It is too simple. If everyone had solar panels the power companies would go broke, unless they jacked up their connection fees. But, that would unfairly impact people who can't afford to put solar panes on their roofs. It would be better if power companies bought the power from homeowners at wholesale costs during peak production hours and sold them power at normal retail prices when the sun is down. Net-metering, like the system you describe, is codified in many state's laws, including Hawaii, but I don't think it will be sustainable as solar panels become more common.

I'm guessing they use a saw. (Or some reasonable facsimile thereof)

Home ammunition production is a solved problem. Take your pick http://www.midwayusa.com/find?dimensionids=11521

"Don't have FiOS in your area yet" doesn't apply because Verizon halted FiOS expansion almost 4 years ago. If you can't get FiOS to your house now you likely never will get it. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361919,00.asp

AT&T has virtually halted U-Verse expansion as well http://stopthecap.com/2012/02/08/at-atts-rural-broadband-solution-we-dont-have-one/

The future of high-bandwidth Internet access in America is not bright.

Not so. English is not so orderly.

conversely
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adverb
adverb: conversely

        1.
        introducing a statement or idea that reverses one that has just been made or referred to.
        "he would have preferred his wife not to work, although conversely he was also proud of what she did"

converse
verb
verb: converse; 3rd person present: converses; past tense: conversed; past participle: conversed; gerund or present participle: conversing
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        1.
        engage in conversation.
        "he fell in beside her and they began to converse amicably"
        synonyms: talk, speak, chat, have a conversation, discourse, communicate; More
        informalchew the fat, jaw, visit, shoot the breeze;
        formalconfabulate
        "they conversed in low voices"

Oh, it's not going in that end, Mr. Lightbody.

This implies that we should be teaching boys and girls math, science, and language skills separately up until high-school. I have to wonder how many girls get discouraged from perusing STEM classes simply because they compare their early math performance to their male classmates and decide that they are no good at math. Similarly, how much better off would boys be if we taught and tested them separately in reading and writing so they would not compare themselves to their female classmates?

It is legal in Ohio, and there is case law supporting the legality.
http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4511.27
http://www.mountvernonnews.com/local/12/02/03/passing-on-right-legal-in-some-situations

Generally, I suspect that the prohibition against passing on the right refers to passing other vehicles on two lane roads.

True story... a few months ago while leaving work I found a squirrel lying in the middle of the drive, next to a can of RedBull, stone dead. The squirrel was not crushed or show any outward signs of blunt force trauma. http://www.flickr.com/photos/trmoore/10271229984/

Because cable operators didn't have the guts to fight back. No, they just capitulated.

People with cable TV don't own the wire that carries the signal to their house, nor do they typically own their cable box or DVR. It's all rented. So what's the difference if your rented DVR lives at a co-location facility?

Aereo does not strip commercials; the traditional method for funding broadcast TV. The growth of DVRs and illegal TV streaming sites has made it more and more difficult for broadcasters to get good estimates of viewership, and most of the illegal video streaming sites remove commercials altogether. If the broadcasters were smart, what they would do is to get Aereo to report viewer totals so that they can demand more cash from advertisers.

They aren't really geo-shifting. They only take customers in limited areas and only record programming for that that person could theoretically pick up with an antenna at their place of residence.

Even more frightening than that is that Firewire and Thunderbolt, as well as external expansion ports like Express Card and PCMCIA, have the same capacity for DMA.

All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was.