For people who are complaining that wind tech/solar tech isn't there yet, I think you have to think of the politics behind this. If we get the ball moving now and get lawmakers and the public to overall have a good impression of these energy generation systems, when the technologies do improve it will be vastly easier to implement them. The biggest issue I see extends not only to clean tech, but all tech. America's energy infrastructure is incredibly aged and inefficient. Power consumption will continue to increase which will continue to strain the system. So even if our energy source is clean, there is still a large energy issue that needs to be addressed.

Survery Says? Because they are ~90% white

Ok. So lets say you are Latin American, but were born in the U.S. You are a citizen. A cop stops you because he 'suspects' you to be illegal (which is a whole other issue). You don't have papers on you because you are a citizen. Now you are detained because you can't prove you are here illegally. You just spent your day + possibly more trying to prove you are a citizen. So did you enjoy having your 4th amendment rights violated?

I didn't visit that site, as I'm at work. But most successful poker robots are limited to playing Limit Hold'em. And most people don't play limit hold'em.

Well, people consistently voting down small property tax increases (or often times just an extension of the current in place tax) in combination with no child left behind kind of killed education. Oh, and textbooks that go through texas never help either :/

Thankfully, most poker games are too complex for robots to continuously win at any great amount. Also, hinting that online poker is rigged is generally what happens when people don't understand the game and/or statistics.

Currently each hand at an online poker room is raked between 2.5% and 7.5% (until you get to significantly higher stakes, where the majority of players don't play). so 8% isn't the oddest proposal. However, 8% is far too high, especially since the pokerroom will still need to rake the pot to make their own profit. What woudl work is either taxing deposits 5-8% or taxing each pot ~1%, maybe 2%. Anything over this will crush the online poker world into a point where the biggest rake generators won't play any more.

You'd be surprised at what people get away with in corporations. This really isn't that surprising. People are just like 'ZOMG its gov't failure' instead of 'ZOMG it people failure'. I bet many large companies would have similar statistics (sadly).