them. Perhaps they can have some interesting synergies to their mutual heliocentric paradigm.

"Who thought turning over even more health care to the insurance companies was a good idea? "

  Quite a few Republicans and the Democrats who think they can work with them. Obamacare is not vastly different from Bob Dole's plan nor from a proposal by the Heritage Foundation - and it's Romneycare at the national level.

What the Dems should have done is hawked Conyers health plan which was a push for single-payer and was essentially ( but not entirely ) Medicare-for-all.

Before Nixon "got us out" of Vietnam, he made sure the USA stayed in it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

"We buy most of our oil from ourselves" - even if that were true, which it isn't, don't forget that oil is priced on the GLOBAL market.
A re-enactment of the 1973 oil embargo would be a very, very bad thing for the US and present technology could not get the tar sands gunk converted quickly enough.