No loan program can require more then 8% of income for repayment? Simple, each lender has their own loan program! Ten loans? 80%!

Hey my first thought was "lose electron oxidation", which made about as much sense.

Going with the notion that excessive regulation has it's own cost, maybe the solution here is to split up the cable giants? Comcast could easily be three separate companies- one that manages infrastructure and charges for it, one that sells TV channels to customers, and one that sells internet. The two later companies would just lease bandwidth from the former.

I cant help but read this as Minmus.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/t...

How many really technologically savvy people have NEVER "illegally" downloaded some form of music or movie? The FBI will have none of those people working for them. While at the same time the next article on Slashdot is about yet another network intruded into for the theft of financial information. Way to go team USA.

Actually that problem is some of the best environmental news of late. When the batteries are no longer suitable for cars they still hold tremendous value for renewable energy, and since the cost of the battery has already been covered by the car purchase it will serve to subsidize the cost of energy. Also, the battery is not part of the car in the same sense as other car parts, since they are designed to be quickly swaped at charging stations to speed up 'refuel' times, so the car owner isn't responsible for it's replacement cost in the way you're implying.

Post war Detroit was far from some kind of manufacturing driven utopia. Detroit was an established industrial power before the war, then the bulk of their labor force vanished almost overnight to go fight. The labor shortage was met by tremendous immigration of the poor blacks from the south. Then the war ended and all those soldiers came back home...

There may have been a lot of high wage jobs in Detroit at that time period, but it was far from a rich city.

While they're at it state and federal funded roads compete unfairly with privately funded toll roads. Better do something about that.

Did anyone else read that as giant geek tomb discovered?

I'd suggest if you want older geeks to keep up with new tech more then give them a later start in the morning. Most of my good hacking time for personal projects happens between 12am and 4am, and that's great when my work hours are somewhere around 10-5. When I need to be at work by 8 every day I find myself in bed by 11:30 or 12 every night, with a more limited ability to stay up late even when interested in a project.

1 "meg" is in the set of numbers at lead 'up to' 2 "meg"s. They can throttle you wherever they want since you have no guaranteed lower limit.

Now the ISP can't throttle content below a speed which is up to what I pay for (since the contracts always specifies this). Thanks a lot FCC zero is in the list of number up to what I pay for.

Clearly you don't know many poor people. Cable costs so little in low income areas, there is no need to steal it. Seriously, it's like $25 for cable in some cities while 2 miles away the same package is $60.

As I recall the Green party was never out to win it all. The push had been to get 5% of the vote to get the federal money and inclusion in debates.